MathMonkeyMan

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1. 1081.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   I tried disabling Javascript by default, but there are too many important sites that require it. My browser's "disable javascript" extension can disable on a per-domain basis, but really what I'd like is on a per-URL-pat
2. 1082.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   The cat's out of the bag. Computers learned how to be connected to each other a while back, and everyone got at least one internet-connected computer each more recently. Social media is technology, it can't be undone. We could i
3. 1083.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   I don't know anything about AI, but I've heard that asking "how do humans do it?" is not the right question. Still, though, how _do_ humans drive? One answer that comes to mind is "humans are smart." True. B
4. 1084.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   This is well into "tin foil hat" territory for me personally, but I've stopped automatically putting my phone in my pocket when I go out for an errand. I lived the first fifteen years of my life without a "phone" on
5. 1085.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   I don't know if internet addiction is real, but I know that it's 5:20 AM and I'm on Hacker News. Goodnight...
6. 1086.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   You remind me of something a Physics professor once told me. He said (I'm paraphrasing) "when you get to really learning the Physics, it's not an incremental logically consistent picture rooted in mathematics like in the text
7. 1087.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   That is an important point. My mind too went in the direction of "this is just white people hiding their privilege in an offshore account." But then I realized that I hardly know any black people.
8. 1088.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   still works
9. 1089.▲
   by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

   too late! https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
10. 1090.▲
    by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

    You're lucky. The str/bytes/unicode change and the related standard library changes broke almost every python script I'd ever seen or written. It starts in libraries that you depend on -- wrappers around C code and what
11. 1091.▲
    by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

    The file is closed on exec, I believe.
12. 1092.▲
    by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

    I don't know the percent, but it wouldn't surprise me if the answer were "almost all."
13. 1093.▲
    by MathMonkeyMan 5y ago

    yes