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I can't speak from personal experience, but Jessica Kent has a video [0] describing how she was able to rebuild her life post-prison. It's not quite the same, but ex-convicts in the US definitely have to work against stigma to eke
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Likely referring to the penguin image [0] that demonstrates how ECB mangles the bits but not the structure of the plaintext. [0] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/14487/can-someone...
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There's a journal [0] on infinitenegativeutility, discussed here 40 days ago, with a section called "What pushed me away from Haskell?". That author points at issues that are primarily cultural. One example is a relaxed attit
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This person made the mistake of linking directly to the episode. The playlist of the channel [0] allows a logged in person to pay for SD or HD per episode. You can access the playlist of the channel from the page linked by clicking "Wo
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by Nzen 3y ago
I enjoyed Mark Dominus's blog post [0] about the billing system he cowrote, moonpig. It restates much of the other responses, namely that ignoring infinitesimal errors/rounding would have instilled a culture of - at minimum - doub
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by Nzen 3y ago
tl;dr a diy system for scanning books. Basically, build a triangular prism with a special zig zag slit for a single page to snake through. Put a vacuum on each side to pull the paper through the slit. Put two optical scanners in the middle
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by Nzen 3y ago
Presumably, an app developer needs to save data in this format for android to ever use it. Github - which is not the universal published code repository - only has 178 code instances [0] that create this kind of record, 95 in kotlin and 4 i
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tl;dr A meditation on how people achieve knife sharpness by (former? chef) TW Lim. This touches on steel heat treatment and grinding angles. Poetic language. Hosted on ghost (mentioning this in case you are allergic to subscription websites
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by Nzen 3y ago
Fontemon [0] makes this a bit more obvious by including a web page with the font embedded, so we can control the animation by typing, rather than watching someone else type. However, mmulet embeds some sort of Blender project [1], rather th
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by Nzen 3y ago
Discoverability is a difficult problem. I know my local representatives names. But, I don't know the representatives of adjoining counties. I'm aware of loud national figures. But, to become a national figure generally involves wo
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by Nzen 3y ago
Perhaps this person uses it as a constrained writing environment, similar to why some people use locked down editors [0]. If I am forced to summarize the meeting onto index cards, I am obliged to keep the essence and discard the details. [0
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by Nzen 3y ago
While I enjoyed rewatching the latter half of episode 2 of season 1 of James Burke's Connections tv series, I don't see how the invention of the cloud chamber (which you start the video at) is relevant to standards for rail, hor
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by Nzen 3y ago
While most people have focused on post-mortem account recovery, that's not the only occasion. The small company I've worked for has had the last three administrators leave the company in arrears for a time with quick departures an
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tl;dr A 40 page review of dbms architecture data models by Michael Stonebreaker (of Postgre) and Joseph Hellerstein. This seems to be a 1990s or 2000s paper, given the treatment of xml-based proto-non-relatonal databases. The paper treats:
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by Nzen 3y ago
Google's quantum computer idle game [0] was pretty cute, visually. That shouldn't be surprising, though, given that they commissioned doublespeak games (originator of A Dark Room ) to make it. [0] https://quantumai.goo
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by Nzen 3y ago
A typeface is not a copyright protected work in the United States of America at the time that I wrote this [0]. However, files that font rendering programs can use to display typeface glyphs are protected works [1]. [0] https://w
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by Nzen 3y ago
Luckily, we are talking about an MIT licensed repository of source code that many of us could rewrite as a bash script, and open ourselves to complaints that it doesn't run on windows. It looks like InderdeepBajwa, specifically, has tr
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by Nzen 3y ago
tl;dr an article from the Journal of Early American Life about the role of salt(y lakes and flats) in south western Native American, especially Pueblo, lives before and during the Spanish Empire. The Pueblos tried to use it within the repla
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by Nzen 3y ago
At this point in the conversation, I am struck with the realization that there are distinct conceptions of 'violent criminal' in the minds of the authors of each post in the preceding exchange. Unless that notion is synchronized,
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It's not really clear what you are asking for. You term your desire 'game design', but that generally means the arrangement of systems (ex rules) for a game . But, your first list sounds more like 'video game architect
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My browser and feed reader report your atom xml has invalid xml: error on line 58 at column 82: Unescaped '<' not allowed in attributes values
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I have the second-hand impression [0] that Gibbon exemplifies a particular focus of explanation that some later authors drew contrast against by emphasizing the continuity/influence of some social and cultural (ex Christian church) ins
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The AR functionality that I want is the ability to darken the headlights of oncoming vehicles at night, so I can still see the road in front of me. Which I see is in the article itself.
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I looked at lulu for printing Scott Alexander's Unsong. Their terms of service declaim [0] anyone looking to print content that they do not have copyright or a license for. That's the entire point of copyright. I recommend that yo
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Um, the second paragraph has a link [0] to Wiley's page for it, which only offers a paperback edition. [0] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Pricing+Money:+A+Beginner's+Guid...
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This needs better instructions for the expected syntax. With nodes a and b, I tried "a -> b", "a to b", and "a hates b". Each complained "{"detail":"AttributeError(\"'str'
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An author of fiction may sometimes retain copyright for some forms of derived works, ex "movie rights" [0], with the expectation that they aren't worth much until the original literary work has drawn a significant audience. [
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tl;dr a 'parse tree' for how their (transformer based) LLM weights the import of the tokens in a given prompt. The authors noticed patterns in the visualization that they felt imitated relationships that we would regard as related
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What was the process for reserving a vacation ? Were y'all able to select the time and location ? If so, what was the lead time like ? Did you manage to form a relationship with someone outside of your initial social circle that persis
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The French Republican Calendar had five/six complementary days [0] at the end of the year that were part of no particular month. They were, however, spent contiguously between summer and fall, rather than between each season. [0] http

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