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by SamBam 2y ago
> Abstraction vs. magic: Is this just shifting complexity from JS to HTML? Frameworks already abstract state—how does this coexist? The same way React or other frameworks can hook into things like CSS animations. If CSS animations didn&#
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by SamBam 2y ago
From TFA: > If you want to watch a series in multiple arrangements—perhaps to figure out which sequence of episodes makes the most sense—you need a superpermutation. This is a sequence of all possible permutations. Imagine a marathon sho
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by SamBam 2y ago
That's the number of possible codes. Not the number of possible ways you could arrange all 10000 codes to see which ordering contains the most shortcuts.
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I also found it a useful analogy. Or rather, that was the way I thought of it. First I had to think about what would happen if the top bold, instead of rotating around a bolt, rotated around a band that wrapped straight around the other sha
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by SamBam 2y ago
Anyone who's opened a tight jar lid by putting it under hot water should know the answer to this instinctively.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Yeah, that was a joke. It's the same with the single line I draw across the screen after I swipe my credit card.
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Nice, although I was disappointed that you program by typing into MS Paint. I would have thought trying to draw the letters using your touchpad would be more intuitive. Every bank seems to accept the weird single line that gets drawn when I
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by SamBam 2y ago
How does one use an average Rewatchability score to determine whether one should watch a movie? If I'm trying to pick a movie, I don't care what its score for rewatching is, I care about what its score is for watching it the fir
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by SamBam 2y ago
Neat, although I had to go watch the video to understand how the thing worked, and even then they only showed it working at the very end of the video. I found that odd. A single photo of the roaster over a gas stove on the main page would h
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by SamBam 2y ago
This is presumably what they mean: https://imgur.com/bPFmcSp The square to the bottom right of the Queen isn't "currently" visible to the bishop, but if the Queen moved into that square they'd still be k
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by SamBam 2y ago
I like that we're just saying they're thinking now. John Searle would be furious. (I kid, I know what is meant by that.)
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As far as I can tell, his study is looking for a correlation with the distance to Metro stations. This is a big difference. There are hundreds of Metro stations in Paris. Everywhere is close to one. I think the original intent was distanc
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by SamBam 2y ago
The point is, with a constructed transcendent number, you can represent any series at all, so long as you have "enough precision." That last part means you can simply adjust your precision to your desired constraints. If you want
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by SamBam 2y ago
So not the Shrike?
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by SamBam 2y ago
Hmmm... From my experience writing Artificial Life simulators in the 90s, there is so much that is dependent on the parameters that the simulation coders write into the models. Yes, if you build a Genetic Algorithm where you start with a ph
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by SamBam 2y ago
I think that they are having a good think about what they are doing, but I believe that, in cutting key agencies that protect consumers from corporations, their personal goals are simply not aligned with the goals that would be helping th
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by SamBam 2y ago
> And he's doing that today. Indeed. > I'm not sure how you think we'll have business-as-usual Are you seeing general strikes? Chaos in the streets? Democratic congresspeople being successful at stopping anything? The S
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by SamBam 2y ago
It just said Robin used to be a nickname for Robert, so Robinson (or Robins) is basically the same as Robertson (or Roberts).
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by SamBam 2y ago
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." The thing is, even if Trump said something similar, I think we'd still keep going about things in the same ho-hum way we are now. Left-wing newspapers will have h
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by SamBam 2y ago
That thread seemed low on evidence. It seemed reasonable that that code could be part of a test suite.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Is it the same Edward Big Baller that tweeted that Elon stole the election and is setting up more computers within the government to be hacked? https://bsky.app/profile/cartwright776.bsky.social/post/3lhr...
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by SamBam 2y ago
> See also: > Ship of Theseus I'm often interested in the use of "See also" in Wikipedia articles to bring in related topics that may not be obviously related to a naive reader, without directly addressing
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I definitely guessed the last one correctly, because it was obvious to me, as were nearly all of them. I'd have to go back through it and deliberately fail on the last one to confirm, but I assumed I'd get the error beep on the pa
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by SamBam 2y ago
Yup. I got all but one correct. Confetti but no score.
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It's utterly wrong to give Elon any benefit of the doubt in terms of his motives right now. He's helping destroy the Federal government because doing so aligns with his interests as a billionaire.
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> They can vote against everything. Have they voted on a single thing yet except the Laken Riley Act? (Which they probably shouldn't have done, but anyway.) This administration is not waiting on Congress to do anything. But that asi
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> in the research team's opinion This statement is carrying a lot of weight, and isn't properly justified. The authors say the reason the skin gets so inflamed is the presence of all the immune cells. They then go on to say t
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On desktop, it's scroll to zoom.
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I was going to say, that or put it into a Google Street View style map. That would be amazing.
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Reminds me a bit of the launch system in When Worlds Collide (1951). (A giant roller coaster track, essentially.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avtQ8elxL-o

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