SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Fascinating. I happen to own exactly that first issue of Shatter.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> The revamped test, which ditches the paper and pencil, aims to make cheating harder and grading easier. This won't end well.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
This claim is nonsense, as any visit to the Wayback Machine can attest. In 2016, OpenAI's website said this right up front: > We're hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> The explanation in the article is fine as far as it goes, but I think it's much more helpful to emphasize one key fact, which is that MH has to show a goat, and can't open your first choice door, even if it's a goat. The
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
You are not their customer.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Alexandria, VA (upscale historic suburb of DC, near Mt. Vernon). Captain Phillip Alexander II, a random guy who happened to own the land. Not named after the city in Egypt.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Disregarding simplifications from symmetry, the first three moves comprise 9 * 8 * 7 = 504 possible combinations. Surely you can enumerate at least that . So you'd only need 9 bits, saving you a bit. And I'm not sure why you&#
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
I'd like to call attention to the incredible situation regarding Benn Jordan (The Lightbulb), Spotify, and TuneCore, which just beggars belief. Jordan uses TuneCore to distribute his music to major streaming services. He has posted a
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Ah! Well it still doesn't help (it's haai in Cantonese). But that's interesting.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Of course. We were talking about the coincidence in Cantonese.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
This comment sounds like you might mistakenly think tomatoes are Chinese.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
chiap sure? Ke no. In Cantonese, fish is yu. But yeah. Also: I had thought it was originally Malay.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
What confuses me is that, though as I understand it Ketchup was a general term to decscribe a variety of sauces, in Cantonese it sounds exactly like Tomato ("Ke") Paste ("tchup"). Given its origins in southeast Asia, I
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Now you have me thinking about how short I can make that. My revision: (defun doit (elts) (mapcar (lambda (elt) `(,(count elt elts :test 'equal :key 'second) ,elt)) (delete-duplicates (mapcar 'second el
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
The headline of the article does not match the posting, which breaks a rule I believe. Could we at least correct the posting's grammar? To "How SSH became Port 22".
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Maybe better described as Brooklyn than Jersey City too....
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Also: Arlington is to DC as Oakland is to SF or Jersey City is to Manhattan. Only, you know, a lot nicer.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Unicorn + Steamboat = Steam Unicorn
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Revising caps lock makes perfect sense since it's obsolete. The backspace key has been at the location it is (far right of number row) for well over 100 years. Indeed its placement preceeds the existence of the Return key, as prior
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> River sand is preferable to coastal sand, partly because coastal sand has to be washed free of salt. But coastal sand does get used, especially when builders take shortcuts, leading to buildings that have shorter life spans and pose gr
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
To me, Kawa is easily the best Lisp that targets the JVM. And I say that hating Scheme. I'm a Common Lisp guy. Because it is really fast, well designed, and mostly Scheme compliant (no call/cc of course). And it has first in c
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> If we like fictional worlds but can’t make them complex enough to be believable, the obvious workaround — in fact the only workaround — is to “borrow” the real world’s complexity.... The most transparent way to do this is to make a wor
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
This is a category that includes pickles and cell phones. The standards for this category is if some study exists somewhere suggested that, in some quantity, an item might be carcinogenic, possibly only with certain animals. The s
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Wait, what, aspartame? You tried to slip that one in, didn't you.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
My big problem with ruffled pasta and the like is that the ruffles often break off so you get strings of ruffles floating around in the sauce. It makes for pretty crummy pasta every time I've tried something in this vein. I suspect t
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
I don't know about Japanese rules, which are borderline insane. I use the only rational ones: Chinese rules! As far as I know, in Chinese rules, Ko only considers the board configuration.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
There's a famous table in the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide where, if you came across a prostitute, you could determine what kind of prostitute it was. AD&D was weird and arbitrary and unbalanced and a mess. It was also...
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
I am effectively a Stranger Things kid, playing AD&D from 10-14 years old in friends' basements in the early 1980s. A little younger than the pimply nerds in the Dead Alewives skit, but their depiction was pretty accurate, sans Mo
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> Sorry, when I was talking about the stalemate rule, I meant the rule that declares that the game is a draw, if the only move you can make is putting yourself into check. There is a Chess game that does this. It's Chinese Chess (
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Concentration of capital isn't polarizing, it's a perfectly cromulent criticism. What's polarizing was the promotion of an economic/politcal system which to date has had a perfect record of turning into a totalitarian d

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