Sharlin

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541.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
It was supposed to be a third-party replacement, sure, but certainly not an official one. It started as a student project. It's just the prefix that tricks your brain to associate it with MS's own .NET branded applications.
542.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Reminder that this is the company that decided to replace Paint with something called "Paint 3D", the laggiest and bloatiest "literally nobody wanted this" drawing app I've ever seen.
543.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Um, I expressly said that high wages wouldn't stay? If the choices are either being jobless and homeless, or doing some menial cotton-harvesting job while still being homeless, we got a slight social problem. The GP said that there
544.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Congrats, you made a hallucination machine successfully hallucinate?
545.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Infinite demand, maybe, but not at wages that most people are willing to accept. Of course, if there's literally no other work, then previously-middle-class people will take what's available and become homeless because the wage do
546.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
This is a study of the feasibility of launching an intergalactic colonization wave (and its implications re: the Fermi paradox), not a proposal that humans should do that (it would be just slightly ahead of its time for that!), or a discu
547.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Refreshing to see a technical criticism of this paper for a change.
548.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
There are no answers expected. This is a colonization wave.
549.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
I guess if you're not allowed to use solar in the form of chemical potentials frozen long ago into carbon-y molecules buried underground, the second best thing is to use solar in the form of gravitational potential stored in water mole
550.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Happily, Helsinkians don't agree. Everyone seems to love Oodi.
551.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
I don't think there are any reasonable use cases for a non-constant-length hash.
552.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yes, I know, it's the natural way to do it in functional programming. Honestly I doubt there are any FP languages that don't do it like that.
553.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yes. But that's a known misfeature of C and no other language does it like that. Plus I kind of meant arbitrary byte strings where you can have embedded zeroes and thus have to know the length.
554.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yes, too much Rust :D Eliding the `return` becomes so intuitive after a while that you sort of forget that most other languages require it.
555.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
For an arbitrarily long input, you still have to compress it to constant size somehow.
556.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
*Toffoli
557.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
def hash(str): len(str) O(1), baby!
558.
by Sharlin 6mo ago
> and 25 planets is >99% of players? That doesn't sound so strange because the presumably the majority of visitors are going to try once or twice and then carry on, and it's actually pretty difficult to get even 25 points in
559.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
"I hate corporations and I hate leftists, ergo they must be the same thing"
560.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
There’s this thing called the Berne Convention. Countries that cooperate on copyright are going to standardize their interpretations on questions like this sooner or later.
561.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
As far as I can see, the vast majority of people don’t pirate music these days (unlike 20 years ago). Most people wouldn’t even know where and how to pirate music. They just have Spotify or another streaming service.
562.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
It's obvious that a computer program cannot have copyright because computer programs are not persons in any currently existing jurisdiction. Whether a person can claim copyright of the output of a computer program is generally understo
563.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Copyright applies to legal persons, that's why corporations can have copyright at all.
564.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
On the contrary, that's very uniquely and peculiarly human stupidity, possibly caused by the fact that our brains take so long to fully mature. In other species, competing for mates (just like territory) is typically highly ritualized
565.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
I find the "solstices/equinoxes mark starts of seasons" a bit foreign too, but… weather-wise, annual top and bottom temperatures are of course offset from the solstices due to thermal inertia. In Finland the traditional divis
566.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
It's definitely not obvious, given that many, many gregarious species may certainly have inter-group clashes and skirmishes at territory boundaries but no full-scale war. Animals in general avoid violence between conspecifics, for the
567.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
I learned to play backgammon because it was one of the three games on my Nokia phone circa 2001 :P
568.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Which is exactly 100% of Earth's helium. Every single helium atom we use is a result of alpha decay, as a very good approximation there isn't any primordial or stellar helium on or in Earth.
569.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
> We need a solution to all these 10k loc PRs. One of the most idiotic things about the whole LLM craze is the idea that we have to change all of our infrastructure to accommodate LLMs instead of figuring out how to train LLMs to make b
570.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
I can understand espresso being drunk for many reasons, but none of them are "tasting good".

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