Sniffnoy

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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
This is all true, but the thing to note is that actual bad-faith participants are not so common. What is common is people perceiving bad faith where there is none; I'm trying to give them a way to handle that without turning conve
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
The way to handle argumentation that you suspect of bad faith is to handle both cases. You say "If you mean ... then ... but if you mean ... then ...". This doesn't apply to everything. But it certainly applies to just-askin
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
(2012)
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Oh, that makes a lot of sense! Ozy and Millie always reminded me heavily of Calvin and Hobbes. Hadn't heard of Phoebe and Her Unicorn before; may have to check it out.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
That's not exactly right... in Haskell, 1/0 has type Fractional a => a. So, it could be any fractional type. If 1/0 occurs in a context where it'll be interpreted as a floating-point number, you'll get Infinity
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Man, I just hope someone can somehow bring back Kongai (and fix the remaining bugs). That game was amazing; it was just a poor fit for what it was used for. (A difficult competitive game used as a sitewide metagame on a site full of quick
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Something seems to be wrong with the footnotes on this page... Edit: Nevermind, my browser seems to just be screwing up on Gwern's footnotes in general at the moment.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
You may be thinking of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs Edit: changed to earlier upload of same video
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Non-mobile link: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-cultures-that...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Non-mobile link: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/06/ff-sandbox-es...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Seems to me the issue of overflows corrupting return addresses could be avoided if the stack just grew upwards instead of downwards. Wouldn't prevent data corruption from overflows, but then neither would what you're suggesting..
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Sure! The military shouldn't be police, and the police shouldn't be military. My point is just they suffice to demonstrate that it is possible to be a violence worker, and yet employ that violence with discretion; and to say t
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I find this silly. It acts as if people are incapable of assessing situations and then selecting the best action based on that situation. Yes, police have the authority to use violence; that doesn't necessarily mean they have to have
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Your link goes by means of Google; here's a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Note: There was an MS-DOS 8.0; it did not come with Windows 98, but rather with Windows Me. I guess we'll probably never see this updated to include that, though!
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Do you have a link / more info?
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
"Slash" and "virgule" are both formal aliases for U+002F SOLIDUS.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Do we know if it's not still relevant? Being out of date only means it might not still be relevant...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I see, thanks!
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Can anyone clarify what "white", "gray", "partial", and "fake" mean? "Broadcast-only" seems pretty self-explanatory, but I can't figure out what these other terms refer to in terms of
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with childhood. It's just a matter of illustrating the shape. Fundamentally, most people don't so much draw things as crudely diagram them.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
What's a little confusing here is that they talk about "static allocation" vs "dynamic allocation"; but these days, use of the stack is referred to as static allocation! Even if it's not as fully static as t
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
But it's not NULL != NULL. It's that NULL == NULL is NULL. That's different! NUll != NULL is also NULL, for instance.
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by Sniffnoy 7y ago
Non-mobile link: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-20/there-...
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by Sniffnoy 7y ago
Where are you getting these numbers from? Gwern[0], citing this paper[1] and John Bradshaw's book "Cat Sense" (note: I haven't read this book myself), gives much smaller numbers than that. Still much larger than what y
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by Sniffnoy 7y ago
Link with extra junk shaved off: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/buridan...
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by Sniffnoy 7y ago
Hm, I would guess that sylpheed is at least partly named after the video game Silpheed?
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by Sniffnoy 7y ago
Oops, yes, I did.
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by Sniffnoy 7y ago
Agree in general, but don't like the underline/italic thing. Most word processors have underline as separate from underline. Hence the alternative old email/Usenet convention: underscores for underline, slashes for italic.
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by Sniffnoy 7y ago
Sure, but there's no particular reason to suspect that here; the original edit seems to have been simple vandalism.

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