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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I know this isn't the point, but it really bugs me to see "conspiracy" used to mean "conspiracy theory" in this way. (And this is less of a proper conspiracy theory and more just a crackpot theory, tbh.)
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Looks like the title transformer changed this one to a false statement.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
To be clear, I'm trying to appeal here to actual usage, not to the dictionary per se. The dictionary is just evidence of such, since trying to directly present evidence of actual usage is not so easy without some good tools.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I'm aware of that, but the term I'm familiar with is "crier". I've never heard "screamer" used in that sense. Wiktionary doesn't list such a usage; contrast with "crier" for which it is li
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I've never heard of "screamer" in English for someone who tells the news?
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I might have gone with "crier" rather than "herald". That seems a little closer in terms of what the actual job consists of? But I agree that "herald" seems fine.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I might have gone with "crier" rather than "herald". That seems a little closer in terms of what the actual job consists of?
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
> It is strange that showing ID to vote is controversial in the US and that providing basic ID to citizens for free to allow them to vote is a problem that seems difficult to solve (or want to solve). One of the blockers to a national ID
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Hey the asterisks in your reply got read as formatting so it's ended up messed-up.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
"Memory" can be used to refer to any form of statefulness, which is mostly what's being discussed here. I agree the article engages in some unwarranted anthropomorphism in some places, but there's still plenty of interes
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I think the subway game is probably mostly not that hard these days, with only a few tricky spots, but if you want some real difficulty, try playing as someone with mobility issues... (Yeah I mentioned this elsewhere, but it seemed worth it
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
You'd think so, but there's a few things that make it more complicated: 1. While the new subway map (introduced only a few months ago!) makes it pretty easy to tell what stops where, the old subway map didn't. It was easy to
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Oh, good point, I completely missed that. So it's even fewer, then!
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
> One problem which is perhaps more interesting now than ever before is to get from Junius St. to Livonia Ave. [...] There are two plausible solutions staying in Brooklyn, but they each involve four transfers (five trains again). This is
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf Email: harry.j.altman
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I feel like I should point out here that surprisetalk (who posted the link) isn't jefftk (who wrote the post).
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I think this could use a more informative title? The title this was posted with is actually less informative than the original title.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
At least at one time, part of the answer would have been Operation Choke Point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point However, that's clearly not all that's going on -- it doesn't seem like
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
This is all really cool, but is getting new singularity theorems really a positive sign? Like, my understanding was that it was generally hoped that an improved, quantum theory of gravity would eliminate such singularities -- that such s
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
This article doesn't really go into any detail about the Supreme Court decision it discusses, instead reserving its detailed discussion for the laws this decision permits. Anyone have a link to the opinion, or an article discussing it
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I think the thing that you're missing here is that the "malicicous program" being discussed here isn't malicious from the usual point of view of what "malicious" means. It's truly functionally identical
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
You can think of c as the conversion rate between space and time; then, light (and anything else without mass, such as gravity or gluons) travels at a speed of 1. Everything else travels at a speed of less than 1. (Physicists will in fact u
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf Email: harry.j.altman@gm
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Oops, I see, thanks!
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I don't understand the one with dont(). Why does i.get() end up false at the end? Shouldn't it be true after having been set by dont()?
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Oh, that would make more sense, yeah.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
This sounds a lot like the game played by the International Kriegsspiel Society ( https://kriegsspiel.org/ ), which I think is worth noting in terms of other implementations of the same idea. (Why do I not just say "This
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
> But add a smaller cardinal to one of the new infinities, and “they kind of blow up,” Bagaria said. “This is a phenomenon that had never appeared before.” I have to wonder just what is meant by this, because in ZFC, a sum of just two (o
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Basically it's because the relevant structures are somewhat fragile. Matt Strassler has a good post about "why does everything we care about move so slowly compared to the cosmic speed limit?" ( https://profmattstr
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Negative temperatures are hotter than positive temperatures, though, so this isn't really relevant to the parent comment.

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