WCSTombs

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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
This is the actual quote: "There is a very real scenario in which personal computing as we know it is dead." He went on to say this, as reported in another article [1]: > Still, Framework said that it will not take this lying d
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
In my experience, there can be pretty high contention for certain items, so you need to be on the ball or make use of the "place hold" feature judiciously. Yeah, people are using the service.
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
Public libraries can also be a great source for DVDs and Blu-Rays!
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
Engineers are fundamentally pragmatic people. We're problem solvers. Someone who only cares about ingenuity and craft would be a shitty engineer, because that perspective is entirely inward-facing and not directed at the problems at
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
Absolutely, the whole point of the rubber duck is that it's inanimate. The act of talking to the rubber duck makes you first of all describe your problem in words, and secondly hear (or read) it back and reprocess it in a slightly diff
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
I never learned a subject faster than when I was suddenly forced to teach it!
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
I think there are some theories that the universe is fundamentally discrete at the lowest level below current capabilities of measurement, but to my knowledge none of those is widely accepted.
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
It's easy to forget, as we all use digital tools in our day-to-day lives, that the world is fundamentally analog, and there's no way to escape that. Everyone trying to tell you otherwise is just selling snake oil, with one notabl
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by WCSTombs 7mo ago
For the conflicts, note that in Git you can do git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 to get something like what is shown in the article.
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by WCSTombs 7mo ago
This is a shockingly low-effort attempt even for a crackpot math paper. They attempt a "reduction" from SAT to 2-SAT, but it's very easy to see that the "reduced" 2-SAT instance does not preserve the satisfiability
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by WCSTombs 7mo ago
It's not super hard to prove the central limit theorem, and you gave the flavor of one such proof, but it's still a bit much for the likely audience of this article, who can't be assumed to have the math background needed to
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by WCSTombs 7mo ago
It's not a bad article, but I have to point something out: > Laplace distilled this structure into a simple formula, the one that would later be known as the central limit theorem. No matter how irregular a random process is, even
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by WCSTombs 7mo ago
> The Steam label, maybe it means something now, but longer I think it fades. It might fade, but it will take a while. You need a generation of gamers to grow up in a world where AI-generated content is normalized and then become old e
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by WCSTombs 7mo ago
Yeah, using generative AI to boost productivity (i.e., with coding assistants), and using it to literally generate artistic assets for the the game, are very different propositions. Steam's AI tag also very clearly distinguishes betwee
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by WCSTombs 7mo ago
I 100% recommend that you avoid AI-generated assets in your game. The stigma around AI-generated assets is very real, and not going away soon. Although people might enjoy using AI for their own purposes, by and large they don't want to
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
Not only is this just a random article from the internet, as opposed to something peer-reviewed, but more importantly, nowhere does it even attempt to claim that the mere fact of a program terminating implies its suitability in a safety con
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
First, who is saying "termination implies safety"? There need to be a citations for that, so we can know what specific claim is supposedly being refuted here. Second, Rice's theorem states that no nontrivial property on the s
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
That's interesting, what happened? They don't explain it there. For the record, I don't have a dog in this fight. As long as it runs on Linux, I'm willing to test drive it when it's ready.
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
The name must be taken from Greek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
How are you getting the 170,000 number? I did a quick search and found this quote from merriam-webster.com [1]: > Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, together with its 1993 Addenda Section, includes some 470,00
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
I do kind of like the idea of automatically reformatting the code based on the media size, but the devil seems to be in the details. In my experience, code formatters can sometimes backfire and make the code harder to read. There's usu
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
Then nice try I guess, but there is nothing remotely new about any of this. You're not going to find a new perspective on something in math using a completely routine application of a well-known theorem. You'll need to either work
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
I totally agree with both this and the comment you replied to. The common thread is that you can architect the application in such a way that dry vs. wet running can be handled transparently, and in general these are just good designs.
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
There's some truth to this, since some design patterns can simply be implemented "for good" in a sufficiently powerful language, but I don't find it's true in general. Unfortunately, it has become something of a t
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
> If I were a film professor today, hell even 20 years ago, I would not expect a modern film student to sit through that whole thing. Sorry, but this to me sounds completely insane. We're not even talking about the general populatio
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
I briefly had that in the past, but it went away within a day or so. I may have also reset my YouTube/Google cookies. I think sometimes the site cookies get into a weird state, but I believe it can also be that your IP address was flag
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by WCSTombs 8mo ago
This "classification" is pretty much a tautology and provides no information. The enumeration of all subgroups of a cyclic group and their orders is one of the most basic facts in all of group theory and known by pretty much every
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by WCSTombs 9mo ago
On my own computers I typically have the two logins you mentioned, the user and the root account, since there's only one of me and only I use the computers. On the computer I recently had for work there were many accounts, since the sy
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by WCSTombs 9mo ago
The OP is actually someone else commenting on antirez, not antirez's original take.
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by WCSTombs 9mo ago
It sounds to me like you just need to try creating electronic music, not using generative AI. If you really have an exact idea of what the music should sound like, you should be able to realize your vision this way, and you can use realisti

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