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by Y_Y 2y ago
Because Android and iOS serve other masters. Its's not just that this is morally unsound, it's fucking infuriating. Imagine JD Rockefeller had arranged it so that your pen and paper constantly nagged you and tried to trick you int
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Externalities
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by Y_Y 2y ago
If only Firefox were funded by donations!
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> I guess Oprah is still kicking around. Wouldn't have been my first choice, but she's not the worst idea I've seen so far in this discussion.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
#define C(x) ((constexpr typeof(x)){ (x) })
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by Y_Y 2y ago
If C23 is why not use constexpr? https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/constexpr
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by Y_Y 2y ago
I like the idea of trying crazy and new ideas, but this looks like they just thought corners weren't round enough, and that people will pay money for a file manager that has no sharp edges and won't integrate with your OS.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Does anyone know a good emulator for knitting machines? I'd love to play with these programs, but I'd like to get some practice before I start messing with real wool.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
It may also be a factor that the student loans cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. The government may be afraid of (even scammy) businesses shutting down, but there's no danger with student-debtors.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Same, but that's just because I don't have any voters
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by Y_Y 2y ago
I agree that Microsoft seems identify more with parasites, but they're no strangers to symbiotic relationships with viruses. In fact they do distribute and contribute to lots of GPL software, including Linux. I can't be sure their
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by Y_Y 2y ago
My god, a gift card? What am I going to do, buy FoxPro and a month of Xbox Live? Honestly I'd prefer to get no email at all than that miserable offer. If the project is only worth a couple of hundred dollars to them they're probab
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> Gates: OH, I DIDN'T GET RICH BY WRITING A LOT OF CHECKS. > Gates: ( fiendish laughter ) https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E14/1158256
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Up where? I wouldn't consider that correct.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
When is a book the same as another?
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Repeat this sentence exactly. https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...
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by Y_Y 2y ago
These are FSMs though, as the tape is finite.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Here's o4-mini-high solving riddles: > What weighs more; a pound of courage or a pound coin? > They weigh the same—each is a “pound.” A pound of courage and a pound coin both come out to one pound in weight! https://ch
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> Shifting financial realities meant we had to pivot our product deep into the deployment process. Fwiw, I hate working with people who talk like this, and would much prefer: "We ended up changing the product at the last minute beca
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> In Greek mythology, the Pierian Spring of Macedonia was sacred to the Pierides and the Muses. As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science, it was popularized by a couplet in Alexander Pope's 1711 poem An Essay on Cr
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by Y_Y 2y ago
In fact, Hitler grew up without reading Mein Kampf. I wouldn't want to take the chance of that happening again.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Citation needed! As I understand it there were no Maori before NZ was settled, that culture formed there from the Polynesian"moa-hunters". Some descendants of those settlers became the Maori, but that a different claim. Furthermor
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by Y_Y 2y ago
You may reasonably disagree with my comment, but using your imagination you'll find that there are lots of ways by which arXiv (the organization) and its staff could benefit from PR. Lots of academics in distant fields are unaware of a
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Not with that attitude. If you've got a particularly slothful postal worker you might consider topping up your meitnerium with a similarly sized sample of roentgenium-282. If you don't have any to hand then perhaps you'll hav
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by Y_Y 2y ago
What's wrong with 278Mt? That should give you a lesiurely 4.5 seconds.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
(CGS units give me nightmares, so I'll swap to SI.) For solids at room temperature and pressure the best you could do seems to be osmium or iridium, unless you have access to heavy transactinides. mass/kg substance 2.57e5 s
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Sounds like Woodie Guthrie's guitar
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by Y_Y 2y ago
That's what I do with my Deel customer service bot
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by Y_Y 2y ago
You saying Caesar was a spook?
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> whether a data structure is an immutable or persistent data structure or merely an unmodifiable data structure... This hurt my brain. It seems that in some places (e.g. Java land) unmodifiable refers to something that you can't

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