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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> unboxing an apple product is a bit like undressing a lover for the first time no > quite likely more satisfying than the ownership that follows no
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
A hagiography. Suggest skip.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Point taken, rules are as agreed between players, not divinely imposed. I was just curious about P-to-P promotion legality per the 'standard' I hope SE chess lives up to its promise! It felt right and somehow freeing not to be alw
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> I wasn't laying the blame solely on the CEO, I was responding to a comment about her being a vicar and what might be the cause of that incongruity exactly it, thanks.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
What?? Please read my post again.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Well yes, she had a book, with written instructions from her own deity telling her not to be a tosser, and she still didn't follow it even as a priest. I truly don't understand.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
"Paula Anne Vennells (born 21 February 1959) is a British former businesswoman who was the chief executive officer of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. She is also an Anglican priest" - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Relevant to the question of whether machines can think.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> and promoted a pawn to a pawn umm. Commendably warped, but I'm not sure that's legal? (BTW many years ago I experimented creating chess variants, before I even knew it was a thing. I invented a number which all felt contrived
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Thanks for the goddamned image. Brain bleach please.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> I have no qualms saying [thermostats] are intelligent > Intelligence is a very vague and very context dependent thing That's either contradictory, to state that something has property X where X is vague to the point of undefine
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
You wanted a wider discussion, that wasn't given. Your baseline of investigation wasn't theirs, that's fine.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Sort of random question: how difficult is it to write a decent Prolog interpreter? I read somewhere that you need to implement the WAM to get efficiency, but I don't know if that's true, and if it is true, how difficult is it to w
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I have no idea if this is even remotely correct, but perhaps MiniKanren could be called the Pascal of the logic programming world?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Maybe a caltrop for 8-dimensional horses
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I can't see any mention or implication of 'nuclear' - where do you see that?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> So he cut overseer's head with his scythe, became a village hero and founded a church there do go on, sounds like quite a story in there.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I think you're just looking more deeply at it than I am. No more than that.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Not sure I agree. GC is essential in industry (well, I'd argue that! Ignoring embedded anyway) but I think the programmer has to understand the real cost, and that means allocating and de-allocating, and if that is hidden by the GC the
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Well duh. How is using SRAM going to be any different when you run out of that?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Why not have a 'pin-to-cache' functionality then.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Yes. Hence the word 'joke' I used. For short running programs, it's fine. The longer running programs you can often find a few places where 95% of the leaks happen and easily 'free' those leaving the last 5% to leak
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
It obviously is a joke, but at the same time it's actually a viable approach for the right problem. Sometimes leaking is very tolerable and in terms of programmer time, very cheap!
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
It may depend. I was mainly educated in the UK. I went to council schools in poor areas, and to an expensive public school, and the difference between pupil behaviour was enormous. In the former they were hard to control (I even remember a
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Quoting [3]: "I’m going to make a claim here that will be unpopular with some compiler and language people. It’s OK if you don’t agree. Personally, I learn more from strongly stated opinions that I disagree with than I do from several
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
It's complicated. > and the hiring of poor boys as prostitutes makes a difference I'd say absolutely yes, that is wrong, but at the time it was not considered so wrong. I understand the age of consent was introduced for girls t
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
More like an electricity area-distribution fail. If it were EMP or a really major solar event, you probably have bigger concerns.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Extremely informative, thanks. Agree with you about the difficulty of interpreting morality over timespans and cultures.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Oscar Wilde's ... was a paedophile sex tourist I've never heard of him being into children, have you a link for this, thanks (also, 'sex tourist'?)
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
How close geographically are you and your parents – are you fed off the same electricity supply?

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