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by acuozzo 4y ago
> I can go to the store and buy a TV for half of what it cost me 5 years ago, even with inflation. What's silly is that the same is true for "a car" if you're as willing to overlook the details as you are with "a
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Rust compiles to C and then passes that C to a C compiler to generate machine code?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
It's a shame "C with classes", as C++ originally was, didn't stick around for parallel development. I work with C daily and I'm well aware of its many shortcomings (e.g. its huge list of undefined behavior and its P
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by acuozzo 4y ago
When I'm doing home repair and my endoscope isn't handy I use my phone as a periscope. Because of this it is full of "pointless" photos e.g. dozens of out-of-focus shots behind my AV receiver in my stereo cabinet to make
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This SO post is a bit old now, so I'd verify before proceeding, but it looks like having devtools open in a separate window will enable you to circumvent the check. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40153206&#x2F
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Copyright covers "derived works", no? Training an ML model doesn't seem to fall under the established exceptions which qualify as "fair use".
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> One would think it should be the least dangerous one, due to being so similar to a natural molecule. Research enantiomers and, more generally, chirality. The laws governing Chemistry don't align well with the human intuitive under
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Eat what people ate a hundred years ago Why not go back nearly two thousand years then? Let's eat like Roman aristocrats!
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Finally! We now know the true expansion of the M in MULTICS.
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> GPT is only possible because it's been trained on the work humans have learned to do and then put out in the world. Which really makes you wonder if F/OSS was a good idea in the first place.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism
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1410 SAT!
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Just make sure to send your fourteen year olds to the front of the line, chief.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This sounds like a fun opportunity to push boundaries. There are several binaries-on-Usenet-esque projects on GitHub to push e.g. yEnc-encoded chunks to Reddit & Twitter. So we just need a few people with unlimited bandwidth via another
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> I like wearing a nicely cut suit or jacket. Suits don't set off my bullshit detector. Legitimate hackers have had to wear them since the dawn of computing. The devil is in the details. Alarm bells start to ring for me when the sum
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> I did wear a suit every day for a few years to a programming job Was it a tailored suit by a designer brand? Alternatively, was it a fancy bespoke suit? Suits usually don't set off my bullshit detector. Many legitimate hackers hav
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> 1/ What do you people do with their printers? I mostly use it to print labels for sales from my eBay store.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> but paradoxically the more professional an open source site looks, the more I assume there's going to be a catch I hate to admit this, but I feel the same way when it comes to programmers themselves. I've tried very, very har
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Can you please list some features Discord has that IRC lacks? (Since IRC is a protocol, let's use the mIRC application for comparison with Discord.)
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> ultra-processed food tends to be low in nutrients This is good news! If a food is low in macronutrients like protein, fats, and carbohydrates, then it's low in calories by definition. Score!
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> that are low in nutrients and high in calories What exactly does this mean? The potential energy in food measured by calories is in its macronutrients. No macronutrients, no calories. Is it some kind of reference to micronutrients, phy
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> A lack of knowledge about cooking Knowing how to cook doesn't solve the underlying problem driving someone to use food as a drug. I had laid many pots of Boeuf Bourguinon on my family's dinner table before I started shoving B
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> what was your experience with this? Not OP, but I've lost >100 lb. three separate times in my life, so I suppose I qualify. It affects you in ways that are analogous to overindulging in adult entertainment. You need higher peak
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> You can always end up having a bunch of low paying jobs that don't allow for a good standard of living. Indeed, but this will gradually kill all but the most essential industries. "Consumers" won't have the funds to
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Your friend is just slow. The issue here is that, in the US at least, referring to someone as "slow" is making a statement about their IQ. There are many possible causes for the coworker's "slow"-ness here, e.g
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by acuozzo 4y ago
But, don't you know? Ideas are cheap! It's all about execution! /s
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Sounds good, but who are my potential customers? If I follow the "scratch your own itch" advice I ultimately fail because nobody wants to pay for e.g. a better register allocation algorithm for 6502 C compilers. If I follow the &q
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> some of it was exaggerated, and the lived effects hasn’t been as drastic as we were being told Or we're still in the "insertion sort is faster than quicksort" part of the graph.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The reason NoSQL exists is that many programmers want a persistent hash table with the guarantees (and man-hour investment) of a database. (Excluding graph database use-cases, of course.)
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Shhh!

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