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by ajuc 3y ago
Dunno where he is from, but it's the same here in Poland. In 90s when I was a kid September was usually around 10-15 C, you wear autumn clothing and it rains a lot. October was often when the first snow happened. This year it's be
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Can you explain it? Can't measure one-way speed of light because you need to get the result back somehow (and that's also limited by speed of light). Usually we just send light and wait for it to bounce back.
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by ajuc 3y ago
There's 2 different aspects people mean when they call sth functional programming: - higher order functions (lambdas, currying, closures, etc.) - pure functions, immutability by default, side effects are pushed to the top level and mar
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by ajuc 3y ago
> I define hunger as the ideal signal that corresponds exactly to the extent of starvation. If you redefine words how you please you can prove anything. What's the point tho? > What do you consider hunger? The feeling I sometimes
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by ajuc 3y ago
> I'm no apologist for Russia false > dozens of Fox-news style commentators on US media and talk radio who haven't said similar things before show one > The asshats on Russian media saying these things are basically the R
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by ajuc 3y ago
He argued against stopping it. I don't care how he calls it.
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by ajuc 3y ago
What I consider hunger someone else can consider the norm or vice versa. If you define something that depends on the person as objective - then subjective loses meaning.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Russians on their TV openly argue for killing "every Ukrainian". The fact we are even arguing about this is the best evidence that morality is relative...
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by ajuc 3y ago
"Peace for our time" by Chamberline and Germany's dependence on Russia are as falsified as you can be in politics. Chomsky would probably support both :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukr... Let's also remember a few millions of Ukrainians were starved to death not 100 years ago by Russians. Ukraine is and was the most fertile soil in Eur
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by ajuc 3y ago
Ad 1. There's no paradox. Russia is a paper tiger that barely works. But it has nukes and enough conventional army to fuck up small countries in Eastern Europe. Hence they seek NATO membership. The war isn't about USA, the war is
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by ajuc 3y ago
I use f.lux - it changes the screen color temperature through the day to make it easier to sleep. If I sit late at night my desktop walpaper (which is a regular photo with a lot of blue sky) becomes basically all red if you look at rgb valu
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Would an LLM gain a "good command of language" if it was just fed all the taling a human hears and the words it reads in its first 18 years of life? Depends on what its starting weights are ;)
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by ajuc 3y ago
Hunger is subjective. Starvation isn't.
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by ajuc 3y ago
The only definition is "most people recognize it" and there are people who disagree about it or don't recognize it at all. How does it differ from something that exists subjectively then? I'd say arguing that colors are
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by ajuc 3y ago
I start to dislike Chomsky more and more. His work in linguistic is over my head, maybe it's true, I can't tell. But whenever I hear him speak outside his niche his points are stupid (like this one) or harmful (like his Ukrainian
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by ajuc 3y ago
Dense would be better?
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by ajuc 3y ago
Once a company tries sth like this there's no point going back. They will fuck you up again the moment people stop watching every step their make.
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by ajuc 3y ago
In Poland new English words are introduced at once as combination of letters and as a sound, and teachers insist on repeating them loudly and memorizing the pronunciation along with spelling. Kids already can read so the problem isn't
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by ajuc 3y ago
F35A (the one from the article, and the one almost everybody is buing) isn't VTOL. F35B will likely melt the asphalt if it tried to take-off vertically from a regular highway.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yes, but it's also possible with most older planes, including Mig-29 and F-16. https://bnn.network/world/poland/natos-resilient-runway-init... The highways have to be built with that in mind though (and many
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by ajuc 3y ago
> A physicists dismissing philosophy as out of date implies that we are already on the optimum path to discovering the remaining knowledge about the universe to be learned. Does not follow. It suffices that such a physicist thinks philos
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by ajuc 3y ago
If she didn't say she takes responsibility - nothing would have happened. After you punish the bully the first time - usually he leaves you alone. Impunity is the important factor, not "suggestion of violence".
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by ajuc 3y ago
We've seen countless subjects on which philosophers argued for centuries solved by physicists and mathematicians. We've yet to see one example going the other way. At best philosophers provide interesting questions. At worst they
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by ajuc 3y ago
And say nothing of value about them, but sound smart while they do it ;)
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> Repeat the same experiment in the middle of the day for an hour without putting a gun and knife on the table and you'll see a very different result. Yeah, if you change the conditions you get different results. > she was blatan
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by ajuc 3y ago
This is what happens in any group of people when there's impunity. Things escalate till somebody stops it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovshchina . This happened in many other countries too. Or just look a
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by ajuc 3y ago
This is the best evidence against UFO, ghosts, Nessi, big foot, etc that we have :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
Some people indent in a way that breaks with tabs. Like: object1.field1 = value1; longObject2.field3 = value2; longObject23.longField1 = value3; or if ((firstArg == 1 && x == 3) || (f
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by ajuc 3y ago
I'm no master, but I figured out a few things: 1. check git blame in the place where you do changes before you do them - on several occassions I found out that the "obvious bug" I was fixing was introduced on purpose 2 years

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