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by aragonite 3y ago
Examining this kind of (unintentionally) obfuscated code can be a learning opportunity as well. Forgetting the intuitive meaning of symbols is often helpful in doing mathematical proofs (I think Weyl has a famous quote about that). Who know
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by aragonite 3y ago
I think derailment would be unlikely as the train would be slowing to a stop, no? Unless you are picturing something way more adventurous ...
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by aragonite 3y ago
There are two kinds of jealousy, the motivating kind and the demotivating kind. For example, most folks here are probably somewhat jealous of how rich Linus Torvald is, but this kind of jealousy motivates one to perfect one's craft and
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by aragonite 3y ago
If it reflects back 100% of the incident light, it wouldn't have a blue appearance, would it?
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by aragonite 3y ago
is Basic HTML Gmail free of JS? I had to use it recently I remember typing in the to/from fields and there were autocomplete pop-ups.
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by aragonite 3y ago
It will quite often make up non-existent command line syntax purely based on vibes (I'm assuming Google Search uses Bard to generate those AI powered answers to queries like "what's the command line syntax for doing such and
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by aragonite 3y ago
It's a reproduction of Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition, which uses the long s. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:First_six_bo...
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by aragonite 3y ago
From this F-35 crash video last year at least it looks like they fixed the ejection problem at least! https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/pilot-ejects-from-f-35-at-...
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by aragonite 3y ago
You are right! I was really thinking more about books published before the 20th century (which constitute the majority of my own usage of Google Books), and I had in mind something like a collaborative WikiSource integrated into Google Book
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by aragonite 3y ago
> Human authors who wrote original creative content, or wrote in a style that is personal and widely recognized, their rights to trade and commerce are in peril I see what you're saying, but I fail to see how ChatGPT merely copying
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by aragonite 3y ago
> As any researcher can attest, our digital libraries now hold a century of scanned work of questionable quality I keep thinking so much collaborative potential is not being utilized. Imagine each (unique) Google Book is basically an edi
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by aragonite 3y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between content and presentation. Most books don't offer entirely new content, but (at best) give some novel way of presenting old content. Consider a modern retelling of Greek Mythology. The
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I find it hard to make sense of the idea of for-profit, corporate journalism or why we find the practice acceptable. For example, consider the following seemingly mundane fact: The New York Times does not reports critically on itself. Its i
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by aragonite 3y ago
> Insert list of subsequent wars. Like the Mexican–American War? OP's explanation of why US is the top-dog can't be whole story, but there's something to it. For example, it's hard to imagine the US would be half as p
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by aragonite 3y ago
I wonder if the streaming problems are related to the problem I experienced a lot lately to do with constant network connection error when using ChatGPT over mobile tethering (via Google Fi). The mobile connection itself is very stable and
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by aragonite 3y ago
Counterpoint: scihub, libgen links are routinely shared on HN as a matter of course (likewise in academia). I've seen HN threads in which people unapologetically reminisce about torrenting movies/music. Perhaps your will object: &
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by aragonite 3y ago
1. Suppose the OP did not take the source code files, but memorized the source code and later recalled it from memory. Would that be theft? 2. Suppose the OP neither took the file nor memorized the code, but had photographic memory and repl
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by aragonite 3y ago
I can certainly imagine developing a complex extension intended for publication in the marketplace can involve a very different experience. I had in mind only the kind of extension a user might write for personal use, which may often involv
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by aragonite 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I find the process of developing/modifying an extension such a PITA on vscode. In sublime it's frictionless, all you have to do is to save some python files in your user folder, then sublime w
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by aragonite 3y ago
If we are imagining not just a society in which (1) people are punished for the crimes committed by their family members, but more specifically (2) a tyrannical society which criminalizes acts (blasphemy, lese-majesty, etc) most of us don&#
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by aragonite 3y ago
I prefer your kind of bullet-biting consequentialism to the kind which tries to approximate the intuitively correct (imo) verdict by watering down the concept of consequence (e.g. by going for some version of rule-utilitarianism). But I dis
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by aragonite 3y ago
I get what you're saying, but making the example one about sexual assault is not gratutous but because it poses a unique problem for consequentialism: it's pretty much the only uncontroversial example of an act that is (1) widely
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by aragonite 3y ago
If I contemplate some criminal act, various unpleasant potential consequences may occur to me, and I may decide against that act "for fear" that those consequences should come to pass. However, "fear" in this sense is ra
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by aragonite 3y ago
Not saying this applies to your situation, but I'm always slightly amused when I hear tech-oriented people say "this font would be perfect for me except for this ONE deal breaker" (often but not always the problem of insuffi
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by aragonite 4y ago
I agree the visibility makes it worse, but my sense is that stratospheric balloon overflight is something that happens fairly frequently and most of the time does not cause diplomatic incidents (which explains why we heard nothing about it
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by aragonite 4y ago
Quite apart from commercial flights, stratosphereic balloon overlight itself is something that happens fairly frequently. There's a reason we didn't hear about it the 4-5 times it happened before within the past several years. Thi
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by aragonite 4y ago
> I don't particularly like the precedent we just set especially in view of the fact that the upper limit of sovereign airspace is not defined by international law. In fact there are proposals to treat the 18-160km zone as a transit
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I showed mine this and she understood right away haha https://youtu.be/HLI7MLZYPBg