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by bmacho 1y ago
You can be right or wrong in math and philosophy. You have can an opinion in any other sciences, physics, chemistry, biology, medical sciences, history, you name it.
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by bmacho 1y ago
It's not even about the quote, or Asimov. "Less wrong" is a concept that has a lot of connotations that just automatically appear in your mind and help you. What you wrote " It's very telling that some of them went
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by bmacho 1y ago
A camera app can't set a phone camera to 10,000 fps. So the question is what does it do?
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by bmacho 1y ago
The joke is that in reality Ceaușescu had decided to export 4, and the farmer got jailed/executed for hiding his piglets
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by bmacho 1y ago
> (the person vocally claiming to pick up the slack recently had almost all their work reverted when it was found to have been completely broken). What are you talking about?
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by bmacho 1y ago
It's okay to watch pirated movies if you sell fanart based on them later
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by bmacho 1y ago
> > "Here's a rich native toolkit so all the new software will look and work and theme consistently"-- a well-known and directly user-facing friction point, so how did they miss that? > The problem is that applicatio
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by bmacho 1y ago
Can you explain how xorg developers removing a lot of their own code and calling it "bad" because they get mad at someone makes you think that xorg is professional and makes the fork look bad? I am only able to see it the opposite
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by bmacho 1y ago
The main devs, apart from being reactionary nutjobs, created enough bugs and compatibility breaks in Xorg proper by reverting a lot of X11Libre changes.[0] I guess we will see if this project survives for longer than a few months. [0] http
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by bmacho 1y ago
> But after my kids were born I noticed something: my kids loved my voice, they listened to every sentence I made, they laughed at my quirky jokes I made and they loved when I sang to them or I brought them to the park or to the nursery
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by bmacho 1y ago
Off: mathematics is kind of moving away from the asymmetric element symbol "∈" to the symmetric type of symbol ":", which, I think is a loss. I'm sad about it. For example with the element symbol you can do
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by bmacho 1y ago
And the exact same of what it is.
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by bmacho 1y ago
No it means treat minorities (gays, women, people of color) nicely and others (straight people, men, white people) badly.
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by bmacho 1y ago
Hidden from the front page. How the hell is IBM/Red Hat able to keep HN, Phoronix, theregister (possibly more) under their thumb? :\
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by bmacho 1y ago
There is no arguing about that, the maintainer made a mistake. (Among other people, and it was insignificant anyway.) So now that we agree on this, what now? How exactly does > does not give a warm fuzzy feeling about the author of t
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by bmacho 1y ago
What are the options? a) noone looks at the code b) they make random user-facing changes c) random churn that makes the code better (preferably with as few user-facing modifications as possible) IMO the best option is c). Guy
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by bmacho 1y ago
Literally everyone but one person are constantly shittalking and trying to gaslight him.
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by bmacho 1y ago
Ubuntu was winning on Desktop and they had to come up with something. And they did. They are following the EEE strategy, are actively trying to replace and undermine everything with tightly-coupled, in-house, break often technology. (In the
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by bmacho 1y ago
Tangential, but a choice function is one of the ur-examples of Dependent Type Theory (DTT). In standard ZFC the choice function on X would have the type signature f: X -> UX (union X). And you know the additional information that
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by bmacho 1y ago
The single most best definition I know is what is on the wiki[0]: > A choice function (also called selector or selection) is a function f, defined on a collection X of nonempty sets, such that for every set A in X, f(A) is an element of
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by bmacho 1y ago
The last part is unfortunate. However, it is a perfectly fine choice of title, as it does not make the majority of us think that there were an outage caused by jemalloc. You should update how you think of the word, and align it with the maj
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by bmacho 1y ago
Probably in exchange of some privacy it gives its users time/money?
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by bmacho 1y ago
We have no theories working at those conditions. Wiki says > General relativity also predicts that the initial state of the universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang, was a singularity of infinite density and temperature.[6][obsolete so
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by bmacho 1y ago
> The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. It is indeed "often described" in the media as such. However, that is _not_ the cur
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by bmacho 1y ago
Simple + open source + no access to network + no updates (idk about Android/iOS cross-app data sharing).
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by bmacho 1y ago
> What are "most other devices"? I can't think of any electronics I own that are still usable after 10-15 years besides Apple hardware. Literally everything else, that is not Apple hardware.
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by bmacho 1y ago
An ipad 2 is not a PC. 2011 PCs were fine eight years later, in 2019, and they are still fine in 2025. Maybe they are too weak for the some of the latest eyecandy games (not really tho), but there is no planned obsolescence , an Apple th
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by bmacho 1y ago
Apple forbids everyone to put a newer SSL library on it, so it can't be used on networks. I think this is outrageous , to have a great piece of hardware, and not being able to use it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc
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by bmacho 1y ago
> I often want to open up various products in multiple tabs so that I can then go through them and select one to buy. When a website disables right click, I often just give up and don't buy anything. Hold Ctrl with left hand, and cl

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