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by bmacho 2y ago
Hackernews don't require javascript for upvote buttons. They work without it. BTW hackernews requires javascript for collapsing threads, despite it can be achieved with checkbox/css or with the summary element. The reddit fronte
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I personally use a free (and small) mobile data plan, so that several MB/search would make me pay infinite times more. I switched to DDG.
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It uses a lot of data, it is a security risk, it is a privacy risk, and it forces you to throw away your old devices.
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> I've been advocating for [X], and you should too This seems like what we should do against negative trends. I think complaining is more common, probably more accepted (?) than advocating, but logically, the latter is what we shoul
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> The way that this syntax (see bash, zsh, fish, etc) usually work is that these lists are separated by spaces. And programming languages that have variables, string type, and function calls do the opposite. In C, Python, JavaScript etc,
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> and the universal DSL for calling programs (program name, space separated list of arguments). Yeah, don't do that. Both the program name, and the arguments can and do contain spaces. Do instead what every other languages do, that
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> In current English, writing uses more varied vocabulary than conversational speech, and it uses rarer and longer words much more often. Certain structures (such as passive sentences, prepositional phrases, and relative clauses) appear
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Yes. That's what my view is. If we cut down the trees, and burn them, we'll have the same level of C atoms in the atmosphere. If we keep using gas and oil coming under the ground, the number of C atoms will keep increasing. Althou
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by bmacho 2y ago
I think you mean it in the context of proofs , right? Proofs are indeed often best written in a topological order: a series of true statements, where every reference refer backwards. You don't often see Answer = A + B, wher
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by bmacho 2y ago
Lmao, my thoughts exactly. Q: why I chose common lisp A: I was looking for a lisp to begin with This is almost like a satire. But I've found it rather funny. It presents question and provides an answer which is contradictory at first b
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> if 2^512 calculations costs you $8 then (2^512)^2 calculations costs you $64 This and the stuff they've been writing about suggest that we are observing a mind that used to know things, but suffered some serious damages/degra
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by bmacho 2y ago
> if 2^512 calculations costs you $8 then (2^512)^2 calculations costs you $64 Can you answer a) If 1 apple costs you 8$ then (1)^2 apple costs you: ??? b) If 10 apples cost you 8$ then (10)^2 apples costs you: ??? edit: bet
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by bmacho 2y ago
> (you can't just square amounts of money, just consider how it would work if you changed currency: $8 is 1260¥, squares it makes it 1587000¥ which is $10k != $64) What can you square then? For example, can you square lengths? E.g.
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by bmacho 2y ago
No, they don't, since the weather is chaotic. I mean, there are the theorems about how close you can get, and models are not better than theoretically possible.
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by bmacho 2y ago
Making your work public domain is not "giving up your rights". It would be the exact opposite: practicing your right to transfer your IP. Being able to transfer or sell your IP would be an important right. Similar to physical prop
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by bmacho 2y ago
Ask IRC/Stackoverflow/Reddit/ChatGPT?
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Huh? Then why WSL2 if not because Windows sucks? (This latter, Windows sucking, is not necessarily meant in isolation but as part of our world: Windows is not supported by many modern tools.)
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There is a random puzzle at the middle of the article as the illustration, and the solution at the bottom of the article.
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by bmacho 2y ago
They probably could measure summer solstices, and count the days between 4 of them, and they got 1461. They could've measured 1461 days -43 minutes, and be more precise, if they had wanted. Julius Caesar was as short-sighted as most so
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by bmacho 2y ago
I was unable to find a global font-size option, isn't there any? I can modify the fonts individually, but that's not what I want. I also wish for a global contrast option (preferably where the day/night toggle is). The defa
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Nor they have mentioned Puppy Linux. It uses SquashFS images and layer them on each other. You can choose to save your modifications in a new image, or discard them. E.g. you can run a Puppy Linux from a CD-R (one time writeable), by append
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The Featured Article For recent usages on HN see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
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The current political configuration of the Iberian Peninsula comprises the bulk of Portugal and Spain , the whole landlocked microstate of Andorra , a small part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales (French Cerdagne), and t
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by bmacho 2y ago
You probably just jest, either way fibs is not tail recursive [0], since its returning value is a list constructor, and not a call to itself. [0] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33923/what-is-tail-recur...
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by bmacho 2y ago
You do it 3 times, a=b, a<b, a>b. .. now that I think about it, the "visual proof" only 'proves' the statement for a specific 'a' and 'b'. Probably there is a proof, that can handle all 'a&
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States
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> Don’t obfuscate, your view is that the stack overflow commentator, Quora answer writer, blog writer, in fact anyone who did not invent the knowledge he’s disseminating, is committing a small amount of evil. :/ No, it's not? I
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> So in your view, when a human does it, he causes a minute of harm so we can ignore it, but chatGPT causes a massive amount of harm, so we need to penalize it. Do you realize how radical your position is? Yes, that's my view. No, I
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> I think it's more natural to think of arr[i] as “the ‹i›th element of arr” because it doesn't require explaining what a step is or what the beginning is. Yes, but if you will eventually need to do steps on your array, you bet

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