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Social Media Systems and Democracy(vihart.com)
2 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 9y ago
Interesting, but isn't this kind of the opposite of "do it live"? I would think "lip synch" would be a better name for it. I've done a couple of live presentations in my career (in fact I just did one last Frid
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by breadbox 9y ago
> Why are those warnings not automatically included in "-Wall -Wextra"? Not all of them are actually errors, maybe depending on your style. For example, shadowing a variable is a well-defined feature of the C language, and so s
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by breadbox 9y ago
Possibly. On the other hand, you're talking about changing behavior that's been in place for 35 years. It's more than a little late to garner any benefit from changing it. And the risk that you'll actually break an exist
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by breadbox 9y ago
Godot does default to scaling sprites, but you can choose to not have it do that. You can also change the default on a per-project basis.
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by breadbox 9y ago
The documentation for GDscript is pretty thin, it's true. However, I think it has been improving, and that coupled with the tutorials created by other parties has helped me a lot in figuring out how to make things work.
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by breadbox 9y ago
> Why do people add the disclaimer about not being a lawyer. Generally curious. I've always taken it as "I want people to assume that I know what I'm talking about, unless there are negative consequences. I still want to c
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by breadbox 9y ago
But of course the problem here is that the nanny is the corporation, which is just as inclined towards -- and far more capable of -- advancing itself to the detriment of the consumer.
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by breadbox 9y ago
I think that's the point, actually. (Unless there's some political issue that I'm missing.) Google can make a simple mistake and the customer has to bear the burden of it. When something like this happens, there's no ind
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The science doesn’t support the Google memo(recode.net)
3 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 9y ago
I would heartily agree that some syntax is preferable to none ... when you're writing code in general. However, little or no syntax is a huge advantage when you're writing code that writes code. That's what makes Lisp so po
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by breadbox 9y ago
My wording was excessively, and for that I apologize. However, my point was more that not everyone has the same freedom to be unaware of Daily Stormer. In much the same way that childless people have the luxury to be unaware of which school
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by breadbox 9y ago
Cloudflare is refusing to help someone spread their message. Again, if you call that censorship, then I'm not sure where you draw the line, as almost every speech act involves taking space away from other speech acts. Particularly when
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by breadbox 9y ago
If you honestly think that the rest of the world is only now hearing about the Daily Stormer, then you must have a very plush rock that you've been living under. I assure you that many, many others have not had that particular luxury.
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by breadbox 9y ago
If you label "not amplifying someone" as censorship, then there is obviously no such thing as uncensored free speech for everyone. The question then becomes who you step up to defend, and who you quietly ignore, when someone gets
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A Google-style gender equality manifesto for sex workers(independent.co.uk)
2 points by breadbox 9y ago|1 comments
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by breadbox 9y ago
Back in 2001 my social circle had a "gigasecond party" where we got together to cheer the moment of 1000000000. Like New Years, except that it was during the afternoon.
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by breadbox 9y ago
Definitely not (and I went to college when I was one of the few students who arrived with his own computer). Our chemistry teacher spent one class showing us how to use Newton's approximation, and most students found it a complete wast
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by breadbox 9y ago
I believe it's just a visual aid that can help you understand how each digit is converging on the true square root. If you're not one for visual analogies, then it probably just feels like a distraction.
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by breadbox 9y ago
There are no "calls" for them to pay their fair share because for the most part they already are, in many cases well more than they can afford. Your comment also implicitly presumes that the wealthy were already paying their fair
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by breadbox 9y ago
You are supported by the social systems that surround you. They aren't conjured out of thin air. But if you don't want to support them in turn, then you are hardly being forced to. Just move somewhere else. There are a lot of citi
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by breadbox 9y ago
More like an "empathy-deficiency drain", and I have no problem with that.
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Discovery of a young, dead galaxy creates a huge puzzle for astronomers(medium.com)
2 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 9y ago
If you found that article interesting, you might want to read Gregory Benford's "Deep Time" (978-0380975372). Benford was part of the same panel (though in a different group), and the first half of the book is in-depth discus
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by breadbox 9y ago
1. The waves didn't originate from inside the event horizons, but from the area around the black holes, where space is still very heavily warped. 2. Imagine you have two serious dents in some stiff plastic sheet. By tapping on the plas
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by breadbox 9y ago
I don't know if Underwood Dudley ever put it online, but at one point he did publish his collection under the title "The Trisectors" (978-0883855140). For every single failed trisection he provides a diagram, a brief descript
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by breadbox 9y ago
In addition to publishing a book-sized collection of failed angle trisections, Underwood Dudley is also the author of "Mathematical Cranks" (978-0883855072), which gives a broad and fascinating descriptions of all sorts of example
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by breadbox 9y ago
I get your point, but at the same time I would say that it's often much harder to "do better" when you don't even have a clear idea what it is you're trying to improve upon.
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by breadbox 9y ago
> I always wondered why musicians keep up with the > conventional musical notation system, and haven't come > up with something better (maybe a job for a HNer?). Before starting down that path, I would recommend familiarizing
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by breadbox 9y ago
This flaw was pointed out while C99 was under review. The idea of changing sizeof to not be evaluated at compile-time did not sit well with a lot of people. Unfortunately, the alternative (sizeof not being usable with dynamic arrays) was cl

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