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by chaosite 7y ago
It was more of a social media platform. Remember video replies? Then it turned into a video-streaming website.
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Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician and Inspiration for 'Hidden Figures,' Dies(npr.org)
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AFAIK, LG also doesn't manufacture in China. It used to manufacture in SK until last year, then it moved production to Vietnam.
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by chaosite 7y ago
"programming by example" is a form of program synthesis, where the spec is provided by the examples. It is a formal specification, albeit incomplete. Program synthesis, as a concept, does not require the specification to be comple
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by chaosite 7y ago
That's usually called program synthesis, and a lot of it uses formal methods. It isn't usually considered AI (but recently the field started incorporating a lot of ML, like pretty much anything in CS these days.)
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Compilers are AI?
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by chaosite 7y ago
Israeli privacy laws are from 1981. They don't really cover PII by itself, only in certain cases, and they consequences are insufficient. Israel could probably do with something like the GDPR or CCPA.
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That really isn't my experience. Plugs break usually because they're pulled, for example from using the device while it's plugged in to charge. I'm not talking about violent pulls from a phone falling of the desk, just t
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by chaosite 7y ago
There was a different API to get this behavior since 3.4: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0428/#id39
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by chaosite 7y ago
This is false since Python 3.6. https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-path-like-objec...
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by chaosite 7y ago
I agree with the point you're making, but you're actually wrong about C/C++. It's true that C/C++ compilers usually have a flag that gates language features. However, you're still using the same libc not matter
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Gawker?
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by chaosite 7y ago
It does mean "forced" or "under duress" in this sense, but in a very strong sense. It shares the same root as "raped".
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by chaosite 7y ago
> Instead of C99 without a bunch of stuff, I'd probably use Scheme to create very dense (lots of bespoke abstractions and idioms) but simple software. That approach works reasonably well, but try onboarding a new developer! I unders
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by chaosite 7y ago
Very specific Googlers, mostly SREs, use IRC.
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by chaosite 7y ago
And this isn't a big conspiracy, it's just that a study suggesting we expose healthy people to infectious diseases will never pass an ethics board.
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by chaosite 7y ago
No, that's how silencing minorities works, which is explicitly the thing that democracy is not about. You know the line, "soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box: please use in that order"? Note that last one. Democracy is m
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by chaosite 7y ago
That's basically the idea of fixed-term elections. The problem is that when the current government can choose the timing of the elections, it invariably chooses a date that holds some sort of advantage to it. Therefore, the date of the
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by chaosite 7y ago
> The responses to those three have been illuminating. Please do share.
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by chaosite 7y ago
I don't have a solution for you, sorry... I need RTL on Linux, on macos I just avoid it.
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by chaosite 7y ago
I use iTerm2 when I'm on MacOS, but I basically use it like I use a Linux terminal. I just don't need so many features from the terminal itself... I do need Unicode, with RTL, and colors, and a nice scrollback buffer. For example,
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by chaosite 7y ago
That was a fun read. I enjoy reading tear-downs like this, even if the fault was something they weren't able to fix.
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by chaosite 7y ago
Sure, academics have always self-published, but unless you were already a prominent researcher, publishing in a journal was the way to get a wide readership (or at-least by available in the library.)
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by chaosite 7y ago
1. They were old-school publishing houses, that had a connection to some prominent academic or an academic society that decided they needed to start a journal. 2. The value proposition was that they were the only way to publish research. Li
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by chaosite 7y ago
The Podesta e-mails were not fake (at least as far as I know), but they were out-of-context view into the cynical world of running a campaign. The idea that the Clinton campaign was using "pizza" as a code-word for child pornograp
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by chaosite 7y ago
20-year-olds are also quite good at selling addictive drugs.
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by chaosite 7y ago
How do we find out who is most in need, by subjecting them to invasive tests and forcing them to jump through increasingly complicated hoops just to prove they are truly in need?
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by chaosite 7y ago
Thunderbolt 3 cables can definitely be different from fully featured USB-C cables though. They're also labelled differently, with the Thunderbolt lightning bolt mark.
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by chaosite 7y ago
I don't know! The goal seems to be to restrict yourself for the sake of restricting yourself, as a way to induce creativity. So, hiding the for-loop away in a library function does seem like cheating...
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by chaosite 7y ago
If people keep being being surprised by this and writing articles about it, I think it suggests that the behavior is not being communicated clearly. And I do think that it isn't. It's reasonable behavior, and it might be expected

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