chowells

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by chowells 3y ago
You username suggests you find value only in monetary gain, so it's no shock your other ideas are equally bad.
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by chowells 3y ago
It has never really been true. The difference is that the marketing campaign isn't working anymore. It's become too hard to hide the scope of the failures from anyone with a hint of curiosity. This isn't necessarily a bad thi
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by chowells 3y ago
So your genius idea is to get people to pay to put themselves on a future blackmail list when your data is leaked/stolen/sold? I have to say, it is a kind of evil genius.
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by chowells 3y ago
And yet, it's been demonstrated to work in practice. How do you square this apparent contradiction?
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by chowells 3y ago
What's the correct response to "justify your existence" from someone listing their location as the next town over and with a profile pic showing themself holding multiple guns?
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by chowells 3y ago
Well, no. GAT might let you fake Monad, but it doesn't let you fake Traversable. And honestly, Traversable is just as useful.
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by chowells 3y ago
Hood heights that are too low are also shown to cause more injuries. In fact, there would seem to be an optimal range. Studies seem like a great way to find out what that range is in practice.
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by chowells 3y ago
I absolutely have. And I've never modified a server to accept bullshit from an incorrect client. I have, on the other hand, told several people how to fix their clients when they complain it doesn't work with my service. I actuall
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by chowells 3y ago
It's Postel's Law being bad advice yet again. No, you should not be liberal in what you accept, because being liberal in what you accept causes even more malformed data to appear in the ecosystem.
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by chowells 3y ago
The culture I grew up in is one where this happened about once a month. Well, before Sudafed became hard to get. Then the rate of it occuring dropped precipitously. It's almost like people in fact do base their choices on what's e
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by chowells 3y ago
Do you actually believe this? It seems completely ignorant of human behavior to me. You see, it's not about dealing with large-scale operations. It's about keeping that one neighbor you have who always makes poor choices from grab
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by chowells 3y ago
I suppose this is sort of the complement of https://xkcd.com/169/ Pretending to misunderstand clear communication then making smug points about it isnt clever either. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dic
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by chowells 3y ago
And it's worth remembering most of those design elements that didn't work were the result of corporate literally changing the base out from under them. With that one change, everything else had to be adjusted into something that d
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by chowells 3y ago
Ah, so you understand monads. The trick is that someone told you they're a big important deal. They aren't. They're useful , so they get used. But there's no great insight or revelation waiting for you. You've alre
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by chowells 3y ago
But if you've played another fighting game before, Tekken feels clunky as hell. If you don't know all of your character's common strings, you quickly find yourself in situations where you're just stuck in move recovery f
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by chowells 3y ago
Where does this bizarre idea come from? There aren't queues of high-quality companies just lining up for piddling investments from nobodies. If you can't provide them with enough money to be worth their time in lawyer's fees,
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by chowells 3y ago
No, it refers to functions f where forall x, f(f(x)) = f(x). You can abuse notation slightly to see this as f^2(x) = f(x). (This kind of notation is actually used enough to be comfortable to most mathematicians.) From here it's not muc
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by chowells 3y ago
> reality is still asymetric in the temporal dimension That's an interesting claim. Do you have any evidence of it? Oh, wait. Do you actually believe time passes ? You're going to need to start by proving we're not in a b
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by chowells 3y ago
It doesn't. It merely depends on processing speed being finite. If you need to address the 2^(2^64)th item (remember, big O notation is about behavior as n goes to infinity), your item index needs 2^64 bits. You can't determine wh
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by chowells 3y ago
No. The input and the output are the same thing with transformers. Internally, you're providing them with some sequence of tokens and asking them to continue the sequence. If the sequence they generate exceeds their capacity, they can
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by chowells 3y ago
79. There are only 79 Fibonacci numbers (starting at 0, counting the 1 twice) that are exactly represented by a double-precision float. That's a lot less than 32GB of RAM.
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by chowells 3y ago
Abortion is a symptom of preventing conception being too much hassle. Nothing more, nothing less. And you realize that people of every age group are having less sex than any time in the last 30 years, right? It's almost like this &qu
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by chowells 3y ago
Uh, no. Look up 4:20. The funny number is the time, not the date.
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by chowells 3y ago
What's the security difference between running a compiled application from a site vs running curl|bash with a script hosted on the same site?
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by chowells 3y ago
So you're against free speech, then? Believe it or not, free speech includes the freedom to not repeat something someone else said.
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by chowells 3y ago
No, it means it's the opinion of the jury . Their job is to determine fact.
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by chowells 3y ago
I don't think Mass Effect was exactly made as a SC2 reboot, but it definitely captured the same feeling. That's the only thing that was able to get me through the wasteland of a modern-style narrative "AAA" game. Never m
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by chowells 3y ago
Some businesses only exist due to government failure. The solution is to fix the government, not preserve a middleman asking for their cut.
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by chowells 3y ago
Absolutely 100% incorrect. If the parents aren't willing or able to raise their children, someone has to. "Throw them away" is not a moral, ethical, or utilitarian answer.
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by chowells 3y ago
They've never been strong enough to stop your car in an emergency if the engine is running away. Anyway, the reason they've gone electronic is to add hill assist. Let your foot off the brake and you stay in place until you hit the

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