cnity

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541.
by cnity 5y ago
I actually appreciate this answer and am sorry you're getting downvotes. That said, the given justifications still seem subjective to me (why should serifs only taper? I actually like the added weight because it seems to emphasize the
542.
by cnity 5y ago
Every criticism I've seen of Computer Modern is an appeal to authority. > not a designer who knows how to create and balance shapes and lines that are pleasing and easy to the eye "Your subjective opinion of the font is wrong,
543.
by cnity 5y ago
That's a good point, I didn't think about the contributions.
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by cnity 5y ago
I feel warm to this idea, so I mean this question genuinely: if the paternal leave is funded by taxes, does it still match salary? If so, it will not be easy to convince poorer voters to vote for a policy that gives more money to the rich t
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by cnity 5y ago
Can you expand on this? Clearly the term exists. I have a degree in AI, do the concepts I learned at university not exist? What does you mean when you say AI does not exist? Do you mean that the terms, algorithms, concepts, and applications
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by cnity 5y ago
By this logic there is no such thing as AI.
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by cnity 5y ago
Here in the UK I am paying around £23 for truly unlimited, including unlimited hotspot usage (no, not the type with an actual limit in the smallprint). For a period of about two months I was tethering my smart TV to my phone while the broad
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by cnity 5y ago
I am always told probabilities when I am alerted of complexities of e.g. a wisdom tooth operation. This is in the UK.
549.
by cnity 5y ago
You simply take advantage of the fact that an entire cache line is fetched when reading from memory, and keep data that is frequently used together close to each other in memory.
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by cnity 5y ago
How could a compiler possibly optimize for cache hits in an array of structures? The only way it could do so is by disobeying the programmers intention with the described memory layout.
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by cnity 5y ago
Sure. I don't have an opinion one way or another and almost certainly "misuse" acronyms.
552.
by cnity 5y ago
Perhaps a weaker way of putting it is that it is colloquial, but not proper form.
553.
by cnity 5y ago
Your first example is a recursive acronym (actually a backronym in this case), and is deliberate. That's the trope. Redundancy is usually just incorrect but common use of natural language. Edit: I'm wrong about WINE being a backro
554.
by cnity 5y ago
They couldn't stop you: either the interaction is handled in JS (in which case you can programmatically call the JS) or it is handled in WASM (in which case the interaction is actually still handled in JS, and exposed WASM functions ar
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by cnity 5y ago
Maybe not the silver flying saucers claimed to have been seen hovering over barns in the mid-west, but I recommend reading Extraterrestrial for a fascinating argument for Oumuamua's likelihood in being an extraterrestrial object.
556.
by cnity 6y ago
Got you. I was a little disappointed that TS only had structural type checking, but then it's still better than nothing.
557.
by cnity 6y ago
> Interfaces in TS are structural, but classes are nominal. Typeguards can be either. Is this true? I might be missing something, but this snippet to me suggests otherwise[0]. [0]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#cod
558.
by cnity 6y ago
You're right, I misinterpreted the calls to __brk
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by cnity 6y ago
malloc aligns very conservatively (because it doesn't know the size of the data you're allocating for), so there are some space gains to be had there. AFAIK also malloc will call sbrk quite a lot, at least from my cursory reading
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by cnity 6y ago
Because you can bias the process to be more likely to represent data relevant to your domain. Note: I'm not in any way a compression expert, so while it may be obvious to you/others, it's a little interesting for me to think
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by cnity 6y ago
This is a fascinating idea. Using some kind of sufficiently chaotic (and deterministic) process shared among two people, one could simply reference a time and region of the state of that process that contains the data to be sent.
562.
by cnity 6y ago
Right. I try to apply Occam's Razor in these scenarios. Either aliens fly around in the sky regularly enough that I've witnessed it multiple times, or there's something about perspective that I just don't fully understan
563.
by cnity 6y ago
An object moving through the sky at a far distance from you is moving through 3D space. It appears to you to move in 2D space because of the fact that the image is being projected onto the back of your eyes, and our eyes aren't far eno
564.
by cnity 6y ago
If anything will save us it will be technology, not going around trying to institute a global genocide campaign against the rich.
565.
by cnity 6y ago
Wonderful comment, thank you.
566.
by cnity 6y ago
This moves the goalposts though. Before the ethical question was whether or not it is ethical to trade items with unknown value to a less advanced group. Now it's whether it is ethical to do so under threat of violence (obviously uneth
567.
by cnity 6y ago
Genuine question: why is it unethical? It's a trade. If it were not deemed a worthwhile trade by either party, they're free to reject the offer. If an alien appeared before me and offered me some crazy never-before-seen four dimen
568.
by cnity 6y ago
> Note that the observations done in Newton's time were never proved wrong - we just discovered that with better measurement precision and in different regimes of speed, they turn out to have additional small terms. This is not quit
569.
by cnity 6y ago
> barring new physics Our understanding of physics changes constantly!
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by cnity 6y ago
This makes the assumption that the usage patterns for all drugs matches alcohol. It's more likely that alcohol simply really is not that addictive or harmful (compared to "harder" drugs like meth or cocaine).

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