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by conceit 11y ago
> This actually makes sense; if it wants to scan for malware in web pages and file downloads Since when does Avast concern JS? I would have thought, to intercept file you'd use the systems file API? Everything else is the concern of
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>How I became a morning person >I went to bed early >End of Story
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the problem probably is human-level intelligence is still stupid, so it's a risk either way
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That might be because the Physicists had help from Mathematicians before and are just passing it on. I don't think that's quite true though, i like to believe that polymaths and university aren't quite dead in academics.
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by conceit 11y ago
s/prescribes/is Prescribe seems out of place there, anyhow.
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Read it as an indefinite enumeration: read the first comma as an inclusive and , then ignore the second comma. > stop me saying things like 'Terminator is a good film and is 2 hours long' can't you say >x is y and z, d
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authority, ambition
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translation of uselessly gendered pronouns where no neuter exists (as mentioned in another comment) is explained by unawareness to the source language's imprinted sexism.
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> Straw-manning is necessary Take the high road, will ya > Some positions are simply not worth discussing thoughtfully Like yours? Very humble. > there's no use respecting that view, it's far too extreme ideals, you shoul
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Only if you assume all compilers to be standard compliant.
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That seems to be what he says, but after the first part he disregards that as not useful. Another comment points out following the standard is good for portabilities sake. Somehow, that all seems obvious to me.
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Computers can't beat Go, either, not yet, though there's a lot more focus on this.
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It's a demo. So, yeah ...
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The thing is sometimes you wouldn't want people influenced, you'd want them to be excluded and all this brings with it.
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In a precise language it is obviously utterly useless to have homonyms that are not just distinct but opposed in meaning, unless one is the inferior. Of course that depends on context, because language is inherently underspecified (i think)
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> What would the web look like today if we listened to them Oh so horrid, like HN for example? I know! I'm only here because I'm forced to, too.
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> That was for primitive types, it may well be different for types where comparison is more costly "but who cares about complex type structures, right? Ima just go ahead and post this as if that didn't matter."
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Well, the trick is that loss prevention is difficult in a living fast and dying young culture where everythings supplied and effort is reduced to repetitive narrow minded tasks. It should give the brain enough workout to gain some IQ points
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Why is whoever that was getting an announcement and i got hellbanned? Kinda serious question, because the comment in question was deleted
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> regarded by almost everbody in Saudi as an extreme perversion that's just saying that they are aware of the implications, hence those in agreement might know to be quiet and.
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by conceit 11y ago
well, your confusion of tenses kinda colors your knowledge about grammar rather questionable and i say that as a foreign speaker
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You mean value-system. The difference to believing is that you don't have to be told to feel like you know.
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not at all a one off
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sounds like cm is used as a testing channel for new features.
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> Yeah, Blizzard had a gothic tone in a lot of their early games Not just Blizzard, compare the Doom and Quake series, that lost this appeal
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wrong link to the discussion
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Yes, but on another note, age-group is a murky term to deal with, because a delta t of one year is a lot of time, when development is still very fast as is obvious in weight and size gains.
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It's even more advanced than 200 years ago when there weren't any public schools. The comparison isn't sensible.
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But children have to be separated by age to compare and rate their progress, in order to separate them further.
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> > Headlines like these are obviously created for sensationalism > It isn't. > [...] In particular, it implies that "fighting terrorism" with more and stronger law enforcement is highly counterproductive. If poli

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