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by creata 2y ago
> Stop trying to monetize your tiny contributions. If you think they're not worth it then just click away. And syncing a file isn't exactly hard in 2024.
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by creata 2y ago
Yeah, this is the only one that seems flat out wrong. When I'm on a bridge, I absolutely want to see "The bridge can hold up 3000 kg", NOT "The bridge can hold up 29 kN". Partly because "holding up" (as op
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by creata 2y ago
> a common set of open license fonts with most of unicode I am (clearly) clueless here, but isn't that what Noto's supposed to be?
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by creata 2y ago
Mathematically, it's fine to say that you've lost the magnitude dimension. Before normalization, the vector lies in R^n, which is an n-dimensional manifold. After normalization, the vector lies in the unit sphere in R^n, which is
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by creata 2y ago
Imo, those are security reasons to disable JS. The main privacy reason (again, imo) to disable JS is simply that JS can just send each and every one of your inputs to the server. But as lelandfe points out, CSS can do that, too, for for
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by creata 2y ago
Like most people, I think, I'm just using Oklab for interpolation between colors on my screen, and in color pickers that feel a little easier to use than the usual HSV one. As you mentioned, it's easy to throw in anywhere. Is ther
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by creata 2y ago
I think we're interpreting the "never" in "they can never trust their thoughts" differently.
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by creata 2y ago
> brace yourself to sift through endless comments and discussions. That's half the fun!
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by creata 2y ago
"Their brain is broken" is true, but "they can never trust their thoughts" is (1) subjective, because different people have different thresholds for what can be trusted, and (2) probably crippling, as far as beliefs go.
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by creata 2y ago
1. Please don't call human beings rejects. 2. This is just one person's essay. If I had to guess, "society" disagrees with him. (As he points out, his view is not mainstream at all in the psychiatric community.)
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by creata 2y ago
Slightly off-topic, but where's the complexity of Vulkan (the 1000 lines) coming from? My memory tells me that most of the misery is from the window system integration, and that the rest is pretty pleasant.
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by creata 2y ago
> Do you end up crying day after day, using drugs, dropping out of school, etc though? Two out of three, yes, as a direct result of a desire not to interact with others. While loneliness can be extremely painful, so too can anxiety.
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by creata 2y ago
Fun(-ish) fact: Although it's strongly associated with and was popularized by Japan, the term "NEET" came from Britain.
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by creata 2y ago
1. I don't think the presence of centralized package management makes or breaks a language for most people. 2. Your platform's package manager should have plenty of C packages.
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by creata 2y ago
> All areas of physics use differential equations, and so does relativity which you are contrasting these two against next. Yes, but the way in which Newtonian mechanics and quantum mechanics use DEs is similar was the point, and the way
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by creata 2y ago
And it's not like nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and Newtonian mechanics have that different a conception of time. Both describe the evolution of a system using differential equations in time, both treat the world as having a sing
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by creata 2y ago
What do you mean by "fundamental unit"? Like, what would you consider a "fundamental unit" of space?
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by creata 2y ago
> High precision simulation of classical mechanics does not model time as steps / frames in a movie, but as a continuous 4D geometry. What is this sentence referring to, if you don't mind me asking? I know that some implementat
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by creata 2y ago
It's amazing how recognizable Douglas Adams's writing is.
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by creata 2y ago
You probably already know this, but the gc crate is an implementation of a somewhat more sophisticated GC, but it uses `derive`s to implement tracing, so it's not exactly the Rc<T> interface.
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by creata 2y ago
Isn't 100% accuracy (relatively) easy? c2rust already does that, or at least comes close, as far as I know. Getting identical outputs on safe executions, catching any unsafe behavior (at translation-time or run-time), and producing ef
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by creata 2y ago
Of course, but in this particular case the article is very low on information.
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by creata 2y ago
Yep. Unfortunately, judging by the last paragraph, this is mostly an ad. > On Monday, April 2, with Radiolab regular Carl Zimmer, I will be hosting a duel between MIT's Sebastian Seung and Anthony Movshan of New York University. The
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by creata 2y ago
> In general, if you're embarrassed to tell someone else what you're doing you probably shouldn't do it. That's an insanely privileged perspective. Lots of people need to hide things, because, like it or not, societ
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by creata 2y ago
> The solution is for parents to be mindful of their children and not allow them to use the internet without supervision. I hate carrying water for these shitty laws, but I don't think it's possible to stop a sufficiently mot
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by creata 2y ago
What about prepaid credit cards, or Tor?
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by creata 2y ago
But for it to be 100% trustworthy, you'd have to express correctness criteria for those simple tasks as formal statements.
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by creata 2y ago
> it’s hard to imagine why more than a handful of researchers would use them If you could automatically prove that your concurrency protocol is safe, or that your C program has no memory management mistakes, or that your algorithm always
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by creata 2y ago
With 256 counters, you could use the same approach with four passes: pass i bins the numbers by byte i (0 = most sig., 3 = least sig.) and then identifies the bin that contains the median. I really want to know what a one-pass, low-memory s
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by creata 2y ago
Being on WHO's list of essential medicines is no indicator of how innocuous a substance is.

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