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571.
by creata 4y ago
Oh no, I gave it a couple of my throwaway accounts, and there was a good amount of overlap in the results. Either it gives everyone similar answers, or my throwaways can be easily linked to each other.
572.
by creata 4y ago
But Facebook does do it, too, don't they? Why not stop using both?
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by creata 4y ago
"Indefinitely suspended" might be better, but just "suspended" is probably going to be very confusing. In education, for example, "suspension" is a temporary ban, and "expulsion" is a permanent ban.
574.
by creata 4y ago
But that's not enough. You have to give at least a little consideration to how your audience will interpret your words.
575.
by creata 4y ago
The Internet was free (and much less corporate) before ads.
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by creata 4y ago
> I don't want my browser, its vendor, or even my search engine to decide what is or isn't "disinformation", or "white supremacy" Good! Mozilla isn't saying that browsers should do that at all. I don&#x
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by creata 4y ago
Yes, your options are unsafety, garbage collection (in the broad sense, which includes Rc), and hiding lifetimes from the compiler via "handles" or similar. Can you even imagine other options, though? If enough information about
578.
by creata 4y ago
But the answer is obvious, isn't it? Information is almost free to reproduce. Food, clothes, etc. are not. I'm not saying that's why information should be free, but that's why most people expect it to be free.
579.
by creata 4y ago
(The singular is "maximum", the plural is "maxima".)
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by creata 4y ago
Do most people even take psychiatric medication for "the rest of their life"? I thought that most people who take psychiatric medications take them for a few years, but I don't have the stats on that. > Or as the social cr
581.
by creata 4y ago
If the problem was ballot exhaustion, couldn't that have been solved by doing what Australia does, i.e. asking voters to rank all the candidates? That doesn't seem like a problem with instant runoff voting itself.
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by creata 4y ago
I love this idea: it feels very parsimonious, and it's optimal (in a very narrow sense) by definition. I can't find much criticism of it, though, aside from: https://groups.google.com/g/electionscience/c&
583.
by creata 4y ago
If you have qrencode on your system, you can also print a QR code with echo "http://$(ip route get 1 | sed -n 's/.*src $[0-9.]\+$.*/\1/p'):8082" | qrencode -t UTF8 -o - Credit to http
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by creata 4y ago
But you can get away with that in most languages that are generally considered memory safe, so a sane interpretation of the term "memory safety" wouldn't care about that.
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by creata 4y ago
How could you possibly know that‽
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by creata 4y ago
What lies did the Rust developers make? (Also, "nowadays" must stretch out to many decades if you're including Java!)
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by creata 4y ago
Yeah, "no side effects (besides I/O)" is so absurd it's funny.
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Randomized Condorcet Voting [French](youtube.com)
2 points by creata 4y ago|0 comments
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by creata 4y ago
You're right: the quotes do a shit job of illustrating thangalin's point, because you can find anyone supporting anything on Twitter. Regardless, "Stop basing your entire worldview on what 20 women said on twitter.com in 2014
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by creata 5y ago
> I'm pretty much sure that the killer app of crypto... when it is here... will change many views. What convinced you?
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by creata 5y ago
> we're already relying on it so much that it has become a part of our extended minds. What's this in reference to?
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by creata 5y ago
From the article, it looks like Gwern, at least, thought quite a lot about text justification --- see the "Abandoned" section --- so the "learn how typography works" comment seems a bit unfair.
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by creata 5y ago
Does CDE stand for "Common Desktop Environment"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment But yes, those popup headings are way too chunky.
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by creata 5y ago
> Gwern's website is a good example of minimalist design Eh, disagree. hypertele-Xii's website gets out of my way when I'm reading, and that's key . Gwern's website litters the body of the post with all kinds of
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by creata 5y ago
In my experience, all of those features really slowed down my reading: the superscripts, the underlines on all the links, the serifs, and the visually heavy popups that appear immediately after hovering; contrast with Wikipedia's popup
596.
by creata 5y ago
> that recipes should not include exact measurements Wouldn't that make cooking much less accessible?
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by creata 5y ago
> it’s undecidable to compute if two finitely-presented groups are isomorphic. But (iirc) it is semidecidable, like the halting problem, and isomorphism is decidable for finitely presented abelian groups.
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by creata 5y ago
Opposite to each other. Imagine a chess board, but with the bottom-left corner and the top-right corner removed.
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Web Audio API example and tutorial: simple synth keyboard(developer.mozilla.org)
3 points by creata 5y ago|0 comments
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by creata 5y ago
Why would that JavaScript be performance-sensitive?

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