curlypaul924

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by curlypaul924 6y ago
It would likely get shortened to emu, and then we would all be wondering if it's an emulator or a large bird.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
How interesting. Doesn't the fungus get its name from the oxidized metal though and not the other way around? Mold the form and mold the fungus seem etymologically unrelated, however.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The Perseverance team is also hosting an AMA today ( https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lpzbzo/were_scientist... ). We live in exciting times.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Please do not misconstrue what I have said. The term "oreo" has a long history of being used as a racist epithet. There is nothing wrong with using it as an analogy, but in a discussion on racism, it might be better to pick a co
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
> I think this is only because it was contained in China before it reached the world Is this true? According to the CDC, there were SARS cases reported in Europe and the Americas prior to containment in China. Why was it different this
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
What makes a toolkit accessibility-aware? Is it not enough to support native widgets?
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
It absolutely can be a legal requirement, though I am not arguing that it should be one. I was specifically addressing the comment "I don't think people who need a screen reader are going to be playing a twitch-reaction shooter g
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I would think the same thing, but playing video games blindfolded is a thing. Look up ponktus Super Metroid 100% blindfolded and zallard1/sinister1 2p1c blindfolded Punchout for examples. If it's possible for someone to beat thes
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The oreo itself may not be racist, but it most definitely is associated with racism because of its colors. So I would caution you in using it as an analogy; it may be why your post was flagged.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
> Either they automate removing content and end up removing some of the good with the mountains of bad, or they do it manually which costs a fortune and is too slow. I think this is a false dichotomy; they could automate flagging for hum
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Yes, master could mean master copy, but that analogy falls apart quickly. Obviously it's not master/slave (I don't even know what a slave branch would mean). But that doesn't mean it's a good name. And not being
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Of those, I've heard of white hats, but I've not heard of white markets or white sites. If it had been black list and green list, I'm not sure anyone would have made a racial connection.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Blocklist to me means a list of blocks, like blocks on a disk. I am not a fan of using it as a replacement for blacklist. I am in favor of denylist, though. I have never liked blacklist as far as I remember. I could never remember whether
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Christians like to think of ourselves as less degraded than our neighbors, rather than less evolved. It amounts to the same thing in the end - a false superiority.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I get the same feeling. Is there any way we can isolate the underlying cause? Maybe then it would be possible to change things for the better.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I avoid both NYT and Fox, because it's too much effort to fact check every detail of every article I read. Both have too high an error-to-fact ratio IMO. That sort of thing has a way of affecting one's thought.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
(To clarify, I'm not suggesting Wikipedia is a good source of medical information -- it's not. Often I find articles say one thing and the citation says the opposite. But in spite of that, it's a much better starting point
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I don't have any specifics handy, but over the years I've found a lot of information on webmd that is plainly false. Maybe it's better now, but I have been ignoring it for years and encouraging friends and family to do the s
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The main reason IME for a header-only C++ library is that when it is template-heavy (as a lot of C++ code is these days), a lot of it ends up in headers anyway, so it's not a big leap to header-only. I've never seen a widely used
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I've done that and the only general news source I have left is NPR. I think I'm foolish to have all my eggs in one basket, but I can't find any other baskets that aren't broken.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I think you meant this as a joke, but yes, that's exactly right. It's fact checkers all the way down.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The gamification is to get more people involved. I can't change the way news is produced, because I don't produce news. But I could make meta-news, which seems to be what riles people up on social media. I agree that figuring out
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I have said more than once that the cost of a lockdown must be balanced with the risk it avoids, and I have never been accused of being a liar or being anti-science. But I'm also not a public figure, and I think that makes a differenc
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Reading that now is different from how I remember it. At the time I thought he was saying that there were so few cases in most of the country that it didn't make sense for everyone to be wearing masks yet. It seemed inevitable to me
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
What if we could gamify rating news articles as truthful and unbiased? So take a NY Times article, you get points for everything you find that isn't 100% correct, whether it's a typo or a mischaracterization. You get more points
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Cello added support for the img tag in 1993, before Netscape was ever released. At that point in time, I recall it was the second most popular GUI browser, behind NCSA Mosaic.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Wow, people were still using Kermit in 1993? By then I thought everything had moved to x/y/zmodem.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
That's a great resource! Most of those links are no longer functioning, but I did find this image: http://info.in2p3.fr./cc.gif dated 30 Sept 1992, which is pretty old as far as the web goes.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I completely forgot about that! I very vaguely remember experimenting with it, and I think I never got it to work. I can't find anything on it now, though.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The original question was ambiguous; it said "online" but seemed to imply "on the world wide web". I'm not going to judge whether the links I provided count; I leave that decision to the OP. I would agree that an a

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