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by cvoss 1y ago
I really don't think you have the ability to use self-reflection to discern an algorithm that occurs in your unconscious visual cortex in a split second. You wouldn't feel like you were doing a naive grid search even if a naive gr
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by cvoss 1y ago
Different typefaces have different functions. If the goal is to be able to properly align/indent/space complex texts on a text-only site, a proportional font is not only ugly but actually unusable.
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by cvoss 1y ago
But what is the winning strategy? It would be interesting to know whether the decision tree has a compact algorithmic, since that would serve as an explanation of the strategy. Even if not, I'd be curious if there is some other simple
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by cvoss 1y ago
This feels like the grown-up ideological successor to the International Space Settlement Design Competition for high school students. That was (is? anyone still in the know?) a competition that ran for years out of NASA Houston as a pet pro
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by cvoss 1y ago
The accusation from DOJ isn't about student speech, though. It's about the university's actions or inactions, which are not protected and are governed by obligations to Title VI discrimination law.
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by cvoss 1y ago
The Great Firewall of China is a censorship program. This proposed US legislation puts the power of blocking under the authority of its court system and only in the domain of copyright law. The courts are historically very concerned with up
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by cvoss 1y ago
I interpreted it as a visual cue to remind you where you left off when you return to the page after following a link. It's not particularly slick and doesn't seem to always work right. But I appreciated the novelty, effort, and cr
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by cvoss 1y ago
> But now, you're wondering if the answer the AI gave you is correct > a healthy dose of scepticism is essential. Arguably, that applies to traditional learning methods too, but that's another story. I don't think that
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by cvoss 1y ago
What you say is not only technically untrue, it's just plain untrue. It's a choice of the language designer whether capturing groups break commutativity. Sed makes one choice. I'd guess that GP would call this broken garbage
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by cvoss 1y ago
But it wasn't expensive twenty years ago. Twenty years ago people actually knew how to efficiently use their limited computational resources.
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by cvoss 1y ago
The Trolley problem is only a problem because there is perfect information in the hypothetical about the consequences of your actions. In real life, you have far less information to go on, which often leads to a more obvious right answer. S
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by cvoss 1y ago
All the more reason to push the button immediately.
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by cvoss 1y ago
I'm all for adblockers, but I'm not sure I follow your complaint. From the article: > The study discovered that the majority of users did not choose to block ads, with ad-blocking technology often activated by a third-party lik
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by cvoss 1y ago
I think the feature bloat here has passed the break-even point where no one person needs all this, and it takes so long to find what you need in the docs, and you can't be expected to memorize it, because it's so rare to need to u
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by cvoss 1y ago
I, too, struggled to understand the meaning of this sentence. I can parse it, I guess, but any meaning I try to guess for it is either implausible or irrelevant.
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by cvoss 1y ago
You can't query account balances and transactions through ACH.
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by cvoss 1y ago
SCOTUS has not issued a judgment in that case (McMahon v. New York). They merely granted the case and will hear it next term. The headlines you likely saw were commenting on how the court chose to deal with the preliminary injunction that w
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by cvoss 1y ago
I can find no news outlet reporting the fact claimed in the headline, that the person died less than 24 hours after showing symptoms. What is reported, in this article and many others, is that the person arrived at the hospital and died the
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by cvoss 1y ago
I don't know what a headless `i` or `j` would sound like in English, since they aren't used. So it's not really a verifiable claim that the tittles don't alter the sound.
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by cvoss 1y ago
> I will never be able to pronounce correctly a word I never heard before. This happens not infrequently to native English speakers. It's especially prominent for people who read a lot when they're young and develop a large voc
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by cvoss 1y ago
Do the tittles on `i` and `j` count as diacritics? In English those vowel symbols never appear without their tittles. (In contrast, the related vowel symbol `y`, which is like an `ij` combo and is named "Greek I" in French, never
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by cvoss 1y ago
It is almost certain that none of these bills represent wasted money. The piece of paper and the money are not identically the same thing. The paper is a document that is made to represent the money. At some point, the document is made to c
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by cvoss 1y ago
I think your mistake is your claim that BB(748) is a natural number. For you to know that, you would necessarily have to know an upper bound for the number of steps it takes for the BB-748 machine (whichever machine it is) to halt. But you
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by cvoss 1y ago
Indeed, the archive has cavernous branches, in the literal sense you desire. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/spring/h...
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by cvoss 1y ago
Not sure why scare quotes are warranted here. Your so-called '"judge"' is, in fact, a judge. https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/types-federal-...
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by cvoss 1y ago
It's, unfortunately, not illegal unless the military action continues for more than 60 days without Congressional approval. This is due to the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
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by cvoss 1y ago
It's sloppy writing (if we're being charitable). The secretary, in consultation with State and local governments and Indian Tribes, would be authorized only to sell up to 3 M acres out of 250 M eligible acres.
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by cvoss 1y ago
The proposed law does not permit the land to be sold for this purpose.
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by cvoss 1y ago
Congress can generally choose to sell whatever whenever. All they have to do is say so in a bill. The proposed purpose is residential use. See my other comment for the text of the law.
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by cvoss 1y ago
All: Please consider reading the proposed text of the law [0] and pass judgment directly on that, rather than one organization's hot (and to the cursory reader, misleading) take on what they think is about to happen. The proposed law i

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