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by cwillu 6mo ago
Illusion of transparency: you think your analogy was clear, other people found it opaque and dismissive, and expended what they considered to be a similar level of effort to engage with it as was used in creating it.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
If you don't like it, don't release software under that license.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
> To act shocked and offended that the term points to two different activities in 2026 is non-sensical: that ship has sailed long ago. “Equivocation is a logical fallacy and rhetorical tactic that uses ambiguous language, specifically sw
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by cwillu 6mo ago
[2016]
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Florescent lighting in the bathroom?
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by cwillu 6mo ago
No, I'm certain that you are: “piracy” doesn't exist as a coherent umbrella term that contains both naval piracy and copyright infringement, and the latter has certainly not “always” been enforced beyond borders.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
I would not trust any anonymization service that still connects to gemini/openai/claude, they simply have too much reach to have any confidence that they can't [re-]connect a session to you via means other than the login and
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Please don't equivocate “the concept of piracy” as if copyright infringement has any relation to kidnapping and murder.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Correct, there's almost no overlap.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
QC could have all of those things and it would still not be a threat. Using a quantum computer for general computation is like using a front-end loader to go grocery shopping: it's a spectacular improvement for the task it's des
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Equivocation. My stock broker doesn't own my stocks either, they merely hold my assets in a brokerage account.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
You can just say the thing, you don't have to comment on everyone who got it wrong.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
Canada requires mobile service providers to have a 35$ a month data plan, and the low-income support payments will add 35$ a month to the base rate if you provide a cell phone bill.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
I don't think all the same shortcuts exist out of the box, although win-drag/win-right-drag to move and resize windows (might be alt by default) is _so_ much more convenient than the usual border/title dragging that you might
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by cwillu 7mo ago
one of those addresses requires two hands and hitting the shift key, the other is easily done one-handed.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
@dang doesn't do anything; send a quick email to the contact address with a link
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by cwillu 7mo ago
The navigable width where it is deep enough is significantly narrower.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
And their crews not wanting to lose their lives.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
> it also came with a glass back that enabled the phone to fall off a perfectly level service I used to put mine on my wallet, and it took ages to figure out why I kept dropping it: the moment you set it down, it would start sliding _inc
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by cwillu 7mo ago
That would be “The Naive FFT”: “Most people who attempt audio reactive LED strips end up somewhere around here, with a naive FFT method. It works well enough on a screen, where you have millions of pixels and can display a full spectrogram
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"The Talk" by Scott Aaronson and Zach Weinersmith(smbc-comics.com)
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by cwillu 7mo ago
Is it? My understanding is a Raman spectrometer is a laser-based device. Either way, it's almost the furthest thing imaginable from a commercial LED lighting fixture that still emits light: “Raman spectrometers can damage paintings, s
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by cwillu 7mo ago
That's apparently only one part, and that particular part contains no mention of LEDs at all. Edit: I've also looked at parts 2 and 4, which also contain no mentions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21314201/
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by cwillu 7mo ago
This appears to be the paper: https://hal.science/hal-05385645v1/file/Monico%202025.pdf [edit]: this is clearly not the paper, as it was published in 2025, and the hn link is from 2013. Regardless, it makes only
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by cwillu 7mo ago
The description of LEDs as a monolithic device makes me strongly doubt the conclusion reached. Alas, there's no link to the paper to see how they addressed the wildly varying types of LEDs and why other types of bulbs emitting a simil
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by cwillu 7mo ago
It's the same situation with classical encryption. It's not uncommon for a candidate algorithm [to be discovered ] to be broken during the selection process.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
The joke will continue until the populace finally gets it.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
They were being snarky about a comment when they literally didn't read the entire sentences they were being snarky about. No, I don't think I was unnecessarily harsh.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
Yesterday someone shouted across the room at me “hey, what's 43 divided by 2?” The point isn't that you won't have a calculator, the point is that you shouldn't need to pull out a calculator for every little operation.
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by cwillu 7mo ago
That's strange, because it opens and plays fine without an account for me.

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