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by fao_ 6y ago
Would you mind explaining what argument you are referring to? You seem to have some context that I (and presumably other people) don't.
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by fao_ 6y ago
Not really. Try asking it "how long does water take to freeze 300m above sea level" or "how much time does water take to freeze when 300m above sea level" It's a simple enough question -- it's able to show me a
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by fao_ 6y ago
> This is GNU SmallTalk — one of the most influential early OOP languages. It does have slightly unconventional syntax, but it has nothing in common with assembly programming at all. If anything, it is as far from low-level platform-depe
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by fao_ 6y ago
Ahhhhhh. I was daydreaming this the other day
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by fao_ 6y ago
If you actually read the PDF linked in this thread: * Is this human research? This is not considered human research. This project studies some issues with the patching process instead of individual behaviors, and we did not collect any pers
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by fao_ 6y ago
I'm just glad there's someone else with the same problem! I think the best way might be to make something like Albertini's charts for file encodings, but for programming. An example is here: https://raw.githubuserc
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Part of the reason that programming syntax is usually taught by example, rather than by formalism is that the formalisms for programming syntax, well, look like this: (cribbing from wikipedia). Here's the thing though -- a "w
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by fao_ 6y ago
The description of the article says: DNA tests promise to tell people who they are and where they’re from. But for Emma Gilchrist, a search for answers only led to more questions. But the article starts: On an overca
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by fao_ 6y ago
I roughly understand what the article says about dimensional space (Reading higher mathematics books on the way to my meagre college course way back when, helps me a little, even if it is all half-remembered and a bit wrong -- this unders
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by fao_ 6y ago
This does not seem particularly like an "Explain Like I'm 5"-parsable comment that the posted asked for.
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by fao_ 6y ago
This doesn't tell us anything, and drinking water alone isn't enough. How much and how often did you drink water, and consume salt or rehydration salts. The latter is just as important as the former in keeping your body functionin
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by fao_ 6y ago
> But in individual cases, it may be off a little or a lot. What tells you this is meaningful information and not random noise? Because it was more accurate than other data sources we've tried
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by fao_ 6y ago
Bangladeshi society focused more on education and healthcare initiatives, not propaganda -- at least according to wiki
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by fao_ 6y ago
Why does it have to be either/or?
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by fao_ 6y ago
I didn't know asking people to fund public health programs through tax was equivalent to the mafia?
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by fao_ 6y ago
> I reject the thinking that "people are going to do what they want" and we are helpless to influence their behavior so we should just accept whatever they are doing no questions asked and work around it with public policy if i
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by fao_ 6y ago
I would say it applies much more strongly in the US, because you are quite literally paying for them to listen to you, rather than in the UK where it is a negligible amount through a specific type of tax. If they do not help you or listen t
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by fao_ 6y ago
It seems to be a mix of Vapourwave and Lo-Fi
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by fao_ 6y ago
(Since you called them a "GP", I'm guessing that you're in the UK) I mean, nobody can really tell you anything about your set of circumstances without you giving info. For some people under the NHS, with good doctors, th
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by fao_ 6y ago
The shows in question generally a) hire specific writers for this, and b) don't really give that much care to this. Even Trek, which had a manual that detailed the fictional systems in depth (The TNG Technical Manual was a writer&#x2
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by fao_ 6y ago
> I wouldn't want to be your friend, what with having to worry about my "conduct" constantly. It's about consent. You do not do things to someone, without someone else's consent. An example: If you repeatedly pro
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by fao_ 6y ago
> I have difficulty placing it in the leftist circles I run in, which generally view politics in the US as consisting of a center/far right party (democrats) and reactionary fascists (republicans). The same view shared by myself an
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by fao_ 6y ago
> The Black Lives Matter movement was a telling example of this - police brutality is indeed an ongoing problem in society, but it doesn't just apply to black people. It's anyone the police feel they can get away with abusing.
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by fao_ 6y ago
Exactly, what about unsolicited bugs?
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by fao_ 6y ago
Literally just look at the citations from the Ars Technica article. Which link to Stallman's own writing.
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by fao_ 6y ago
> You're biased in ways you don't see I'm biased against inappropriate conduct towards people and a lack of respect for other people. I'm not even angry about this, just deeply disappointed in the FSF and their decisi
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by fao_ 6y ago
> I don't see JWZ stepping up to triage random bugs in GNOME, probably because he knows it's a thankless job with no pay that he wouldn't enjoy. Thing about it is, it's the responsibility of the GNOME project. It&#x27
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Most Gnome developers, I suppose, are on RedHat payroll and are not teenage. jwz was not talking about the age, he was talking about the issue of ignoring bugs to the point where they reach decades old, and often even then persist and
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Also, if you do not feel represented by an organisation, why not do the OpenSource-thing and fork the organisation? As of right now, the FSF Europe is no longer joined with the FSF
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by fao_ 6y ago
> the FSF (in the form of the FSFE) As of right now, they are separate organizations.

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