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by fph 2y ago
There is a well-known case from 2021 where Copilot returned Quake's famous `invsqrt` code (GPL licensed) from a minimal prompt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 .
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by fph 2y ago
For a more modern facet to this issue, I'm surprised there isn't more teamwork around VSCodium, VS Code's free counterpart.
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by fph 2y ago
Slang for "the fine article". Comes from RTFA, "read the fine article". Or some other adjective of your preference that starts with F.
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by fph 2y ago
I'm a young whippersnapper, but how is the current state of affairs more "WW3" than what happened in Vietnam and Korea? To me it seems we're back to cold war.
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by fph 2y ago
Prediction: Musk will call it x-coin.
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by fph 2y ago
What happens if a fire at your house destroys both your computer and the NAS? Or if a thief steals both? Are your data permanently lost?
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by fph 2y ago
All your backups are on-site then?
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by fph 2y ago
Matlab's symbolic toolbox is actually a wrapper around another proprietary CAS, Mupad.
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by fph 2y ago
Does it? If the sun were rotating around the Earth, there could still be another planet behind it, rotating synchronously with it. At least from the point of view of the Greek, who didn't know how gravitation works in detail.
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by fph 2y ago
Going into full paranoid mode, I wonder if some other sensors / components can be used as a makeshift microphone. For instance, a sufficiently accurate accelerometer can pick up vibrations, right? Maybe even the laser in a CD drive? An
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by fph 2y ago
Also in Julia: https://painterqubits.github.io/Unitful.jl/stable/
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by fph 2y ago
Very neat! Can created content be reused freely by teachers? Do you require attribution? I am interested in tikz plots more than in videos, personally.
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by fph 2y ago
Yet another example of shitty infrastructure, having to juggle different voltages and power outlets.
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by fph 2y ago
True, and for another thought: I'm here doing my part for the environment, recycling, reducing packaging, and saving emissions where I can, and people in the first world of first worlds haven't even been using electric trains this
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by fph 2y ago
Exactly, thanks for explaining it better than I did in my original comment. When they are in a time crunch, players often slam down on chess clocks ridiculously hard; those devices must be very solid.
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by fph 2y ago
I have seen people play 5-0 games on the board at my university; my phone would not survive one day of play.
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by fph 2y ago
Like Youtube Premium? https://www.youtube.com/premium
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by fph 2y ago
This suggests a question: how does the Voyager handle authenticating commands? Whatever crypto they had in 1977 is surely completely broken now. Security by obscurity? Or can anyone with a large enough antenna send commands to it?
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by fph 2y ago
> According to recent statistics, 70%-80% of Americans consider their families dysfunctional. https://mcnultycounseling.com/moving-past-dysfunctional-fami...
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by fph 2y ago
Is there a captcha, or can people ding-dong-ditch you from a continent apart?
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by fph 2y ago
But you can submit the same paper both to Arxiv and to a peer-reviewed journal, in most fields.
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by fph 2y ago
You are assuming all family influence is good. There are lots of abusive families and poor parents, though.
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by fph 2y ago
There definitely are contexts in which it makes sense to define 0/0 = 0. Example: given a vector x and an approximation y to it, you wish to compute the "componentwise error" delta, i.e., the minimum positive number delta suc
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by fph 2y ago
Sure, exactly like TV, Dungeons and Dragons, video games, and social media were to blame for all that's wrong with our kids. /s EDIT: add /s, just to be clear. And how could I forget heavy metal in that list.
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by fph 2y ago
To be fair, you're making the most used mobile operating system in the world and can't be bothered to make API bindings for more than one language? Or at least make the process easy so that someone else creates them? I am not an A
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by fph 2y ago
Not an answer but a follow-up question: is there open firmware for TVs like Openwrt for routers? I have never heard of such a project, but it sounds like it would be useful.
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by fph 2y ago
Isn't this also how the subjunctive is used in German? News reports usually are in Konjuntiv I as a form of indirect speech.
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by fph 2y ago
They left enough leading zeros in there to make room for future revisions until the death of the universe.
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by fph 2y ago
Ah, I was unsure if it was named after the city or the [Tolkien character]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BArin_Turambar ).
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by fph 2y ago
Of course if you ask this question 3 levels deep in a comment thread this is the kind of answers you are going to get; survivor bias.

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