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by gweinberg 2y ago
I want to see the Terry Gilliam version. I guess someday I will.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
At the risk of coming across as being a spoilsport, I think when someone says "anyone can write a calculator app", they just mean an app that simulates a pocket calculator (which is indeed pretty easy) as opposed to one which alwa
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Original quote is just mind-bogglingly stupid. If If I can't read any programming language, that's a defect on my part. If I can read pretty much any language except k and brainfuck, that's a sign k is particularly difficult
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Is your objection that maybe it only looks like a power law distribution for the more common "words", but if you go further out the fit isn't very good? Does it really mean anything if some other curve fits the data better?
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I don't think anyone disputes that animal vocalizations carry information. You can demonstrate pretty directly that they get some meaning from human words. But afaik (and please correct me if I am wrong) no species other than humans ha
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I have yet to see anyone argue that twitter has a right to operate in Germany in defiance of German laws. I have seen people in other threads argue that, rather than comply with Chinese laws, american companies should cease to to business i
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Businesses making sound files. I think there were always free (legal) players for end users, but if you were going to distribute mp3s commercially without a licence you could well get sued.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Has "the AI did it" ever been a valid defense? I can see why the legislature might want to make it explicit that it is not, but surely it can't be the case that harm caused by an AI is treated as if it were an act of God.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Why is counting lines easier than just using numbers? A vector is a 1 tensor, a matrix is a 2 tensor, a 3 tensor is a 3 tensor, and a scalar is a zero tensor!
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I think a pin is only supposed to be a second line of defense, like entering your zip code with your credit card. People who use 1234 as an ATM pin think their card prolly won;t get stolen, and if it is, the machines all have cameras so you
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by gweinberg 2y ago
If you want to be pedantic, it really isn't a number at all, it's a string of digits. A lot of "serial numbers" and "material part numbers" are not only not numbers, they're not even all digits.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I was under the impression that bzip compresses more than gzip, but gzip is much faster, so gzip is better for things that need to be compressed on the fly, and bzip is better fro things that get archived. Is this not true? Wouldn't it
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by gweinberg 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Jupiter
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Potassium is a chemical element, frying it won't change the potassium level.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
One thing that confused me at the very beginning is, the author says the weak force is weak because it is short range. But the strong force is also short range.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Polygon? So on? Come on, you know you want to say "heptagon".
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Preaching to the choir I know, but there needs to be consequences for issuing a bogus takedown request.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
well, if you count emotional harm as harm, and anyone can be emotionally harmed by anything, then the rule becomes meaningless.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
It really isn't. The "tic tacs" example is deliberately absurd, but here in California it is illegal to eat horses as a result of a ballot initiative, but it's fine to eat cows and pigs, and most people do. You can argue
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by gweinberg 2y ago
At the risk of being "that guy", a day is not the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Merry marry Mary Christmas!
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Doesn't the board get filled up with stones? I could see how a go player might think a win is a win so it doesn't mater how many stones you win by, but I don;t see how you would go about delaying winning.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
They are getting reamed. Oops, we pay about the same in California.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
well, there is one food that is primarily consumed by infants. Maybe you meant they saved special food for nursing mothers?
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Yes, the one in which there is no word for blue.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Right. Some people will claim "all my hats are green" is equivalent to "I have no hats which are not green", so he ,must have one hat which is not green. But other people would argue that teh original statement also imp
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by gweinberg 2y ago
It absolutely is though. Guns are classified as "assault weapons" because of cosmetic features like barrel shrouds and bayonet lugs, and the fact that most people don't know this doesn't make it less true. The term &quot
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Has anyone actually used a minigun in a crime anywhere ever? I'm pretty sure it would be nationwide news if it happened IRL, although it happens on tv all the time.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
It's like this: now that full-genome sequencing is getting pretty cheap and common, you can tell how string the selection pressure is on a chunk of DNA just by looking at frequencies of variants. If it turns out there are very few vari
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I don't think that's true though. Isn't the purpose what it's intended to do, not what it actually does?

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