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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yes. Indeed there is a difference between a philosophical consideration and a practical one. Of course we're part of nature and whatever we do will not "destroy" the world like the world was not "destroyed" when alg
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by ithkuil 2y ago
It's a common misconception that the crusades were a crime of white christians versus non-white non-christians. In reality crusades were just as well a crime against other white christians as against non-white christians, white non-chr
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by ithkuil 2y ago
>>> TIL that in 1912 when the island of Lemnos was occupied by Greece, some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. "What are you looking at?" one of them asked. "At Hellenes," the children r
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Suitability to do what? If coding is done by AI that will mean humans will be hired to do something else and whatever that something else is, the interview process will try to measure how good a candidate is at doing that thing the candidat
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Gpt4-o correctly answered "How many letters "r" are in the word Frurirpoprar" And it didn't use a program execution (at least it didn't show the icon and the answer was very fast so it's unlikely it genera
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The ban wasn't a ban on home computers but rather a ban on foreign imports. One could argue that it spawned the creativity of domestic creatives who built the home computer anyway with the available resources. I'm not personally f
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Perl (disabled with use strict) Bash Python (via locals() and globals()) JavaScript (via eval) R
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Our current speed is 99.999999% the speed of light, according to some frame of reference, 10% according to another frame of reference and 0% according to another. A lot of work is done by the words "get to" which is colloquial for
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Xylography (woodcut) technique also uses negatives. The technique is ancient in China and it has been attested in 13th century Europe
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Ok but that's exactly what it means when we say that clocks are ticking slower in a gravity well (after all you can implement a clock by bouncing light). And this effect falls out directly from the warping of space-time described by ge
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yes the clock will indeed tick slower deep in the gravity well and that's the reason why from the point of view of the observer outside the gravity well the photon will be red shifted! The speed of light is the same in both frames of r
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by ithkuil 2y ago
ok I think we're talking past each other. let's take a step back. Let's imagine two points in space A and B, that are let's say 10 light minutes distant from each other. A signal going straight from A to B will thus take
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The speed of light is constant as measured from any observer. This has been verified experimentally to a very high precision and motivated the development of special and general relativity. Otoh there is no requirement for a wave front to h
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The Wikipedia article uses the name "Slava". His homepage on JPL website too ( https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/turyshev/ ) I opened a random paper of his from arxiv and there too he uses "Slava&qu
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by ithkuil 2y ago
For me it's more about the ability of modifying the diagram in a predictable way
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by ithkuil 2y ago
IIRC you can't use firecracker if all you have are VMs and you don't have nested virtualization enabled. Does ec2 now support nested virtualization?
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Is there something that can turn those ascii diagrams back into mermaid sources? I tried the first example with gpt-o1 and the result wasn't bad: graph LR A --> B --> D A --> C B --> C D --> C wo
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by ithkuil 2y ago
aka intrusive linked lists
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by ithkuil 2y ago
you can technically do that but that would be a very confusing use of the name "hardware security token". You can already use your phone today to store secrets with an acceptable threat model.
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I think the whole point of yubikeys is to make this impossible. IIUC basically these devices contain one single immutable random secret that is stored in a tamper proof hardware and can never leave the device nor be written into another dev
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Not all numbers come out equally as likely. Round numbers are more likely to be picked by humans (or at least that's the argument)
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Alternatively we can parse AD as "Advancing Dates" and BC as "Backward Counting"
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yeah I think the light use of the word genocide doesn't make justice for the instance where there was actual genocide, which is when you murder people with the explicit intent of destroying a nation/culture/group.
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Iirc there is also a bazel module that does that for bazel projects and only uses the query functionality without running an actual build
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The common trick is to do these things while there are more interesting things that will grab people's attention.
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Is this because these early computers were more often used to keep tabs and sort things (put things in order) rather than merely compute things? (I'm aware that in order to perform those tasks the processing unit will also have to perf
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by ithkuil 2y ago
This may work when the next token is a key concept but when it's a filler word or a part of one of many sequences of words that can convey the same meaning but in different ways (synonyms but not only at the word also at the sentence l
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by ithkuil 2y ago
"wobbly" means that it moves unsteadily so it cannot be an attribute of a floor. It's the table the one that wobbles if the tips of the legs are coplanar and the floor is not a plane. Your point of the extent of deformation t
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by ithkuil 2y ago
It's just that the "AI" word is no longer taboo
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by ithkuil 2y ago
To be fair, all words are made up. Words are useful to the extent they effectively communicate with the intended audience. This can be accomplished by a mix of familiarity (has this word been already used enough in the target audience with

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