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ithkuil
3y ago
You mean uglified
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ithkuil
3y ago
It's certainly easier to write well in your second language than to speak it well!
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ithkuil
3y ago
Any plans to add it to the public suffix list?
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ithkuil
3y ago
Turns out that big table is also useful to implement the storage layer for big table itself. Luckily turtles can be stacked on top of each others
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ithkuil
3y ago
Doesn't a black hole radiate hawking radiation and a smaller black hole radiate with a higher temperature than a bigger one?
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ithkuil
3y ago
For me, the most counterintuitive thing is that the more energy you put in the colder the black hole becomes. Is there any other object that behaves that way?
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ithkuil
3y ago
Yeah. I didn't want to imply that she particularly cared about the language of the people she ruled, as much as I wanted to imply that none of her predecessors did
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ithkuil
3y ago
To her credit though she was one of the few Ptolemaic rules of Egypt who even bothered learning the Egyptian language
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ithkuil
3y ago
The Maurya empire lasted 137 years and the Gupta empire for 148 years and their reigns were not one after the other but were 500 years apart. Now depending how you're counting, and your definition of empire the Roman empire had a conti
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ithkuil
3y ago
I find it difficult to believe that the team that built the prototype for http/2 (SPDY), implemented it for chrome, tested it on gazillions of customers around the world, wasn't bothered to talk to anyone who did networking. Sure
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ithkuil
3y ago
> none was THAT lucky I understand that we humans have natural instincts to uncover plots because as a social animal we have been primed to develop such a skill. We have also been primed to recognize faces but that can lead us to see the
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ithkuil
3y ago
Yeah, measuring computation speed in meters per second is like measuring the weight of software dependencies in kilograms
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ithkuil
3y ago
Does it mean that in Russia of 10 years ago a person with the same english language skills would not be able to find a better job or does it mean that the troll farms pay more? Or is it just patriotism? (I genuinely would like to learn more
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ithkuil
3y ago
> they are not wasting valuable English fluency to shit post on western platforms enmass How's the economy of that different for the Russian campaigns? Do they have a larger pool of English fluency to draw from or is the urgency of
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ithkuil
3y ago
At the very least models will exhibit the bias present in the underlying training text and on top of that there will be a bias imposed by those wanting to correct the unwanted bias present in the underlying training text, possibly swinging
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ithkuil
3y ago
In S3 each file is identified with a full path. Not only you cannot rename a single file, but you also cannot rename a "folder" (because that would imply a bulk rename on a large number of children of that "folder") This
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ithkuil
3y ago
Is there any chance that there were bigger news but something went horribly wrong and the CEO tried to save face last minute?
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ithkuil
3y ago
Perhaps just perhaps the task is a bit harder than what you make it sound like Instances of people sharing the same name are far more common in china than elsewhere. For example there are more than 30 thousand people called "Wang Wei&q
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ithkuil
3y ago
Giving up citizenship doesn't solve the problem of retaliation against family
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ithkuil
3y ago
ah that's what you meant well I'm pretty sure if those seats were taken he'd sleep in its own seat. Perhaps his equation would change if had to sleep upright every night, but still, there is nothing illegal
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ithkuil
3y ago
> he didn't pay for hey, he paid for it! They gave him an unlimited ticket in exchange for euros. You're free to say that the train company shouldn't have created an unlimited ticket but it's unfair to paint a person
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ithkuil
3y ago
Just a minor detail: when a population takes all the women of another population and has kids with them, it doesn't completely wipe out the previous genetic footprint since obviously the mothers contribute to half of the genetic materi
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ithkuil
3y ago
I "invented" a mechanism for compacting GC which needs 0 bytes of scratch space to keep track of pointers to update when moving objects. Only after I "invented" it I could actually find a paper written in 1978 that was e
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ithkuil
3y ago
I think what we saw there was a (hilarious) bug/glitch that was caused by an attempt to restrict the text generation about certain topics for certain targets. There are two ways to avoid that bug: 1. Have a more intelligent system that
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ithkuil
3y ago
I would personally like to have it working that way. But I also understand that it wouldn't work for people who have the expectation that once a dangerous content is identified and removed from the internet, the models are re-trained i
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ithkuil
3y ago
Kaposmegulo!
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ithkuil
3y ago
Rust enum model is a hybrid. It allows to set discriminants explicitly and it allows unit-only enums (enums with only discriminants and no structures associated with them). You can control the underlying type of the discriminant too. With a
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ithkuil
3y ago
That's even more so substantial if the nearest neighboring star also has a comparable oort cloud. In that case a mere 1ly of interstellar space would separate the two systems
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ithkuil
3y ago
Rust I think covers most if not all of Ada features you mentioned
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ithkuil
3y ago
Vic Gundotra?
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