jacinabox

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by jacinabox 5y ago
> I have no memory of what a 'contextual model' is! So I can't comment on how interesting the paper is. The author doesn't define it either. Define your terms.
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by jacinabox 5y ago
Sort of a second amendment for footguns.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
It seems to me that as long as advertisers have ingenuity they will find new privacy harming ways of tracking us -- it seems like Goggle is moving earth to use their ingenuity instead to make a tracking device that isn't 'too iden
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by jacinabox 6y ago
NPVIC is state level-electoral meddling exactly on a par with what 45 tried in Michigan and Georgia, and aiming for the same outcome. The democrats pushing for it are not trying to correct some abstract statistical imbalance or make it easi
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by jacinabox 6y ago
This is the facebook inspector, please disclose your nudes....
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by jacinabox 6y ago
> Local gangsters as well, cannot take your Bitcoins away from you as easily. You have a higher chance at keeping your stash. I can see what you're doing, you won't get away with this.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
I think that life would be better if employers honoured their wage obligations instead of drawing up elaborate networks of hidden fees and transfers which put employees' hard earned wages back into the employer's pocket. Nobody re
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by jacinabox 6y ago
I'm sorry that was uncalled for
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by jacinabox 6y ago
> I'm a user not in the US or China, I don't want either the US or the CCP to be able to abuse/spy on me. But it's insane for US to claim the moral high ground when the legal barrier to the government using private d
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by jacinabox 6y ago
We need to enforce the laws as they are written and right now that means prosecuting time theft by employees a criminal offense. Law and economics tells us that the degree of wrong done by inconveniencing someone is in proportion to the wor
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by jacinabox 6y ago
Calling skeptics as "denialists" is a rejection of scientific discourse. The skeptic could reasonably be defined as someone who doubts a proposition and gives reasons for doubting it: if truth is given as a condition of skepticism
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by jacinabox 6y ago
I had a geocities website with homemade software. Yahoo removed it before it could enter the archive. It had a page with JavaScript that displayed modal dialog boxes repeatedly in a loop; Yahoo identified this JavaScript as a virus.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
You can’t cure yourself of aging with some pills from the dark web.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
There's also the probably underappreciated packages ref-tf and ref-fd which let you write code that is polymorphic over the type of state reference. These can make 'ST' more acceptable because you don't have to make the
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by jacinabox 6y ago
No that's not it, Randall is gesturing at utility theory -- the password is to something indifferent, so the person would decide that's it's not worth being beaten over (with the wrench) over. He's implying that the stuf
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by jacinabox 6y ago
No, non-Archimedian means transfinite arithmetic (or nonstandard reals, depending on whether you're looking for discrete or continuous).
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by jacinabox 6y ago
It reminds me of the time that a "committee" of Vikings decided to name Iceland "Iceland" even though Greenland is much icier. Damn near got 'em!
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by jacinabox 6y ago
It makes sense to me. Users lend social networks information they may prefer to keep private, and social networks make risky bets that third parties will not misuse this information. And they do so without informing the users themselves (ex
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by jacinabox 6y ago
A predicate is a computer program that accepts an input and returns "yes/no." A type system could be an arbitrary predicate which returns "well typed/not well typed" when given a term. But obviously there must
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by jacinabox 6y ago
Wood burning contributes unnecessarily to deforestation and emits a lot of air pollution, things people used to think were no bueno.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
But be careful because stdout might be too short to receive the output.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
Functions (or closures) are the prototypical codata... a co-inductive codata can be presented as a function space from an inductive datatype into some other type. It has a coinduction principle, derived from the induction principle of the p
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by jacinabox 6y ago
Yeah, I bet you're all set for that.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
Yeah right, mechanical turk it, that's easy enough to say, then you have to find yourself a dwarf.
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by jacinabox 6y ago
> " In 1984, Apple licensed Times Roman for the Macintosh; in 1992, Microsoft licensed Times New Roman for Windows." Holy frig, Monotype vs. Linotype flamewar anyone?
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by jacinabox 6y ago
Let me guess task manager could have managed the tasks better, i would have let it slide but if you call your program "task manager" in for a penny in for a pound.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Clever of them to hide pi in there eh?
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by jacinabox 7y ago
The implementation of stdlib necessarily contains code which invokes implementation defined behavior, and the reason that the compiler implementation doesn't treat it in like manner is simply that it doesn't identify it as such or
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by jacinabox 7y ago
This sort of thing is endemic to computing culture. Somebody says that a design is too inefficient or poorly thought out, then a practitioner comes along and crows, of course it works, all we had to do was overdesign it by a factor of ten.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Uh oh social justice starting to get away from you? I can see that,

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