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by jampekka 1y ago
If the risks are so immense, surely we shouldn't be allowed root on our laptops either?
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by jampekka 1y ago
Are assembly programmers real programmers if they can't implement their algorithms by soldering transistors?
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Personal responsibility was on the rise until 2013, after which it started to decline?
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Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer. Some amount of boilerplate probably needs to exist, but in general it would be better off minimized. For a decade or so there's sadly been a trend of
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by jampekka 1y ago
> Also - don't write CLI programs in languages that don't compile to native binaries. I don't want to have to drag around your runtime just to execute a command line tool. And don't write programs with languages that
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by jampekka 1y ago
To my eye most of the basal cell carsinomas looked like everyday rashes, pimples or scratches. My correct rate was under chance. This could be hypochondria inducing for many?
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by jampekka 1y ago
You can donate to get access to faster download mirrors. I'd guess this is the main source of their revenue. https://annas-archive.org/donate
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> How is it fair? I would think if two parties commit the same crime they should be charged the same. Isn't fairness in law defined as being blind to the perpetrator? The purpose of a fine is not supposed to be a fee for a crime but
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by jampekka 1y ago
RL is about getting numerical feedback of outputs, in contrast to supervised learning where there are examples of what the output should be. There are many RL problems with no delayed rewards, e.g. multi-armed bandits. Admittely most intere
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by jampekka 1y ago
Yes. I've been running Debian unstable as my desktop for almost two decades. Especially nowadays its usually less hassle, more stable and more up-to-date than the derivatives.
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IDF has attacked UN peacekeepers in Lebanon at least. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155551
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When asked in a way where the opinion can't be identified, the support numbers do drop significantly, but the approval is still estimated to be about 50-70%. In western countries governments with clear minority support start to be almo
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by jampekka 1y ago
> god forbid, that patients might pay is indeed usually seen as "blasphemy". There are policies that are wildly popular. Free public healthcare is one of such policies in many countries, and perhaps for a good reason.
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Relies on many of the subscribers underusing their quota?
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> The word for this is “Terrorist.” Or Freedom Fighter or Opposition Forces or Militia etc. The term used correlates significantly with how west-aligned the armed group is geopolitically. With Terrorist it would probably be interpreted a
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by jampekka 1y ago
The greatest trick the Ad ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist.
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by jampekka 1y ago
> There is no possible way for users to be hurt by a permissive license. Even if some company were to make a closed source fork, who cares? The original is still there, still just as free as it ever was. The users of the closed source fo
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by jampekka 1y ago
Would be interesting to see how this has affected number of visits and travel times at different affluence levels. At least in London the less well off started visiting the congestion charge zones less altogether.
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by jampekka 1y ago
It's about their ban of buying sex services extended to internet.
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by jampekka 1y ago
It's not clear whether humans have natural reactions to snakes. https://link.springer.com/article/10.11133/j.tpr.2013.63.4.0...
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by jampekka 1y ago
At billionairre scale money becomes qualitatively different compared to typical household scale. For households money typically goes to consumption (or future consumption via savings) whereas billionairre money goes to affect how productive
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by jampekka 1y ago
E.g. OECD normalizes household income by household size: > Household income is adjusted for differences in the needs of households of different sizes with an equivalence scale that divides household income by the square root of household
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by jampekka 1y ago
Libraries like underscore are possible because of JS having composable primitives. JS has many many warts, and the for-loop is a good example of this. And the _.each is a good example how the core JS allows for working around it.
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by jampekka 1y ago
Colgate Palmolive 1973: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3931398A/en Merck & Co 1979: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4287173A/en Lion Corp 1983: https://patents.go
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by jampekka 1y ago
My favorite conspiracy theory stuff are the multiple unused caries vaccine patents by the dental care industry.
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by jampekka 1y ago
JS's shorthand property syntax is lovely and elegant. Python can't really adopt it though as it clashes with the set syntax (which is such a niche use case it really shouldn't have a special syntax). You could do something li
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by jampekka 1y ago
I don't think the creator of CoffeeScript (Jeremy Ashkenas) was (directly) ever involved in LiveScript. LiveScript was forked from Coco which was forked from CoffeeScript. Wikipedia does claim Ashkenas was involved [1], but LiveScript
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The repo reads a bit LLM written. Quaternions have some nice properties for some operations with 3D rotations, but they are not a panacea.
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US support for Israel isn't even about profit. It's about corruption.
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AFAIK the recipe was given to them by the French.

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