jancsika

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by jancsika 2y ago
I wonder if that's large enough to contain an old linux running an old version of firefox and feed that the page content.
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Social security and medicare together at like ~2.4 trillion dollars a year, and are supporting a population of roughly 55 million Americans (just grossly taking the 65+ age population). This works out to roughly 43k per year per 65+ ad
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by jancsika 2y ago
> The core idea of satire I've never read this definition from any historical author or famous literary critic. I think you made this up yourself from first principles-- am I right on that? In any case, this definition would make a
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by jancsika 2y ago
Anecdote-- every single high school student and college student I've talked to in the past year (probably dozens) use chatgpt to write their papers. They don't even know how to write a prompt, or in some cases even what "writ
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by jancsika 2y ago
1990s app buzz: discover and distribute music 100,000% more efficiently than brick and mortar! 2020s app buzz: eat food at least as expensive as brick-and-mortar that is no worse in quality!
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by jancsika 2y ago
Should include a field for how much the person documenting the recipe loves/loved the cook. Then I can search by "love" field <= 0 and get the best recipes. Because let's face it-- everything with the highest love fie
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by jancsika 2y ago
No, use the one for Mineral Bluffs: 1. Study the width of the oversize vehicle here[1]. 2. Study the lack of shoulder next to this guard rail[2]. No parent in their right mind is going to be comfortable letting a six year-old walk that, in
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by jancsika 2y ago
> 80 km/h road Non-American detected Please use Google Street View on the roads coming in to Mineral Bluffs, Ga, USA. No bike lines, and we're not even keen on emergency shoulder for cars and trucks!
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by jancsika 2y ago
> A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes. > Nevertheless, she called the police. Yeah, but which road was this? From Street View for Mineral Bl
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by jancsika 2y ago
I'd argue that a) it takes years for humans to develop the ability to be aware of their own jealousy, and b) some of us don't ever get there.
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by jancsika 2y ago
Sounds like you are advocating for a much different law: one that bans (or at least makes prohibitively expensive) the kind of data mining/tracking that social media companies currently rely on for their business models. Am I correct i
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by jancsika 2y ago
> I want to push back on this being a "dark art" - there is no magic in engineering (nb4, any sufficiently advanced technology etc etc). It's a skillset that requires education, experience, and expertise on par with anythi
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by jancsika 2y ago
> What is less well known is Quincy Jones’ involvement with computing. Also, he worked on debt forgiveness in African countries. Also, he studied music composition with Nadia Boulanger (who taught Aaron Copland and many other classical c
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Ballots are insanely complicated and there’s absolutely zero knowledge the average person has about whether any of the people are good candidates. You can say this with a straight face about the presidential election because it's
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by jancsika 2y ago
Reverse Gellman effect: you witness pedants in your own domain surgically tear down a harmless puff piece and immediately know this must be happening 24/7 in every other domain where fun is modestly attempted
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by jancsika 2y ago
> C++ is only "memory-unsafe" if you are hiring bottom of the barrel talent. Stated differently-- a bad hiring process can never raise the risk of memory corruption when you use a memory-safe language.
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by jancsika 2y ago
Have a link to the studies?
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Tail recursion fixes the stack problem and just about any problem that can be solved recursively can be reworked to be made tail recursive. To cover all cases, I feel like there needs to be a cross-platform drop-in library to properly
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by jancsika 2y ago
> There's so many variables here that it's really not worth discussing. Fair enough. I only want to clarify what you wrote: "the average retiree should not hold stocks." To be crystal clear: 1. don't go out and b
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Your average retiree should not hold stocks as they usually can't survive a 10+ year drawdown (which, as I just showed you, happens a lot more than people think, even in the survivor biased S&P500 example). This is why target
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Obviously it's a bit late now, but it would have been an interesting experiment - to ask 100 "professors of music" to guess which composer out of [1] wrote this newly discovered piece. They'd have guessed correctly.
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Congress is accorded very little power by the constitution, with most of it resting with "We the people" or the states. It's a brilliant way to specify powers to a legislative body, essentially a nation-state equivalent
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by jancsika 2y ago
Interviewer: "So what's your professional opinion about this annoying popup that blocks the main thread?" Interviewee: "I see how that could help with adoption, at least until we are able to migrate to a red single-line
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by jancsika 2y ago
Have you ever actually written a research paper? Some things are impossible to flesh out without jargon. E.g., a musicologist once wrote a paper disproving a previous paper that claimed to show similarities between the proportions of sectio
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by jancsika 2y ago
> When you treat every negative outcome as a system failure, the answer is more systems. Eloquently put. Also, likely false. E.g., soft-realtime audio synthesis applications like Pure Data and Supercollider have had essentially the same
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by jancsika 2y ago
> As much as I love good art (and I do), most art is not good art. Are you sure you're talking about "good art" and not merely "professionally mixed and mastered recordings?"
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by jancsika 2y ago
Okay, so the author linked to the Seattle Times for a published citation of their measurement. And indeed the author's measurements are confirmed by Signani in that very same article: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl
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by jancsika 2y ago
> I even had a negative celiac antibody test. Note you can also check your genetic config.log to see if there was a -DALLOW_CELIAC flag in your source build. Unfortunately your body's settings dialog is shit and does not show you wh
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by jancsika 2y ago
Note that in your example there appear to be three distinct meanings: 1. prefix incr/decr precedence: "stack[--sp]" 2. postfix incr/decr precedence: "s[j++]" 3. i have no particular preference for the precedenc
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by jancsika 2y ago
> There are long lasting bridges made of stone, concrete and in the right climates, even wood. Not to mention rope when it suits the purpose. I'd be fine with someone building a new browser out of stone, concrete, wood, or even rope

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