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by jibal 6mo ago
2^512 is the number of distinct values of 512 bits ... it sure seems to succeed in existing. SHA-512 is a cryptographic hash that depends on that.
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by jibal 6mo ago
From the comments: The notion of "believing in" axioms is absurd ... as absurd as believing in the rules of chess and disbelieving the rules of checkers. Each set of rules or axioms forms a system (possibly degenerate if the axiom
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by jibal 6mo ago
> μpb (often written 'upb') is a small protobuf implementation written in C.
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by jibal 6mo ago
I only gave the definition from cerebralfaith ... I didn't read their example, which I agree is bogus. My mistake for including that reference without reading the rest. > I’m by default disposition suspicious of fallacies that are n
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by jibal 6mo ago
Loris Cro banned me from his Zig forum because I disagreed with/corrected something he wrote. I was also blocked from the Zig github repository, after being a frequent contributor to issue discussions, for reasons unknown (I was never
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by jibal 6mo ago
https://finmasters.com/ad-hoc-fallacy/ > Ad hoc fallacy is a fallacious rhetorical strategy in which a person presents a new explanation – that is unjustified or simply unreasonable – of why their original belief or
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by jibal 6mo ago
It's exhausting to see such unoriginal comments. This language has original features and clearly was not vibe coded ... the author is primarily a Zig programmer, and Zig has a very anti-AI culture.
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by jibal 6mo ago
Look at the author's repositories. He writes mostly in Zig, which has a very anti-AI culture. There's no evidence of AI in rip-lang, just lots of hard work.
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by jibal 6mo ago
They can't, of course ... especially when they clearly never looked at it. Very nice work!
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by jibal 6mo ago
And that is grossly dishonest ... my original comment said nothing about what is true for me, and I never assumed (or assume) that what is true of me is true of others. In fact the whole point of my comment that you are responding to here i
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by jibal 6mo ago
Because the author acted on that comment.
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by jibal 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions
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by jibal 6mo ago
"grue" has a specific meaning in philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
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by jibal 6mo ago
But color isn't a spectrum of light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/
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by jibal 6mo ago
define "experience the same way" There's a philosophical school of thought (which I share) that there's no coherent definition.
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by jibal 6mo ago
Consensus in science has nothing to do with voting. It's a consequence, not a cause, and arises when the accumulated evidence is clear enough and unambiguous enough that there is general agreement among experts in the field--that is, t
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by jibal 6mo ago
This is quite false and the opposite of what is actually true. Textbooks and other teaching materials are entirely based on consensus science, surveys report on consensus, meta-analyses identify consensus, the abstracts of novel studies lay
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by jibal 6mo ago
I admire your creativity, willpower, and work ethic, and a few other things about you, but I don't admire reactionary garbage like this ... I'm actually rather shocked by it and how it leans heavily on the strawman "I'm
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by jibal 6mo ago
Of course science is consensus based ... consensus is a fundamental part of the scientific process, which is conducted by a community of scientists. Consensus is the end result of attempts at reproducibility and falsification, of the ongoin
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by jibal 6mo ago
No it isn't and that clickbait article doesn't say it is.
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by jibal 6mo ago
To clarify, my statement was based on comments I have seen and heard from Andrew Kelley when discussing this subject. I can't locate those at the moment, but here is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156426 by mlu
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by jibal 6mo ago
No, the whole point is to eliminate dependencies that they have to maintain. "not obligate" really doesn't mean anything if it's available as a backend--the obligation is on the Zig developers to keep it working, and t
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by jibal 6mo ago
Fitbit Inspire3 ?
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by jibal 6mo ago
The location of the Earth is completely irrelevant. "closer" and "farther" refer to the center of the galaxy.
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by jibal 6mo ago
Earth isn't relevant. The stars at the center of the galaxy developed first, and development proceeded from the inside out, so the youngest stars are on the edge ... then they get older from there on out, as the stars beyond the edge b
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by jibal 6mo ago
You seem to be a fundamentally dishonest person.
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by jibal 6mo ago
I made no assumptions. Or if my "It's wild" makes assumptions, then surely your "That's wild" does as well. But really, neither do--they are simply expressions of a disparity between fact and expectation or des
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by jibal 6mo ago
Not that way, you won't. As I noted, those are completely different assertions, and the one you actually made is a lie.
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by jibal 6mo ago
It's not objectively false, people just can't read. > the high-caliber hurricanes that, before climate change, didn’t come to the Ridge
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by jibal 6mo ago
Which people? And no, it's not defined that way: "radiation having a wavelength between about 700 nanometers and 1 millimeter"

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