jibal

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by jibal 10mo ago
The context is i, j, k as indices in programs. No doubt FORTRAN was influenced by prior use such as you cite. But in no case does i used as an index come from i designating an imaginary number, which is what I aimed to refute.
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by jibal 10mo ago
Who says it isn't? "closed source" doesn't have a formal definition, but can be arbitrarily defined as the antonym of open source, and when people use the term that's usually what they mean. And that has nothing to
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by jibal 10mo ago
What exactly does "open" mean when used as a qualifier for "source"? The fact is that your claim "“open source” consists of two words which have meaning, but somehow doesn’t mean ==>that<== when combined into
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by jibal 10mo ago
Citation? On the contrary: https://opensource.org/osd
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by jibal 10mo ago
The appropriate word is "mistaken". It was explained that the licensing restrictions do not allow for a port, literal or otherwise. And "the linux port of Photoshop 1.0" is not something anyone wants when Linux already h
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by jibal 10mo ago
i, j, k comes from FORTRAN's implicit types -- by default, names starting with I-N are integers and all other names are real.
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by jibal 10mo ago
> If the judge finds that apps and books are so equivalent, then letting the apps require age verification should do no harm -- everyone underage or privacy-concerned will simply go to the bookstore or a library. Right? That is obvious h
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by jibal 10mo ago
> the fact that the exercise of other Constitutional rights have long been conditional on age Which of those are in regard to the 1st Amendment? > This just looks like another example. No, it doesn't. > What is the consistent
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by jibal 10mo ago
No reason to be sorry ... you are right and the other person seems quite confused about the context.
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by jibal 10mo ago
P.S. https://avbrief.com/autoland-crew-consciously-let-system-tak...
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by jibal 10mo ago
I was going to push back at that assumption ... until I looked her up: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
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by jibal 10mo ago
Find a better photo: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
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by jibal 10mo ago
So find a better one: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
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by jibal 10mo ago
It's not their fault: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
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by jibal 10mo ago
There's a rumor, that you are propagating. One person, Tandem46, made this claim ... no evidence provided.
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by jibal 10mo ago
Asserting that physics knowledge purportedly incomprehensible to us would enable this or that is radical bad faith, exacerbated by dishonest word games. No transmission of information means no move, no travel, and so this advanced civilizat
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by jibal 10mo ago
No surprise that the dishonesty and playing the victim is persistent. It's a fact that this person misuses the term "technically", and that they used inflammatory language. Saying so does not dismiss them completely ... but e
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by jibal 10mo ago
> The related news was broadcasted in Spain on serious TV news at lunch, not from some Alex Jones-lite kind of show with Reiki and the like. Completely irrelevant. > On the laws of physics, we are like toddlers discovering an adult wo
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by jibal 10mo ago
P.S. The response is filled with bad faith accusations.
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by jibal 10mo ago
You don't understand the meaning of "technically". Also, don't use inflammatory language.
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by jibal 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanthrope https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/animals-who-have-adapted-live...
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by jibal 10mo ago
Welcome to the world of headline writing. https://archive.is/KVT11 Humanity's gene for processing alcohol has existed for 10M years, and that's what they are actually talking about.
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by jibal 10mo ago
You don't have to lean on "experts" (or experts) or people at HN find these things out: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-01/epstei...
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by jibal 10mo ago
Police and prosecutors have such a great time cataloguing criminals' activities--let's imply that they love crime.
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by jibal 10mo ago
It's the point I made--it is not at all difficult to make an argument that we have not been visited by aliens. > we might have been visited in forms that are completely incomprehensible to us So what? That's not an argument t
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by jibal 10mo ago
The laws of physics are the same for aliens. And there is no "paranormal stuff".
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by jibal 10mo ago
Sorry about the double negative, but I think the rest of my comment made my position clear.
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by jibal 10mo ago
> I am just so embarrassed on behalf of people who still think this doesn't exist and is all some conspiracy without any basis. There's plenty of basis for thinking it's uninformed or intellectually dishonest conspiracy mo
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by jibal 10mo ago
I think you're confused about who you're responding to.
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by jibal 10mo ago
It's not at all difficult to make an argument that we have not been visited by aliens. e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1468rqs/cmv_e... https://marginalrevolution.com

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