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by jpfed 10y ago
>Then you can get interesting and philosophical about it, where you might even say that emulating intelligence and intelligence are different. This would be a very surprising result. For example, if I can make a TSP-solver-emulator... I
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by jpfed 10y ago
jaredpar's VsVim will give you that in Visual Studio.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Psychologists have measured this! The capacity to stop yourself from doing bad things is different from the tendency to do good things (someone, go make an improved D&D alignment system out of that...).
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by jpfed 10y ago
Yes, but more tantalizing would be some kind of wavelet-based semantic versioning. This might allow merging.
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by jpfed 10y ago
WML queries over WMI do not give you the full generality of SQL, though.
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by jpfed 10y ago
While he should have known, I actually think that asking that question was more admirable than attempting to BS his way through something he didn't know about.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Obviously the outcome won't literally be exactly the same. Whether we consider them to be "the same" in a practical sense depends on what we care about. Different people care about different things, so different people will
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by jpfed 10y ago
He did have models, and they correctly predicted Trump's victory. He chose to disregard them. Then he wrote a mea culpa article explaining his mistake, which he is unlikely to repeat.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Easy- Duverger's Law. One of Clinton or Trump will be president. If you vote for one of those two people, you get to influence that outcome. I view voting as a strategic act, not a moral stand.
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by jpfed 10y ago
If you're deeply disturbed by all the @s then you formed your opinion more than a year ago.
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by jpfed 10y ago
> But it has had man-centuries of work to get it where it is now; a de novo solution will necessarily need similar levels of work to get to a similar point. This reasoning falls down in two ways: sometimes changes need to be reverted (an
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by jpfed 10y ago
I like Focus! The others are a little bit much for me, but maybe I've been doing government websites for too long...
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by jpfed 10y ago
It conveys "you selected a thing.".
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by jpfed 10y ago
I suppose I should have included an explicit marker of sarcasm...?
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by jpfed 10y ago
No, Gamergate was about ethics in journalism. That's why it started when Gerstmann was pushed out of GameSpot for his unfavorable review of Kane and Lynch.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Your view is nowhere near a minority on HN and reddit.
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by jpfed 10y ago
I wonder if the clouds don't separate into bands as much at those latitudes because the velocity (due to the planet's rotation) is lower closer to the poles.
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by jpfed 10y ago
I have switched from tabs to spaces. I have always thought that tabs were the more straightforward representation- if we're in the spirit of separating presentation from semantics, we might as well use the character that means "i
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by jpfed 10y ago
>What the hell does that even mean? It means they want to see stuff you post, and/or post stuff that (if you circle them back) you will see. >Do I now see whatever spammy crap they post? What? No. That would be super dumb. >Do
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by jpfed 10y ago
You don't even need to wipe out all mosquitoes - just a few species (something like 6 out of 300) account for the vast majority of disease transmitted.
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by jpfed 10y ago
In my grandparent post, I advocate treating trigger warnings and safe spaces separately. I have no intention of defending safe spaces in a university context. Trigger warnings do not prevent the consideration of any particular idea. They h
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by jpfed 10y ago
I don't think TWs should be required . But explicit descriptions or depictions of assault are pretty low-hanging fruit here. By not making a policy, but encouraging a culture of learning about common triggers, we also encourage a m
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by jpfed 10y ago
If we try to have a culture that considers trigger warnings a courtesy worth extending, rather than having a policy saying yes/no, then the question of where the line should be drawn can be answered by each instructor as they see fit.
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by jpfed 10y ago
I think you're looking for a depth of equivalence that I wasn't suggesting was there. To further muddy things, you should know that explosions themselves don't produce the responses they do just in veterans. High-bandwidth s
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by jpfed 10y ago
I think you're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. The point of extending the courtesy of trigger warnings isn't that you will, with 100% certainty, prevent anyone from entering a state of psychological distress.
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by jpfed 10y ago
You don't need a trigger warning policy, necessarily. Just a culture that promotes being aware of common triggers. This notice goes in the opposite direction. >It's an impossible task to list out and educate people on everyth
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by jpfed 10y ago
What I don't get about this is why trigger warnings and safe spaces always seem to get lumped together in discussions like this. It's really hard to actually create a safe space. You have to actively intervene to prevent (or provi
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by jpfed 10y ago
I think that S, O, I, and D are all kinda nice guidelines. But if one's code does not respect L, it is simply incorrect. It implies falsehoods.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Given the title, I was hoping that cognac somehow provided the evidence necessary to settle the supersymmetry bet.
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by jpfed 10y ago
I think it's because people read top-to-bottom. If they had located the task bar on the top of the screen, they could have had programs listed on top and it would work for reading order and mouse movement.

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