kazinator

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by kazinator 2mo ago
Audio quality is deeply objective , sorry. Audio embellishments and distortions are subjective. Analogy: air quality. What is clean air is objective. Perfumes and aromas are subjective (one man's rose is another's skunk), but the
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by kazinator 2mo ago
I suppose, those who don't like their sand gone are told to go pound ... some alternative.
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The first implementation of Lisp was Steve Russel, hand-translating Lisp written on paper to machine code.
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I.e. his realization that the Lisp eval function would behave as an interpreter came at the same time as his realization that the Lisp specification of the eval function can be translated to machine language. Though he did that by hand, wit
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Between 1958 and 1960, it took them a good part of two years to get a compiler going. Little did they know that this costly delay would still have people saying that Lisp is fundamentally interpreted in 2026. Delaying the publication of key
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by kazinator 2mo ago
EVAL was described in Lisp, on paper first. Steve Russel realized that the Lisp specification of EVAL can be translated to machine language to produce an interpreter. So he did exactly that, by hand, surprising MacCarthy who had only expect
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Just hold off on merging them. When enough typo PRs accumulate, squash all their commits into one, with yourself as Author. Give credit to the contributors in the commit message.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
The debate about AI consciousness is backwards for the following reason: the correct direction is that we first define the word we are talking about and then we talk about it. The opposite of this is backwards: talk revolving around a word,
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by kazinator 2mo ago
What is the purpose of using bearings to build a crank mechanism as in 39? https://507movements.com/mm_039.html Maybe it's for bearing efficiency? Note that the spur gears are rigidly attached to, respectively, the cra
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by kazinator 2mo ago
You mean, the other 48% didn't understand the question. :)
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Basically, have a global temperature. When the pointer is in something that has a tooltip, the temperature rises. Otherwise it cools (possibly at a different rate). A tooltip is shown only when the pointer is in bounds, and the temperature
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> Black hole singularity is a surface not a point Might they be trying to say this? 1. The boundary of the black hole which traps light, etc, is called the event horizon, and sits at the Schwarzschild radius. This is a geometric surface.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Oh, no! Quick, build more data centers!
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> Introduce an EU-wide de minimis threshold. You would think there de facto already is one? A small time operator shipping a few boards here and there can do it completely under the radar, not even aware that these rules exist. If it
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by kazinator 2mo ago
The modern toilet should let you pay with your personal info: Toilet: "Sign up (learn more) or proceed with Google Account ..." Google: "pissoir.fr wants access to your pissing history ...(Y/n)" Toilet: By pissing h
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by kazinator 2mo ago
The millions it will kill first won't be among the overconsumers who are driving climate change.
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Yes; the inverse is not true; making it free won't ensure that it won't happen.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
In fact, one of the jobs of an engineer is to make sure that other engineers who don't work in his or her area do not need to understand that area deeply, yet build something reliable with it. They need just the summary that he or sh
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Up to now, manual coding has produced mountains of code, faster than humans can un derstand it! Already! The nincompoops at the top think that if mountains of code can appear by snapping your fingers, they will be less of a problem. If the
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A pissoir is of little comfort when you badly need a shittoir.
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That practically ensures that some people who have to go really badly, and for whom €0.50 is a big deal, will just drop their business on the sidewalk.
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> That's not a clean eraser. It's a rewrite. That's just not a random "That's not X. It's Y." two-sentence paragraph. It's a clear watermark.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Note that to reflect a rigid, physical model of a 2D shape, you have to rotate it around the reflection axis in 3D space. I.e. reflection is just a rotation involving a temporarily borrowed extra dimension.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> The dichotomy between reason and emotion is a cultural construct, and neither grounded in neuroscience nor in logic. Hard disagree with part of this. Reason is an intellectual construct, that has a basis in logic. (Neuroscience not f
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> Monocausal determinism is an illusion, and largely does not exist outside of computer debugging. Also: quite often does not exist inside computer debugging, either.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393741
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Every Unix tool does four-and-a-half things: - parse command line arguments in a slightly different way from other tools - parse some ad hoc input format specific to itself - do one or more actual jobs - produce output in its own ad hoc
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Such situations have led to disputes which ended up in court.
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If "OREO Speedwagon" cookies came out, that would be boomer cringe to the max.
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> I gained consciousness at about the time that Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and the Spice Girls gained worldwide fame, and I understood that it was hip to hate them Hey, Gen X dudes, who was your favorite spice? Posh? Sporty? For me ... LT

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