kragen

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1. 571.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   What are the hoops?
2. 572.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   How about somebody you love? Or at least find wildly attractive and can trust?
3. 573.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   You're right, they didn't use to have rounded corners: https://web.archive.org/web/20131201025758/http://www.nngrou... That was when border-radius already existed. Of course their older designs
4. 574.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Much appreciated!
5. 575.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   For me the great benefit of rounded shapes is that they make it visually apparent what's foreground and what's background. If you just divide an area up into rectangular subareas, it's hard to know which of these rectangles
6. 576.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Word definitions are arbitrary social constructs, so they can't really be correct or incorrect, just popular or unpopular. Your suggested definitions do not reflect current popular usage of the word "computer" anywhere I&#x2
7. 577.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   The link to Lindsey Kuper's post https://decomposition.al/blog/2017/07/30/what-do-people-mean... is great! I think the note about generators may be a good definition for when one language is "m
8. 578.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Most functions from the naturals to naturals are uncomputable, which I would think calls into question your first definition. It's unfortunate that "computer" is the word we ended up with for these things.
9. 579.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Maybe "minion", "mole", or "henchman".
10. 580.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    That sounds reasonable, but I doubt F-Droid can cough up the required US$1 million to pay 12 Google L7 SWEs to spend a month reviewing F-Droid once they get enough free time. I wonder if they'd require F-Droid to comply with PCI-DSS?
11. 581.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    GCC outputs textual GNU assembly language, in which I have written, for example, a web server, a Tetris game, a Forth interpreter, and an interpreter for an object-oriented language with pattern-matching. Perhaps you are under the illusion
12. 582.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    > An extreme caricature example of a "lumper" would just use the word "computer" to label all Turing Complete devices with logic gates. I don't think that's a caricature at all; I've often seen people
13. 583.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Using tumblers is legal in countries like the USA. You may be living in a country that does not observe the legal principle that everything is permitted unless it is explicitly prohibited, but that is the foundation of the US legal system
14. 584.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Can't cscope tell you everywhere a given struct type is used?
15. 585.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I agree. Pipes meant you could do things on a PDP-11 that a 16-bit computer couldn't normally come close to doing. I wasn't using the things at the time, but I've looked at competing 16-bit operating systems like Nova RDOS,
16. 586.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I have often been astounded at the level of ignorance of people who use cryptocurrency —not knowing the difference between Binance and Bitcoin, for example, or between Tether and Bitcoin, or not knowing that an on-chain Bitcoin transaction
17. 587.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Because in clickbait "journalism" everything is a "secret".
18. 588.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    What would they have to offer Google in return for being granted this status? Would they have to ban NewPipe, for example?
19. 589.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Perhaps you meant to reply to webo? I'm not sure what you think I might have been trying.
20. 590.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Well, that sucks!
21. 591.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I asked GPT-5 Mini and it said, in part, "some studies find clinicians update more when evidence is clear and actionable (better calibration), others show clinicians exhibit the same biases as laypeople (e.g., positivity bias, anchorin
22. 592.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Yes, this was one of the major political controversies around the US mint in the 19th century and even the early 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_silver
23. 593.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    That seems like it would interfere with reproducible builds.
24. 594.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Nope, probably not at all, and certainly not for very long.
25. 595.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Goodness, I hope you weren't injured.
26. 596.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    It was, yes. The varying relative values of metals was in fact a huge problem for mints for many centuries. The problem was sometimes resolved by refusing to mint any but the priciest metal, and at other times by the values of different c
27. 597.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I thought it was interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised if Euler solutions weren't in the training data, especially for the later problems like this one.
28. 598.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I guess that's plausible, and I have occasionally observed doctors behaving that way, but I don't have enough evidence to independently confirm that it's especially common among doctors. Also, I've seen people do amazing
29. 599.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    The piss and shit problem is real, but not nearly as bad as you're imagining; I've written a bit based on my extensive shit-related experience and shit-related human history in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
30. 600.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I know. The non-copper pennies also don't weigh 3.11 grams. Dimes aren't silver anymore either.