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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
The author was able to get an apartment and shared the website and the reddit thread be used to find it.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
The first sentence says: "I just got a call from the owner of a hotel..." The story is probably all true, even though it does have a bit of that "Elderly man set cruise control on at their RV then got up to make a sandwich&qu
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
Why is it bad? Seems clear enough.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
But if I spill some oil on my plate it doesn't look a molecule thin to me. Why is it different with water?
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
His book "Understanding Physics" is amazing. Similar in spirit to Petzold's "Code" that is often praised on HN.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
Not surprising! "Asimov was so prolific and diverse in his writing that his books span all major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification except for category 100, philosophy and psychology" - from his Wikipedia page.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
My Simpsons memory of him is him coming up from the clouds as Mustafa, Darth Vader, and himself saying "This is CNN". But TIL it wasn't him but Harry Shearer doing an impression. https://youtu.be/gc25oAJrKbM?
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
How does it know how many times it needs to shoot the zombie before it dies? Most enemies have enough hit points to survive the first shot. If the model is only trained on the previous frame, it doesn't know how many times the enemy wa
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
>Odd x Odd results Odd This isn't obvious and can't be taken for granted. The explanation posted above (2k+1)^2 by Smaug123 explains this part.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
The book Permutation City explores some concepts of immortality that would be immune to the heat death of the universe. In the book consciousness does not have to be chronological in time or on any specific biological or synthetic hardware.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
You may also remember me from such blog posts as "Earwigs, Ew!", and "Man Versus Nature: The Road To Victory."
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
Xylitol is not an artificial sweetener.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
There's some of that, and there's even a humorous game called Guess the Verb making that a game mechanic: https://www.ifwiki.org/Guess_the_Verb%21 but it's not so bad. I definitely run into this issue with gr
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
The way I'd explain it is: You have a perfect paper airplane. It flies in a straight line regardless of wind, rain, hail or snow. And it keeps in the air a really long time. You get into an air balloon over Seattle and launch your pape
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
Reminds me of "Red XIII", a character in Final Fantasy 7, who was a specimen in a study when encountered by the player. The name is probably chosen to highlight the heartless practice of giving a number to a sentient being instead
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
I think the poster referred to other parts of the adult swim website. It's not NSFW, but more like M+ TV rating.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
There's a timeframe. It's the first 5 words of the tweet.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
They are not writing code without bugs. But the rate of incoming bugs varies from project to project. For mature projects without a lot of churn the bug rate decreases over time. They may also be in a position where they can afford to delay
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
"Your code has to be good enough that you don't get a large flow of bugs." The article also says it took them a year to get to this point.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
I've been hearing a lot about how the latest generations have a lot less wealth than their parents. SonI was surprised to read The Economist reporting the opposite: https://archive.is/lwKKk
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
Please keep doing this.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/04/The_Sun_s_...
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
>What if you're playing a game and someone pulls the chair from under you? Right, here is Daniel Dennet's answer, from the story: "For as the last radio signal between Tulsa and Houston died away, had I not changed locatio
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
> My eyes in one location, seeing stuff, my ears in another location hearing stuff, my mouth in another location tasting stuff, then my notion of self switches back to wherever the brain is, but where was that transition? There's a
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
I remember when first reading the story thinking, that I can resolve the question "Where am I" easily because of my experience with video games. When I play a first-person video game, and someone behind me looks at my screen and a
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
Because US citizens have an IRS filing requirement even when living abroad. It is a very uncommon requirement among countries.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
They can't increase the prices without customers going to competitors. So it's still an incentive against paying fines.
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
Reminds me of this Buddhist monastery: https://architectureprize.com/winners/winner.php?id=6300
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
A famous counterexample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharin#Warning_label_additi... > However, in 2000, the warning labels were removed because scientists learned that rodents, unlike humans, have a unique comb
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by lIl-IIIl 2y ago
There's conjugation but it's on different axes. One unusual feature is that Japanese verbs conjugate on politeness/formality. There's also te- forms, past forms, imperative, "I can verb" form, "I want verb

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