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by layer8 2mo ago
On the general topic of dark energy and dark-energy theories, I can recommend the following two recent podcast episodes by Sean Carroll (theoretical physicist): https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/06&#x2F
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Certainly it is. But when the choice is between having the tariffs and Ukraine losing the war, the former is still preferable. Of course it’s not such a simple binary choice, but it is a weighing of options and their likely consequences. In
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To answer your question, yes it does look pretty much the same in the Lisp version, less so in the string version. Also I didn’t complain; I expressed the opinion that I don’t agree that homoiconicity increases the appeal of a programming l
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Please don’t. Your profile states that you’re an ethical hacker.
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As a workaround, you can use a home screen shortcut to start the app. But I agree that app developers shouldn’t do this, or should at least provide an option to turn it off. (Some apps allow customizing the app icon color, so it seems that
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How so? Homoiconicity means that everything uses the same form of representation, and I’m familiar with how these things look in Lisp.
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Trump stopped intelligence sharing on Russia with Ukraine in spring last year while tariff negotiations with the EU were ongoing.
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I don’t find it appealing when everything looks the same irrespective of purpose and context.
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The length of the “a” is what I was alluding to. The British pronunciation still wouldn’t be mistaken for the German one.
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An ant on the surface of the Earth might believe that the Earth’s surface (“space”) is infinitely large. But because it can never look beyond the horizon, it can’t know. If it is intelligent, it has to assume that the surface might be curve
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> you Kant analyze pop music with confidence Fun fact: The correct German pronunciation of “Kant” isn’t like “can’t”, but like “cunt”.
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We don’t, and it’s likely that we will never know. Space may be non-Euclidian with a positive curvature, in which case it would correspond topologically to the “surface” of a four-dimensional sphere. One much larger than the observable univ
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It seems very tenuous to me to characterize a biological process as “reasoning” only because it doesn’t map to certain biological markers. And we know that emotions are significantly influenced by processes outside the brain, in particular
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The parent was objecting to the syntax allegedly forcing one to use “positional references into a list you have to count by hand”. Being inaccurate in your criticism just makes it appear questionable as a whole.
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The theory of constructed emotion doesn’t say anything about the relation of emotions to reasoning.
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It’s only 9734 by 9734 pixels [0]. The DESI LIS map is roughly 60,000 times larger. [0] https://payhip.com/b/Z9JQ
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It’s 2D in the same sense as a 2D map of the world (Earth).
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And we can only look as far as the CMB. The universe might be gazillion times larger beyond that, or, indeed, infinitely large.
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Maybe we should replace the term “cosmological horizon” by “cosmological brick wall”.
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Higher Regional Court curbs Amazon: reporting button and algorithms violate DSA(heise.de)
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They’re building new fabs for 2028.
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cAIche
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However, if all tests happen to be of the form `if (!isValid)`, one might reconsider and use `isInvalid` instead.
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This was well known 20+ years ago: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/what_is_truth_0x3f_
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You could set a custom text by sending WM_SETTEXT to the respective button. It wasn’t a recommended practice, though.
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A power user who’s aware they didn’t save would be confused, as there isn’t any file to delete. I would prefer “Discard”, which would also be applicable to the case of not saving changes to an existing file, where “Delete” would be entirely
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In the US, a felony by definition is any offense punishable by more than one year of prison (or by death) [0]. You could still call it silly on the grounds that AI agents aren’t put into prison as a punishment (though death might be conside
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It’s curious how there seem to be so few combinations of place and time where nothing important happened.
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At first it appears to be a single part, but it’s really four parts, plus twelve connector pins.
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> Another gigantic correct prediction of Gibson that nobody remembers is that he predicted that the AIs would make art. As far as I know he's the only one to predict this. The usual depiction of AI in pretty much all other sci-fi wa

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