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by layer8 2mo ago
In the hexagons, 30-degree lines could be considered as well — there might even be solutions when treated analogously to pandiagonal magic squares.
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by layer8 2mo ago
A BSD or MIT (or any other) license doesn’t remove copyright. For example, copyright reserves the author the right to also release the work under a different license in the future. AI output doesn’t have such associated rights.
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by layer8 2mo ago
I hope you mean µg.
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by layer8 2mo ago
Finally an interesting article about AI!
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by layer8 2mo ago
“Opus” is/was a lot of things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus#Computing
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by layer8 2mo ago
Direct link: https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ms-wo... Versus the port: https://cdn.neowin.com/news/images/uploaded/2026/08/17861716...
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by layer8 2mo ago
I’m assuming you can only use it with string literals, hence it is less universally useful.
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by layer8 2mo ago
It was before everything became widescreen. 1280x1024 at 19” was pretty common I think, which is 86 PPI and would correspond to FHD at 25.5”. I still have a 27” 1920x1200 from 2007 at roughly the same PPI, which was considered a high-end mo
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by layer8 2mo ago
There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors. Fonts tended to be more optimized for (sub)pixel-level hinting in the past, though, while newer fonts and font rendering are more blurry on low-res monitors t
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by layer8 2mo ago
Admittedly I’m not so familiar with Python; it does work in Java. In that case, introducing a less hazardous string concatenation operator would seem more universally useful.
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by layer8 2mo ago
I’m not sure what you mean by manual formatting. You do need a place in your program where you fill in the parameters into the respective localized string template. I agree that the printf format syntax is somewhat limited for localization
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by layer8 2mo ago
Personally I do find the first version clearer, because it is based on general language rules.
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by layer8 2mo ago
It’s unclear what the big advantage is over `print("Age: "+age)`. It’s even more characters, in that specific example.
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by layer8 2mo ago
> why use format strings Because these are used for locale-specific configuration data. `"This is here: {x+y} blah"` on the other hand isn’t a string (mere data), it’s a program, because you can have arbitrary expressions insid
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by layer8 2mo ago
That probably would be worse, because you aren’t seeing how your examiner reacts and will be imagining the worst.
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by layer8 2mo ago
It’s fine in landscape for me, but here you go: “The problem, and it is a moral problem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great problems of slavery. Let us grant that slavery is bad because it is cruel. It is, howeve
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by layer8 2mo ago
> step by step That’s basically what “pari passu” means.
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by layer8 2mo ago
My family name was already taken as a domain 25 years ago, but well, you can’t expect to be able to own any but the most rare names. However, the space is large enough that you can invent a name that is available, and it’s fine. I’m more an
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by layer8 2mo ago
I regularly listen to recent music, but often tracks I explicitly search for, and autoplay based on those I “liked”. My “Liked Music” playlist has several thousand entries, so I suspect that heavily steers what I’m presented with.
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by layer8 2mo ago
There is a browser business when the browser company is also in the ad business.
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by layer8 2mo ago
You can actually tap on the channel name and scroll down to see the About section (at least on iOS). I never had genAI tracks being suggested on YouTube Music. Though it might be a factor that my account predates genAI music.
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by layer8 2mo ago
You’re just saying that 90% of your internet usage is YouTube?
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by layer8 2mo ago
Habituation is difficult to overcome. If domain names had been freeform from the start, we wouldn’t have this particular issue. Domain names are still a finite space, given that a full domain name can be at most 253 characters, and each dom
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by layer8 2mo ago
FWIW, I never got the appeal of Myst as well. Much too limited range of actions.
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by layer8 2mo ago
It’s interesting that domains apparently are still such a big business, despite how browsers have been deemphasizing URLs and domain names, and given the prevalence of apps.
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by layer8 2mo ago
The FIRE model you’re arguing for isn’t realistic for most people, and besides that, spending your youth “working super hard” on a job you find meaningless will will make you a different person compared to having spent that time doing somet
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by layer8 2mo ago
Even space is a race.
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by layer8 2mo ago
It opens the leaderboard as #27, so in the last place.
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Europe's drought reveals medieval buildings, Nazi warships, mammoth remains(reuters.com)
11 points by layer8 2mo ago|0 comments
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by layer8 2mo ago
I believe in linking over copy & paste, in particular when I want neither to quote the full FAQ nor editorialize by selective quoting. By reading the FAQ, people can form their own opinion on it.

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