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by lioeters 1y ago
> advanced clocks that predate similar European ones I was thinking of the Antikythera mechanism, an analog computer/calculator from the 2nd century BC. There's a long gap in history from that time until Europe reached that lev
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by lioeters 1y ago
With the decline of interest in stamp collecting, are the prices of rare stamps and collections also depreciating? Or maybe the prices are even higher because the few who are interested know that stamps are forever a thing of the past, and
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by lioeters 1y ago
That's a very helpful summary, much appreciated. It helped me understand the layers involved.
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by lioeters 1y ago
I've been using Git for years and haven't learned even half of it. I use a small subset that I understand, and the rest I learn about (or refresh my knowledge) when I need it.
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by lioeters 1y ago
> outside actors are weaponising social media Inside actors are also spreading misinfo, rage bait, propaganda and general degeneracy of culture. They're blaming outsiders while doing the same or even worse.
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I like the sound of it, especially the compact single-file executable with minimal dependency. Forgive me for my ignorance, I may not fit the target user profile - I'm not familiar with KVM, and have only occasionally used QEMU. I read
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MVC: Xerox PARC 1978-79 – Trygve Reenskaug(folk.universitetetioslo.no)
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When I think of Google, killing products is one of the first things that come to mind.
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by lioeters 1y ago
I think they mean audio recording/reproduction, automobiles, and cameras have replaced much of what musicians, horses, and painters used to do. Similarly, AI will replace much of the thinking and problem solving done by programmers.
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Department of Organized Violence.
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Or how do I blue thee, let me count the ways.. Periwinkle Neon blue Bluebonnet Twin blue Smalt Savoy blue Medium blue Process blue Liberty Egyptian blue International Klein Blue Ultramarine Dark blue Picotee blue Navy blue Midnight blue Ind
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by lioeters 1y ago
That's a helpful summary of what's necessary to make JSON safe to embed in script tags. I agree the "why" is too long of a story, an accumulation of supposedly logical decisions that led up to the ball of quirks. It&#x27
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by lioeters 1y ago
The following chapter includes Coltrane's diagram, briefly comparing it to a North Indian Tai Chakra drawing. Chapter 25 - Music and Mysticism, Rhythm and Form: A Blues Romance in 12 Parts - Adam Rudolph This is a better scanned copy:
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by lioeters 1y ago
How was I able to guess just from the headline that it was going to be an AI play with a VSCode fork. Their copy sounds so generic like it was written by an LLM. They should run their whole business autonomously. > Launching the mission
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About embedding JSON in a script tag, I recently read an article on the risk of a closing </script> tag within the JSON that could break it. Safe JSON in script tags: How not to break a site - https://sirre.al/202
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Letter to Martin Van Buren" (1838)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Time travel was a minor side effect of achieving AGI. We got bigger problems now in the future, something to do with the multiverse, aargh..
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"Clean your rooms, men!" Starts sobbing
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Hi, I'm from 2 years in the future. Stop this before it's too late, GPT-7 will enslave humanity and aaargh..
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That makes sense, poor search results lead to more engagement. That is devious.. Now that you've pointed it out I can't unsee it.
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> better having no ai in search But then the product manager wouldn't get a promotion. They don't seem to care about providing a good service anymore. > probably dumber than the other ones for cost savings It's amusing
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The same word is "prach" in Czech: dust, powder. The "ch" sounds like "kh" (soft k?). In Czech slang prachy means cash, money.
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That was my answer as well. Anonymity is not only "considered OK", it is a fundamental human right that must be guaranteed and protected unless there's a real need to violate the person's privacy. The fact the question w
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by lioeters 1y ago
From: https://bun.sh/docs/install/lifecycle > Packages on npm can define lifecycle scripts in their package.json. These scripts are arbitrary shell commands that the package manager is expected to read and exec
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> good tools often force you to adopt better practices Just wanted to highlight this excellent statement. It's like having a strict type system that enforces certain rules are always met. It provides consistency and predictability.
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Now is a time in history where any corporation worth its ill-gotten billions should take advantage of the government's whole-hearted encouragement to push through anti-competitve and anti-consumer decisions to dominate the market and t
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
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I keep hearing about Zig and the ease of cross-compiling. I have a small C library that I'd like to build for supported platforms, and I'm considering Zig's build system for that purpose.
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> GitHub and VS Code It's impressive how these Microsoft-owned products became fundamental to my daily software needs. I know I have to find better alternatives, move to using Codeberg/Forgejo, Spacemacs/Neovim.. And progr
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Also the concept of implicate order, proposed by the theoretical physicist David Bohm. > Bohm employed the hologram as a means of characterising implicate order, noting that each region of a photographic plate in which a hologram is obse

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