mega_dean

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by mega_dean 2y ago
> On other hand, who are we defending from and why are spending all this money on world police when we have a ton of internal problems? Reminds me of this scene in Wag the Dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwgPnYVg74Y
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by mega_dean 2y ago
> If our understanding of physics is right, it doesn’t matter whether you hit them or they hit you. That was my first thought too, but I don't know if it's true because of the strings they are attached to. The striking conker i
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by mega_dean 2y ago
I don't think that's meant to be taken seriously/literally - seems like a tongue-in-cheek acronym for "GOSUB".
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by mega_dean 2y ago
"Did you see Brian's hat? He's still fucking wearing it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2k-BNySLI
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by mega_dean 3y ago
A recent example of this was "theresawikiforthat", which generated sites like ocamlwiki.com and juliawiki.com that were full of very low-quality information. They are offline now, but the ocamlwiki was consistently toward the top
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by mega_dean 3y ago
> you can prompt it to consider memes, sarcasm, inside jokes, etc. I use Custom Instructions that specifically ask for "accurate and helpful answers": "Please call me "Dave" and talk in the style of Hal from 2000
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by mega_dean 3y ago
> my first guess is usually wrong I had the same experience, and searching for answers using keywords was not very effective. There are so many features that the terms I guessed were often a different concept in GIMP, leading to a bunch
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by mega_dean 3y ago
A fourth (fifth?) option worth mentioning is patdiff: https://opensource.janestreet.com/patdiff/ From what I remember, it sometimes (35%) made diffs easier to read, usually (60%) made no difference, and rarely (5%) mad
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by mega_dean 3y ago
Here's a similar article that I read recently about using Ocaml's type system to implement a sudoku solver: https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2017_04_01_ezsudoku/ The author defines types to represent a valid su
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by mega_dean 3y ago
Ah, I couldn't figure out why it sounded vaguely familiar until I saw the "Works of Kim Stanley Robinson" section at the bottom of the page: > The Mondragon Corporation already appeared in Robinson's earlier Mars tril
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by mega_dean 3y ago
I stared at this one for a long time: https://hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=gallery&pk=457 They use opposite colors for the foreground which makes it look opalescent and gray at the same time.