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by moomin 2y ago
I guarantee you that if I started filling every HackerNews thread with My Little Pony memes, every “Free Speech Absolutist” would manage to grasp the point that sometimes you want to remove legal content.
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The Problem with "Gimp"(spacebar.news)
6 points by moomin 2y ago|5 comments
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, treating people with a modicum of respect shouldn’t be a political position, and it’s hardly the Rust community’s fault that it is.
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by moomin 2y ago
Pretty ironic considering it’s the City of London Police website. If malicious clients want to try their luck, I’d say let them.
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by moomin 2y ago
From my limited understanding of how this works, I suspect that what Brash has done is legal. From my own moral compass, I think it’s 100% not okay.
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by moomin 2y ago
Memorably, someone in the UK recently dismissed over 100 studies because they didn’t perform double blind RCT. Which is hilarious when you consider the studies were about gender affirming/reassigning treatments.
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by moomin 2y ago
I am good at leetcode interviews. So are a lot of people reading this. For the most part, this is for the same reason: at some point we sat down and practiced until we were good at them. It’s a useful skill to have and I recommend to people
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by moomin 2y ago
As disappointed as I am by modern levels of space funding, I think everyone underestimates just quite how hard “produce a closed sustainable ecosystem that lasts two years” is. If we wanted to spread out, that would be very high on our rese
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by moomin 2y ago
Yeah, the cost of labour amongst city dwellers seems very far from relevant when you’re stuck down a pit in Wales. I think it’s interesting to note that the original steam engines were specifically for coal mines. A lot of the cost of coal
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by moomin 2y ago
There used to be a Twitter account called “Just Says In Mice”. They’d have a field day with this article.
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by moomin 2y ago
Some theoretical physicists have demonstrated there are some theoretical models of the universe consistent with current observations that aren’t just regular spacetime. There’s no evidence _for_ exotic spacetime. Just there isn’t evidence t
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by moomin 2y ago
Everyone cares about tone. Especially those so chippy they pretend not to.
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by moomin 2y ago
hbomberguy’s “Woke Brands” video is pretty good on how corporations use these things that people care about and disagree about to sell more product and obscure their true behaviour.
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by moomin 2y ago
Purges a hundred years apart carried out with different purposes can both be genocide. In practice, the way the ICC is set up, genocide is extremely hard to prove because it relies on proof of intent. However, the children stolen and believ
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by moomin 2y ago
Question is: who’s liable for the accident in these circumstances? Because to date the legal circumstances are such you would be heavily advised to keep your autopilot off.
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by moomin 2y ago
Actually, you’re right. With the links it’s clear.
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by moomin 2y ago
On the contrary, with that amount of power “bit of an asshole” is indistinguishable from “monster”.
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by moomin 2y ago
Okay, I just jumped down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what OP might mean. I think they’ve got it sideways. I think they’re talking about vaccinia, a virus related to cowpox (and smallpox) that form the basis of modern smallpox vaccine
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by moomin 2y ago
You’ll get a lot of answers to this question, I’ll try to give one that’s distinct from the others: Practical observation of the two techniques reveals very different outcomes and behaviours. Selective breeding takes time and has intermedi
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by moomin 2y ago
Not really, what’s happened is that everyone’s so scared of exceptions they only use them in extremely confined ways. These ways are relatively easy to reason about. But the full fat arbitrary goto around your call stack is avoided.
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by moomin 2y ago
The SQLite example gives you a pretty good idea of how the maintainers wish to be perceived, but I think it’s fairly obvious to most people that those that loudly proclaim their adherence to the first ten rules exhibit a WIDE variety of beh
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by moomin 2y ago
It’s actually much more interesting. Category Theory is one of a number of systems that can underpin regular mathematics. The root of the tree, if you will. There exist proofs that these systems are equivalent and they’re not that hard to f
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, it’s a language based around exceptions for flow control, I think the “easy to reason about” ship has sailed. (Don’t confuse this with me thinking this project is worthless, I think it’s art.)
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by moomin 2y ago
I feel like this is a case of one of those "movements" that is just "Yes, under certain circumstances this might be a good idea; and under others, it won't be". Consider that tests are literally executable specifica
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by moomin 2y ago
I think you need to make a distinction here between the Palestinian Authority (which signed it) and Hamas (that supplanted it through violent uprising). The PA still exists and would happily comply, they just don’t have a presence in Gaza.
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by moomin 2y ago
It would not be the first company with stock ticker DJT launched by Donald Trump Jr to go bust. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/25/investing/trump-stock
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by moomin 2y ago
Something the author points out: sometimes theorems directly rely on specific constructions of mathematical objects, which are then used to establish things that do not mention the construction.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think the original author makes a good case that a) the shorthand approach isn’t going to fly as we formalise b) different mathematicians mean different things by canonical and these details matter when trying to combining results and tha
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by moomin 2y ago
A really obviously one in The Talos Principle: nearly all the puzzles have names. That makes them readily googleable.
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by moomin 2y ago
Feels like this might be an invariant in computer science. I once worked on an IBM/360. The majority of the compute was taken up by a single person who did weather simulation. An IBM/360 has laughably less compute than your phone.

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