omnicognate

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by omnicognate 10mo ago
It would help if TV manufacturers would clearly document what these features do, and use consistent names that reflect that. It seems they want to make these settings usable without specialist knowledge, but the end result of their opaque n
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
The 4th edition of Linear Algebra Done Right has a much improved approach to determinants themselves (still relegated to the end, where it should be). From the list of improvements: > New Chapter 9 on multilinear algebra, including bilin
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
1209 is 2025, to answer the first question I had.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
> as is inconsistent in language usage to write differently than to speak. we don’t speak big sounds, that’s why we don't write them either. Of all fatuous nonsenses I've heard from design "geniuses" over the years, t
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
Perhaps you could elevate the discussion by providing an actual argument against this view of string theory, which has indeed percolated through social media? For my part, I know a little bit more than "shit" about physics but I k
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
I'd rather my government control the narrative my children are exposed to than Andrew Tate. Edit: To expand, this is not just a flippant remark. People ignore Andrew Tate because he's so obviously, cartoonishly awful, but they are
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
If that's the case (and I'm not convinced it is), shouldn't retaining that skill be the priority for anyone who has already acquired it? I've yet to see any evidence AI can turn someone who can't code into a substit
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
"Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach" - this, apart from the addition of "UK", is verbatim from the article and much more accurately describes the event being reported.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
(Deleted after your edit)
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
This is a terrible headline, despite being the original. The "watchdog" is a KC (senior barrister) officially appointed to review the legislation. He's warning that this could be considered hostile activity under the act, w
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
It sounds like the KC appointed to review it is doing his job, at least.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
Reimagined for the AI era by tom7: https://tom7.org/bovex/
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
People talk about "complexity" and "simplicity" in code without defining them. I've arrived at a way of looking it that I think makes it reasonably unambiguous. I prefer "opaque" to "complicated"
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
1984 has coercive elements lacking from Brave New World, but the lack of any political awareness or desire to change things among the proles was critical to the mechanisms of oppression. They were generally content with their lot, and some
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
I am also based in London. When I work for American companies I attempt to use American spellings in code and documentation, because consistency matters. For general communication I use British English because I won't get American Engl
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The apathy of the oppressed is a core theme of 1984.
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My "position" isn't remotely that. The problem with "brains are bound by the laws of physics" isn't that there's something special about brains. It's that physics doesn't consist of "laws&qu
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
Indeed, people confidently assert as established fact things like "brains are bound by the laws of physics" and therefore "there can't be anything special" about them, so "consciousness is an illusion" and
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
iPhone 12/13 mini isn't wide enough even in landscape. Reader mode works, though.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
Depends what you mean by "old". If you mean elderly then obviously you're not. If you mean "past it" then it might reassure you to know the average expecting mother is in her 30s now (in the UK). Even if you just me
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
> Software development jobs must be very diverse if even this anti-vibe-coding guy thinks AI coding definitely makes developers more productive. As a Professor of English who teaches programming to humanities students, the writer has had
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
What's an SDF?
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
Minidiscs were briefly widely available here in the UK and were only short-lived because they were almost immediately replaced by iPods and other mp3 players, also with lossy audio only. Nearly two decades went by during which the only port
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by omnicognate 11mo ago
Minidiscs proved that people were comfortable with lossy compression. It was to be many years before lossless audio became a thing again. It always amused me how we were told the difference between lossless and lossy compression was undetec
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by omnicognate 11mo ago
I don't mean adding threading to existing functionality, and I mostly wouldn't want that. I very strongly prefer emacs' behaviour of queueing up my input events and processing them deterministically regardless of how long i
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by omnicognate 11mo ago
Emacs as a Wayland compositor has been shown to be possible. If we eventually get that and threading the future might be rather rosy. https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/wayland/ http://perma-curious.
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by omnicognate 11mo ago
Hashicorp was bought for $35 per share at a time when it was trading a little above $25. Not saying crazy market caps aren't a sign of a bubble (not sure how you'd read that in my comment), just that market cap is not the value
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by omnicognate 11mo ago
It's a dubious comparison but not because of "per year". The comparison is implicitly to one year's worth of GDP, which is a currency amount. It's dubious because whereas a year's worth of GDP has some claim to
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by omnicognate 11mo ago
Thanks to EXWM (not mentioned here), emacs has been my literal X window manager for several years. I installed it as a lark, thinking there's no way this will work properly, and just never stopped using it. It's brilliant.
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by omnicognate 11mo ago
This was incredible to watch, and I have to chuckle at this title. It's obvious why the webcam matters, with people round the world watching, but the destruction of a webcam is such a tiny thing in comparison to the eruption itself it&

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