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by ordu 1y ago
Ah. I see. I replace the virtual keyboad on Android with something else instantly, to get rid of autocorrect and other anti-features. Probably doing that I lose my chance to appreciate the ways of people born after 1990.
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by ordu 1y ago
I'm still wondering how people find emojis to insert into their texts. Do they scan the list of emojis to find something suitable for each place in the text? Or maybe they memorized a lot of emojis, they know they exist and it is sort
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by ordu 1y ago
Slide-rule is a sort of "trope". If you need to signal to readers or your book or watchers of your movie that some character has STEM education, you give them a slide-rule. There are other ways to do this, you can make them wear w
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by ordu 1y ago
> Subtracting from zero is negation. What’s the negative of 0x123? It is 0xfffffedd. > Hmm, we get 0xfffffccd. No, we didn't. The emulator shows 0xfffffedd, and I've checked it manually. The emulator is right.
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by ordu 1y ago
1. idk how it works in Hindu mythology, but Mandavya doesn't look an ordinary mortal for me. Double so: not ordinary and not mortal. 2. It would fail to deliver. The goal is to avoid punishment for crimes? But I suspect that convincing
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by ordu 1y ago
My comment is borderline off topic, but I just can leave it at that. Sorry. > I think it’s apt because the Ship of Theseus as a thought experiment is unanswerable. It is answerable, you just need to go meta a little. You can argue that
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by ordu 1y ago
It is an interesting hypothesis. Seriously. There is a trend in Homo Sapience cultural evolution to treat children in more and more special ways from generation to generation. The (often implicit) idea it helps children to develop faster an
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by ordu 1y ago
I think, that there is only one way to make voting machines to be trustworthy. If anyone can run ballots through their own machine to verify results, AND there will be multiple parties doing exactly this, then you can trust the outcome. But
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by ordu 1y ago
While he was a bulshitter who pumped money out of investors, he looked like an interesting guy, a sort of engineering cowboy. But now his bullshit is directed on getting power, money is not enough for him, he needs a political influence. So
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by ordu 1y ago
> What decision-making process led to the idea of injecting human urine into a frog in the first place? Yeah, it makes me think of how many dumb things scientists really did. I bet, that the most of them are unknown because nothing int
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by ordu 1y ago
> I can’t get a good intuition about how tidal forces explain (1) Earth’s moon causing ocean bulges on both sides of Earth Try to imagine that all the Earth is liquid, so no landmass that resist deformation. And now ask yourself a ques
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by ordu 1y ago
There is one problem with prediction markets, they will influence the processes they are predicting. It is like betting on sports events: if bets are high enough, then athletes would like to get a share. Professional athletes have high sala
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by ordu 1y ago
Try this in C: *(int*)0 = 0; Modern C compilers could require you to complicate this enough to confuse them, because their approach to UB is weird, if they saw an UB they could do anything. But in olden days such an assignment led consisten
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by ordu 1y ago
Yeah. The photo of a hairy astrophysicist claiming that if black holes have hair, it is shorter than 40 km seems like a petty way to spark a public interest.
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by ordu 1y ago
I'm not a parent, but still... It seems to me that the system lacks a very special one-way channel of communication from a child to the parents, a channel that parents receive messages from, the kid knows it, but the kid thinks that pa
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by ordu 1y ago
> It always felt like it was just hand waived as something we should already know. I learned about Big O notation while learning calculus, along with little-o.
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by ordu 1y ago
If you don't see that your campaign is futile and want to waste you time, just go ahead, don't ask for my permission.
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by ordu 1y ago
Maybe, but it doesn't change the fact, that no one is going to forbid me to ban IPs. Therefore I will ban IPs and IPs ranges because it is the cheapest solution.
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by ordu 1y ago
It is not silly pseudo-security, it is economics. Ban Chinese, lower your costs while not losing any revenue. It is capitalism working as intended.
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by ordu 1y ago
Not quite. You need a pressure difference at the bottom. The fresh water will come from reverse osmosis at lower pressure than the ocean at that depth. And it will be not just little lower pressure, but pressure created by ~500km of water,
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by ordu 1y ago
I really don't like how you rejecting the idea completely. People have online one-shot training, but have you tried to learn how to play on piano? To learn it you need a lot of repetitions. Really a lot. You need a lot of repetitions t
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by ordu 1y ago
> But to get to the real understanding we actually shut down that part, forget what we "know", start from a clean slate. Close, but not exactly. To start from a clean slate is not very difficult, the trick is to reject some c
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by ordu 1y ago
> LLMs are not by themselves sufficient as a path to general machine intelligence; in some sense they are a distraction because of how far you can take them despite the approach being fundamentally incorrect. I don't believe that
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by ordu 1y ago
I used to think, how the history of computing and Internet would look like, if computers converged on 3-base system, with trits instead of bits, and trytes instead of bytes. If one tryte was 9 trites, it would have 3^3=19693 values. All the
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by ordu 1y ago
Pity it travels too fast to decelerate enough to be captured by the Sun.
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by ordu 1y ago
Hmm... It would be nice to replace axons in human with these structures. The speed of propagation of spikes will be much higher. I'm not sure that it worth it to replace axons in brains, but those long axons in a spinal cord and in opt
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by ordu 1y ago
Intelligent people are much more creative at finding new ways to be wrong.
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by ordu 1y ago
Neural networks are on the hype now, but it doesn't mean that there was no AI before them. It was, it struggled to solve some problems, and to some of them it found solutions. Today people tend to reject everything that is not neural n
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by ordu 1y ago
> Data races in multithreaded code are elegantly and statically prevented by Rust. I have never written a large concurrent Rust program, and I'll grant the possibility that the borrowchecker is miraculous for that use case and easi
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by ordu 1y ago
> As written, `asyncConcurrent(...)` is confusing as shit, and unless you memorize this blog post, you'll have no idea what this code means. I get that Zig (like Rust, which I really like fwiw) is trying all kinds of new hipster th

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