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by praptak 10mo ago
Restricting access to land you don't own should be treated like theft.
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by praptak 10mo ago
Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere attempt at making life easier for disadvantaged people is labeled DEI and as
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by praptak 11mo ago
Indirectly. The actual spike of pressure that ejects the magma comes from the gasses dissolved therein. When the magma moves up, the pressure drops and the gasses become oversaturated and thus prone to violent release.
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by praptak 11mo ago
I disagree about innovation in automation creating a contradiction in LTV. LTV states that the exchange-value of goods is determined by the socially necessary amount of labor needed to produce them. Automation only means that the sociall
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by praptak 11mo ago
Only if you assume that the only kind of value is the ability to be sold for a price. Marx would have a word about use value vs exchange value.
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by praptak 11mo ago
My intuition for the Feynman's trick is that we construct a "morph" which produces the given function (the parameter t drives the morphing). The key to the trick is that we construct the morph so that: a) we can tell the rate
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Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality(reuters.com)
16 points by praptak 11mo ago|3 comments
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by praptak 11mo ago
That's called motte and bailey.
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by praptak 11mo ago
Yes, and this is a generalisation of the trick from the problem described in the article. The chessboard in the article is a bipartite graph with different number of vertices in the two groups, so it cannot have a perfect matching.
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by praptak 11mo ago
Dominoes on mutilated chessboards are matchings in a bipartite graph, a well studied problem for which an efficient algorithm exists.
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by praptak 11mo ago
Small government without [big thing I happen to like] is [bad thing] therefore it's okay to make the government big in [the aspects I like] and I don't see any hipocrisy in that.
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by praptak 11mo ago
Jsonnet solves a different problem though. Need to configure 5 services with hundreds of replicas in 7 data centers? Some values depend on the service, some on the data center and some on the combination thereof? Maybe also overrides for a
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by praptak 11mo ago
I'd go as far as to say that commercial/free alone is a red flag by itself. The conflict of interest in such a setup is almost inevitable. The incentive is to keep the free version crappy to make money from the commercial one.
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$10k RTX Pro reportedly snaps under its own weight during transit(tomshardware.com)
16 points by praptak 11mo ago|9 comments
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by praptak 11mo ago
Even in Ukraine it's quite possible to code. I worked at Google with people who stayed in Ukraine after Russia started the war. I can't say they were unaffected - there was stuff like meetings interrupted by missile alerts - but t
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by praptak 11mo ago
I would try my hand at building a MUD but I don't have a solution for the hard problem of getting people to play it.
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by praptak 11mo ago
You need a scriptable client though.
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by praptak 11mo ago
I think I visited Grimne maybe 10 years ago? Some players were connected but all of them were running on automation scripts, i.e. no actual humans to talk to. There was an occasional admin popping in. The feeling was eerie, like walking aro
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by praptak 11mo ago
"But on a day-to-day basis, if asked to recognize balanced parentheses?" On day-to-day basis you will never encounter this problem in pure form. As the consequence the solutions are not good for the day-to-day stuff. Even if you
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by praptak 11mo ago
That's what I learnt from as part of CS curriculum at MiMUW. Can recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Automata_Theor...
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by praptak 11mo ago
It's a medical vampire, for when a medicinal leech is not sufficient.
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by praptak 11mo ago
Literally suicidal? Does that mean that other reckless drivers will find out about the empathy and will thus start hitting them on purpose?
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Rockstar accused of 'the most ruthless act of union busting'(pcgamer.com)
5 points by praptak 1y ago|0 comments
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by praptak 1y ago
There are reasons to choose the slightly annoying solution on purpose though. I'm thinking of a political statement along the lines "We have a problem with asshole AI companies and here's how they make everyone's life sl
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by praptak 1y ago
I'm starting to believe that customer satisfaction signals an inefficiency to be found and optimized away. The most financially successful companies have customers who are unhappy but not as unhappy that they leave. In this case the in
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by praptak 1y ago
Relevant: "I found a backdoor into my bed" https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129439
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by praptak 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251021173904/https://quasa.io/...
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by praptak 1y ago
"Working without names (also known as implicit or tacit or point-free programming) is sometimes a more natural and less irritating way to compute. Getting rid of names can also lead to much more concise code. And less code is good cod
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by praptak 1y ago
Having a separate phone as a "glorified digital token" is probably within the top 3 things you want to do anyway if you are serious about digital security. See the recent discussion about pixnapping: https://news.ycombi
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by praptak 1y ago
Yes! Everyone thinking of a new config language should look at jsonnet first. And there are much bigger reasons (than just syntactic stuff) hidden in the "interesting things" part. The "interesting things" include being

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