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by praptak 1y ago
Osama bin Laden couldn't have dreamt of these far reaching effects of 9/11.
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by praptak 1y ago
Test in general (unit tests paticularly strongly) are prone to the streetlight effect. The more trivial or unimportant something is, the easier it is to test it. This creates the temptation to test the easy part rather than what's impo
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Seeing like a software company(seangoedecke.com)
388 points by praptak 1y ago|122 comments
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by praptak 1y ago
So we're not only made of elements which formed inside star(s) but also ones merged from two different planets. This is weird.
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by praptak 1y ago
"Collaborate"? They are owned by the elites. The elites just tell them what to write and you don't need a half baked conspiracy theory based on some leaked emails to tell that. It's in plain sight: '''W
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by praptak 1y ago
Multi-Armed Bandits running on move trees (aka the UCT algorithm) was the invention that led the foundation to computers cracking Go.
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by praptak 1y ago
Sounds like a bogus charge where the only purpose is to scare you into pleading guilty to something else. Btw it sounds like it's a good idea to never report bugs to Major League Baseball. Refusing to pay beg bounty is one thing but o
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by praptak 1y ago
How does the new Denmark "copyright on your body, face and voice" work in this aspect? I read that the intention is to combat deepfakes but does it also work for uses like this?
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by praptak 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250924125053/https://aartaka.m...
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by praptak 1y ago
Pointer tagging is at least as old as Lisp: https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-number...
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by praptak 1y ago
Hurray, we are getting Lisp machines back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture#Architectu...
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by praptak 1y ago
I'm trying to channel my tinkering drive into software projects. Somehow these usually to get at least to the "hello world" level. Also, when left unfinished, they don't occupy the precious 3D space around me. Also I nee
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by praptak 1y ago
Username checks out.
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by praptak 1y ago
I remember getting a second chance with my submission for non-explosive demolition agents. The mods didn't put it on the front page themselves but instead emailed me with an invitation to repost.
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by praptak 1y ago
And the Global War on Terror wasn't even the first American War on Due Process. Remember the War on Drugs? It is mostly forgotten but the civil forfeiture remains as its legacy.
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by praptak 1y ago
I was curious about the rep movsb, so I tried to compare this with how a compiler would copy a known small size chunk of memory. It seems pretty complicated. I didn't manage to make a compiler generate the `rep movsb` idiom but I manag
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by praptak 1y ago
"If only there was a technology which fixes this..." "Those are functions of a marketplace" Then it seems you should have said "If only there was a technology and a marketplace which fixes this..." And no, it
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by praptak 1y ago
I use mbank.pl (Poland, EU regulations apply). What do consumers do if they have accounts in banks which don't have this feature in case they want to revoke DD consent?
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by praptak 1y ago
It would have to handle chargebacks and resolve disputes.
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by praptak 1y ago
Fortunately I can review direct debit consents and revoke them via my bank's web app UI.
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by praptak 1y ago
From the same toolbox: expression watch. Set a watch on the invariant being violated (say "bufpos < buflen") and get a breakpoint the moment it changes.
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by praptak 1y ago
The issues make it not continuous. The 1d limit of 0.01, 0.011, 0.0111, ... is 0.1 The 2d limit of the same series is the top right point of left half. The 2d representation of 0.1 is the bottom left point of the right half. The Hilbert c
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by praptak 1y ago
The general principle still holds, there are just caveats. First, invalid states today may become valid tomorrow. If you make them too unrepresentable, you paint yourself into a corner (the 'required' protobuf case). Second, the
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by praptak 1y ago
Yeah, it is not entirely obvious. You need to prove that if you fix a number x from range [0,1] then the point at "x * length(Hn)" converges to a point in 2D, for every x, as n goes to infinity (Hn = nth Hilbert curve). The limit
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by praptak 1y ago
It's also a tragedy of the (anti-)commons. The mice should coordinate, tax themselves fairly and hire a ninja to put the bell on the cat.
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by praptak 1y ago
"[...]someone recently explained to me how great it is that, instead of using data to make decisions, we use political connections, and that the idea of making decisions based on data is a myth anyway; no one does that." From my
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by praptak 1y ago
And is a force only in the non relativistic model.
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Capitalization of Initialisms(teamten.com)
1 points by praptak 1y ago|1 comments
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by praptak 1y ago
No, fuck taste. It's either a class shibboleth or just a game of Calvinball where snobs trying to one up each other.
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by praptak 1y ago
I sure hope that merely not being free, for all uses, forever, would be enough to tank it. Not to hate on Rebol specifically nor people wanting to make money off their work in general but a non-free language is just unacceptable.

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