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by prvc 6y ago
Interesting that here is yet another site that depends on IMDB in an essential way. I wonder what happens to that whole ecosystem if the database becomes more limited in how it can be accessed, or if it stops being updated and maintained in
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by prvc 6y ago
>as soon as you step over the line and violate other peoples rights What specific right is it that could be impinged by someone else's speech act?
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by prvc 6y ago
An iOS app called The Lost Treasures of Infocom included the "feelies", as 3d models, alongside implementations of the games. Sadly, it is no longer available due to lack of backward compatibility (they never bothered to update th
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by prvc 6y ago
That's pretty wild. The HN submission for this URL was "flagged". I wonder if dang would approve of a second attempt?
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by prvc 6y ago
The late night talk-show clips which populated the front page (presumably due to artificial promotion) also had embarrassing view and dislike counts displayed to the viewer.
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by prvc 6y ago
Why would the viewcount be relevant to this?
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by prvc 6y ago
We have all learned that science as a method of obtaining knowledge is superior to and fundamentally at odds with the blind acceptance of authority. This includes would-be authorities among us. When the authorities then simply claim the man
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by prvc 6y ago
A little bit more background would be useful.
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by prvc 6y ago
If the marginal cost of doing so is effectively zero, why not?
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by prvc 6y ago
The convenience of that rare scenario is outweighed by the annoyance of hearing the chime thousands of times, imho.
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by prvc 6y ago
>Would you agree then that participating in the 'anti-anti' mobs is also a possible form of feigned 'empathy'? You have misread the comment twice over. I wrote nothing that would preclude your scenario from being a po
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by prvc 6y ago
>I was toxic because I was a teenager with low empathy who hadn't learned things yet. I grew out of it. Participation in political mobs can serve as a surrogate replacement for empathy. A change in political allegiance is far easier
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by prvc 6y ago
>if the screen is faulty, one can plug in an external monitor You don't need a chime in order to try that.
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by prvc 6y ago
Interesting point. Would like to hear what someone like RMS would say about this case.
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by prvc 6y ago
This is a pretty popular video, so many may already be aware of this type of project, but just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fnsGHe8eE
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by prvc 6y ago
Thanks for that link. His comment that he began from children's literature bolsters my impression that the book can be seen as an improved re-working of The Velveteen Rabbit.
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by prvc 6y ago
Very good book; plausible and relevant wrt current discussions surrounding AI, although possibly with a few narrative-facilitating concessions. Relatedly: apparently this same reviewer had some very harsh words for The Unconsoled in his rev
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by prvc 6y ago
I think there are many reading this that are unfamiliar with that scene.
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by prvc 6y ago
When they get hot, they start to smell like a cheap plastic space heater, or a construction site.
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by prvc 6y ago
Does running the test trigger the unpleasant industrial smell that these models emit while under heavy use?
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by prvc 6y ago
Hard to read because the background section does not specify how the relationship between the companies got started, and what was in place before the falling-out occurred.
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by prvc 6y ago
>Word 97 Is there a FOSS program with a comparable user experience?
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by prvc 6y ago
Being what, exactly?
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by prvc 6y ago
The total runtime of all six episodes is approximately 8 hours.
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by prvc 6y ago
I find with these documentaries that while they often contain interesting factoids here and there, they meander and never make a significant and convincing point. Can't justify spending 8 hours on this.
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by prvc 6y ago
Its potential to be used for surveillance seems to contribute quite a bit of value here. Marked advertising and donations are red herrings. Granting access in order to create "organic" seeming sentiment molding campaigns does also
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by prvc 6y ago
> having a front-page without the trashy [0] subreddits Whatever makes the front page "trashy" (whatever you mean by that) would also make your hypothetical modified front page so.
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by prvc 6y ago
>Many blame.... Who are these "many", apart from the post author (the Royal "We", maybe), and why are these opinions supposedly worth noting in a factual news article? One can hope that one day that journalistic norms
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by prvc 6y ago
As long as the structure of his brain (at an appropriate level of detail--- how much is enough though?) is preserved for the duration of his ice nap, why couldn't something like a continuation of him be reconstituted some time in the f
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by prvc 6y ago
Last time I checked, I could find no MusicXML exporter that supported the latest syntax.

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