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by qubex 9mo ago
I find it an absolutely amazing (note I did not use ‘incredible’ on purpose: I consider this explanation very credible indeed). We have a creditable record of a meteor impact dated exactly 29 June 3123 BC. That’s 1,880,145 days ago as of to
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by qubex 9mo ago
I loved MiniDisc as a format and was an avoid user in the late 1999s before I transitioned to an iPod 3G in 2003 or something like that. Anyway… that was a preamble… in 2001 I spotted some of these in a weird shop in London near Russel Squa
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by qubex 9mo ago
It can go both ways: for example in the EU Apple disallows mirroring of iPhones on Macs because of its interpretation of EU statutes, though it occurred at the same time as they were required to support third-party app stores, so I strongly
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by qubex 9mo ago
Appreciated.
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by qubex 9mo ago
Never met this ‘anyone’ person or seen any of this ‘anything’ stuff.
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by qubex 9mo ago
Yeah I read that but what I meant (and failed to express clearly, I openly admit) is that I hope it doesn’t somehow become core functionality you’re kinda-sorta expected to have. Pages and Numbers work fine and I’d be willing to go back to
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by qubex 9mo ago
The only apps from Apple I give a sizeable fraction of a dam about are Pages and Numbers, and hopefully they’ll emerge from the scourge of AI largely unscathed.
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by qubex 9mo ago
Fair enough, you might have a point insofar as we need not agree — the same goes both ways. However I find it hard to label a sequence of words that underplays the magnitude of the ‘issue’ to be worthy of the term ‘joke’. I can see that I m
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by qubex 9mo ago
Just because you state that “making jokes about” is not tantamount to “downplaying” doesn’t mean I have to accept your distinction. They are materially indistinguishable in this context.
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by qubex 9mo ago
I am absolutely arguing in good faith, and you should abstain from downplaying the atrocities that have befallen others and who still scar their descendants to this day. An off-colour joke was made and nobody here is calling it out for what
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by qubex 9mo ago
So are you planning to go into a synagogue sometime soon and doing a skit about how the Holocaust wasn’t so bad?
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by qubex 9mo ago
That’s a great example of “whataboutism”.
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by qubex 9mo ago
So now we’re harnessing a the dicy and capital intensive power of the atom to create the illusion of speaking to people because we can no longer strike up a conversation with a stranger on the street. Cool, cool. Personally I’m going to sti
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by qubex 9mo ago
I briefly considered that but I couldn’t bring myself to countenance that somebody would make light of a bona fide ethnic cleansing.
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by qubex 9mo ago
Abysmally shallow. Clearly trained on documents centred upon his legal case and not, for example, of whatever mathematical talents got him a teaching position, allowed him to bluff his way past the likes of Marvin Minsky, and what (if anyth
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by qubex 9mo ago
Turn-key or Turkey? Both work but are basically diagrammatically opposite each other semantically.
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by qubex 9mo ago
I don’t know how you could possibly consider that acceptable insofar as you’re writing software and have a professional, moral, and ethical obligation to make it as robust as humanly possible, not just some exercise in approximation.
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by qubex 9mo ago
You stop using AI.
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by qubex 9mo ago
Not exactly the same thing, but I tried to use two AI models (ChatGPT 5.2 and the latest Gemini) to serve as ersatz Referees for an applied mathematics paper I am planning to publish, and it was an exercise in pointless, frustrating disaste
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by qubex 9mo ago
I remember hankering over the mythical G5 PowerBook back in the day. BYW: ‘U3’ was the system controller of G5-based desktop macs.
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by qubex 9mo ago
As somebody who remembers hooking their Xbox 360’s HD-DVD drive to a PowerMac G5 and feeding the streams through (now) archaic versions of VLC, I feel… absurdly old.
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by qubex 9mo ago
Kill it with fire and bury it at sea.
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by qubex 9mo ago
As an atheist I’m seriously disturbed by the religious angle.
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by qubex 9mo ago
No. I’m glad we’ve cleared that up once and for all.
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by qubex 9mo ago
How can a problem 130 year-old be described as having stumped Newton when he’s been dead 299 years??
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by qubex 10mo ago
As a game theorist and a cynic, my go-to response when I hear of non-zero-sum games is “yipee, both sides can lose!”
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by qubex 10mo ago
If anybody’s interested I published the model for dynamics with infinite carrying capacity to Wolfram Clouds so feel free to mess around with it and see if it meets or confounds your intuitons. https://www.wolframcloud.com/o
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by qubex 10mo ago
Resilio Sync is an app I use to self-host files on my mesh network. I had assumed it would allow download over HTTPS when sharing files to third parties but I was wrong. I've now uploaded it to Github for frictionless access: https:&#
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Request for comments: mathematical paper on naturist venues (SFW) [pdf](github.com)
3 points by qubex 10mo ago|2 comments
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by qubex 10mo ago
I’m an economist and an applied mathematician and also a naturist (or nudist), whatever term you wish to use is fine by me. Like most I’ve observed how the gender balance tends to skew male and I’ve often thought about the pros and cons of

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