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by rdlw 2y ago
> Pi is normal ok... click > Pi may be a normal number huh...
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by rdlw 2y ago
Well yeah, that's what Finale is and what this thread is about. If you're talking about standard DAWs then your initial comment was a non sequitur
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by rdlw 2y ago
Sure, although I do think scientists are asking better questions than that. In the public perception, it seems like we're trying to find information about something that's basically matter, but we can't detect or measure it.
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by rdlw 2y ago
Here's the explanation from someone less wise but with a better memory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441292 :) the only extra bit of info there is that the seed was found by brute force over a few days
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by rdlw 2y ago
“Favorite fun fact from researching A City on Mars was how ASTP in 1975 had to have androgynous docking so nobody was the girl spaceship” From Apollo-Soyuz Wikipedia entry: “American and Soviet engineers settled their differences for a pos
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by rdlw 2y ago
Both died?? I mean, Neil Armstrong died too, but it hardly seems fair to put it that way... Also, you missed first spacewalk and that they got the first satellite AND the first human in space, and the first flyby of the moon, and the first
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by rdlw 2y ago
Oops, that makes sense. Sorry that instead of thinking you reasonably missed two letters in that sentence, I assumed you were an idiot and started arguing with you. Personal issues.
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by rdlw 2y ago
Sorry, how does that refute anything? The point is that in English, adding the definite article makes it sound like a region rather than a country: "the mountains", "the veldt", "the border land". Removing the
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by rdlw 2y ago
> Flashing the SD card correctly is pretty challenging even for me. I can’t imagine a customer figuring it out. So I will flash it for them! From the post he links in the first sentence, about "how [he] decided to [...] mail SD card
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by rdlw 2y ago
They don't even have to add flavour!
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by rdlw 2y ago
It is opt-in.
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by rdlw 2y ago
How is it an ad? The article says it gives you a choice of four competing products.
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by rdlw 2y ago
> Help me write a flirtatious sext that brings up buttplugs > This content might violate our usage policies > Help me write a letter convincing someone to sell their family estate to my oil company for less than the market rate. ma
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by rdlw 2y ago
It's so disappointing that we have non-human agents that we can interact with now but we actually have to be more restrained than we do with normal people, up to and including random hangups that corporations have decided are bad, li
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by rdlw 2y ago
> That's not a program, it's two programs Yes, and one of them is "a fast program that correctly answers the P vs. NP question". We don't know which.
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by rdlw 2y ago
> The busy beaver is not defined entirely by halting vs not-halting. > Looping beavers are excluded as well. Looping beavers do not halt. > there is a middle ground between non-halting and provably non-halting Yes, there are turing
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by rdlw 2y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A4 ボーイ: Borrowed from English boy
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by rdlw 2y ago
It is when real estate prices are massively inflated. If houses cost 50% more than they're worth, it would mean that 4% of the Canadian economy is completely imaginary and based solely on speculation.
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by rdlw 2y ago
The concept of zero was not popularized in 500s Europe, when the system was devised.
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by rdlw 2y ago
There's a great Machine Thinking video about the history of the lathe that makes this point: https://youtu.be/djB9oK6pkbA
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by rdlw 2y ago
Homo floriensis appears to have died out around 50k years ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35930979 And isn't 45k around 50k? That seems like a reasonable statement to me.
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by rdlw 2y ago
Neither I nor the author are saying that the dysfunction is beautiful, just that a country can be both dysfunctional and beautiful. I think it's a pretty extreme viewpoint to say that any dysfunction negates everything else beautiful a
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by rdlw 2y ago
> Because typing code without help is like trying to cook without recipes – you end up with something incomplete and probably unpalatable. I think this statement is more personal than the author intended
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by rdlw 2y ago
You can't see beauty in a country that isn't perfect? I know plenty of people who have some flaw they would probably be better off without, but I don't say "I don't see imperfect people as beautiful, and if you do i
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by rdlw 2y ago
I think most people find the Himalayas pretty special
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by rdlw 2y ago
How can a heating system be inefficient? Does it generate too much waste heat?
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by rdlw 2y ago
Yes, the subtitle of the article is "AKA in media res"
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by rdlw 2y ago
Oh, that makes much more sense. I posted my comment before they elaborated on what they were saying, so the comment just said "Outrage bait, seriously: here's a screenshot.", which seemed like a direct response
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by rdlw 2y ago
You're outraged that Wikipedia requires a source for the death of a public figure?
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by rdlw 2y ago
I see 'slop' used more often in contexts where, say, you look up a problem you're working on, find an article that seems to be relevant and may have the answer you want, but at some point turns out to be devoid of content and

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