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by rmunn 4mo ago
The weighting-by-upvotes is why there was a short period when Google's AI search results (I'm not 100% clear on whether that was Gemini, or a different model) would tell you to use white glue to keep the cheese from falling off yo
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by rmunn 4mo ago
> ... I think they need some sort of hardware package similar to an old Apple //e that gives them just enough rope to hang themselves. Something like https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/ perhaps? It's a
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by rmunn 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure the historical reasons I mentioned involved creating the software before the SQL standard came out, meaning they were treating NULL as meaning "nothing", instead of meaning "unknown" as the SQL stand
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by rmunn 4mo ago
One of the things that makes Factorio so great is how solid it is, not just in its programming but also in its game balance. (At least pre-Space Age; I can't speak to its Space Age balance from my own experience, though I'd be s
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by rmunn 4mo ago
And although you didn't ask, I'll list what's wrong with Oracle. It's very simple. Oracle treats empty strings as being NULL . Anyone who's never used Oracle before in their life is probably wondering if I'm m
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Don't know of anything wrong with MariaDB, but there used to be plenty wrong with MySQL. To give the most egregious example (THANKFULLY fixed in MariaDB, but was present in MySQL for the longest time), inserting the value 128 into a TI
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by rmunn 4mo ago
"M." is the French abbreviation for "monsieur", the equivalent of "Mr." in English. So "M. Chazelas" is the correct way to politely refer to Stéphane Chazelas by his last name, since he's French.
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by rmunn 4mo ago
I like to think he was amused by the student's audacity and decided that yes, he was being unfair in this particular case. I know not everyone would be so fair-minded, but I like to think that this guy would be.
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by rmunn 4mo ago
I'm going to lose interest in this conversation soon, but to clarify for anyone else who might be reading: wearing body armor is not common, and tends to be evidence that you are preparing for violence. When you commit a crime of viole
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by rmunn 4mo ago
It's an old enough tradition that there are jokes that rely on you knowing the tradition. My favorite: professor known for being VERY strict tells class repeatedly in weeks leading up to exam, "You will have exactly two hours to f
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by rmunn 4mo ago
There are some cases, such as the "I purchased this and then they removed the media I had purchased" cases being discussed in other parts of the thread, where the artist has already been compensated for the media they created. In
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by rmunn 4mo ago
I see "LLM discovers vulnerability in curl" and I get skeptical, given how Daniel Stenberg has talked about the flood of claimed vulnerabilities that weren't real issues once he looked into them (as most HN readers already kn
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by rmunn 4mo ago
> At least, at the HN gestalt level. Individuals may say one or the other of those things from a principled perspective, but I perceive a lot of rationalization in these discussions overall. I'd be careful attributing anything to th
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Body armor. Showing up with weapons is normal in some places, including Texas. Body armor, not so much. It's the body armor that's the real evidence of preparation. P.S. Also, there's no inconsistency. Simply apply basic logi
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by rmunn 4mo ago
You ... may want to read the indictment before you form an opinion on this one. There were free speech materials in the box, but in the same box there was also evidence of conspiracy to commit violent felonies, and THAT is what the guy&#x
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by rmunn 4mo ago
The indictment PDF shows every signs of being a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy; it's not just the image that was poor quality. But our brains are so used to correcting for degraded text that we auto-correct for it and don&#x27
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by rmunn 4mo ago
The indictment can be read at https://media.freedom.press/media/documents/gov.uscourts.txn... if you want to see the charges. And if the allegations about this being pre-planned (e.g., paragraphs 20 and 21 of the
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by rmunn 4mo ago
True; a more realistic scenario would have to include "covert surveillance" (where you don't want to let him know you're watching), and even there I'm not sure much could be gleaned about any individual. In theory y
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Yes, there are certainly use cases where you know the data you're parsing will only come from a narrow range of Unicode, such as U+0000 to U+007F — or from just the letters GCAT, as you mentioned. The overhead of converting 8-bit input
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by rmunn 4mo ago
I'm familiar with the phenomenon, as my wife is a linguist who did her master's thesis on the phonology of a small language spoken by about 7000 people: many of the kids don't want to learn it, and just want to learn the majo
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by rmunn 4mo ago
And before someone comments about the hypothetical religious person eating pork, I was actually thinking of a Mormon acquaintance of mine when I wrote that. Mormons are not supposed to drink alcohol, but pork is perfectly okay. If you were
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Depends on the store. The one I go to, most people don't seem to want to use the self-checkout lanes, meaning I benefit from using it because I don't have to spend 5 minutes waiting in line behind three or four people. (Three or f
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Eh, there could be privacy implications. E.g. you see someone in the restaurant whom you know, and you know he is not supposed to be drinking alcohol (for whatever reason: maybe his religion forbids it, maybe there's a medical reason f
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Before clicking on the link I thought this was going to be about Gambonanza, a game I've seen some people play on Youtube (on videos that I think were sponsored by the developer of the game, but I don't actually know). Haven&#x2
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Correct.
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> ... but almost all of them are historical or emoji's in utf-8. I just posted a comment, five minutes after you wrote that, which I won't repeat here since it was quite long. But one of the languages whose alphabet is found in
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by rmunn 4mo ago
> ... utf-8 that covers all the languages but excludes the emojis ... Ah, but the U+0000 to U+FFFF plane does not cover all the languages. You might think that only historical and archaic languages are found in Unicode's astral pl
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Plus, the question of voluntary vs. involuntary comes in. Taxation is, in most forms, involuntary. Don't pay your taxes, eventually you'll either be arrested or the government will compel your bank to hand over what you were suppo
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You don't want to know what kind of bugs ( massive bugs) you'd run into.
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I just checked, and lining up the | with the open parentheses does work in modern F#. I believe they revamped the indentation rules a few years back, because I definitely remember things like that not working back when. So perhaps now you

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