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by samatman 2y ago
> I think it's clear that a phone isn't the final state for these interactions That isn't clear to me at all, although continuing to experiment is worthwhile. "Battery powered computer which fits in a pocket, having
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by samatman 2y ago
This is correct, which is why intervals don't choose an interpretation of the region of uncertainty. If you do have reason to interpret the uncertainty as normally distributed, you can use that interpretation to narrow operations on tw
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by samatman 2y ago
The post you were responding to includes this sentence: > I agree with what you wrote mostly but I think you are dismissing the criticism of sanitizing stories too easily. Bringing up Dr. Seuss is not whataboutism, nor is it muddying a
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by samatman 2y ago
> Nobody's telling Hans Christian Andersen to shut up, and nobody's telling publishers to stop publishing him Do Dr. Seuss next.
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> If you use a hand-made cloth bag made from cotton that was hand-grown in a garden using only renewable energy, it's expensive because you have a higher number of man-hours spent on it - and those man-hours are actually generating
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by samatman 2y ago
> Proving that a program terminates eventually is a very weak guarantee, since it could be a program that terminates after a million years. This matters mostly for proof languages, where it’s useful to write proofs about functions that
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by samatman 2y ago
It was not a general statement, but rather, a specific one. > Lua is not "open developed". The development is done exclusively by the Lua team, at PUC-Rio. So, we do not need a SVN repository. Currently, we keep Lua with the g
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> Relatively obscure language Lua is among the most used languages in existence. It's probably the most used language by under-21-year-olds, and almost certainly so for under 16. Roblox is absolutely enormous. It's the usual c
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by samatman 2y ago
The Efficient-market Hypothesis has been proven to be true only if P=NP. https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284 What's your bet on the latter? I'm... skeptical.
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It isn't nobody, as evidenced by the continued existence of new-in-box original iPhones, which sell at auction for nosebleed prices. The trick is to identify products which will be considered iconic, while they're still on the mar
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by samatman 2y ago
Doesn't look too stupid for Patek Philippe. These shenanigans are why they can charge $20k for a stainless steel automatic watch with a simple date complication, which is only slightly better (at best) than a $300 Seiko.
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It's not possible to write the letter Ø without a slash. The slash is part of the letter.
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PUC Lua uses a closed development model. They have a small team, and that team both decides what goes into the language, and writes the implementation themselves. There are a great many implementations of Lua at this point, I'm aware o
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John Conway makes a solid case that this is backward: https://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf
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by samatman 2y ago
You're reading the virality backward. As I said, the MIT licensed part of the code remains MIT licensed. But the project is not an open source project . There's lots of MIT licensed code in proprietary software, it's one o
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by samatman 2y ago
I welcome any and all experiments in the low-level programming space, and writing a good one with Lisp syntax is an obvious approach. Carp (mentioned in the article) was a good start, but seems to have stalled out, and while it's easy
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by samatman 2y ago
The things which make Ruby good for shell scripts are, to a large degree, things it inherited from Perl. Which was, and is, a great language for scripting. People use it a lot less these days, for a lot of reasons, some better than others.
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Several literary careers have been made on summarizing the main takeaways from LSD.
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They should be, Chuck Moore was a student of John McCarthy.
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It's easy! Cations are positively charged, so cathodes are, uh, negatively, charged. With anions and anodes it's the other way around. It makes perfect sense! Cations, you see, are attracted to anions. And reduced by cathodes. An
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by samatman 2y ago
In other words they change the rate of change of the acceleration. We call that derivative jerk. Jerk is responsible for the shockwave which would otherwise rattle the brain around, it's also the chief factor in producing whiplash.
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by samatman 2y ago
> I don't think that's true or nothing compiled using MSVC could ever be open source. For example: Rust It is true. Rust does not require MSVC in order to compile. Also, linking to proprietary code, and compiling code using a
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by samatman 2y ago
The replies to this show that it isn't just language models which struggle with the difference between correlation and causality! Here's the (logically valid but with fictional soundness) example I came up with: > The Elbonian
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Half of all bytes are illegal ASCII though.
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What I quoted is also from the README. You cannot use proprietary code in an open source project, and the README says you can. That is fundamentally dishonest. The sum of MIT licensed code which requires linking to proprietary code to funct
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https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/one-in-four-men-admits-to... This is explicitly referred to as a risk factor in the study, although they say "gender-based violence"
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Which is why laws should be made through legislation, not judicial fiat. The majority in Dobbs v. Jackson made it very clear that a law requiring the same principle as Roe v. Wade would be legitimate.
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> But I'm not sure why the table is 4×4. The fourth transition from every state is unreachable since the symbols are all in [0, 2]. I think the fourth transition represents illegal Unicode. From there it stays in the illegal stat
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Harvesting, processing, and storing, are human labor.
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This is why I continue to dutifully rinse out plastics and throw them into the landfill via the separate 'recycling' process. I'd rather it go to the special plastic landfill, where, like cryogenically-frozen Effective Altru

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