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by schoen 1mo ago
Absolutely! Unfortunately for me, I probably wondered about this 35 years ago and learned the answer 15 years ago. Otherwise, I could be one of today's lucky 10,000 in the xkcd 1053 sense.
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by schoen 1mo ago
I remember using WordPerfect in that era and never understanding what that feature was. It seemed implausible to me that it was actually protecting human widows and orphans, but I couldn't imagine what it had to do with text layout!
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by schoen 1mo ago
I wish I hadn't hurt my knee playing Stepmania. I was in the best aerobic condition of my life while I was playing!
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by schoen 1mo ago
This claim was new to me recently, but I've seen it's become widespread. From other HN threads, it sounds like it's based on what Judge Alsup wrote in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which Anthropic's destroying scanned
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by schoen 1mo ago
Cases apply only to nouns; the present and past perfect are called tenses.
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by schoen 1mo ago
I was part of an event called "Windows Refund Day" in 1999 (I think) to draw attention to this issue. We had a march to a Microsoft office to ask for refunds (unsuccessfully). It was fun, but it's 27 years later and it's
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by schoen 1mo ago
We lost a Supreme Court case in 2005 on "inducement liability" (not a familiar copyright doctrine before that). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,... . I'm not sure if this doctr
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by schoen 1mo ago
Is there a legal basis for the president unilaterally telling private companies what kind of equipment they can use? (Maybe there is, as part of existing formal energy industry regulations, and I'm just not aware of it.)
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by schoen 1mo ago
Cliff, I'm not sure if you're still reading and responding to this thread, but I'm just wondering if you heard back about how the pope enjoyed the Klein bottle that you sent him via Guy Consolmagno!
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by schoen 1mo ago
I just remembered that in the story "Simulacron-3", there is ostensibly a law requiring people to respond to opinion polls. It is illegal to refuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 Spoiler: gur jbe
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by schoen 2mo ago
It's not necessarily doctrinally that crazy in copyright law. Some courts have considered AI training on copyrighted works a "transformative" use (traditionally more protected in fair use analysis), while providing human bein
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by schoen 2mo ago
That speech is expressing an awesome idea: Juliet is saying that she loves Romeo-the-person, but she is terrified of her bad luck in that he happens to have a certain surname ("Montague") which will automatically cause her family
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by schoen 2mo ago
GNOME used to give software applications names of common nouns that were usually not strongly related to their function: Nautilus, Palimpsest, Totem, Tomboy, Seahorse. At some point I think they decided to move away from this because they f
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by schoen 2mo ago
Can you find a citation for this? I have heard this claimed rule recently from other people, and I haven't seen this decision (nor do I know what level of court or jurisdiction it might be). This is not a rule that I heard many years a
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by schoen 2mo ago
You can prove that you possess a digital signature from some authority over a statement that says that you are 18 or that you have $1,000,000. However, you don't have to reveal that actual statement or signature. Typically, that would
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by schoen 2mo ago
There's a big asymmetry where creating a proof is usually dramatically more expensive than verifying it (which is often extremely cheap!). That might be OK for some applications but still rule out other applications.
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by schoen 2mo ago
(2013)
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by schoen 2mo ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Book_from_the_Sky (a 1988 art project based on intentionally making up ghost characters by hand and printing a whole book with nonexistent but aesthetically plausible Chinese ch
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by schoen 2mo ago
Well, Communism made it into Unicode (U+262D). I tried to show it here but it gets stripped.
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by schoen 2mo ago
On the other hand, people can learn to fall more safely (like in gymnastics and martial arts). Maybe some version of those skills could somehow become instinctual, as maybe the corresponding thing is in cats?
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by schoen 2mo ago
There are some impressive British children's picture dictionaries, especially the DK Children's Encyclopedia , but also some others that I can't quite put my finger on. A little closer to Comenius compared to that particular
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by schoen 2mo ago
Strong as a log, one might say!
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by schoen 2mo ago
My Hebrew education didn't extend to the future tense, but according to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA#Conjugation תָּמוּת is either second person masculine future, or third person feminine future
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by schoen 2mo ago
Could we get a version without the neologisms ("Amerika", "Afrika", "theirstory")? I was willing to spend five or ten minutes looking into something that I knew I had tremendous disagreements with, and then it
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by schoen 2mo ago
I was hoping that the basebands and firmwares would get formally verified. Maybe they will ... with AI-written proofs!
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by schoen 2mo ago
(Another poster also pointed out that the Philistines are replaced with "foreigners" or "outgroup" in the Greek, which I overlooked.)
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by schoen 2mo ago
It's funny to be randomly reminded of the phyles from The Diamond Age , also from φυλή (it's an English word borrowed directly from the Greek, but not a very familiar one in many contexts today). https://en.wikipedia.o
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by schoen 2mo ago
That's funny, I (not the poster) didn't stop to think that other readers might not understand the Latin and Greek here! Both of those forms are third-person and say "may my soul " ( ψυχή/anima) "die with the P
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by schoen 2mo ago
I have been getting a couple of these per day in the past week too. Possibly synthesized voices in the resulting voicemails?
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by schoen 2mo ago
I'm sure many people have remarked on this before, but the expectation of TV being grey when tuned to a dead channel is probably somewhat unfamiliar to younger readers, who may expect the newer behavior of the TV instead showing a synt

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