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by sltkr 3y ago
No kidding. If the author is on Hacker News: your spelling and grammar are impeccable, but you really need to lay out your ideas more clearly (which really is the most important part of a blog post!) Just from the start: > Garrett Wollma
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by sltkr 3y ago
Yes, good point!
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by sltkr 3y ago
There are several reasons why it's actually really unlikely to lose important data when you lose power on modern systems. Firstly, modern filesystems are designed to be robust to random power loss, so it's unlikely that you will c
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by sltkr 3y ago
As a corollary, it's not possible to read a single byte from a file (with regular usermode I/O). When you call e.g. `read(fd, buf, 1)` the Linux kernel will read an entire 4096 page into the page table cache, and then copy 1 byte
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by sltkr 3y ago
I made it a habit to run `eject /dev/sda` (as root) before removing a USB stick. That flushes pending writes and makes it impossible for new writes to occur before the stick is removed and re-inserted. Just `sync` also works but i
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by sltkr 3y ago
AIs on this site never act like anything but retards. Which makes them hard to identify, because humans often act like retards too. Instead of human/AI, you should distinguish between human/retard.
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by sltkr 3y ago
Yeah, nice idea, but I'm not going to give you my email address to try out a game.
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by sltkr 3y ago
This is unfairly downvoted. The site bans people who use rude words (I tested the n-word and the r-word). This is bad because the ability to use slurs is a fundamental difference between humans and AIs, which are trained to avoid inappropri
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by sltkr 3y ago
Or ask them how much time is left on the timer. I think the bot doesn't have access to this info.
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by sltkr 3y ago
It would be fun if the game showed you if the other person thought you were human or not.
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by sltkr 3y ago
This isn't the correct solution though. I just lost to a human who acted like this: Them: Glad to hear that! Tell me more. Me: About what? Them: Glad to hear that! Tell me more. Me: OK, you're a bot. Them: Glad to hear that! Tell
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by sltkr 3y ago
This is super easy to guess right now, because only the human will actively try to figure out if their partner is an AI, and the AI will just give generic boring chat replies. So if you have a partner that asks you no questions, you are tal
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by sltkr 3y ago
I wonder if the password becomes invalid if you leave the tab open for 24 hours...
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by sltkr 3y ago
The country is randomized; mine was Albania (that was NOT easy to figure out!)
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by sltkr 3y ago
This analysis doesn't hold up when you consider that apartment buildings pack multiple cuboid spaces into a single larger cuboid building, sharing floors and ceilings with each other to lower heating and cooling costs. This becomes obv
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by sltkr 3y ago
Any source on that? I would guess it's more likely that the Slashdot moderation system is too hard to implement. It also requires a lot of finetuning (like how to determine how many moderation points to dole out to users based on their
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by sltkr 3y ago
think the fundamental difference is that “vehicle” can be broken down into a number of concrete subcategories that cover the vast majority of vehicles that people use in practice, while “hate speech” and “speech glorifying violence” are oft
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by sltkr 3y ago
> For a decade, reddit's message to mods was that this was our community. I think that era died with Aaron Swartz, which is more than a decade past. In the past decade Reddit admins have been banning thriving communities for not toe
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by sltkr 3y ago
People are given power with the expectation that they wield that power responsibly. The purpose of the visibility feature is to allow moderators to create private communities, not to shut down thriving public communities as a form of protes
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by sltkr 3y ago
Have you ever seen a globe? They are always tilted so you can easily view countries below the equator. Besides, 90% of the world population lives above the equator, so if there is a slight bias towards making the northern hemisphere more ea
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by sltkr 3y ago
How is that obvious? Isn't it more likely that the author forgot to account for the terminating zero?
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by sltkr 3y ago
What is your content policy? Will this be another leftist echochamber like reddit, lemmy.ml, lobste.rs and so on, or do you plan to allow more diverse opinions to be posted? Is it possible to create opt-in communities that do not appear on
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by sltkr 3y ago
This isn't remotely comparable. Those .DS_Store files are created in arbitrary directories by the Apple file manager or something. The SQLite temp files are created in the OS-specific temporary directory (e.g. C:/Users/userna
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by sltkr 3y ago
I tried mikedamm.com (the author's domain) and it does accept SSH but my failed login attempts don't show up.
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by sltkr 3y ago
That seems like overkill. I just disable password authentication, and use SSH public keys only. It prevents brute force attacks completely.
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by sltkr 3y ago
It's jarring because you can give it an instruction like "I want you to talk like a pirate from now on" or "Please end every reply with 'beep boop'" and it will happily oblige and continue to do what was a
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by sltkr 3y ago
Even with plain Javascript, `Infinity % 2` evaluates to `NaN`, as it should. And if you implement, e.g.: function IsEven(x) { return x % 2 == 0; } function IsOdd(x) { return x % 2 == 1; } Then IsEven(Infinity) == false and IsOdd
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by sltkr 3y ago
And the literal meaning is “Scythe Man” (which, I'm sure you can guess at this point, is a compound noun of “Sense” for scythe, and “Mann” for man. Both the German Sense and English Scythe derive from the proto-germanic Sagu meaning to
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by sltkr 3y ago
I take it you don't have real world experience with product management? Adding options isn't free. If you drop a feature you can delete the code and stop testing it. It you make it an option instead, you need to maintain and test
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by sltkr 3y ago
> Lady -> Reina/Dama * (You could use either, but the article lists them separately and doesn't recognize Queen, which is the more common of the two) I think the reason is that the article follows the FIDE rules rather than

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