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by sssilver 2y ago
You’re in luck because it does and that’s exactly how my daughter uses it at school.
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by sssilver 2y ago
> I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, "re-editable code" is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I had never come across this particular thought by Knuth, bu
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by sssilver 2y ago
I can't comprehend the hubris it took to conceive the idea that an iPad could replace an acoustic piano. Heck, not even a piano -- that an iPad could replace the sheet music on that piano, typeset and printed beautifully on a piece of
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by sssilver 2y ago
You simply restructured your debt and borrowed from parents instead, no? That is to say, you owe them for those ten years. Not saying there’s anything wrong with it. Most people in average circumstances owe a lot to their parents.
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by sssilver 2y ago
Am I correct that it’s impossible for this system to evolve any kind of a suspension mechanism, no matter what the mutation parameters are?
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by sssilver 2y ago
I occasionally get the itch of purchasing a brand new CRT monitor, and fail to find any. Has humankind stopped manufacturing CRTs entirely?
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by sssilver 3y ago
Is Winamp as we know it still around?
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by sssilver 3y ago
Do you explain whatever happened to Assange in Europe within the framework of “alliance”?
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by sssilver 3y ago
Awesome. I got a high performance gaming PC and access to YouTube. Any channels you recommend that follow a particularly effective curriculum?
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by sssilver 3y ago
How does a complete beginner who doesn’t know how to fly get into flight simulators and VATSIM? Any tips?
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by sssilver 3y ago
How ironic that most of these people identify as “liberals”
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by sssilver 3y ago
I’d read more about your experience. Even most middle schools now expect the child to have a google account.
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My McLuhan Lecture on Enshittification(pluralistic.net)
9 points by sssilver 3y ago|2 comments
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by sssilver 3y ago
Photoshop also lowers that barrier of entry compared to pen and pencil. Paper also lowers the barrier compared to oil canvas. Affordable drawing classes and YouTube drawing tutorials lower the barrier of entry as well. Why on earth would ma
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by sssilver 3y ago
Those who are familiar with both Obsidian and Bear — what are the principal differences for this particular use case?
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by sssilver 3y ago
This comment really deserves more attention.
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by sssilver 3y ago
Every time something like this happens, it makes me really sad. It means more of what we experience will have to adhere to more of the same rules, patterns, and decisions. Uniformity is prevailing.
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by sssilver 3y ago
The problem with configuration is that it’s only marginally useful to statically enforce that “this should be an IP address” or “this should be a port” People rarely waste time because they put a number where they should have put an IP addr
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by sssilver 3y ago
What a treat to read
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by sssilver 3y ago
Who’d sign their certificate?
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by sssilver 3y ago
Tongue in cheek: is public key cryptography the solution to verifying content authorship on the internet? Should all major OSes establish and bundle proof of authenticity for every phrase and image created in them using an input device atta
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by sssilver 3y ago
It’s not true if you’re looking at sheet music in Safari while playing an instrument for example, or looking at engine assembly diagram while working on an engine with greasy hands.
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by sssilver 3y ago
I’m tragically far from being a kid and I didn’t understand the reference. Would anyone be kind enough to explain?
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Dungeons and Dragons says "no generative AI was used" to create artwork(dicebreaker.com)
3 points by sssilver 3y ago|0 comments
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by sssilver 3y ago
> prediction doesn't and can't contain information (in the technical sense) from the future, since by definition it's based only on what we know in the present In the technical sense the future _is_ driven purely by the in
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by sssilver 3y ago
Not if they were explicitly offering unlimited fries. In that case they would be indisputably unreasonable, in its dictionary definition of “having no basis in reason or fact”, where reason and fact are that they offered unlimited — not 5 p
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by sssilver 3y ago
What number is 237 in excess of? That is the number that Google should have advertised, instead of “unlimited”.
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by sssilver 3y ago
How I wish these "for children" programming languages were more focused on functional programming, rather than being so imperative.
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by sssilver 3y ago
in this[1] work titled “On Dialectic and Historic Materialism”, Stalin references the idea and properly attributes it to Engels. 1 https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/stalin/t14/t14_55.htm
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by sssilver 3y ago
Loved the piece, but to be frank at the time when I picked software engineering as a career, most older software engineers had had extremely different life trajectories than we do nowadays.

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