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571.
by tgv 11mo ago
In C, tail recursion is a fairly simple rewrite. I can't think of any complications. But ... that rewrite can increase the cyclomatic complexity of the code on which they have some hard limits, so perhaps that's why it isn't
572.
by tgv 11mo ago
From quickly glancing over a couple of pages, that looks sensible. Which makes me curious to see some exceptions to the "shall" rules. With a project of this size, that should give some idea about the usefulness of such standards.
573.
by tgv 11mo ago
Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
574.
by tgv 11mo ago
I'd really be curious to see any substantial proof for that claim. The first time pupils encounter pi isn't when measuring angles. At least over here, that's still done in degrees, which is much easier to explain, and also la
575.
by tgv 11mo ago
> Dutch people voted for a gay guy from a liberal party. 16.94% did.
576.
by tgv 11mo ago
Yeah. Font-size and width, be gone!
577.
by tgv 11mo ago
That's one of those "nothing to see here, move along" comments. First, generative AI already changed social dynamics, in spite of facebook and all that being around for more than a decade. People trust AI output, much more th
578.
by tgv 11mo ago
Indeed. I had misunderstood that.
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by tgv 11mo ago
Like with the leader board. People do it to score points, not to learn. Hence, cheating.
580.
by tgv 11mo ago
I started only last year, to learn a bit of Ada. Doing SPARK this year. That has been on my TOLEARN list for a long time. Should be interesting.
581.
by tgv 11mo ago
As someone said about the lack of a Switch anti-cheat: it's a numbers game. If cheating is as easy as downloading a .exe for a few $$$, you're going to find cheaters everywhere. If it requires a complex, and/or fairly expensi
582.
by tgv 11mo ago
I think there's a problem every other day, so it's 1, 3, ..., 23.
583.
by tgv 11mo ago
How about something like while [1]; do kill -9 $((rnd * 100000)); sleep 5; end Probably needs some external tool for the rnd function. On a serious note, I just saw this: https://linuxupskillchallenge.org
584.
by tgv 11mo ago
First, many people are ... let's politely call it arithmetically challenged. They won't understand how to compute the amount and then obtain the correct dose. A chart or a table might have more success than a formula, no matter ho
585.
by tgv 11mo ago
IIRC, Dutch unis have another account managing system, run by SURFnet. OAuth2, I think.
586.
by tgv 11mo ago
A chain reaction requires several kilograms, densely packed, if I'm not mistaken ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass#Bare_sphere ). So that's already a tall order for a fungus. But the radio-active ma
587.
by tgv 11mo ago
I think you've almost reached the point where we agree. Yes, something in our neural architecture is good at picking up certain patterns. That's innate. If you want to look at another area: there's a good chance the fusiform
588.
by tgv 11mo ago
About those sizes: they increase with the size of the key, right? So I would think the author's claim that RSA-8192 is just as vulnerable as RSA-4096 isn't quite as straight-forward. It would require considerably more qbits.
589.
by tgv 11mo ago
That's tautological. But nature has a tendency to grow, even when it can't, so it seems natural to me to expect forests to be carbon sinks.
590.
by tgv 11mo ago
> The question is more why do the shit politicians rise to the top. Dumb and greedy voters, traditional and social media, and electoral interference are known reasons. But it's also a matter of compromise: you vote for a party becau
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by tgv 11mo ago
Small neural networks are absolutely horrible at producing syntactically valid output. BTW, English is a very simple language to get right. Even a Markov model with some depth can achieve fairly good looking English. But other languages, ev
592.
by tgv 11mo ago
Chomsky doesn't have any supremacist ideas about language, AFAIK. And I doubt his political views can be classified as such either. What poison do you speak of?
593.
by tgv 11mo ago
Are you familiar with the 'poverty of stimuli' argument? The amount of language we get to process, all aural, is the tiniest of fractions of the amount of data an LLM gets to train on. And in much less processing time, too. So no,
594.
by tgv 11mo ago
I never agreed with his views on syntaxis, but the (his?) idea that large parts of our language capabilities are innate is almost beyond doubt. Are people still arguing against it?
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by tgv 11mo ago
> There is a whole huge cohort of kids out there Well, it seems the vast majority doesn't care about cheating, and is using AI for everything. And this is from primary school to university. It's not just that AI makes it simple
596.
by tgv 11mo ago
> After all, pre-digital era, music was, crudely put, simple music. That's based on absolute lack of knowledge, and hoping that modifying a argument will result in one with the same truth and weight. It doesn't. Or it was plain
597.
by tgv 11mo ago
Try to do it peacefully, and keep good relations. That may require a lot of preparation, time, and emotional dealing, but you're weighing your struggle with your history against two lives. It may also be in your interest, because a fig
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by tgv 11mo ago
For those reasons, I won't even look for such letters when my parents die. I will take a photo or two. There are of course reasons to dig in the past, but that should be done cautiously, not for sensation, and even then under the condi
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by tgv 11mo ago
They don't get $5 per month from ads. So the true subscription price must be a lot lower. One option: a fund where you buy tokens, that you can spend reading an article. That will, however, lead to more clickbait and AI slop and snowin
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by tgv 11mo ago
This is a riposte at the level of "Then name all composers. Nanananana." Obviously, the answer to your question is going to be "no," but really a great amount of music is available to us, and everything that came before

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