thewakalix

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by thewakalix 3y ago
TFA covered more than just C programs.
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by thewakalix 3y ago
That is not the ternary operator.
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by thewakalix 3y ago
GGP: > If cities want better traffic, spend more money renovating or widening roads...
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by thewakalix 3y ago
If we're still around in 500 years and producing that much energy, I don't expect we'd be limited to Earth anymore!
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by thewakalix 3y ago
It's worth noting that every result you wanted here does have a Wikipedia article. (If they hadn't, then their absence wouldn't be as strange.)
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by thewakalix 3y ago
`any` corresponds to the existential quantifier, not the universal.
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by thewakalix 3y ago
Would that short story be "Into Darkness", in Axiomatic ?
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by thewakalix 3y ago
From my armchair, I'm not sure that "random drop" actually does decrease latency. Most clients will just repeat the request, resulting in an "effective latency" of however many times it gets randomly dropped. The qu
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by thewakalix 3y ago
https://martinwguy.github.io/xvi/
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by thewakalix 3y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by thewakalix 3y ago
That's Benford's law, but I don't think it applies here. From Wikipedia: > Benford's Law tends to be most accurate when values are distributed across multiple orders of magnitude, especially if the process generating
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by thewakalix 3y ago
Relevant: Lockhart’s Lament ( https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/Lockharts... )
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by thewakalix 3y ago
The full quote is > AIs can be as sentient as we like without being any threat at all, as long as their goals are aligned with our actual best interests. Cutting it short changed its meaning. Quote-mining is dishonest.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
Typo: The Ackermann function is misspelled as “Ackerman”.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
What does it mean to “run optimize”?
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by thewakalix 4y ago
That seems difficult when Stable Diffusion has already been freely released. It’s futile to apply artificial restrictions to libre software when they can just as easily be removed!
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by thewakalix 4y ago
How are you using the word “copy”? It doesn’t seem to match the standard meaning. For instance, most people would not consider a brief summary of a movie’s plot to be a “copy” of that movie, or protected under copyright.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
No, some are simply social.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
“Life is too short” isn’t disregarding reality, it’s just having an opinion about it.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
I wouldn’t want to die tomorrow. Is that desire “objective reality” or not? If it is, how is that different from not wanting to die a century from now?
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by thewakalix 4y ago
cat and grep generally aren't builtins, so shells can't rely on them to have any particular behavior.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
That depends on whether they are bytewise similar, which in turn depends on the details of the image encoding of the format you’re using. I would expect that, by default, no.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
By Talos, this can't be happening!
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by thewakalix 4y ago
They're the same picture.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
First the 14th floor, then the (14 + 13 =) 27th floor, and so on.
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by thewakalix 4y ago
There are two kinds of “no evidence”! https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/doctor-there-ar.html
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by thewakalix 5y ago
I think it’s talking about the messaging app named Slack.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
You didn’t say “only if”, so it’s still possible to click the inverted triangle without being a jack-ass.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
No, I've seen SEO spam sites starting to take advantage of this trend by mentioning "reddit" on their pages.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Congratulations, you came up with a programming verb that’s even more disgusting than “squelch”.

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