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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Pandoc?
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
I haven't heard that exact expression before, but basically agenda-driven speech, for commercial or ideological persuasion or whatever. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
I don't think this new result is supposed to be a speedup. It might even be slower than the existing method. Rather, it's a way to get rid of the random number generator that the old algorithm relied on, so it's determinist
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
I wonder if soon the post office will scan everyone's letters and copy their text without opening the envelopes. They already photograph the front and back of every piece of mail.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
They are claiming to want to detect CTE which normally is only diagnosable in an autopsy, I thought. Can current MRI do that? Right now we get former NFL players offing themselves with gunshots to the chest, intentionally leaving the brai
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
The clean room PC compatible BIOS's were written that way for a reason.
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Goodbye, Scientific American(lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
17 points by throwaway81523 4mo ago|4 comments
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Yeah I probably should have linked the Wired article instead if it hasn't already been here. I spotted it a couple days ago but didn't get around to reading it.
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Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World(esquire.com)
215 points by throwaway81523 4mo ago|82 comments
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
There was a Larry Niven story where if you tried to call a certain guy, every phone in South America would ring instead. Anyone remember which story it was? The phone thing was just a throwaway line, not a significant plot point.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Can I redraw the districts to look like a Gerrymandlebrot set?
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
> Git is fine for text based files like code, but it's really bad at stuff like textures, 3D models, audio files, and other non-text files Git-annex ?
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Thanks, what madness. CPython wasn't abandoned in favor of PyPy at the 2 to 3 transition precisely because they wanted to keep the C extensions working. So what do they do next? Break the C extensions. Genius!
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Python's main competition was Perl. Ruby was later, I think.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Madness. USB C doesn't even let you control which way the power goes. Try to charge your phone by plugging in a USBC power bank? Oops, the phone is charging the power bank instead of the other way around. Sometimes you can't e
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Lineage is interesting but doesn't support my phone or others that is want. Same with Graphene.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Yeah I use f-droid. I wouldn't want to use Amazon or Samsung etc.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Python 3 got very slow update and poor acceptance precisely because it DIDN'T fix major problems, it only tweaked around the edges of minor ones. So people stayed with Python 2 as long as possible. Here's a post from 2014 that I
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
What happened in 3.13? Somehow I missed that. 2->3 was already a jump the shark incident though.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Yeah I still use Python. I've been using it for a long time, I can get stuff done quickly with it, but I feel the same way you do to a big extent. Not sure what to use instead. I hate anything having to do with Javascript even thou
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
There's a similar thing with Google accounts and Android, amirite? I've avoided having a Google account but it hasn't always been easy.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
I believe the aim of this C++ paper is to identify all possible UB in the standard. They mention the possibility of implicit UB but take the view that if that exists, that means the standard didn't sufficiently specify what to do in s
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
I'm looking through the UB paper https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2026/p31... and I haven't gotten to the good parts yet (how to handle the UB) but it looks like th
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
I've heard that some cancers spread by viruses. Viruses do evolve. No idea if that says anything about cancer evolving.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
The very first item listed jumped right out at me. "Complete catalog of all undefined behavior (UB) in C++". And further down, "Telecon line-by-line review of a proposal to systematically address all undefined behavior in C
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Can we end up with a situation like antimicrobial resistance, where cancer itself evolves to resist these new treatments?
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Hans Schulz – The father of the VEF Minox lens?(moments-of-now.com)
10 points by throwaway81523 4mo ago|1 comments
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
That also had "Who is Major Domo?" because they wanted to subpoena him or her, iirc.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
(2015)
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Here's one that uses exotic materials that the developer got the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03875-w

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