wizofaus

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by wizofaus 4y ago
I assume you're using the word "fantastic" as in "imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality"?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
(oops, missing word 'impossible' after 'almost' there)
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Well yes, and worse, after opening it on a desktop browser, it still looks pretty average, and the way the background brightens as you scroll down is very distracting.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
That problem exists in both versions though - i.e. making it more "beautiful" hasn't obviously affected the usability. But I can see at least one way in which it could - if shown on a wide screen and there were a lot of entr
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Body text isn't the issue I would think - it's various headers, downvoted and especially "dead" posts which are almost to read without selecting the text, even with perfect colour vision.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Odd, when I first clicked that second link it opened a page that was virtually unreadable on a mobile device (Android Chrome) - the text literally curved off the left hand edge of the screen. Which made the first sentence "The followin
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> These are a set of things that aren't very fun to do which still need to be done...[they] are not the ones that pay well Because they're generally things that don't require extensive training/exceptional skills&#x2F
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I think it's more subtle than that - I'd suggest for many of us, regardless of class, the whole reason work gives us meaning is because you know you're providing services that contribute towards society. That knowledge part
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Do you really believe either was an example of attempted genocide? I don't think anyone believes the US lost in Vietnam because local citizens had access to firearms.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Hmm, well I'll defer to your expertise then, but if nothing else the language Homer used isn't even in use any more...how many people still read/listen to it in Ancient Greek? And I gather it was still many many centuries si
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> The Iliad / Odyssey was a purely oral story for a long time And it's almost certain the details got changed with each retelling! I wonder if Homer would event recognise much of our modern version of it.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Most cases of people paying to see human performers are of performing already-written music though, so I doubt think that's the drawcard. Actually I don't think anyone truly knows why we obviously gain something from watching live
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Please tell me I wasn't the only one to have clicked on the link, viewed the page and assumed I must have misclicked and was still on HN...
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The US is arguably the only country in the world where a significant % of citizens possess firearms. If US army decided to commit genocide against even some subset of those citizens, do you really think said firearms would help much? (Edit:
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Literacy surely makes accurate and trustworthy communication much faster. Not many humans can accurately recall the amount of detailed information that can be included on a couple of sheets of paper, and even if they could, unless the messe
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by wizofaus 4y ago
At the quantum level perhaps, but my understanding is that quantum level indeterminism isn't likely to play much of a role in the functioning of the human brain. Even if it were, while it might seem to theoretically at least allow for
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Even Elon thinks UBI is almost inevitable once AI/Automation makes most current human work unnecessary. I'm inclined to agree though I doubt it'll be a smooth path to get there (and may not even happen in my lifetime).
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The programmer in me suspects that's a form of hiding bugs instead of fixing them...
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Sounds the original use case was an example of something critical enough it shouldn't really have been running on such an OS.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Indeed, I wouldn't install anything from McAfee if you paid me too, given the way it automatically installs itself along with various other unrelated applications and the number of phishing emails claiming to be from McAfee (which pres
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> It would literally have been better if they'd never invented power save mode. Only if you considered the purpose of power-saving mode to reduce total energy usage, vs to reduce amount of power (and consequent wear & tear) an
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by wizofaus 4y ago
If there were such an ability at the machine language level, it would be a strong argument against expressing the addition of a set of numbers using either a loop or recursion. I don't really see that either manner of expressing such
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by wizofaus 4y ago
My understanding is those vector operations don't , in fact, add more than 2 numbers together, but rather simultaneously add lots of pairs of numbers. Happy to be corrected and no berating intended.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Vector operations that perform the same fixed addition to each element, yes, but that's not really the same thing. And yes I'm very much in agreement that the real power of recursive algorithms is when working with tree-like dat
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'd think if it had the ability to generate text as it does now, then iteratively apply the sorts of value judgments humans do on said output, and refine/discard/preserve accordingly, it wouldn't necessarily be so far fr
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Out of curiosity is there actually any chipset with the algorithmic ability to add more than 2 numbers altogether in one operation (without having to store intermediate results)? I'd also think looping is far closer than recursion to h
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by wizofaus 4y ago
How open is it to foreign workers on, say, 12-month contracts? Not that it's something I'm looking for right now but knowing it might be a possibility in a few year's time would be encouraging.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> If the lane's not wide enough to share, don't share You're suggesting it's the cyclist in the wrong if they stay close to the road edge, but a wider-than-average vehicle then passes them without leaving a decent gap
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by wizofaus 4y ago
What sort of hyping isn't artificial?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Not sure I understand your last point at all - aside from the fact I was purely referring to women's rights to make medical decisions involving their own bodies (even life saving ones), I would have thought toplessness was typically co

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