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by wk_end 9mo ago
Right, so, mathing it out, the US has a population of around 340 million but Spain has a population of around 49 million. 340/49 is roughly 7, so the per capita equivalent in the US would be a single incident killing 21*7=147 people. S
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by wk_end 9mo ago
FWIW: a single car crash killing 21 people would still be newsworthy in America. And I think if you math it out with something per capita equivalent, this would actually be an exceptionally bad day/incident for the US. But of course yo
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by wk_end 9mo ago
But why when the “-“ works just as well and doesn’t require holding the key down? You’re not the first person I’ve seen say that FWIW, but I just don’t recall seeing the full proper em-dash in informal contexts before ChatGPT (not that I wa
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by wk_end 9mo ago
> while they 100% against using AI to generate art or game design, when you ask them about using AI tools to build software or websites the response is almost always something like "Programmers are expensive, I can't afford tha
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by wk_end 9mo ago
See, I’m with you, but in my day to day work I almost never could almost never get into a flow state while coding, because very little of my work involves creating things or solving real problems; it typically involves just trying to mental
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Yeah, OS X was definitely the nicest native development experience at the time. Apple's documentation was considerably better and more searchable back then than it is now (especially as it is now for desktop). And even though they&#x27
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Engineers (hopefully) come to learn the value of Chesterton's Fence young, because engineering failures tend to make themselves known quickly and loudly. Designers probably have perverse incentives. Showy new designs get promotions. Ev
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Speaking only for myself, not for the community: It should be your first resource when looking something up, it's usually quite clear and often helpful, but I find it somewhat confusingly organized and rather incomplete. It's more
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by wk_end 9mo ago
What an unnecessarily hostile comment. "Utter drivel"? I was talking about how I personally feel. Am I just imagining enjoying the things that I enjoy? Writers have, obviously, written about how walking in nature is nice. Does me
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Everyone is different, so I say this not to tell you how to feel but just to offer a different perspective: Walking in urban environments can be its own sort of joy. Cities (well, good ones anyway) are full of life and energy and humanity,
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by wk_end 9mo ago
What's this referring to?
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by wk_end 9mo ago
To clarify what I meant, Marxism and its descendants (Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Juche, etc.) are the most “popular” forms of communism. By which I mean: they’re what was implemented in most (all?) countries that had communists se
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Marx argued the Dictatorship of the Proletariat was an essential part of the transition to "true communism". I think it's fair to say that if X is an essential part of actualizing Y, X "goes hand-in-hand" with Y, re
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by wk_end 9mo ago
The two tend to go hand-in-hand because communism - in its most popular formulations anyway - encourages consolidation of power in the state, "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" and all.
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Someone at OpenAI please, for the love of everything good in this world, please please please train your chat bot to stop ending replies with the insipid "It isn't just A — it’s a whole new B" pattern.
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by wk_end 9mo ago
The default any return type from pipelines is kind of brutal. Seems like a real footgun. Is that fixable?
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by wk_end 10mo ago
One of the more interesting ones is the Taiwanese game Devotion: https://delistedgames.com/devotion/ Taken down because a background poster depicted "Xi Jinping Winnie-the-Pooh moron".
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by wk_end 10mo ago
Any discussion about the constitution and jurisprudence and rights should probably be assumed to be referring to the Before Times, when those things still mattered. Sigh.
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by wk_end 10mo ago
The original implementation of JS was in C, not CL. I think Eich was more partial to Scheme than CL, as a model for JS. Though I wouldn’t say it’s Java syntax over either - the scoping rules are very distinct, it’s missing tons of features
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by wk_end 10mo ago
> Government agencies don't have "free speech". My understanding is that, in many ways, government agencies are more constitutionally protected speech-wise than private entities, precisely because any hierarchical attemp
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by wk_end 10mo ago
So…if the Python team finds tail calls useful, when are we going to see them in Python?
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by wk_end 10mo ago
If you want to make your writing appear non-AI generated, the easiest way is to write it yourself. No typos necessary. I’m sure with enough cajoling you can make the LLM spit out a technical blog post that isn’t discernibly slop - wanton em
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by wk_end 10mo ago
You could maybe make that claim about the original broadcast, but an article in The Verge about internet censorship - and the internet routing around censorship! - seems highly relevant to tech.
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by wk_end 10mo ago
No, I'm not. Really frustrating to have to explain this repeatedly. While ethnic cleansing undoubtedly occurred, it wasn't the original intent "at the core" of the Zionist project. Rather, the intent at the core of the p
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by wk_end 10mo ago
I don't believe I referred to the Nakba or anything else as "peaceful" - of course the Zionists engaged in (non-peaceful) violence, before and during and after the war. But the point is that, contra the claims that ethnic cle
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by wk_end 10mo ago
From a different perspective, it's not that wild at all - if you go back far enough, there's a decent chance that we all speak languages in the same "language family". After all, being part of the same language family do
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by wk_end 10mo ago
Man, that DSP made the Falcon an insane piece of hardware for its time. Shame that it never found any real success.
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by wk_end 10mo ago
Browser performance tips from 2014 mean very little twelve years on. Not only have machines gotten faster and networks gotten faster, rendering engines gotten faster. And I'm doubtful it nested flexboxes would've been all that muc
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by wk_end 10mo ago
A little more than just a multiplication instruction (the 68000, used in, say, the Sega Mega Drive, had one of those too). Have a look at https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/ , and in particu
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by wk_end 10mo ago
(Too late to edit but did not mean “isomorphic”, meant “orthogonal”. Wrong smart person word trying to look smart, how embarrassing, sigh.)

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