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by wzdd 3y ago
This doesn't appear to ban using translation layers. The text is "You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using Software elements for the purpose of translating such output artifa
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by wzdd 3y ago
Apple's rationale in their letter about this was essentially that they would need to ensure that it works (create and review use of a framework for non-Safari-backed PWAs in iOS) and that (usage of PWAs) x (percent of userbase affected
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by wzdd 3y ago
Unfortunately I don't understand French. Do these people back up their statements in any way, or are these just opinions from a small selection of the 8 billion people on the planet?
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by wzdd 3y ago
I was forced to change UPS relatively recently (a few years ago) because the cheap but not bargain-basement PSU on my computer didn't work with the non-sine-wave output of my UPS. Call them poorly-made if you like, but either I got unl
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by wzdd 3y ago
... controverisal action on current event to ensure X stays in the news?
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by wzdd 3y ago
This isn't really against caffeine, it's against drinking multiple cups of coffee throughout the day. Tea is less anxiety-inducing that coffee (and lower in caffeine). Even if you stick with coffee, a cup in the morning won't
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by wzdd 3y ago
"You're logging in from a new device. Please check your email for a verification code." "You're logging in from an unusual location. Please answer your security questions to continue." "We've sent you
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by wzdd 3y ago
I got curious about this. It seems that C11 at least is much closer to the C++ behaviour: under certain conditions, compilers can assume that loops terminate even if they can't prove it. See https://krinkinmu.github.io/
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by wzdd 3y ago
It's outsold every home console currently available and also all the consoles from the previous generation, which is pretty surprising for something which "ceded the traditional home console" and which, when not in a handheld
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by wzdd 3y ago
It's unsurprising that "genuinely great minds" raised in a religious tradition would try to apply the tools of their trade to justify what would otherwise surely appear to them to be a very strange and illogical set of belief
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by wzdd 3y ago
How odd to find a mistake in 30-year-old Turbo C++ man pages from a screenshot. printf and vprintf send send formatted output to stdout of course, not stdin.
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by wzdd 3y ago
> many philosophers find it intriguing Citation needed. 1. It's possible to conceive of the greatest possible teapot-shaped 7-foot-tall spaghetti-descended invisible alien orbiting Jupiter. Even teapot-spaghetti-alien skeptics agree
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by wzdd 3y ago
The issue is that, often, without type annotations there would be no cyclic dependency (because any type matching the implicit interface would work). So by introducing type annotations (which means extra imports), you end up having to refac
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by wzdd 3y ago
There are indeed four entries saying "strong reject", but they all appear to be from the same reviewer, at the same time, and saying the same thing. Isn't this just the one rejection? Also, why is only that reviewer's sc
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by wzdd 3y ago
"Following" is also a very common and well-understood English word which means that one thing happened after another, which is probably why journalists use it. Implying a suspected causal relationship by talking about a temporal r
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by wzdd 3y ago
AIUI it's because declarativeNetRequest only allows a small number of dynamic rules (5000). See https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla... . Most of the popular filter lists are much
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by wzdd 3y ago
> AI includes, but is not limited to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent The FTC hasn't defined AI, they've specified some properties which they believe some types of AI possess.
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by wzdd 3y ago
No, people are getting mad because Youtube has been letting people use it with ad-blockers for 18 years (in practise, at least) and have now hardened their stance considerably. In other words, they got to the dominant position by being very
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by wzdd 3y ago
Indeed -- it's an extremely unconvincing list, because any sensible library which may require a library user to set env variables (which includes all the ones I checked on the list) can also be configured without setting env variables.
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by wzdd 3y ago
> If you haven’t read the memo yourself, give it a read. Are you disagreeing, or are you offended? Damore's memo made very flimsy scientific arguments, supported uncritically by a couple of studies at best, from a field which is cur
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by wzdd 3y ago
Or installing the coprocessor reseated a slightly-loose cable or created a better connection on a broken trace. The "boot step" could simply result in the system being warmer, which would make marginal connections like this behave
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by wzdd 3y ago
I think the idea with the M-series laptops in particular is that you can drive the speakers at volumes that actually damage them very quickly ( see https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/issues/53 ). The idea AI
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by wzdd 3y ago
They unquestioningly published literal nonsense and you think there's a case to be made that they don't lack intellectual rigour?
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by wzdd 3y ago
I am absolutely not in favour of banning E2EE, but most people aren't technically adept, and even those who are get lazy, and opsec is hard, so in fact such laws probably would catch quite a few people. In tech we like to think that if
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by wzdd 3y ago
I didn't see this as cognitive dissonance. It is "HTML and CSS are declarative. It would be good if there were a way to specify this requirement declaratively."
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by wzdd 3y ago
> until we get to the part where it's clear there is no basis for the moral duty absent a higher, non-human, source. Casual sneaking in of "non-human" here, when a powerful human would fit just as well. Your issue is that
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by wzdd 3y ago
> you don't come out the other end with any tangible real-life skill, that would be useful outside of the game. Replace "the game" with "the small sphere of specialisation" and this applies to learning a great ma
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by wzdd 3y ago
I urge you to step back and look at your comment, which is essentially "tracking as a business model is morally justified because it means that poor people can use Google", and think about other, potentially significantly more eff
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by wzdd 3y ago
This take is both glib and ageist. Hofstadter isn't writing this because he's old. It's because he backed the wrong horse. Hofstadter was a brilliant and up-and-coming AI researcher in his 20s, wrote an amazing book, started
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by wzdd 3y ago
This response demonstrates the same issue as the OP, which is to think like an engineer and attempt to reverse-engineer the design goals of the software rather than to consider the prompt in and of itself, without context. If you commission

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