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by xeonmc 3y ago
Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us ‘take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.’ Thirty years later, Sebastian told us ‘I had to start my car like a computer,
902.
by xeonmc 3y ago
The secrets are which secrets had been stolen.
903.
by xeonmc 3y ago
Small AutoIt utility scripts, such as WhyNotWin11 and other applets by similar users using AutoIt to make VB6-era -esq programs. These are always neither motivated by lofty architectural goals to “do things correctly” of many collaborative
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by xeonmc 3y ago
Considering that the creation process heavily involved Christopher in that their father-son story time inspired a large part of it, one could probably qualify him as a coauthor in terms of non-financial attachment to the works.
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Tablet Training for Parrots(members.parrotkindergarten.com)
1 points by xeonmc 3y ago|0 comments
906.
Unix Beards(usenix.org.uk)
1 points by xeonmc 3y ago|1 comments
907.
by xeonmc 3y ago
I insist that the shortened form of "laying off people" should be "offing people".
908.
by xeonmc 3y ago
The come-hither looks were just a little bit distracting, though.
909.
by xeonmc 3y ago
i.e. keep it in vector form if you're combining them a lot, convert to polar form when you want to work with angles
910.
by xeonmc 3y ago
It is not affine transforms per se but rather the expansion into homogeneous coordinates that enables translation by treating it as if it's a shear that leaves the reciprocal dimension untouched. > Rotation = multiplying by an ima
911.
by xeonmc 3y ago
Unless you’re Italian.
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by xeonmc 3y ago
Light is therefore color, and shadow the privation of it by the removal of these rays of color, or subduction of power; and these are to be found throughout nature in the ruling principles of diurnal variations. The grey dawn
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by xeonmc 3y ago
Made me think of the Asimov story "The Last Question"[0] [0] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
914.
by xeonmc 3y ago
If those were facilitated by structural decomposition, one might expect that this kind of physical treatment might accelerate it, no?
915.
by xeonmc 3y ago
Omelette du Fromage
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by xeonmc 3y ago
> The Bitcoin network might actually reduce spam by diverting zombie farms to generating bitcoins instead. Indeed zombie farms had been diverted to generating coins, but in some sense it achieved the opposite of the former objective.
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by xeonmc 3y ago
What do you mean fish are not stupid for being unable to climb trees?
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by xeonmc 3y ago
Indeed, but I do like the grandparent’s choice of “tugging” better as well. The original story had the foolish farmer pulling the sprouts upward by an inch and said that he had made them grow taller by that much. Maybe “tugging up the crops
919.
by xeonmc 3y ago
I’m thinking something more along the lines of “expedite business growth by taking VC money”.
920.
by xeonmc 3y ago
Or you could just call it “Natural Neural Network data integration”
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Chinese idiom: 揠苗助長 — “to help crops grow by pulling them out of the ground”(en.wiktionary.org)
5 points by xeonmc 3y ago|5 comments
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by xeonmc 3y ago
It would be even better if Framework laptops could do that since they’re all about parts reuse.
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by xeonmc 3y ago
Or MAS[0] [0] https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
924.
by xeonmc 3y ago
Or what if they made guided missiles out of pigeons?
925.
by xeonmc 3y ago
> which had the psychic genius trying to become a messiah in cyberspace. And Jesus wept. For there were no more worlds to conquer.
926.
by xeonmc 3y ago
You might be unaware that there are three types of dashes. For grammatical connections, you choose only one of the following and stick with it - Em dash: unspaced - En dash: spaced For relations, it is always unspaced En dash
927.
by xeonmc 3y ago
No, there should never be spaces around Em-dashes, while for En-dashes they are situational---spaced if being used in lieu of Em-dashes, and unspaced if used as ranges (e.g. 1938--1945) or comparisons (e.g. Blue--Red Dichotomy)
928.
by xeonmc 3y ago
You can’t generate a continuum without log/exp
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by xeonmc 3y ago
If you have real numbers instead of integers, then it implies fractional applications of the arithmetic operators. Fractional negation is complex rotation, so if you have negative numbers and they are non-integers then it necessarily must a
930.
by xeonmc 3y ago
Basically, either you have unsigned numbers (conjugated magnitude), with growth/shrink operations, or you have numbers with a polarity, with displacement operations . It is incomplete to have the notion of "negative numbers"

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