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by xk_id 4y ago
How exactly? I’m not aware of any other technology/set of standards for this use case that are implemented and operational right now.
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by xk_id 4y ago
Not “perfectly” well. There is the downside of cost. Without nfts they would have to invest in bespoke infrastructure for creating, storing, validating and trading the assets. With nfts, this entire infrastructure already exists.
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by xk_id 4y ago
> If I were a game dev I'd have no incentive to implement some foreign NFTs in the game By implementing some foreign NFTs you can bootstrap an existing userbase (especially one with clear on chain evidence for engaging with a simila
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by xk_id 4y ago
And would you say this process saves you time? Instead of traditional programming? Or do you find other upsides to it?
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by xk_id 4y ago
I'd say the answer is because they don't measure success in terms of who becomes competent in the language, but in how many users they have. typical neoliberal "number go up" mentality, rejecting ideological definitions
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by xk_id 4y ago
I meant reviewed by a (competent) human; not, audited by a security team/whatever. Generative computer code is in a whole new category of risk, because it can hallucinate a `rm -rf *` that you might overlook if you don't understan
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by xk_id 4y ago
This book has been posted on hn before and it’s worth reposting. Highly recommended as a pragmatic and comprehensive guide for principles of UI design. Note that it doesn’t contain any code; it’s purely focused on conceptualising the interf
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by xk_id 4y ago
I don’t know how anyone can trust to run code on their machine that they don’t understand and hasn’t been reviewed by a third party.
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by xk_id 4y ago
Why would you use manners when writing input for a chatbot?
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by xk_id 4y ago
Malleus Maleficarum was propaganda fabricated in its totality by the church
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by xk_id 4y ago
yabai is the full featured window manager for macos
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by xk_id 4y ago
absolutely. besides, graphical UIs bombard the brain with everyone's unique take on visual aesthetics, consuming limited mental resources like attention
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by xk_id 4y ago
as I don't care about the comments section or the recommender algo, I search (youtube-fzf) and launch (yt-dlp + mpv) youtube videos directly from the terminal. i have a bash pipeline for this and, naturally, it is very resource efficie
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by xk_id 4y ago
Consensus among Serious language learners (i.e aiming for a B2+ level) is that duolingo is marginally useful for learning some vocabulary. A thorough course or textbook are essential
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by xk_id 4y ago
Is there anything actually problematic with file hosting “related to cryptocurrency”? Or is it disallowed on just ideological grounds?
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by xk_id 4y ago
For NFTs it’s very easy to grasp their novel use case. Any digital asset (content subscriptions, software licences, passes to gated communities, in-game items etc. — all are supported by real, functional examples today) can be distributed e
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by xk_id 4y ago
People really need to stop listening to molly white, her skepticism is fundamentally no different from what crypto shillers do. It’s toxic and exploits people’s ignorance about legitimate and balanced routes to crypto education. Only the si
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by xk_id 4y ago
There is nothing particularly “soft” about cannabis. As mounting modern evidence shows, it suppresses REM sleep (and by extension the consolidation of procedural learning undertaken during the day) and it lowers executive function, concent
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by xk_id 4y ago
Singapore literally suppresses critical free speech https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/13/singapore-tightening-scr... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/opinion/fake-new
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by xk_id 4y ago
If only this was a problem blockchains could solve.
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by xk_id 4y ago
As part of the society being referenced, I find it very upsetting that you think yourselves in a position to judge this on my behalf.
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by xk_id 4y ago
This kind of mentality in 2023 verges towards conspiracy theory. It can’t even be proven to be baseless, because it relies on the semantic ambiguity of the phrase “true believer”. It’s really bizarre to see this form of irrational skeptici
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by xk_id 13y ago
Wow, your last comment struck a chord in me. And it also reminded me of this incredible quote of A. N. Whitehead, the prominent mathematician: "Pitiless indeed are the processes of Time and Creative Thought and Logic; they respect the
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by xk_id 13y ago
I wouldn't dismiss our perception as lacking majesty :) That would be very depressing. Subjectivity aside, however, you're right – what we experience is determined in part by the constrains of our nervous system and perception org
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by xk_id 13y ago
I found this scholarly article to be a concise summary of many interesting points: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf ("What we know about the Voynich manuscript" by Reddy S. and K
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by xk_id 13y ago
ditto! good thing I didn't give up before I discovered this configuration.
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by xk_id 13y ago
Doesn't seem to work in Safari under OS X. Chrome loads okay.
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by xk_id 14y ago
Exactly, and this can happen to any food.
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by xk_id 14y ago
The traditional way to plot the assortativity by age is using a scatter plot / heatmap. This is similar to what they did for country homophily on p12 of the Facebook anatomy paper. The result would be a plot with a prominent diagonal, illus
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by xk_id 14y ago
How do you know whether your supervisor is a good fit? I have heard this advice, and similar stories, several times. But at the moment (I'm finishing my undergrad), it is not clear how the student is matched to a supervisor. For my disserta

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