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Kinda? Historically there were indeed concerns about reimplementation and copyright. One of the ways that the GNU Project tried to fight claims was to reimplement the tools using dynamically-allocated memory (instead of Unix's traditio
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Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms (2022)(propelauth.com)
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Nubank used floating point - not in their real backend systems, but somewhere in their app. It was a bit amusing when people on Twitter found out certain very specific, arbitrary-looking amounts were not able to be transferred, then the com
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This is considerably more interesting that the original link...
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Only a tiny fraction of people in my country even had a PC but somehow the Windows 95 launch was a MAJOR event, it was everywhere on the news. I don't think anybody managed to match that marketing campaign.
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"Doom Guy" by John Romero is great. And the audio book is read by himself which works really well. It goes against some of the things in Masters of Doom (which is still also great).
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Federation is its own thing. I use Lemmys and Kbins but I follow the communities from my Mastodon account, so the number of extra accounts I created is zero. It's super-neat, actually.
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I think it syncs very well to the point that it is so hard to believe it's a coincidence - there are so many points where it lines up. It is NOT a soundtrack for the movie. It does not have the same themes as the movie. https:/&#
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"Do something in a limbo for 5 years then find out whether you will go to jail or not". Great system.
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You would look for a thing and the first five pages were random mailing list discussion archives discussing how the thing was 5 years before... Altavista was impressive, but there is a reason why it went away.
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> I used to be able to tell what the machine was doing from the HDD whirrs I guess that dimension of debugging is now lost with SSDs. I didn't run an anti-virus and noticed by machine had caught a virus (in this case, DOS/Nata
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The more maths you know the less you can do calculations...
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I remember IRIX as that operating system that had an amazing number of exploits, and they went unpatched for so long. It looked like there wasn't a buffer that they wouldn't overflow...
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The company that makes GTA was sued for content that was not accessible in the game.
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Not sure of what the downvote is about because this is an accurate representation of the post-dotcom time. Enrollments in CS went down, programmers would be offshored to India, nobody wanted to be in tech anymore, unemployment was high. Har
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No, you missed the point. Something that is a baseline today is being used to justify absolutely colossal disparity in how people live on the unimaginative base of "gee, you are not a caveman". Your phone does not mean that you do
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I will give you all the power of my phone and you give me a billion dollars. Easy trade right.
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VS Code supports Julia well, both plain and in Jupyter notebooks.
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Every Julia post: oh no, one-based indexing. I'm old enough to remember when every Python came with the mandatory "oh no, significant whitespace" post. Now it's just the most mainstream language.
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Where may I have seen a paper that contains evidence against your theory? Impossible to remember.
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What does a pedestrian use to judge the racial group of another person if not appearence?
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"If I can abstractly construct an ulterior motive for the thing - despite having absolutely no evidence - that means the thing is false. Checkmate, science!"
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They have consent for that. It's not hard. Also consent to store does not imply consent to read, process, make use of.
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> don't know if this is true for SSDs It is, but it is handled in firmware now, just like in newer HDDs.
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And as we know this system has been working perfectly.
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> In no year has Stripe ever made a profit. This doesn't mean that a bonus structure isn't appropriate. Bonus are supposed to be an incentive. Achieve bold goals -> get bonus. If anything this is more important in growing co
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The simple fact that a LLM is trained on a gigantic corpus of data and humans learn from a relatively tiny number of interactions with other humans shows that they obviously learn differently.
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Julia's stack isn't just wrappers around the same libraries though.
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Depends on country. Font makers scanning magazines to check which ads use unlicensed font is a thing that exists. Also for TV. And often a TV license is different from a print license.
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Moderator: title request change to "The end of Type 1 fonts" to disambiguate from Type 1 errors, Type 1 diabetes, etc.

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