4sak3n

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by 4sak3n 2mo ago
I so desperately want to upvote this. Driveby puns don't get nearly enough recognition
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by 4sak3n 5mo ago
Just like beloved is supposed to be pronounced (don't @ me Descriptivists).
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by 4sak3n 6mo ago
I couldn't agree more. The obvious quirks which are easy to pick up and identify, like em dashes or overuse of a specific rhetorical device, are also easy to adapt and change. The things which consistently helps me clock LLMs are the d
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by 4sak3n 8mo ago
Not if you see the IPO as your only remaining exit strategy for a juggling act that is threatening to rain down on your head when it collapses
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by 4sak3n 8mo ago
Adjectives can be used as nouns in informal speech
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by 4sak3n 2y ago
The Stars My Destination ... how did I mess that up?
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by 4sak3n 2y ago
Is he really criminally underrated if My Stars the Destination features in just about every "best scifi books" list I've ever read? Maybe not as high up as it deserves on those lists but that's hardly criminal underappre
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by 4sak3n 2y ago
> Vietnamese is one example. Having tones attached to syllables means that words and sentences are shorter. This does not entail that more can be expressed than other languages. Please see my other reply which goes into (admittedly only
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by 4sak3n 2y ago
> Tonal languages allows individuals to express way more than Latin based languages. Not true. There was a study that showed that information density is pretty consistent across all languages, regardless of the average number of phonemes
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by 4sak3n 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that you are correct. Or at the very least it is a reference to that specific aphorism. The title is far too idiomatically Latin (if you overlook the awkwardness with the syntactic subject) to be a coincidence.
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by 4sak3n 3y ago
"PyPI is growing fast. If this dangerous expansion not stopped, our advanced machine learning models predict that in only 8 years the number of packages will outnumber human beings." This is one of the funniest things I've re
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by 4sak3n 3y ago
I don't know whether this level of accuracy is imortant for you or not (if it isn't please excuse the correction) but the plural for "corpus" is "corpora"
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by 4sak3n 4y ago
> A developer working on a function may suddenly discover the need to, say, left-pad a string with blanks. Rather than go though the pain of implementing this challenging functionality ... The irony is palpable.
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by 4sak3n 5y ago
"Boeing decided late last year that those failures were not a security issue, but the company and the F.A.A. later concluded that they represented a threat after further investigation and analysis." Translation: Boeing tried to ig
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by 4sak3n 6y ago
Amazing name. Has my Latin nerd stamp of approval.
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by 4sak3n 6y ago
I think you'll find that if you do even a small amount of research you will find that this is not the case. There are many sources which confirm this, many of them official. Your comment amounts to: "Well since it hasn't happ
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by 4sak3n 6y ago
I played Path of Exile for many years since the 1.0 release and always found reasons to go back to it. The only reason I stopped playing was a decrease in leisure time and having to choose between it and Minecraft. Minecraft lets me exercis
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by 4sak3n 7y ago
https://www.drugs.com/pro/desoxyn.html Methamphetamine hydrochloride IS methamphetamine. I don't know how that can be stated more clearly. Edit: in addition they are very much the same. They cross the b/b bar
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by 4sak3n 7y ago
"For critics of capitalism none of this will be a surprise. They argue that firms controlled by private shareholders are especially unethical. Yet it is easy to poke holes in this." The existence of a handful of outliers does not
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by 4sak3n 7y ago
To elaborate, I'm pointing out that redundancy has been an integral part of aeronautical engineering for ages so to ignore it in any situation, never mind in one where the pilots are kept out of the decision making loop, is criminally
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by 4sak3n 7y ago
"Two is one and one is none." That's pretty much been aeronautical gospel since dinosaurs strapped cardboard to their stubby arms and dreamed of soaring.