Bromskloss

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by Bromskloss 4y ago
> I pay a usenet subscription, and subscription to indexers Wait! You can get Usenet these days? Is it only for piracy or other things as well? Where can I sign up? Also, what is an indexer in this context? Is it something you need only
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by Bromskloss 6y ago
I don't trust articles written in Word.
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by Bromskloss 7y ago
What section of it should I read to get an idea of what, according to the author, "philosophy of computer science" is?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Well, what is the verdict? Was there anything interesting in the source code? Does having it publicly available matter at all?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> if you want to pass more than 6 arguments Isn't the number of arguments already determined by the nature of the syscall? Are you talking about a situation where one creates new syscalls?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Sorry, what does "ISTM" and "the ferry" mean here?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Is there no swimming pool (with a shallow part and not too many people) around where you can learn on your own?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> how to efficiently swim against a fast stream How does that differ from just swimming fast?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> Jones actively uses his platform to bully individuals Do you have an example of what you mean?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Huh, price control?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> It's a good reminder me that corporations aren't just good or bad. Do you think they do it to be good? Do you think they would have been bad if they had kicked out non-paying customers?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> Definitely some interesting applications. Eavesdropping is the obvious one. What others do you have in mind?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
OK, I was just hoping that it would have found the relevant data sources for me already.
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
I wish we could converge on a way to tag such notifications, so that those who want to can filter them out.
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Even with perfect prediction, who is to decide, for everyone, what is good and what is bad?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Does it include connections to data sources for traffic, bus departures, and such, or do you have to provide them yourself?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> It just seems a petty thing for airports to do, to try and make a few dollars or euros or pounds that way. Doesn't the party on the other side of the transaction – i.e. you and I who do not want to pay for an Internet connection –
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
I'm OK with it. I interpret "PIN number" as "the number to which we associate the expression 'PIN'".
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Psst! That's an arbitrary number.
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Are you discussing the questions of whether computer science is mathematics? Dijkstra considered it to be, and was not a fan of "experimental computer science".
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Subtitles is good so that you can speed up the video beyond the point where you can no longer hear what someone is saying. You can also watch without sound.
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Dijkstra preferred "computing science", didn't he? Now, calling it "science" at all is problematic if you don't consider mathematics to be a science.
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Yes. Voting patterns, for example, how do those change people's opinions? It would seem that the most they could do is give an impression of what comments are and are not well received. Do people base much of their opinions on that? In
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> loneliness (sophistry?) Solipsism?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
How do you change opinions using that? Would it be an illegitimate way to change someone's opinion?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Does "manipulated" simply mean that something was turned off? This is what I can find in the report: > Although it cannot be conclusivel y ruled out that an aircraft or system malfunction was a cause, based on
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
> So if a mugger has a gun to your head and say "Your money or your life" do you have freedom because you have a choice to choose??? That would be a prototypical case of _not_ being free.
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
Hang on! I thought "engaged with the ((())) issue" meant "engaged with some issue related to people using triple parentheses to point out Jews". Are you saying that it meant "engaged with the Jewish cause"?
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
On the topic of changing look and feel, there is SUPERQOT [0], i.e. Quake in the style of SUPERHOT [1], meaning that time flows in proportion to how fast you move. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciBgg-Fuf0o [1] https:
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by Bromskloss 8y ago
I take "free" to mean that no one else decides what I should do.

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