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by FranchuFranchu 5mo ago
There's a 2014 game that is just that. Lim Rocket: slingshot around planets while also avoiding crashing. https://dan-ball.jp/en/m/pc_lim/
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by FranchuFranchu 8mo ago
You should probably say somewhere that the questions are US-centric. For example, "the death penalty should remain legal" doesn't make sense in places where it isn't.
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by FranchuFranchu 10mo ago
The President of Colombia https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8xg1jve73o
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by FranchuFranchu 1y ago
You can't realistically target anyone outside the US with this.
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by FranchuFranchu 1y ago
Hi! This is part of Jewish religious purity law and not usually taken as part of the rules that govern most Christian denominations. For example, women who are menstruating are usually not banned from participating in Christian services, an
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by FranchuFranchu 1y ago
Hi! Great work! Could you add support for other amounts of measures such as 3/4?
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South Korean Air Force apologizes for accidental bombing, blames pilot error(www3.nhk.or.jp)
4 points by FranchuFranchu 2y ago|0 comments
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
You could store UTF-8 encoded data inside the hidden bytestring. If some of the UTF-8 encoded smuggled characters are variation selector characters, you can smuggle text inside the smuggled text. Smuggled data can be nested arbitrarily deep
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Infinite Apply – Lambda Calculus(infinite-apply.marvinborner.de)
3 points by FranchuFranchu 2y ago|0 comments
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
> Obviously, nobody steals things while the train is in motion. Something interesting: I live near a train line where the doors are not automatic (they have to be opened manually on each stop), and there have been incidents where people
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
It would be interesting to see the opposite of this; which papers are really interesting and look useful, but did not end up having a significant impact?
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
Happy new 2025 = (20 + 25)^2 = (2 + 0!)^2*5 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
I'm not Barry Jay, but I found it here: https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/typed_tree_calculus/bl...
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
Legalese is just obfuscated English
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
This is correct, for ext2 at least. See [0], bytes 26 and 27 [0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Ext2#Inode_Data_Structure
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
I used to use this frequently, but unfortunately at some point my /8 IP range was blocked from uploading files. Most likely because bot traffic outweighs legitimate traffic, since I live in a third-world non-english-speaking country.
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Tree Sitting(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by FranchuFranchu 2y ago|0 comments
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
Note: This just says that any GoL pattern that can be constructed by a universal constructor can be constructed from 15 gliders. A universal constructor is a GoL pattern that can construct a very diverse set of patterns, but not any patte
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
Unfortunately, robots that kill people already exist. See: semi-autonomous war drones
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
I asked ChatGPT to craft a story to maximize the amount of bullshits. This is the result: https://pastebin.com/raw/zM9h6Cau , with 9 BSs, 36 bullshits, and 20 bullfuckingshits
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
You might find this interesting, if you didn't know about it already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm) . In 2005 someone wrote an XSS worm in MySpace that made everyone follow a single person. It
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
This was the injected JS code: document.getElementById('name-input').value = document.getElementById('yay').outerHTML; setName(); console.log('yay') The `<img>` tag I used was wrapped around a `d
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
I wrote an XSS worm that turns people's names into "yay" (and the worm code) but made myself immune to it. Now someone will have to figure out how to write a counter-worm to remove the worm from the lightsaber population. Unt
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by FranchuFranchu 2y ago
Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927010
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by FranchuFranchu 3y ago
As soon as ChatGPT got released, I tried to make it solve IMO-style problems. It failed. If this is legit, this is huge. Finding geometric proofs means proving things, and proving propositions is what an intelligence does. In my opinion, th
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by FranchuFranchu 3y ago
This idea ("I'm against IDs because I fear what they'll do with it") is really interesting to me, because in my country (Argentina) a large part of the national pro-ID sentiment comes from looking back on our own histor
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by FranchuFranchu 3y ago
Any carbon tax or carbon tax-like policy will be passed on. However, the _absence of a carbon tax_ already causes costs we don't see yet, when in the future, people die as a consequence of climate change.
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by FranchuFranchu 3y ago
Native Spanish speaker here. If I had to translate "We drove across the island", and make the car explicit without the first clause giving context, I'd say: > Cruzamos la isla en el coche > We crossed the island in the
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by FranchuFranchu 3y ago
The best solution to this problem is taxing land value instead of taxing property. Land value taxes have a lot of advantages. They incentivize construction, disincentivize vacant lots, and they also remove the profit that can be earned by b
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by FranchuFranchu 3y ago
That's a really interesting idea. A LLM that tries to optimize engagement.

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