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by acqq 3mo ago
Ever heard about Laos? "Between December of 1964 and March of 1973, the US launched more than 270 million cluster bombs on Laos during Operation Barrel Roll. This number is equivalent to dropping a full plane cargo load every 8 minutes
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by acqq 8mo ago
Only somebody who isn't aware of whose "Congress speech received multiple standing ovations, touted 'most by any world leader'" would be surprised by that bipartisan support you mention. That happened in 2024, befor
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by acqq 8mo ago
European, not accidentally, also mostly deliver the same, misleading, narrative.
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by acqq 10mo ago
Can you write or point to some more insights about the problems / critique of these most recent approaches?
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by acqq 11mo ago
Another advantage of Pascal is that the programs written in it crashed much less, which also allowed for a much safe development on the machines of that time which didn't have any "memory write" protections. And safety in dev
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Winre Freezes After KB5066835(learn.microsoft.com)
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by acqq 2y ago
> the C example ... by definition strings cannot contain that character They can, only some functions stop at the first zero: char s[] = "gogo\x00gogo"; printf( "%d\n", (int)sizeof( s ) );
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by acqq 2y ago
That's what Doctorow calls "a cartoonish vision of markets in which “the customer is king” and successful businesses are those who cater to their customers." In reality, the capitalists also don't care, _when they can g
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by acqq 2y ago
And then imagine how it all appears on my 4inch-screen iPhone, if 5.8 inch is already too small.
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by acqq 2y ago
"Smearing" is much more sensible approach for the use cases where it is implemented. There is simply no solution that is optimal for every use case, and insisting on using just one approach everywhere is unreasonable.
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by acqq 2y ago
Now I'd like to have a link to that patch in code used by Apple that also appeared as a typo. Anybody remembers?
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by acqq 3y ago
Pity that the post from understandwp is marked dead, it was helpful to me: "The "100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere" - https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad ... should help w
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Ask HN: Minimal CSS for text pages readable on all current devices
1 points by acqq 3y ago|2 comments
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by acqq 3y ago
Still: - the church officially wrote that the Earth is the center - that the Holy Scripture says so and - whoever says differently is heretic and the Earth was never the center.
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by acqq 3y ago
You still can't deny: the church was wrong, directly referring to the effing "Holy Scripture" to support its claim. The Earth was never the center around which the Sun rotated. Not in 1AD, not in 1600AD, not now. If the churc
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by acqq 3y ago
So yes, that's exactly an example of the "guilty Galileo and the good church" false narrative. Many useless claims which don't disprove that his sentence was literally because of: "heresy" ... "that the e
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by acqq 3y ago
You probably don't want to know: https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/how-us-secret-war-laos-st... "From 1964 to 1973, the United States bombed Laos more heavily than any country on earth. The reason most Ameri
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by acqq 3y ago
Oh, there's now a bunch of accounts claiming that Galileo was "just" mean to pope and therefore "guilty", but this is an actual pro-religion propaganda. The real sentence is preserved up to this day and is completel
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by acqq 3y ago
The author of this one is an artist. Whoever consumes this work without considering this is also demonstrating how often the information is processed under already fixed expectations, also affecting the results. Adam Curtis also stated that
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by acqq 3y ago
Afghanistan opium cultivation in 2023 declined to one in 20 compared to earlier (95% less), following drug ban by those who are now in power (official United Nations statistics): https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/pr
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by acqq 3y ago
If you really think the fake narratives originate only from the countries which aren't "behaving" as the politicians of your preferred countries would like, I have a huge stock of bridges to sell to you. Edit: If you'd l
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by acqq 3y ago
"Only 35% slower overall than LuaJIT" as per video from a month ago. No idea which kind of tests are these "overall" though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSHIpEQRjs Slides (pg. 31 performance): http
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by acqq 3y ago
The demand for the huge calculations for the design of nuclear weapons started in WW II already: https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/human-computers-lo... "The staff in the T-5 group included recruited
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by acqq 3y ago
You are right. Here is the source of "compress" that existed at that time. It compresses the produced song to 1048 bytes, not less. https://www.nic.funet.fi/index/minix/compress.c The program that produc
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by acqq 3y ago
Trying to solve the modern problems and showing that one needs more code than in Python is not the point. The reason Basic wasn't horrible but amazing at the time as the home computers appeared is hard to understand without the context
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by acqq 3y ago
The excuse there is that the whole video is kind-of "moving images" inspired by Sgt. Peppers covers and the fact that the music is also a result of combined sounds recorded in different decades. On another side, we have the recent
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by acqq 3y ago
The 1902 original of the linked film was "actually shot on Biograph’s proprietary 68mm stock" i.e. could be considered very high resolution in any historical timeframe, even today ("The IMAX of the 1890s") https:/&
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by acqq 3y ago
So, a taste: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/bo... "1.5.2 Computing Lagrange's Equations The procedure for computing Lagrange's equations mirrors the functi
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by acqq 3y ago
Also thanks for mentioning Clascal, I wasn't even aware of it. Also fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clascal https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/toolkit_3.0/Package_2
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by acqq 3y ago
Reading the motivation for the second: "Relying on autoregressive forward passes to generate text is slow and prone to hallucination/repetition. From the nougat paper: We observed [repetition] in 1.5% of pages in the test set, but

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