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by axblount 4mo ago
"Methinks the lady doth protest too much"
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by axblount 6mo ago
Signatures do have similar problems to certificates. But Gemini doesn't avoid them either and often recommends TOFU certificates. I think the comment's point was that digital signatures ensure identity but are unsuitable for e-com
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by axblount 7mo ago
Bit-level skeuomorphism! And since NUL is zero, does that mean the program ends wherever you stop punching? I've never used punch cards so I don't know how things were organized.
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by axblount 8mo ago
Can you not see a difference between someone's imagination and a publicly posted image? Posting a photo of yourself online is not an invitation for AI generated nudes.
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by axblount 9mo ago
Town, outside, and dungeon represent decreasing levels of safety. In most games, players want a clear indication of how much danger they are in just walking around. Some games, like Dark Souls, do blur these lines. I think it would be easy
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by axblount 10mo ago
It's hard for me to see the advantage of using one of these over pen and paper: - distraction free (except doodling) - lower power consumption - expressive in a way that typing can never be - tends to discourage editing as you write ed
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by axblount 11mo ago
What's the advantage of standardizing through ISO/IEC? Better adoption in industry? Seems like this would take away a lot of power from RISC-V International. But I don't know much about this process.
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by axblount 1y ago
Live demos are especially hard when you're selling snake oil.
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by axblount 1y ago
Does some interesting things if you up the ball speed to 20. The boundary breaks down. data.blackBall.v = data.whiteBall.v = createVector(0, 20);
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by axblount 1y ago
"When in doubt, use brute force." --Ken Thompson
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by axblount 1y ago
I was curious about the acceleration due to gravity at the surface: G * (120 Earth masses) / (radius of Jupiter ^ 2) Comes out to 9.7 m/s. Not bad!
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by axblount 1y ago
Lisp In Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec It takes a very thoughtful approach to introducing an increasingly complex Scheme implementation. I doesn't shy away from the complexity that many LISP implementation tutorials try to push u
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by axblount 1y ago
They're in the write-ins for their respective categories. Emacs with 0.1%. Clojure with an impressive 0%!
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by axblount 1y ago
I'm sorry but committing genocide is wrong without scare quotes. There is no justification.
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by axblount 1y ago
Arizona has a similar law regarding the Uyghurs. Every contact needs a clause that says no Uyghur "forced labor" was used.
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by axblount 1y ago
Aside from the lack of JVM, what's holding back Jank from being a drop in Clojure replacement?
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by axblount 1y ago
This is usually called NaN-boxing and is often used to implement dynamic languages. https://piotrduperas.com/posts/nan-boxing
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by axblount 1y ago
Syntactic sugar can sometimes fool us into thinking the underlying process is more efficient or streamlined. As a new programmer, I probably would have assumed that "storing" `data` at each step would be more expensive.
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by axblount 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking. All those things are still out there. There are IRC chat rooms, forums, communities focused on building personal websites, and more. If you're asking how to feel what you felt all those years
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by axblount 2y ago
I'm providing you my personal information so that I can train your AI for free?
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by axblount 2y ago
Hundred Rabbits is like Urbit without the evil aura and digital real estate.
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by axblount 2y ago
The key similarity between IIT (integrated information theory, for the uninitiated) and string theory is that both are unfalsifiable. Hubris can be forgiven. Unfalsifiability can not.
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by axblount 2y ago
I'm not sure how your extreme example is helpful. No one has made a suggestion like that.
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by axblount 2y ago
Baez seems to use the definition you call erroneous: "It’s easy to wax poetic about entropy, but what is it? I claim it’s the amount of information we don’t know about a situation, which in principle we could learn."
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by axblount 2y ago
Would you say they have Blindsight ?
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by axblount 2y ago
Could be shortened to, "You are the product." There's no commodity quite as valuable as human time and attention.
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by axblount 2y ago
I think the article makes a good point. Games have to be fun to play. That's it. Nothing else matters. Making a game more fair might make it more fun. Or it might not. You might lose 90% of the time, but think about how awesome that 10
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by axblount 2y ago
Many more birds will be harmed by unchecked climate change than wind farms.
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by axblount 2y ago
Off-label drugs are still approved by the FDA for their original purpose.
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by axblount 2y ago
I saw one of those where a guy just made videos about increasingly elaborate AI generated cakes. You're right, I guess we're mostly there. But those still require some human input. I'm imagining a sort of genetic algorithm fo

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