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by bhk 18d ago
In America in the 70s, and yes.
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by bhk 19d ago
The increase in usage in the latter half of the 20th century is interesting to me, because I recall being surprised in elementary school that "weird" was a dictionary word. I thought it was informal slang among kids, having assoc
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by bhk 1mo ago
Ah, yes, climate change, which also explains how Lyme disease, first diagnosed in the US in the northern midwest and northeast, later spread southward. I'm sure it works in mysterious ways in your neighborhood as well.
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by bhk 1mo ago
Working with the browser technology stack is living in a dystopian world of overcomplicated, often duplicative features defined in many thousands of pages of specifications, often revised and/or contradicted by other specifications, ma
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by bhk 1mo ago
Blackpill depression post complaining about "blackpill depression circklejerks"...
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by bhk 2mo ago
There's a lot missing in this article. Obvious follow-up questions unanswered.
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by bhk 4mo ago
Not just the string-related functions. If you want robust error checking, re-entrant code, and bounds checking performed in library functions (instead of performing bespoke validations all across your code base), you have some work to do.
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by bhk 4mo ago
Any opinion voiced on the Internet can manipulate AI responses. Can Google suppress that?
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by bhk 6mo ago
"The more laws, the less justice." -- Cicero
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by bhk 7mo ago
Thanks for the references. I think you will agree that the bulk of your comment employs a post-set-theory nomenclature. Regarding "if you were to choose a point completely at random, the odds of that point being another rational is zer
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by bhk 7mo ago
Ah, but it's worse than this. The truly ambitious ladder climber creates not just unnecessarily complicated abstractions, but organizations. Processes for people to follow. Infrastructure for people to maintain. Committees to vet c
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by bhk 7mo ago
Let me guess: the point of the interview was to see if he was a "team player".
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by bhk 7mo ago
I think you are getting away from my point, which pertains to what the article said, which is that mathematicians thought there were "gaps". What mathematician? Can I see the original quote? The linguistic sleight-of-hand is what
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by bhk 7mo ago
That's not a "gap" that you find by "zooming in". And how can it be a gap when it is occupied?
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by bhk 7mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Can you cite any claims by mathematicians that there were "gaps"? It isn't even true for rational numbers that you can identify an unoccupied "gap".
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by bhk 7mo ago
And by the way, what the Hell is up with all these people claiming that two spaces is an obsolete typewriter-era pre-proportional-font thing? Narrow proportional spaces make two spaces after a period MORE important for visually separating
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by bhk 7mo ago
Funny enough, vanity sizing strikes there too. The purported waist size of a pair of Levi's is off by almost three inches. One might argue that the size on their label is not supposed to indicate the size of the garment waistband, but
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by bhk 8mo ago
Hold on there. High fiber consumption increases the excretion of cholesterol, by reducing the reabsorption of the cholesterol in bile. The liver produces cholesterol for bile, which mixes with our food in the duodenum and aids absorpt
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by bhk 8mo ago
According to Anthropic: "We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load." https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...
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by bhk 8mo ago
1g/lb is in fact a popular target among bodybuilders. Much research indicates 0.5 to 0.7 g/lb provides most of the benefits, with continuing but diminishing gains above 0.7 g/lb. And the benefit is not just for "body bu
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by bhk 11mo ago
It's not just attention to detail. They seem to have abandoned some core design principles like visibility/discoverability.
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by bhk 1y ago
$11.79 in my neighborhood.
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by bhk 1y ago
Re: "99% of the time" ... this is an ambiguous sample space. Soundness of results clearly depends on the questions being asked. For what set of questions does the 99% guarantee hold?
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by bhk 1y ago
Consider this analogy: Instead of using a root command shell, it is wise to use an account with appropriately restricted capabilities, to limit the downsides of mistakes. Cloud services support the notion of access control, but not the no
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by bhk 1y ago
Ironic. Isn't Nature the worst offender?
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by bhk 1y ago
Oscullation/"anticipation" in transitions is so gimmicky and cartoonish. Living things don't move like that, and mechanical things don't unless they are broken, chintzy, or poorly designed (underdamped).
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by bhk 1y ago
"Scientists reveal a previously unidentified term for a widely known phenomenon"
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by bhk 1y ago
What does this impact? 90% of sites on the internet? Just a couple of low-traffic sites?
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by bhk 1y ago
In other words, to whatever extent they can control or manipulate the behavior of users, they will . In the limit t->∞, probably true.
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by bhk 1y ago
In what way does analysis require incomputable reals?

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