bolanyo

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by bolanyo 3y ago
(posted this a couple of times and it doesn't seem to be visible. Reposting without a piece that might be causing me to be censored, lol.) Anne Frank's diary was published in 1947. It is a historical document very important to the
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I think you are splitting hairs. Control of certain forms of art or literature so that they can't be revealed to all is what we're talking about. The culture in question is very different from ours so we can't expect their ta
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by bolanyo 3y ago
One interesting example is Josephus. A Jewish-Roman historian, he provides almost the only roughly contemporary mention of Jesus outside of biblical ones (and biblical apocrypha). He simply describes the existence of a 'superstition&#x
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I don't think it is true that this rock art is an example of significant culture that has never been censored or expurgated. The taboos and rules which apply to viewing this art and/or reproducing it or the linked stories are sure
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I don't think that is true. There is lots of rock art which either can't be shown to outsiders (or to members of certain genders or moieties), or can be shown, but the significance behind the art is not allowed to be explained to
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I think that the links between these languages do make it easy for people from the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia to learn English. These countries, to give them credit, have also seen the importance of good language education, in par
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by bolanyo 3y ago
Please provide an example of an culturally important large-scale work of history or literature, at least 1,000 years old, which hasn't been abridged, extracted, expurgated, euphemized, hidden, bowdlerized, etc.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
Police with guns are extremely rare everywhere in London, although yes, we do have some cosplayers in big stations and outside Parliament.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
There has never been any language requirement for EU citizens to live in Germany or anywhere else, ever since freedom of movement was established.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
> it is unreasonable to live permanently in a country without speaking the local language But what if there are countries where the 'local language' eventually becomes like Irish in Ireland? Everyone who goes to school in the R
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I'm not a strong advocate of this, or of jail time in general for non-violent offenders, but as a thought experiment, suppose that Acme Auto release updates to their car's software which make the UI more laggy and less intuitive t
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by bolanyo 3y ago
> They haven't edited other people's histories while continuing to label those histories as the work of the original authors. You are extremely naive. This has happened lots and lots of times.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
"if asked"
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by bolanyo 3y ago
To be fair, this is Wisconsin. The judge is probably the guy that runs the hospital's brother-in-law.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
What happens in Europe if you're supposed to work out 3 months notice and you stop showing up: - you stop getting paid. - you probably will have a hard time dealing with your former employers if you need something from them. - they t
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I apologize for omitting that detail in my previous response. Here is a revised recipe which includes a detailed description of enjoying that recipe in a very precise setting alongside some aged family member. As an AI language model, I do
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by bolanyo 3y ago
Bacon in the USA generally means belly bacon, which is basically the same meat as pancetta, but cut up differently. Bacon in Britain and Ireland generally means back bacon, which is a quite different thing and not a good substitute in carbo
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by bolanyo 3y ago
So it's a decent replacement for .. those free magazines that you get at the supermarket?
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by bolanyo 3y ago
Why not just Google 'Marcella Hazan carbonara'? When I want a recipe I usually Google 'bbc food carbonara' - I want the site I trust rather than the one which has won the SEO race. I also might try "Carluccio carbon
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by bolanyo 3y ago
Parsley in carbonara?
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by bolanyo 3y ago
The author has chosen to 'Tell HN' so it seems reasonable to ask them for further details? I have lots of hard-to-analyse logs but there are constraints which prevent me from sharing them with OpenAI. I am nonetheless curious abou
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I do have children. The thing is that I know what my children like to eat and don't like to eat, but ChatGPT does not. If I had to direct, say, a human servant who is very good at cooking, but who doesn't know my kids, to plan mea
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I'm quite curious about some of these applications because I don't really understand what the cognitive work is that's being offloaded. Making meal plans: what is being done here? making a list of meals to eat each day of the
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by bolanyo 3y ago
systemd is a very common log. I'm curious whether you think this would work on logs for custom software that by necessity didn't have either its logs or writing about its logs in the training set.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
the internet archive have torrents of all their media, although very many of them aren't seeded
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by bolanyo 3y ago
A main reason people use those apps is to avoid ads. Also to avoid the reddit company's decisions about how stuff should work.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
(m/n)^n is only an integer if m/n is an integer: true but this is quite a big piece of mathematics on its own. The proof that no rational number squares to 2 is a famous result of number theory. That no rational non-integer, raise
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by bolanyo 3y ago
I think this non-announcement is the preamble to trying to change the licensing of SO content in such a way that other organizations can't use it as training data, but SO can. Obviously such a move would outrage the SO userbase so they
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by bolanyo 3y ago
Probably not a UWaterloo recent grad who is good at programming competitions and has just been hired onto a random product team at Google.
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by bolanyo 3y ago
If dictionary lookup is O(1), we could just make a dictionary of all the doubled words? Now the whole problem is O(1)!

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