ceceron

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by ceceron 3y ago
War with the Newts is wonderful, though The Absolute at Large is also worth of attention :)
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by ceceron 3y ago
That's why I am so often disgusted with the psychology research ethics. So many experiments are impossible to reproduce (vide recent reproducibility crisis), some (like the Stanford Prison Experiment) are debunked, but it is already to
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by ceceron 3y ago
AFAIK Python [optional] type system supports both. The nominal types are the "common" types, while the protocols [1] are structural. It's quite cool, actually :) [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0544/
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by ceceron 3y ago
AFAIK there is no single generally accepted definition, what does it mean for a language to be declarative. Some people believe that pure functional languages are declarative because of the analogy with mathematics — computations are determ
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by ceceron 3y ago
Are you saying, you trust diplomats and politicians solely on their word? I'm happy, there are still so innocent people :)
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by ceceron 4y ago
There are a lot of very good answers already in this topic: - quality doesn't bring enough to the business value; - high demand requires hiring people without enough knowledge/skill; - other people have just different quality metr
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by ceceron 4y ago
In Europe, UHT has caught on even in "wealthy" countries. In most shops you can buy both kinds, the UHT cheaper and the unprocessed as the more luxurious version. I think you're overstating the taste difference — as a child,
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by ceceron 4y ago
Try `gcenx` distribution of wine with crossover patches ( https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine ). Work fine on M1, enough to play Heroes of Might and Magic III with various mods. I haven't tried playing the Jazz2
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by ceceron 4y ago
True, that's why I haven't used 'finite' in my comment. Apparently I've missed that the parent referred to the finite collections and in fact was wrong making my previous comment misplaced. Thanks for pointing it ou
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by ceceron 4y ago
The number of symbols in the language may countable, but the number of sets of symbols will be indeed uncountable, i.e. AFAIR the number of sets of natural numbers is uncountable — you can even construct real numbers as sets on rational (st
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by ceceron 4y ago
In 2014, I've met in Krakow a Ukrainian woman in her sixties, feeding pigeons just next to the Wisla river. It wasn't anything uncommon, during the Crimean crisis hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians migrated to Poland. She asked m
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by ceceron 4y ago
I had completely different experience. Pathfinding and inventory - honestly I don't remember, they didn't stay in the way. Not more than in any contemporary game. Combat wasn't in the center, but was fair and challenging enou
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by ceceron 4y ago
Ok, now I'm lost. What does the "gameplay" word mean for you? Planescape had IMHO am amazing gameplay. Good example of a great RPG with terrible combat system was Arcanum but even there the gameplay was great (except the com
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by ceceron 4y ago
I've switched to SE 2022 and it's "okayish". Much worse experience but good enough to get by and is reasonably priced. The mini model is another option, but is worse (no fingerprint, no button, notch...) and simply too e
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by ceceron 4y ago
> - subtitle settings get reset every time I close the website. I also find this ridiculous and annoying, but... I've found a "solution". Just open a mobile Disney+ app (I've used the iOS one) and set the subtitles&#x
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by ceceron 4y ago
I totally agree. MiniZinc is a great tool to prototype solvers for combinatorial optimization problems. It's mature (but still growing) and has support for many different solvers, not only from the Constraint Programming/SAT famil
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by ceceron 4y ago
Exactly my thought. Looks like a poor man's swift (poor because many features from Swift are still only in planning). The one difference is that jakt is transpiled to C++ (IMHO it's a disadvantage, but could be useful).
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by ceceron 4y ago
I've been avoiding her books but being a Polish I tried to appreciate her writings when she got the Nobel. I found her style technically very good, but nothing special (compared to other Polish literary giants like Miłosz, Szulz or Lem
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by ceceron 4y ago
I'm just finishing "Rationality: from AI to Zombies". Started ~25 days ago. It's quite long and frankly rather underwhelming given promising beginning. I don't recommend the title. Also, I'm in 25% of Deep Lear
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by ceceron 4y ago
I am a big fan of the Constraint Programming paradigm. Still, there are several distinguishable approaches: 1) Constraint Logic Programming — quite cool as long as you have experience in Prolog, but choice of underlying solvers is limited:
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by ceceron 5y ago
Yes. But still I find beauty in great abstractions ;)
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by ceceron 5y ago
MiniZinc language for Constraint Programming uses /\ and \/ as AND/OR operators.
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by ceceron 5y ago
I'm terrified of such simplistic narratives (in any domain, not only politics) and I believe they are very dangerous, especially in the modern societies which are very prone to accept easy explanations... Mearsheimer's narrative i
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by ceceron 5y ago
I'm always scared of such articles/narratives. Because they are internally consistent and seemingly explain the complex reality, they easily seduce rational readers giving them specious feeling of understaning. In my opinion, this
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by ceceron 5y ago
Sure. I've used "possible causes" instead of hypotheses to match other reasoning methods.
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by ceceron 5y ago
I don't want to sound nitpicking, but if you're correcting someone, you should be ready to be corrected yourself... Sherlock Holmes used abductive reasoning. Deduction: cause + deductive rule -> effect Induction: (cause + effec
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by ceceron 5y ago
The Crossover version works well on post-Catalina systems. You can just buy it or... compile their code :) There is a gcenx build available here: https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine .
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by ceceron 5y ago
IMHO this kind of list defeats its purpose. Being popular / having high rating in the popular services is definitely not an accurate marker of being "mind-expanding". In fact, I would expect most of them be rather safe/e
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by ceceron 5y ago
You can imagine the drug would help, sure. But that's it – your imagination. But yeah, if we assumed the Modafinil was indeed a proven "cure" against sleeping while driving, and it was given free, then the situation would hav
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by ceceron 5y ago
No. It's not. It would be similar, if you had a "potion", that people could drink to magically enhance their driving skill. This potion would have some possible rare negative side-effects. And then there is a question: should

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