cyrus_

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by cyrus_ 5y ago
Yup, these kinds of things are definitely on the agenda as we integrate the core ideas here into Hazel. We kept things minimal in Tylr to focus on the core ideas with minimal "magic".
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by cyrus_ 5y ago
Indeed, that problem (ambiguity about where to put matching delimiters) is what motivated tylr. The solution is: when the location of the closing parentheses isn't unique, as in your example, tylr puts it in the "backpack" ab
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by cyrus_ 5y ago
Yup, tylr is a minimal prototype, ala Hazelnut, intended to be adapted and integrated into Hazel (happening now!)
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
Certainly a relevant comparison, but if sexual orientation is, like race and gender, a protected characteristic, then it may make sense from a balancing perspective to not allow that to be a valid reason, even if "affiliation with a te
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
The dominant cost here isn't the cost of the employee that has to update their database, it is the cost of lost advertising or customers angry that your company is providing services to terrorists.
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
To be clear, you're referring to "the right, led by the President, organizes and executes a violent attack on the Capitol, so companies refuse to continue providing services to those people" as a "tit for tat".
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
You can still say whatever you want, you just can't compel others (including businesses) to assist you in conveying your speech. This is really basic stuff, it is surprising how difficult many otherwise smart people are finding it.
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
Sure. There is no way to eliminate whacko conspiracy theorists and fringe forums. They existed before social media too. The idea is that interpersonal dynamics can help manage these things: if your uncle Frank posts about chemtrails, then h
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
Make sure you write down the name of who you spoke to, and see if they'll give you their email address. Then you have way to follow up, either directly or by calling the office and saying you had spoken to so-and-so and wanted to follo
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
There were people with zip tie handcuffs and guns in the chamber, fortunately after it had been evacuated. I don't know what they planned to do, but I imagine best case would be a hostage situation where they demand that the electoral
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
We might consider more or less eliminating automated recommendation systems on social media and return to, as you put it, "just showing photos of puppies", i.e. just showing posts from entities that you have explicitly friended or
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
You can walk into the office, but you won't get a meeting with Wyden if you aren't on the schedule. Instead, if you are a resident of the state, they'll have staff that will meet with you in a small conference room, take note
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
Andrew is actually joining our group, FP Lab, as a PhD student this fall and will be contributing to Hazel amongst other things. :-)
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by cyrus_ 6y ago
Reminds me of a math blog I set up in grad school called "Nothing Left to Prove". No posts.
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by cyrus_ 8y ago
I've tried to get my head around the limited information out there on how much turbulence there is at various altitudes but I don't know enough about that area of physics to get a good sense of it. Do you have a citation for the &
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by cyrus_ 8y ago
I think you could imagine building city-sized habitats with enough raw materials, so you could certainly have industrial equipment operating. But yeah, having a source for raw materials would be essential in the long term. For smaller scien
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by cyrus_ 8y ago
Good points! I'm not sure how interesting the clouds would look. There is definitely some dynamic behavior there, including electrical storms, and you'd have a day-night cycle spanning 4 days total, not due to the rotation of Venu
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by cyrus_ 8y ago
The upper atmosphere of Venus is an extremely under-appreciated location in the solar system! - Closer than Mars - 90% of Earth gravity (compared to 30% for Mars) - Atmospheric shielding mass equivalent to Earth's (protected from solar
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by cyrus_ 9y ago
Instead of "gender", you should make it "preferred pronoun".
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by cyrus_ 9y ago
In OCaml's expression syntax, "begin" is a synonym for left parenthesis, and "end" is a synonym for right parenthesis. So I've taken to just using "begin match e with ... end" in every situation to av
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
No, it's better to enforce the norms of a free and antagonistic press.
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
I mean, the product itself is named Slack...
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
You're aware that iPhones and iPads run software I assume.
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
I suspect it is you that doesn't understand the security implications -- if all it takes is $99/year to gain the ability to sign arbitrary code, then there is no security benefit whatsoever. Pure security theater. Obviously, the $
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
An Apple developer account costs $99/year. The ethical problem on macOS is that Apple is imposing artificial technical barriers to push people to pay Apple what amounts to "protection" money. On iOS, there is no reasonable wa
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
No, then _the internet_ came along, offering EVERYONE the ability to publish apps, at an actually very reasonable cost.
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
First off, I didn't say that Apple was blocking apps on MacOS. I mentioned it because the OP was disparaging Lenovo as a whole because of unethical behavior in one product line. As such, it's only fair to do the same for Apple. Se
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
Lenovo's malware scandal should certainly give you pause, but do note that it was only installed on its consumer laptops. Thinkpads were unaffected. Moreover, Apple is far from the cleanly ethical choice you seem to think it is. It blo
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
They showed Safari using the bar for various general browser functionality, e.g. back button and tab switcher, so that would require adding a toggle to switch from that UI to the one the webpage has defined. I think Apple is going to use th
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by cyrus_ 10y ago
Unless the OS is rendering the bar off-screen even when there isn't a hardware bar, you could trivially determine whether there is a bar by having the code that controls the bar set a flag / send a message.

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