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by dificilis 3y ago
Dear ChatGPT please write a software application satsifying the following requirements. Write the code in the style of Mohamed Aboelez. ....
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by dificilis 4y ago
A slightly less hyped headline would be: "Mathematical theorem used to crack US government _candidate_ encryption algorithm"
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by dificilis 4y ago
Cultures vary. Also individuals vary. That’s true now, and it was very likely true 50000 years ago. Maybe not all the rugged individualists survived, but quite likely a few wandering souls travelled far away from their original homes, and g
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by dificilis 4y ago
Silly question: if the "second coming" is a risk, then could bitcoin itself be amended to deem sufficiently old wallets no longer valid? Of course if it was seriously proposed, then the holder of said wallets might rush to cash so
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by dificilis 4y ago
IN MICE
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by dificilis 4y ago
"Your Cache" is like "The Common Cold" - it's not actually one thing.
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by dificilis 4y ago
It reminds me of a recent HN story telling us not to trust any number you see in a news story.
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by dificilis 4y ago
I tried Pocket, but it wouldn't let me edit titles, which was a bit of a deal-killer. So then I tried Raindrop (free plan), and I have been using that ever since. I use "collections" to describe abstract properties of a bookm
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by dificilis 4y ago
Most of those definitions can be reduced to a single definition: "the" <something> = the speaker believes that enough information has been given for the listener to know which <something> is being referred to. Examples
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by dificilis 4y ago
That article contains 3 astronomical photos, but none of them are pictures of what the article is about. They are not pictures of "invisible walls".
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by dificilis 5y ago
Slightly hyperbolic headline. "There is no well-defined time zone at the North Pole". Also: "The sun sets & rises once a year." If you move 1 metre away from the North Pole, then the first statement is no longer true
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by dificilis 5y ago
"Conscious" is a word that has no objective scientific definition. It follows that "slightly conscious" is not well defined. In practice "conscious" just means "anything that thinks and makes decisions lik
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Rapid Tests for Covid19(rapidtests.org)
1 points by dificilis 6y ago|0 comments
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by dificilis 6y ago
Truly terrible headline clickbait. Are scientists now doubting the existence of neutrinos? Better: “Physicists cast doubt on ‘Sterile Neutrino’ theory ‘ etc.
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by dificilis 6y ago
Bacterial “gain of function” experiments. What could possibly go wrong?
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by dificilis 6y ago
Once again I suffer from time-zone-ism, where someone on the internet announces it on "28 June", but it's actually already 29 June and it's too late for me to fully enjoy Tau Day.
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by dificilis 6y ago
It's not Turing complete. DSL yes. Programming language no.
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by dificilis 6y ago
If it's like Python, but somehow better for beginners, I would strongly suggest an explanation of exactly how it differs from Python. The audience for this is: "I want to teach person X programming, and I think Python is a good ch
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by dificilis 6y ago
Better, quicker, cheaper testing is the most robust way to fight Covid19, even if the tests are not perfect. If a combination of testing technology and isolation protocols is good enough to get the "R" number below 1, then job don
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by dificilis 6y ago
On a related note, was there someone working in US Intelligence whose job it was to tell President Trump that possibly the WHO's early statement on human-human transmission of the "new coronavirus" depended on information fro
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by dificilis 6y ago
Who are "Scientists"? All scientists? The authors of the paper?
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by dificilis 6y ago
One of their examples of "factual" questions is: Is immigration harmful to the economy? "harmful to the economy" is a rather subjective term, because different people care more about different parts of the "economy&
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by dificilis 6y ago
For people who are disabled, dismissing cookie dialogs is one extra difficult pointless thing they have to do _every_ time they visit any website. Is this a violation of human rights?
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by dificilis 6y ago
I am going to dispute "it is what it is" as a meaningless cliche, because I understand it to have a meaning like: "We all know that this thing is not ideal, but, for various reasons, we are stuck with how it currently is.&quo
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by dificilis 6y ago
If the virus jumped from bat to some other animal 50 years ago, then the 1000 miles of distance is not hard to explain, and doesn't tell us anything about the time-scale of initial human infection. We need to find the close relative of
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by dificilis 6y ago
I don't use Monzo, so there's still the question of what does the UI show when they can't confirm the name - how much do they emphasize that everything now hangs on the account number only? The bank app I use always shows a c
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by dificilis 6y ago
The absolute worst UI is the banking apps when they ask for details of an account to transfer money to: * The app asks for the account number * The app asks for the name of the account * The app never tells you that it won't check the
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by dificilis 6y ago
Dragging icons from one place to another on an iphone. It's almost impossible to move an icon from location A to location B without accidentally moving about 20 other icons at the same time, because everything is constantly re-arrangin
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by dificilis 6y ago
The official Hacker News headline-fixing person needs to fix this right now.
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Ask HN: Should we give the pre-covid19 host a short name, e.g. “Species X”?
1 points by dificilis 6y ago|0 comments

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