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by endgame 2mo ago
>> Can we use AI to get a cure for cancer yet? Yes-ish. Custom mRNA treatment used to reverse the progress of a dog's cancer. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/tech-bo... https:&#x2F
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by endgame 2mo ago
The talk page about the conjecture clarifies WP:RSSELF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Sel... > Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expe
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by endgame 3mo ago
How do we know this is real? Most online form providers will host all forms on their own domain, so it could just be a great way to get some data harvesting going on the .microsoft gTLD.
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by endgame 3mo ago
Yes.
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by endgame 3mo ago
Ashley is the canonical list of knots, so it's good for people who haven't heard of ABOK to hear about it since we're talking knots today. Probably time to drop another coin in Ian's tip jar too.
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by endgame 4mo ago
Yeah, I spent more time than I cared to admit fiddling with DEVICE(HIGH) lines, tweaking FILES= and BUFFERS=, running MEMMAKER.EXE over and over as if that would do something, but it was never the real thing. The real thing is making the ma
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by endgame 5mo ago
No. It shouldn't be an opt-out, and it is bad practice to write conditional settings in the negative.
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by endgame 5mo ago
I cannot even reliably press [Space] any more to page down through sites that are meant to be all about content!
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by endgame 6mo ago
Why is a C++ project being distributed on PyPi at all?
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by endgame 6mo ago
The verb I've most commonly heard for this activity in English is "forage". What's the equivalent German word?
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by endgame 6mo ago
Making each one implement input handling was also a dazzlingly bizarre design choice.
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by endgame 7mo ago
The Australians have some incredible anti-war music. Redgum's /I was only 19/ is brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYDKxxQ50o
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by endgame 7mo ago
And the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security definitely gave the literal thousands of submissions due consultation before recommending the original, un-split bill pass.
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by endgame 7mo ago
Nobody. Nobody at all could have seen it. Microsoft is cool now, haven't you seen VSCode? They do Open Source, they run Linux, they've joined the fold, the tiger shed its stripes.
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by endgame 8mo ago
You might have some luck applying isohybrid(1) to the period-correct .iso image, making it bootable by other means: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/syslinux-utils/isohybrid...
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by endgame 8mo ago
So are your guides, by the way. Thank you for writing them.
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by endgame 8mo ago
That's not the intention , but how do you stop it from being the effect ?
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by endgame 8mo ago
The command to load a program in TI BASIC was actually "OLD <DEVICE>". Probably because they already had "NEW". https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A_system_usage#Loadin...
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by endgame 8mo ago
Yes. Here's a 2014 BBC article about that: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26487418 The article quotes one Mr Richard Mawrey QC: > "Postal voting on demand, however many safeguards you build into it,
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by endgame 8mo ago
There are some really clever systems that let you prove that you voted without leaking how you voted. Unfortunately, explaining them to Joe Q. Public in such a way that he's going to trust your election is a very tough sell, wherea
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by endgame 8mo ago
The best-designed website on the internet.
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by endgame 9mo ago
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ This guy purchased a gift card which turned out to be dodgy, and Apple locked his entire account. So there's definitely some kind of shenanigans possible with the current supp
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by endgame 9mo ago
Which other VPN providers support the range of payment methods that Mullvad does?
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by endgame 9mo ago
That's not an argument when the Mozilla Foundation makes it structurally impossible to fund Firefox.
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by endgame 9mo ago
Of course they aren't. If they were actually helping kids, they would be going after algorithmic feeds in general and the most predatory platforms like Roblox (especially given its recent scandals), doing something about kids being exp
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by endgame 10mo ago
So it's the reader monad, then? ;-)
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by endgame 10mo ago
I've used Nix for at least seven years, and I firmly believe that the language is a large part of the problem. Yes, the Nix language is "just another lazily-evaluated pure FP language in the ML tradition" and "it's
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by endgame 10mo ago
Do you care about people _now_, even though their existence is finite and at some point anything you may or may not have done to affect them will cease mattering?
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by endgame 10mo ago
This article and video might be good for you, but they are more about a conceptual overview of what the fundamental parts of Nix are and how they interact. https://shopify.engineering/shipit-presents-how-shopify-uses... ht
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by endgame 10mo ago
> Why would it matter if there is no life after this one? If there is no life after this one, maybe you should just "get over it". Because for as long as we are capable of caring, we should care that other people have to live w

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