mcswell

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by mcswell 18d ago
Dependencies: ...wayland-client... Nuts, I'm on xfce, and don't intend to switch over until it's necessary. Why is Wayland necessary for this?
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by mcswell 21d ago
What's clickbaity about it? Breaking codes and using that to process intercepts (or other encrypted text) is the definition of cryptanalysis.
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by mcswell 21d ago
Your calculation only makes sense if every one of those 8.5B humans is suffering from hunger and homelessness. Somewhere around 1 in 1000 people are homeless ( https://worldmetrics.org/global-homelessness-statistics/ ),
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by mcswell 21d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450672 , meet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313 reply
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by mcswell 21d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450672 , meet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313
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by mcswell 24d ago
Driving on the freeway is easy. Driving in city streets is harder, and parallel parking...well, let's just say that the Martians haven't learned that yet.
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by mcswell 24d ago
A possible answer to your second question is that satellites (of sufficient size/ brightness) could be mistaken for UAPs. But that may not be what this website is suggesting.
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by mcswell 25d ago
Minitrue is here, and it works for Hegseth over at Minipax.
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by mcswell 1mo ago
Q: How much of that memory requirement is due to Co-Pilot?
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by mcswell 1mo ago
As adrian points out, that is the etymology of the word, but not the sense in current use with digital fonts. So yes, the currently common sense for 'glyph' is about printed text.
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by mcswell 1mo ago
There was a wealthy Italian who was building a villa in the US, and told the architect he wanted a "hollow statue" in it. The architect looked far and wide for a hollow statue, without success. Finally he came back to the client
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by mcswell 2mo ago
I wrote a sci-fi short story on this idea once. It took place in the present, and left the truth of the hypothesis open. Submitted it to Analog, but it was rejected. I suppose there are now places one can self-publish sci-fi stuff, but I
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by mcswell 2mo ago
"talking dinosaurs": I don't know about that, but the Farside had a picture of cigarette-smoking dinosaurs, which requires at least some intelligence: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6a/87/1a/6a8
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by mcswell 2mo ago
Right up there with unobtainium alloy.
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by mcswell 2mo ago
"A more appropriate question might be, where are the armored vehicles now in Russia?" Well, that's what I meant, where are the Russian armored vehicles in Ukraine. Because I consider the areas that Russia occupies to be temp
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by mcswell 2mo ago
Reminds me of the Cambrian revolution: suddenly there were all kinds of weird animals. Many of these kinds rapidly disappeared, while a few more successful ones kept on. Or at least that's my reading.
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by mcswell 2mo ago
Or maybe "dentures"?
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by mcswell 2mo ago
I was puzzled by this: "...the Army must reinvest in up-armoring its logistical fleet. While adding armor reduces payload capacity and increases fuel consumption, violating the peacetime gospel of efficiency, it is a mandatory trade-of
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by mcswell 2mo ago
I keep wondering why the US claims it needs to keep ahead of China, lest all be lost. This is not a zero sum game, and the difference between first and second place seems likely to be a few months at most. A few month lead doesn't se
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by mcswell 2mo ago
I once saw a political cartoon that said "No votar basura." It played on the homophony between 'votar' = "to vote" and 'botar' = "to throw out." That said, there are plenty of jokes in Engl
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by mcswell 2mo ago
1) But for many people and in many situations, translation---including MT---is good enough. And that overcomes any perceived need to learn another language (which learning may be in opposition to learning something else, something perceive
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by mcswell 2mo ago
11 distinct calls is something a rote automaton could easily cope with. So I don't think this study proves much of anything about birds' cognitive abilities.
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by mcswell 3mo ago
One thing he didn't mention is getting the first and last steps to be the same vertical distance as the others. Nothing will trip you up (literally!) so easily as a final step that is a different height than the other steps. I thought
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by mcswell 3mo ago
Did you even look at any of the papers (published in scholarly journals, not in TED talks), which argue against the idea that the Indus script is a written language?
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by mcswell 3mo ago
I know nothing of death threats, but posting a YouTube video does not constitute "proof". And there's been plenty of water under the peer-reviewed bridge over the last twenty years, most of which does not seem to be politica
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by mcswell 3mo ago
The Jesus cult documents (and the documents before that fork) exist in thousands of languages besides Javascript/English... Indeed, the original FORTRAN/ Greek, plus LISP/ Ethiopic, not to mention the Assembler/ Hebrew
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by mcswell 3mo ago
You have to wait awhile. It came up for me after 30 seconds or so.
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by mcswell 3mo ago
Slow, but interesting. I used the query "government" and got back passages in Romans 13 (as I expected), but also passages in Daniel and Ezra describing decrees by government officials, which made sense.
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by mcswell 3mo ago
I think the web version looks correct, although the grid lines are so faint there that it's hard to tell. I'll paste some screenshots to that link--thanks for the work!
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by mcswell 3mo ago
I'm running Linux Mint (xfce version), and I installed the .deb version (TikZ.Editor_0.4.0_amd64.deb). It's very odd...for example, when I open it or do File/New, many (but not all) of the grid cells are rectangles, not squa

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