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by mswtk 9mo ago
Technically, the actual statement in Galois theory is even more general. Roughly, it says that, for a given polynomial over a field, if there exists an algorithm that computes the roots of this polynomial, using only addition, subtraction,
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by mswtk 9mo ago
Sure, you can do that. The parent's point is that if you want this mapping to obey the rules that an actual definition in (say) first-order logic must obey, you run into trouble. In order to talk about definability without running into
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by mswtk 4y ago
Yeah, that's more or less how I feel about it as well. I would even go further and say that the existence of the open world makes the Legacy Dungeons worse. It's quite unfortunate because in terms of visual design and architecture
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by mswtk 4y ago
This is just plainly false. While not quite as bad as the average Ubisoft game, Elden Ring's world design is very similar to Elder Scrolls, Skyrim in particular. Most of what the author brings up are aspects of the game not related to
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by mswtk 5y ago
You don't have to , and I personally also find small-talk with strangers rather tedious, but in the specific cases brought up by the author, it sounded like he would've saved himself time by just briefly explaining his reasoning.
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by mswtk 5y ago
Fundamentally, a lot of knowledge we possess as individuals is socially constructed, in the sense that we trust the process and the institutions that created it. Even if this knowledge can, in principle, be verified, it is usually impractic
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by mswtk 5y ago
> You think John Carmack was the only one trying to make 3d games when Doom came out? Thousands of programmers where trying to. Does that make him a 10x programmer in your opinion? Or more like a 1000x? I think the idea of 10x programmer
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by mswtk 5y ago
That honestly sounds like a failure to communicate with the researcher first and foremost. If it's difficult to prioritize the fix internally due to organizational politics, that's one thing, but that shouldn't stop the bount
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by mswtk 5y ago
My understanding of doing things "properly" as an engineer, is picking the solution with the right tradeoffs for my use case. If the cost to the business of having some amount of scheduled downtime occasionally is significantly le
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by mswtk 6y ago
> I would suggest looking up what the Dutch did in relation to race equality in history and how we were involved in a lot of slave trade, sometimes even to the US. I am aware of the history, but that's not enough to give the words t
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by mswtk 6y ago
I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for at least a couple actual examples of this change helping people feel better about participating in technology. In the absence of such, it all feels very performative and, dare I s
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by mswtk 6y ago
> I for one think it's great that people are willing to make things a little more accessible for more people. If people want to be part of our community of developers I think it's great that these organizations listen to people
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by mswtk 6y ago
There is no way to separate dissent from disinformation a priori, other than by making assumptions about the other party's good faith. And so, you can paint anything you disagree with as disinformation if you think poorly enough of the
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by mswtk 6y ago
The report linked mentions the ACLJ being involved in several ECHR cases, and submitting an amicus brief in favor of the recent Constitutional Court decision. That's it. You think that's enough to push the government and judiciary
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by mswtk 6y ago
> managed to turn Poland against abortion As a Pole, this comes off as incredibly arrogant and self-centered. People outside the US have agency as well, they're not all just puppets of US special interest groups. Not everything revo
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by mswtk 6y ago
> One of the problems is that most of what people call ‘bugs’ or relevant ‘information’ about Apple is actually false. Is that actually a problem? Many other platforms have no such restrictions, and you don't see developers blaming
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by mswtk 6y ago
I wasn't really commenting on what Apple should or shouldn't be doing, just on the tone of the conversation in this thread. That said... Apple have a really good, straightforward option: Don't police user-generated content in
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by mswtk 6y ago
It really is one of the most egregious examples of a cultural echo chamber I've seen on HN. We're talking about a brutal police force serving a corrupt and delegitimized regime, that is involved in extrajudicial detention, torture
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by mswtk 6y ago
> Does every country in the world really have to be a democracy? They don't. Does every country in the world really need to have racial equality and an even-handed police force? They don't either.
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by mswtk 7y ago
Slightly pedantic correction: This is a performance optimization in CPython. I wouldn't be surprised if other implementations have something similar, but to my best knowledge, this behaviour isn't part of the standard.