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by wnoise 9d ago
How is the clojure program given not that?
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by wnoise 2mo ago
Don't forget pizza delivery.
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by wnoise 3mo ago
Saying your quoted words is a request for someone to read and respond; it's still pressure and a burden.
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by wnoise 3mo ago
This is significant semantic drift from the original meaning of yak shaving. Building your own is great, but it's not yak shaving. Yak shaving is fixing fractal brokenness that you notice while punching through layers of existing syste
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by wnoise 5mo ago
More commonly, edit them.
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by wnoise 5mo ago
General Relativity was published in 1916.
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by wnoise 6mo ago
You don't want the people that run the engineering firms, no. You might want some of the people that work there.
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by wnoise 6mo ago
I knew that about the feds, but does it also apply to the states?
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by wnoise 6mo ago
Even though you would think that'd be a taking for public use.
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by wnoise 6mo ago
Because those are far more general than what he is asking for, and what he is asking for will usually not be seen as covered by your generalization.
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by wnoise 6mo ago
To be clear, "Apple" is a group, not a unified thing with one will. That doesn't mean that the engineeers will necessarily ship something more flexible than what the PMs asked for. Often not. But sometimes they will.
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by wnoise 10mo ago
The commissioners?
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by wnoise 11mo ago
That's for Charlie Kirk et al, not Jesse Singal.
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by wnoise 1y ago
They didn't. Pure lambda calculus would have been "a function that when applied to a number encoded as a function, extracts that value". They did it essentially as a linked list, C-strings, or UTF-8 characters: "current
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by wnoise 1y ago
They are quite related, but the Fourier transform seems far more beautiful and generalizable: you can do 2-d, 3-d, etc transforms, and they automatically respect the symmetries of the problems (e.g. rotating the coordinate system rotates th
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by wnoise 1y ago
No, humans can't inspect their own weights either -- but we're not LLMs and don't store all knowledge implicitly as probabilities to output next token. It's pretty clear that we also store some knowledge explicitly, and
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by wnoise 1y ago
Topics? No, I don't agree with that. Almost any subject can be treated in an age-appropriate manner. A 7-year-old doesn't need to read about nearly any topic. Excluding any mention of all of those subjects from the school lib
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by wnoise 1y ago
And what dynamic libraries s it linked to? And what other data are they pulling in?
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by wnoise 1y ago
The idea of pathological RAM access patterns is as ridiculous as the idea of pathological division of floating point numbers. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug ). The spec of RAM is to be able to store
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by wnoise 1y ago
They cannot. It requires a simple majority in the House followed by a 2/3 majority in the Senate. This is basically impossible to achieve.
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by wnoise 1y ago
They do not create binding precedent. They can create so-called persuasive precedent -- something other courts (and the same district in subsequent opinions) can and do cite when they don't disagree.
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by wnoise 1y ago
Because no one made it illegal?
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by wnoise 1y ago
I think I agree nearly 100% with this. The tricky part is always selective-enforcement: > But if you criticize only Israel about some issue, and grant a free pass to everyone else on that same issue, that's when things become probl
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by wnoise 1y ago
If that standard were universally applied, even purely defensive wars could not be done.
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by wnoise 1y ago
Unless you're speaking about the high overhead rates, that's really the wrong framing. The public funds at issue are buying things like research, or hospital services.
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by wnoise 1y ago
Depends on what you mean by anti-Zionism. It's not a natural congregation point -- even those that don't think Israel should exist don't generally call themselves anti-Zionist. As a label from the outside, it's thus ve
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by wnoise 1y ago
So not a comparable situation. In this intra-elite competition, the previous winners might deserve to lose. The current regime and its allies absolutely cannot be allowed to be winners.
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by wnoise 1y ago
> How about violating bright red line laws/norms of the society you're in? Isn't the word for that "criminal"? You can add intensifiers like "serious", "hardened", "deadly", etc to
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by wnoise 1y ago
Arguing that Mangione is _criminally insane_ is arguing that he shouldn't be legally punished, that a mental disease prevented him from having the necessary mens rea to actually have his act be criminal. Are you sure that's what
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by wnoise 1y ago
I haven't set a definition and really don't intend to, only saying the line must be quite far from where you are drawing it. Tying it to willingness to kill for some goal cannot be it -- not every soldier, cop, and security guard

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