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by xico 5mo ago
Well, force yourself to care. I'd argue that there is a very strong value in doing something good, not just because it's genetically or socially imprinted on you, but because you actually decide to do it. This applies to everythin
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by xico 5mo ago
Google and Meta are both Advertising companies. If we want to decrease a tiny bit the insane imbalance in societies we need to have a strong discussion about taxing advertising.
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by xico 7mo ago
Non-Hebbian and Anti-Hebbian potentiation have been well studied for decades. Anti-Hebbian notably for inhibitory connections.
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by xico 11mo ago
Those were popular in the 90s for image processing: e.g. https://shape.polymtl.ca/lombaert/levelset/
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by xico 11mo ago
Plus you can always `\catcode\∘=0` if you really hate backslashes :-D
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by xico 1y ago
Subsequent legislations are EU directives (and associated EU fines), which are not as corrupted as local legislations, and forced the UK to start building the Thames Tideway for instance. The population chose Brexit though.
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by xico 1y ago
If we are at the point where a hiring manager for a position deeply related to an open source library is not at least checking if the authors would be interested, I'm not sure.
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by xico 1y ago
Maybe if we reverted back to the original Nuclear Magnetic Resonance name, people would understand it could be a bit more dangerous that just an image when we are not careful.
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by xico 1y ago
Hydra and omegaconf are almost officially abandonware, you shouldn't really depend on them.
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by xico 1y ago
This case sounds crazy, I cannot even imagine loosing a child and how anybody could expect someone to keep sane in those conditions. Beyond this, there is a very clear difference between inciting hatred towards a group of people based on ra
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by xico 1y ago
Isn’t it what the EU is doing step by step to protect its citizens? Politicians should be jailed, both on the legislative and executive side, including Presidents, if they ignore the law. France is showing this once again with hopeful Marin
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by xico 1y ago
As an occasional user, can confirm that motion sickness pills (e.g. Cinnarizine, one of the most used in the British Navy) make dizzy, some more than other, and that it’s still much better overall than not taking them.
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by xico 1y ago
The first page in the documentation, Getting Started, gives a React sample: https://animejs.com/documentation/getting-started/using-with...
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by xico 1y ago
There are some many kids with mesiodens and such that the diagram should also have little weirdly shaped bumps all around also. Also there shouldn't be an age limit for tooth fairies! I'm sure someone's great grandma would lo
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by xico 1y ago
Just for the confusion, in France, Belgium and areas around, it's bells, flying back from Rome, that bring chocolate to the children. The bells on churches fly there and are silent for some time and then come back on Easter with the sw
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by xico 2y ago
When people choose not to have their vote represented, for whatever reason, when the outcome was so clear in advance, then there is practically, legally, morally and philosophically no distinction between not voting and voting for Trump.
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by xico 2y ago
This is actually a normal manuscript π as taught in Greek school. See https://www.typotheque.com/articles/modern-handwriting-a-his...
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by xico 2y ago
Yup. Plus the interactions you'd expect for instance in terms of matching style of voice in a normal discussion are missing. That being said it still sounds pretty impressive.
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by xico 2y ago
A poor person cannot afford to miss a day at the job, or not care for their children, when it would just be another day not working for a rich one. Not to mention the difference in life expectancy between the richest and poorest populations
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by xico 2y ago
> 1 KB = 1000 bytes But standard is kB, from kilo prefix.
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by xico 2y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a28802
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by xico 2y ago
One of the (maybe more) obvious downside being the increase in mutations this brings, in the order of 1 full generation of mutations for every decade the fathers are older for instance. There are plenty of studies on these issues, notably p
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by xico 3y ago
Is it French (midi)?
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by xico 3y ago
Although the article mentions that this research had few practical applications for beer fermentation, in 1888 Pasteur work with the Champagne makers Joseph Perrier led to critical improvements in bottle explosion rates.
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by xico 3y ago
That’s indeed its interface, but there is still a huge training phase during which the model was taught using mostly English, and it explains why some other languages interactions feel like they are some direct translation of English expres
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by xico 3y ago
I really like the default choices (floor as a “function”, lots of latex heritage, …). The first example is a bit weird though: the word “The” is not left aligned as it would be in a typesetting system, taking perception into account, but me
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by xico 4y ago
It is a pretty well known fact. The concept of human race is developed by racist ideologies (obviously), see for instance [1], and is as such a banned concept in many countries. [1] https://bioanth.org/about/position-st
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by xico 4y ago
Tax evasion is still an estimated loss of tens of billions of euros of equivalent per country every year. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... https://www.dianeosis.org/e
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by xico 4y ago
What you are implying is not super clear. Are you saying that the French nationalizations [1], which btw predate the emergence of democracy in 1789, are somehow signs of an autocratic system? If you look at the Fifth Republic, most of the n
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by xico 4y ago
It seems the parenthesis are only used to indicate the priority, like in Haskell, so you wouldn't really use them for `fn (1)`.

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