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Indeed. Money over everything. It is absurd to complain about decreasing quality of a product that makes increasing money for increasingly rich people (thus, by definition, better)…

This article appears to be AI-written slop.

Recursion isn't lying to you. Rather, many JavaScript implementations are screwing you over.

Yes, because the number of calls in this setup is 2 * the next result - 1, and the Fibonacci sequence itself grows at this Θ(φⁿ) rate.

Homer's original won a blind writing test.

The "Everything is text, do everything via text" philosophy has its advantages, and also its disadvantages.

That just means even more limitations, then. (Though the grandparent comment is correct that literally everything is subject to the same Gödel-style limitation on its ability to ma…

What PC GPU was in mainstream consumer use before the N64?

Remember that the most valuable human in the world is Elon Musk. What it means to be valuable is to be like Elon Musk. Calibrate your goals accordingly.

What is the advantage of asking AI to build an engine cloning these existing engines, vs just using these existing engines.

When you look at Super Mario World, do you see moving animated sprites?

Fine by me. Let's give it a shot.

What if you believe (correctly) that a corrupt government intends to punish you exorbitantly beyond reason for possession of these zines? Is it still immoral to move the zines? Is …

Hacker News is for people who believe in the hacker ethos "It is immoral to do anything the government takes issue with and you deserve whatever punishment you get for doing so, un…

A lot of people in these Hacker News comments are accepting the framing that moving the zines is evidence tampering and therefore deserves a 30 year sentence. What crime are zines …

I watched Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow and stuff like that as a child. Seemed fine and even good.

"You'll leave with a strategy report" "No report, no lecture" Somewhat contradictory wording.

This is like how one often wants to distinguish the points of an affine space from the vectors representing displacements in that space (there is no distinguished origin for the ph…

The basic issue with geometric algebra is that geometric vectors generally do not have a distinguished notion of unit magnitude (is unit magnitude 1 meter? 1 mile? 1 inch?), so it …

Yes, let's please give police officers the copious (cop-ious?) benefit of the doubt they have earnt.

If it's so worthless, let me have it instead of him.

The stock market is not definitionally "reality" in the sense being used. It's perfectly fine to look at the stock market and consider it "detached from reality", in the sense bein…

I have a PhD in category theory and know what the Leech lattice is and I still don't understand what is going on here. What is the value of using the Leech lattice to store memory?…