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Thanks for posting this. It served as a call to action for me, and hopefully it will for others as well.

Oh look, my old friend Checked Exceptions! I knew we would meet again one day :) In all seriousness, anonymous sum types would be quite nice. It would make it easier to be precise …

Cute idea. I like that you can click on the creeps to invert their value. However, I found that the path logic inscrutable and frustrating. The creeps take a random path when they …

Someone else posted a link to the source for this quote: https://www.zerohedge.com/user/105370 . The writer pretty clearly has an axe to grind with the city, the sanctions, the war…

Wow, that guy is ... extreme. I'm glad you posted the link, but I'd personally take any conclusions he draws with a grain of salt.

This is a good line of questioning. I believe that the difference between the two situations is that the pizza deal is implied to be just for Alice and Bob. If either walks away th…

Off topic for password rotation, but has anyone tried assigning randomly generated passwords to the users rather than letting them choose their own? People (including me) _hate_ me…

For comparison (not trying to be argumentative!), it looks pretty good in gnome terminal on linux mint: https://utio.net/demos/box_drawing.png I only mention this because I've used…

Just found this (on reddit). I'd love to know more about what's going on. It's amusing that the Go app was built in a highly controlled environment, while the kernel was built on s…

For anyone interested, here are links to the slides and the accompanying white paper. [Slides] https://millcomputing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20... [White Paper] https:/…

Try this shell script: #! /bin/sh # This is a bit hacky: we use the -i flag to force the interpreter into # interactive mode after the initial commands are executed. # The "proper"…

Ironically, xonsh itself suffers from a long startup time due to it's use of python. This is my primary (negative) experience with the issue in the linked article, and the reason w…

If we can't quantify "internal experience" then what leads philosophers to believe it exists? What evidence is there that conciousness is distinguished by something other than raw …

I don't understand how lazy loading could help here. The images are all behind hyperlinks, and their display sizes are all hardcoded into the HTML. There is nothing preventing the …

Popper was talking about tolerance in general. Tolerance of hateful actions, in general, is counter-productive. Tolerance of speech in particular is not, as speech alone does not a…

I think the 60 Minutes segment was just marketing copy handed to them by IBM (how else could they talk for 20 minutes about cutting-edge ML without mentioning Google or Amazon at a…

This explanation really helped, thank you.

I found that the "new" site looks reasonable with javascript completely disabled (i.e. turn it off in the browser settings). The problem appears to be when using a plugin to select…

Dutch elm disease (and emerald ash borer) wiped out natural tree populations in forests just as thoroughly as those planted in the city. While monocultures are not helping, that is…

Practicality aside, that was a fascinating and very well-written paper. Thank you for posting it.

This is just playing games with microeconomic terms. However you choose to define "value", using heroin is self-destructive and usually (always?) irrational. If you choose to inclu…

I think BSR here stands for "branch to subroutine", i.e. CALL.

The two conditions are not equialent - the first is true if GEngine is null or does not use sound, and the second is true if GEngine is not null and is undefined otherwise due to d…

But what would happen if we actually succeeded in preventing aging and death? Death is, as far as I can tell, not an accident or some kind of cosmic tragedy. It's the constant, for…