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agnishom

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    Comment #49227180

    Shouldn't it be "My phone is a server now"?

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    Comment #49206551

    Not really. Perhaps this will help: Can you have a set of points Y on a plane such that Y satisfies the following? Given any line passing through 2 points on Y, there is also a thi…

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    Comment #49205832

    That is not what was meant. Here is a better rephrasing: Let X be a set of points not all of which are collinear. Then, there are two points a, b in X such that the line l passing …

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    Comment #49193406

    So, this is not an actual OS? I clicked thinking that I was about to read about some excellent systems innovation, but I was met with automation of boring office work

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    Comment #49064584

    Without the details of what the compromise is, this article is mostly tautological. Of course, _some_ things require compromise. But many things do not. Assuming false dichotomies …

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    Comment #49053944

    I hope to see Grant Sanderson win it in 2030

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    Comment #49000761

    Some publishers such as Tor will occasionally publish DRM free ebooks. I have very little respect for DRM, though. Personally, if the author has a patreon, I suggest donating the $…

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    Comment #48987565

    Awareness is the first step, but very far from the final one. (I am sure the author knows this, but worth reiterating.) Surveillance Capitalism is fueled by large institutions with…

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    Comment #48965823

    Will it be able to understand my English with an Indian accent?

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    Comment #48888781

    > it is accurate and interesting, do you care who wrote it? Yes, because I have an interest in traces and mechanisms of human connections being preserved.

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    Comment #48877332

    The main difference is that the core API is public infrastructure (run by a government authority). The apps are run by different companies but the backbone is interoperable by desi…

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    Comment #48854722

    They have an youtube channel as well, which might stream better: https://www.youtube.com/@ergo_org

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    Comment #48703683

    A while ago, we wrote a paper about finding regexes which match the same way in both the greedy semantics and the leftmost maximal semantics. https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/1053…

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    Comment #48654539

    > Selfish LLM usage: A situation in which someone uses an LLM to save their own time at the expense of other people’s time, resulting in a net productivity loss. Brilliant. I would…

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    Comment #48628401

    does this help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGA6Tj9_lSg

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    Comment #48628353

    How about kellenok.github.io/cure-script/ But actually, I prefer the app "human japanese"

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    Comment #48627531

    It's not discouraging at all. Japanese concepts do not have a 1-1 mapping with English concepts, so there is a lot of debate about how it can be taught. I find it fascinating.

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    Comment #48627504

    Many Japanese English speaksers instinctively pronounce si as shi. They say shistem for system, bashic for basic, shix for six, etc

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    Comment #48619275

    Finally some good news in 2026

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    Comment #48615856

    Perfect. That is exactly what I needed to know

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    Comment #48604947

    > Are people migrating to alternative hosting? Yes, are they? Where are the alternative hosting that do the same thing as Bluesky?