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Have you seen Spaceballs? Halfway through the movie they stop the story to fast-forward through the VHS of the movie itself.

Only if you take no pleasure in good writing.

The stack is really a convenience that makes pipeline-driven programming possible in the language.

Another victory for Marxism.

I suspect there is a high correlation between those who oppose mandatory bike helmet laws and antivaxxers.

"... dead spotted crawling down ice ... " :-o

The world's elites have factored in global warming already. It's a cost they are happy to shift onto their descendants.

Makes me think of Quatermass ...

I love that it embraces standoff properties for rich text markup.

I fondly remember that time I got the flu shot in my childhood and never had to get a flu shot again. Thank goodness viruses never mutate!

Mobile data.

"Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the ne…

Alternative title: "What we should do about the mentally ill homeless".

"In a nutshell, the problem is this: You’re conscious. But if you’re just made of non-conscious matter, why and how exactly could consciousness arise from that?" Another way of phr…

Tarantella https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella

As soon as you have kids that depend on you the answer is "yes".

You may be interested in Solid JS which also offers reactivity without a virtual DOM ..

For interest, here is WYSIWYG standoff property text editor in JS. It allows changes to the text stream and management of annotations (called here "standoff properties"). https://g…

Except that Caravaggio wasn't a Renaissance artist as he worked in the Baroque period.

Absolutely right. Unlike Michelangelo he wasn't: - a sculptor - an architect - a poet - or a military engineer

What aesthetic criteria will they appeal to to justify that? When you spend decades erasing the definition of art you can't act surprised when someone finds ways to exploit it ...

...... Or they could be offered an Australian visa and repatriated for their service.