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thanks! we asked the model to generate some synonyms and antonyms (in this case, we have "cold" and "impassive" vs "affectionate" and "sensitive") Then, we ask the model to behave …

I'm totally going to say it your way from now on. But only for currency: "boku bucks", "watashi won", and "ore reals".

You just put together the clearest examples I've seen for illustrating this point. When it need to make it from now on, I'm linking to this comment :)

There are actually pretty decent webIDEs for all of those things (shareLaTeX's vim mode is pretty nice, too), and I did consider switching to a chromebook. I was actually about to …

I don't think it's about not using the GPLv3 --- a lot of software is stuck in GPLv2 because the maintainers can't get everyone who contributed (or their estate) to sign off on a l…

I don't think the "browser-only strawman" is condescending elitists dismissing users --- I'm a self-described GNU zealot on most days the only software I use on are apps like firef…

The book's subtitle is literally "A modular, capability-based operating system"[1] [1]: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/book.md

> It might eventually lead to one culture, but then that would be because we all learned from all the options and settled on the best combination. Isn't that the whole point of the…

This course of study seems to take just as much, if not more, time than a math ugrad+master's at a typical uni. The people who could really benefit from having a path of textbooks …

Switching to the mobile version s/www/m/ also does the trick

>Once the type program's been compiled to a Haskell module, it becomes in essence a type-level library. You can include it in your regular Haskell programs and use the type class i…

> This may be especially useful for satellite-to-ground links in less than perfect atmospheric conditions. Seems to me that the ionosphere would get in the way of this kind of tech…

> "Interestingly" is a distinctive word, especially at sentence-initial. Both Nakamoto and Szabo use this. > (I'd be interested to see if anyone can find Szabo starting paragraphs …

Mathematica is LISP, so it's really 0-based indexing, where the first element is the function you're applying. All the sugar and literals are made to hide this, but you can code li…

Consider an ASCII password of unknown length. Now you just show your mark each symbol to check if it's a part of the password, which would drastically and usefully reduce your sear…

The Oct 22 update basically says "nevermind".

Android ought to fall under Linux (Other), but he should still add it. He should also separate GNU/Linux (other) and BSD/Linux categories; see how many people are using BSD userlan…