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"Methinks the lady doth protest too much"

Signatures do have similar problems to certificates. But Gemini doesn't avoid them either and often recommends TOFU certificates. I think the comment's point was that digital signa…

Bit-level skeuomorphism! And since NUL is zero, does that mean the program ends wherever you stop punching? I've never used punch cards so I don't know how things were organized.

Can you not see a difference between someone's imagination and a publicly posted image? Posting a photo of yourself online is not an invitation for AI generated nudes.

Town, outside, and dungeon represent decreasing levels of safety. In most games, players want a clear indication of how much danger they are in just walking around. Some games, lik…

It's hard for me to see the advantage of using one of these over pen and paper: - distraction free (except doodling) - lower power consumption - expressive in a way that typing can…

What's the advantage of standardizing through ISO/IEC? Better adoption in industry? Seems like this would take away a lot of power from RISC-V International. But I don't know much …

Live demos are especially hard when you're selling snake oil.

Does some interesting things if you up the ball speed to 20. The boundary breaks down. data.blackBall.v = data.whiteBall.v = createVector(0, 20);

"When in doubt, use brute force." --Ken Thompson

I was curious about the acceleration due to gravity at the surface: G * (120 Earth masses) / (radius of Jupiter ^ 2) Comes out to 9.7 m/s. Not bad!

Lisp In Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec It takes a very thoughtful approach to introducing an increasingly complex Scheme implementation. I doesn't shy away from the complexity …

They're in the write-ins for their respective categories. Emacs with 0.1%. Clojure with an impressive 0%!

I'm sorry but committing genocide is wrong without scare quotes. There is no justification.

Arizona has a similar law regarding the Uyghurs. Every contact needs a clause that says no Uyghur "forced labor" was used.

Aside from the lack of JVM, what's holding back Jank from being a drop in Clojure replacement?

This is usually called NaN-boxing and is often used to implement dynamic languages. https://piotrduperas.com/posts/nan-boxing

Syntactic sugar can sometimes fool us into thinking the underlying process is more efficient or streamlined. As a new programmer, I probably would have assumed that "storing" `data…

I'm not sure what you're asking. All those things are still out there. There are IRC chat rooms, forums, communities focused on building personal websites, and more. If you're aski…

I'm providing you my personal information so that I can train your AI for free?

Hundred Rabbits is like Urbit without the evil aura and digital real estate.

The key similarity between IIT (integrated information theory, for the uninitiated) and string theory is that both are unfalsifiable. Hubris can be forgiven. Unfalsifiability can n…

I'm not sure how your extreme example is helpful. No one has made a suggestion like that.

Baez seems to use the definition you call erroneous: "It’s easy to wax poetic about entropy, but what is it? I claim it’s the amount of information we don’t know about a situation,…

Would you say they have Blindsight ?