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I wonder if piracy will eventually fill for physical releases of movies and games. It might be a fun project to make an online store game work on blue ray with nice packaging...

That's not true, not all games are Game-Key cards, see https://www.dekudeals.com/switch-2-physical-games

They can include these limitations in a contract which can be enforced like any contract.

No you can't. Statistical tests assume independent data points. Testing the same individual repeatedly would be pseudoreplication, leading to wrong conclusions. If you mean run dif…

Typst tags by default, which is more than LaTeX can say. But LaTeX supports automatic tags for math which is huge. There's good progress on this in Typst (this release just added M…

That just means lower net voltage => lower current => lower torque right? When you do need torque you need current and the losses that come with it.

Much speculation here. It could well be that Iran's hard-line government will become stronger because of the war. People that were not specially pro- or anti-government probably di…

I'm not defending what the Iranian government did to their people. I suppose I am defending their reaction (closing the strait) to the assassination of their head of state and othe…

Would you say that blocking the strait is more unacceptable than bombing the US and killing the President and most high-ranking government officials? Just trying to establish a sca…

I mean you can connect the computer to sprinklers that activate when the system detects rain in the simulation if that's what you're after (that was just an aside to note that of c…

Well I don't understand how one can accept this argument. I mean if you believe in mind-body dualism it can make sense. But AFAIK Searle doesn't, instead he holds that there's some…

I'm curious what would be a good example of something where this falls short of what you need? I mean this Typst package just lets you import the notebook content in your Typst doc…

> My only complaint is that all functions are pure functions; there is not a way (that I know of) to share state from one function invocation to the next. Indeed user-defined funct…

For what's it's worth you can render Jupyter notebooks directly from Typst using the Callisto package. You can then style the notebook content as if it was written in Typst, using …

I had to follow your link to get it: I hadn't realized that 57 is not prime. At least I'm in good company.

Remember the XZ backdoor? Or do you mean that Rust build script attacks are less likely? (Probably true but not much comfort)

I wonder if using Typst would be a viable solution: the compiler can be built into a wasm component that runs locally in the browser (that's what the Typst webapp does) and it gene…

Privacy addresses... Isn't it silly to talk of privacy if the prefix doesn't change?

The first picture looks like aura quartz to me (crystal with an artificial metal coating). Is it natural?

On the other hand I read chicken is much worse than beef in terms of animal suffering. But that's much more dependent on the producer than the energy calculation and climate impact…

Consider the cost on local civilians of the Vietnam and Iraq wars (the GWB war likely killed more Iraqi civilians that Hussein did in 24 years). And the literal trillions of dollar…

Or at least stop starting wars. In this case it's especially depressing that the war's rationale exists only because Trump wanted to tank the deal made by Obama. Which was not a pe…

The non-profit still controls the board doesn't it?

I asked Gemini to reproduce the poem "The Road Not Taken". I got it in full (as far as I can tell without Gemini fetching anything from the web). I didn't provide any verse of the …

Just calling out the false equivalence (Grok self-regulation: dragging their feet and doing the absolute minimum too late after deflecting all blame on the users, while the competi…