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cognomano

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    Comment #46239688

    So… caches. The unfortunate reality of high used systems.

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    Comment #45592472

    I suppose identity is inherently associated with language. I can imagine that this also happens with programming languages.

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    Comment #45369818

    what-is-reality redirects to Wikipedia search. I’m not impressed. I wish I could tell the LLM: try again!

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    Comment #45369653

    Church numbers in Python? Kewl!! Edit: now, if I could rename “lambda” as λ.

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    Comment #45310626

    I suppose trademark law will be the catch-all protection Disney will be using from now.

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    Comment #45298595

    We are not in Kansas anymore. Well done.

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    Comment #45258853

    Sorry, I don’t understand what button can I press. Playing on iPhone.

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    Comment #45199631

    TL;DR: «Only “necessary traffic” is allowed in Pontevedra: vehicles used for emergency and public safety, public services (including garbage and water trucks, etc.), transportation…

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    Comment #45123877

    I like this. Is like “Interface Hall of Shame” for AI.

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    Comment #44979170

    Using an over-glorified text autocomplete to invent formulas on Excel - what could go wrong?

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    Comment #44853080

    I just use its fantastic border detection to scan documents to images. iOS notes can generate PDFs from a photo but I found it cumbersome. Any alternative?

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    Comment #44167233

    I can't read it on iPhone: the Reader doesn't work and neither the increasing the font size. Sorry!

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    Comment #44069485

    Now that is a great explanation why the world is crazy.

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    Comment #43932080

    As usual, insight from 2013: https://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped

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    Comment #43597081

    May be making the countdown optional will be better. I like it!

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    Comment #43543598

    Only white moves. Eat black. Go to green dot.

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    Comment #43097926

    Related: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/462790/are-there-an...

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    Comment #42874906

    Techology is a tool. It serves every corner of the political and ideological spectrum.

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    Comment #42833680

    Limited resources lead to inventions.

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    Comment #42407053

    After 28 years of leaving BASIC for C and then Java, I took a course on data science using Python. I heartily agree with you. The simplicity and power Python brings is refreshing.

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    Comment #41498236

    What license?

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    Comment #40294190

    > Execution order between cells is not guaranteed to be stable and may differ for different versions of Python.

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    Comment #40139382

    This is so insane is cool.

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    Comment #39354639

    Tag languages were a success because SGML. Once we past XML tag languages are not loved by many people. JSON, YAML, and a myriad of another languages are being teach and used today…