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Strange, for you to say this in the age of transformers. They are obviously not there yet, but it seems inevitable to me that e.g. gpt 'understands' things better than a markov cha…

The french monarchy shot the rioters, and it worked. When they stopped murdering rioters, they got their heads cut off.

If you want logical separation, add sub-blocks to the function. You can see things as being a spectrum from fully inline code, to code blocks, to anon functions defined in the func…

The argument continues to say that the 'clean code' version isn't actually cleaner/more legible/more understandable. I, for one, am royally sick of spending 5 minutes trying to fig…

This is a fully general counterargument for why anything that is bad is actually good because it doesn't matter. "Places where air quality matters it is never sacrificed".

I think he bought in more people at one point, then sent them away again when he realized he wasn't able to keep the project on track with that many chefs making the soup. The prob…

If you read TFA, you'd know that the headline on the link isn't the headline of the article itself, which has no question mark. Presumably the mark was added here to assuage blue-t…

You know a lot of children would be raped in those concentration camps, right?

Building capital and controlling things is good for individuals or families, but less so for large, uncoordinated organisations, especially governments. If I, an individual, own a …

If I'm going to eat vegetables, I want to eat real vegetables, not an assortment of pea protein and flavorers slathered in preservatives that doesn't even taste as good as the thin…

What about the site owner's water supply? The disagreement here seems to over whether Cloudflare is more like a restaurant, or more like a utility company. Given the ubiquity of DD…

The guy who made the nazi pug video might disagree.

Kiwifarms has editorial control, though. Posts advocating swatting or violence are removed, and their users banned.

Individuals have sued them repeatedly and lost; the case I remember best is a woman called Melinda Scott. Here's an explanatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iqkpN9a6q8

It's not a problem if one print shop declines to print your flyer; it is a problem if there's only three print shops in the world.

>Could I declare self defense against a police officer? Not according to contemporary american law, but you should be able to!

>How can that system be justified? The 'bad guy' is whoever is the aggressor. Everyone has a right to life; if someone starts shooting at you, or swinging a bat at you, you have th…

There's usually more than one server per minigame. You could see it in the url you were redirected to; they had more servers running the more popular minigames. Each minigame has a…

The game servers don't restart after the end of a round, though, do they? I'd imagine they kick the players back to the lobby, reset the in-server game, and then tell the lobby to …

Biology kills us first, and in a manner that's contingent, not necessary; there are universes with physics similar to ours where life could continue forever. (Just add some rare no…

If you could figure out the distribution of universes, somehow, and figure out the distribution intelligences across them to a high enough fidelity to predict their actions (for ex…

That metaphor was originally used to justify criminalizing protesting wars.

There's a 'waterfall' effect of status signals. The upper class uses signal A to differentiate themselves from the middle class; the middle class catches on, and starts using signa…

I'm not religious, to be clear; I was just using religion as an example. I also went to a highly ranked university, for whatever it's worth. > Hypothesize -> experiment -> measure …

What you call over-explained magic, others call 'hard magic' (like 'hard sci-fi'). Mysterious magic can give that sense of wonder/ambience, but it's hard to use it in order to sati…