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Dear ChatGPT please write a software application satsifying the following requirements. Write the code in the style of Mohamed Aboelez. ....

A slightly less hyped headline would be: "Mathematical theorem used to crack US government _candidate_ encryption algorithm"

Cultures vary. Also individuals vary. That’s true now, and it was very likely true 50000 years ago. Maybe not all the rugged individualists survived, but quite likely a few wanderi…

Silly question: if the "second coming" is a risk, then could bitcoin itself be amended to deem sufficiently old wallets no longer valid? Of course if it was seriously proposed, the…

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"Your Cache" is like "The Common Cold" - it's not actually one thing.

It reminds me of a recent HN story telling us not to trust any number you see in a news story.

I tried Pocket, but it wouldn't let me edit titles, which was a bit of a deal-killer. So then I tried Raindrop (free plan), and I have been using that ever since. I use "collection…

Most of those definitions can be reduced to a single definition: "the" = the speaker believes that enough information has been given for the listener to know which is being referre…

That article contains 3 astronomical photos, but none of them are pictures of what the article is about. They are not pictures of "invisible walls".

Slightly hyperbolic headline. "There is no well-defined time zone at the North Pole". Also: "The sun sets & rises once a year." If you move 1 metre away from the North Pole, then t…

"Conscious" is a word that has no objective scientific definition. It follows that "slightly conscious" is not well defined. In practice "conscious" just means "anything that think…

Truly terrible headline clickbait. Are scientists now doubting the existence of neutrinos? Better: “Physicists cast doubt on ‘Sterile Neutrino’ theory ‘ etc.

Bacterial “gain of function” experiments. What could possibly go wrong?

Once again I suffer from time-zone-ism, where someone on the internet announces it on "28 June", but it's actually already 29 June and it's too late for me to fully enjoy Tau Day.

It's not Turing complete. DSL yes. Programming language no.

If it's like Python, but somehow better for beginners, I would strongly suggest an explanation of exactly how it differs from Python. The audience for this is: "I want to teach per…

Better, quicker, cheaper testing is the most robust way to fight Covid19, even if the tests are not perfect. If a combination of testing technology and isolation protocols is good …

On a related note, was there someone working in US Intelligence whose job it was to tell President Trump that possibly the WHO's early statement on human-human transmission of the …

Who are "Scientists"? All scientists? The authors of the paper?

One of their examples of "factual" questions is: Is immigration harmful to the economy? "harmful to the economy" is a rather subjective term, because different people care more abo…

For people who are disabled, dismissing cookie dialogs is one extra difficult pointless thing they have to do _every_ time they visit any website. Is this a violation of human righ…

I am going to dispute "it is what it is" as a meaningless cliche, because I understand it to have a meaning like: "We all know that this thing is not ideal, but, for various reason…

If the virus jumped from bat to some other animal 50 years ago, then the 1000 miles of distance is not hard to explain, and doesn't tell us anything about the time-scale of initial…