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Why is makeup considered cheating but surgery not?

This is not really the point though. Why is "uses Chomskian language" the criteria for whether it not it's okay to to change and slaughter a living being?

So the image needs to be regenerated every time the post is read? Sounds wasteful to me.

If I remember correctly, at Google we would run a sampling profiler on some processes in prod to create these profiles, with some mechanism for additional manual overrides

On the blackboard he and his students wrote "Godel's Proof -- too important to be left to the mathematicians." As a mathematician, I'd love if anyone here knew the context

And the not asked often enough corollary: just because there exists a technical solution to a problem, does that mean it's the right solution?

I mean I'm general, I'd rather buy fewer of the same things no matter if it's cheap or expensive if I didn't have to, and it would use less resources. Juicing someone's quarterly s…

And not necessarily the long term result anybody wants

Erdos-Bacon number is a join and sum ;)

Yes I meant specifically for Kevin Bacon. There are other all pairs shortest paths algorithms besides running Dijkstra N times

They call the dijkstra implementation slow but that's because they aren't using the full information it presents. Dijkstra gives shortest paths from one node to every other node in…

I don't understand why constexpr allocated memory can't be freed at runtime. It's not so different from statically allocated memory being freed at runtime. Maybe it requires hooks …

Travel by bus in London and your opinion may change

Drive by appreciation of this micro bit of prose.

Most browsers will accept a mouse click or screen tap as user action which allows audio playback. I've used overlays to solve this problem, for example on https://cafegoblin.com (s…

Or you just use the app store version and it all works fine?

I'm sure that helps them pay their rent and put food on the table.

Better to enjoy your life before your debilitating disease than to be miserable up until your debilitating disease. The fisherman was going to die anyways.

I suppose they're talking about utilitarianism? But that's hand wavey math at best. Eg the whole "torture someone for 50 years or remove a speck of dust from trillions of eyeballs"…

I use radios in a hybrid approach. I'll make a radio, find a song I like, and then go play the album through and let Spotify start recommending, and repeat. Tends to make enough va…

Beautiful! Can I request banjo and chromatic modes?

A quote that's impossible to read without some irony

Jigsaw is run by Google but if you look at outlines GitHub you'll notice that it's completely independent of anything Google.

Outline (getoitline.org) is this in reverse: you set up a Shadowsocks proxy outside Iran and distribute access to it inside Iran

It is indeed Shadowsocks (I used to be affiliated with that team)