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"To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science." - Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem Th…

My smoke test for new models is to get it to generate a crossword, and this is the first time it's done a good job on the layout: ■ S W A M B L A M E E A G E R A T O N E M E N D ■ …

Removing the escape key is what bothered me most as someone using Vim keybindings. It made it feel very unpleasant to edit code because the Touch Bar had no physical feedback. I st…

> Funnily enough, the EU guy who is leading this and doubling down, is Romanian. What is the relevance of your personal (and poorly informed) opinions about Romanians? It’s a needl…

Clojure's implementation of `memoize` is here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju... What were the special cases for your use case?

I participated in the study along with my former partner. IIRC, I was asked at a health check-up if I knew my partner's status, and then asked if we wanted to enroll. It just invol…

It seems pretty common to just type the extra letters in Romanian as their most visually similar Latin character. I've never seen anyone writing Romanian with digraphs when they're…

This is off-topic, but the Gentoo installation guide that this page is a part of is one of the most comprehensive and accessible Linux guides I've ever read. It taught me a lot of …

Not exactly. But there are definitely overtones of nationalism and anti-liberalism in what ministers were saying at the Conservative party conference and in recent anti-immigration…

I've already suggested this as a replacement for my company's Informatica/Salesforce/Custom reporting setup, which is a huge, confusing, and time-consuming mess, for something that…

I'm planning on moving from London to Berlin within 6 months (I'm British), and mostly for the same reasons (RIP fabric). I have a couple of German citizens as friends who are also…

Very nice. Is the function that determines whether a chord inversion is likely to be correct based on any sort of well-known algorithm? I don't have the musical fluency to comprehe…

Honestly, I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for a few years now, and I still don't use even half of the bangs or instant answer features. Occasionally the Wikipedia summaries …

Don't forget seasonal affective disorder, or just the general influence on affects that cloudy weather has. Imagine waking up to streaming sunlight every morning. I can see that ma…

I'm sure that most of the benefit of using this tool is derived from the fact that the music is consistently low-tempo and relaxing ambient music. Comparing that to an album of amb…

Care to elaborate on what the 10% covers? I can see a few places where pure functional programming might not be as clear as imperative code, but I don't think that it invalidates t…

I agree with Ayn Rand's theory of economics insofar as it would work great if everyone only ever acted in their own self-interest. But there will always be exploitation if there ar…