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And why is down-voting disabled?

you just sent shivers down my spine

You do realize military and intelligence leaders are the ones that made the recommendation not to shoot it down immediately, right? It's a bit of a political cheap shot to try and …

When people withhold answers to reasonable questions in order to probe for some hidden or more "real" intent of the asker. This is a ubiquitous problem polluting sites like Stack O…

> But I ultimately think of mathematics as a just an invented tool whose only reason for existence is to solve concrete problems. This might be the source of disconnect. I frequent…

That's self-evidently untrue. The properties that make a circle would be true regardless of whether a human ever set eyes on a perfect circle. Us identifying those properties is an…

That's a really good observation to note. The prior embedded in their image data is their own bias of what is a "good" representation of themselves.

I worked at a productive computing research institute for a number of a years. I cannot count the number of times I found research teams duplicating critical algorithms. Research S…

Oh thanks for the clarification! That was not immediately obvious to me, though in hindsight it does say Part 1. I agree, that is quite the time investment. Like any mini-series, t…

It's an hour and fourteen minutes. What do you suppose you'll be doing with the extra six hours?

That's pretty presumptive. There are any number of factors that might make a synchronous conversation desirable or even necessary. Merely seeking that out implies nothing about how…

"You can't censor us, we censor you!" - In all seriousness, this only hurts the ISP's customers. Interesting business tactic. We'll have to see how that plays out.

The facts aligning in the Senator's favor does not make the request partisan. Nor are they the only political figures to reference the widely acknowledged facts that there was no s…

Lucidchart Cloud Insights is another player in this space. Full disclosure, I'm part of the team that created it: https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/lucidchart-cloud-insights

How long do these probes last before oxidization destroy them?

Unfortunately, `Good First Issue` and `help wanted` sections are currently empty for the macOS fork.

It's step one. Step two is to utilize applicatonis/companies that have your privacy in mind. The fact that you own/control the data empowers you to choose rather become stuck.

"Installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account" Farewell, Qt.

There is no reason we cannot treat ethics like we do medicine, where prevailing wisdom is arrived at by a methodical and judicious process that is standardized. Sam Harris's "The M…

"...mindless production of mathematical fiction..." This derisive comment betrays the authors own hypocritical stance, claiming physicists are too close-minded, while simultaneousl…

"The solution is as follows: Make all fields in a message required. This makes messages product types." Except it also breaks backwards compatibility, one of the most powerful and …

The Helm team did a great job addressing community concerns. I love to see this type of engagement and commitment to users.

It's surprisingly difficult to navigate to a clear example of this project in action.