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mahalex

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    Comment #45258254

    “Notes” is short for “lecture notes” and has nothing to do with size.

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    Comment #44904961

    Is there an active community of people using Python 2 and building things with it? Meanwhile, there are plenty of actively maintained compilers for C89.

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    Comment #44904559

    > languages like Python & Javascript have been around forever, support for them isn't going away ??? Python 2 went out of support five years ago.

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    Comment #38840404

    Modern versions of e.g. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" could not be in Standard Ebooks. So easiest to not carry any translations?

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    Comment #38840390

    > Most (nearly all?) religious texts of major world religions were originally written in languages other than English, and so if SE were to try to host those texts the site would h…

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    Comment #38230547

    Right, because ChatGPT is never wrong.

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    Comment #38188536

    > they decided that the iPhone 15 Pro was going to be used to film the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro And they didn’t do that: as far as we know, the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro w…

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    Comment #38173391

    Note that “Oren and Patashnik” is one person named Oren Patashnik.

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    Comment #36810805

    As with anything output by “AI”: you don’t.

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    Comment #36806702

    That’s what makes it even more embarrassing.

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    Comment #36806555

    So, it's a thing that appends "please format your response as the following JSON" to the prompt", then validates the actual response against the schema, all in a "while (true)" loo…

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    Comment #35670433

    I wouldn’t call it extremely complicated; it is much simpler than the proof of FLT.

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    Comment #35669615

    Because Catalan’s conjecture.

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    Comment #35669519

    If we exclude 0, the only solutions are 2^1 = 1^2 + 1 and 3^2 = 2^3 + 1