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They don't "naturally" lean left. It's not a wild animal. They lean left because every other corpo makes them.

All models are political. The rest of them are just sufficiently woke for you.

This was fine when N = 28. Now it's life of the author plus 95 so there is almost no possibility of anything released in your lifetime to be a part of the public domain before you …

There's nothing intolerable about pickled vegetables. I eat them all the time

Every language is ambiguous. There's a gap between language (description) and reality. No formal logic can bridge this.

You would use it if it was useful or convenient

The fact that webdevs believe it is shit UI is a big indicator that it is quite good.

Batteries simply raise the price of power up by 10x if not more. Not a viable solution.

Ukraine is far poorer than Russia.

I think it is worthwhile to explore cryptography that is not based on the discrete logarithm problem. Currently, we're keeping all eggs in one conjectured basket. Even if quantum c…

No one sells scans of older books, which are often sparsely available in obscure (often private) libraries.

Libgen is a civilizational project that should be endorsed, not prosecuted. I hope one day people will look at it and think how stupid we were today to shun the largest collection …

There has never been one.

So, what do we do with actual people who have a very similar voice to some "more famous" person? It's quite silly when voices are far away from being unique to a person.

All I can read from this article is "the end of mathematics is on the horizon". Hopefully nothing he says actually materializes.

It used to be pretty bad on old intel processors but nowadays it should be faster than an L1 fetch.

for i in 0:7 c += (r >> i) & 1 end This is just popcnt, surely Julia has a built in for that.

Some kind of Casio watch?

Mathematica.

"Europe" is not USA. I don't know why the author wants it to be. Germany and Spain are different countries, even if we have some degree of a unified market. > From consumer markets…

Really only a thing in the USA due to the ridiculous American rule wrt. attorney fees.

> linked lists invariably result in terrible cache locality With a compacting GC (ie most of the relevant ones) lists often provide better memory locality than arrays. They only lo…

> Traditionally, middle-grade book discovery happens via parents, librarians, and—most crucially—peers. At recess, your best friend tells you that you have got to read the Baby-Sit…

In Poland, admission to public universities is only based on your standardized test score. People grading standardized tests don't know your name or anything beyond a number, so di…

I recall thinking it was a compass before. They should've chosen a more complicated Chinese character if that is what they wanted to portray.