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Technically, the actual statement in Galois theory is even more general. Roughly, it says that, for a given polynomial over a field, if there exists an algorithm that computes the …

Sure, you can do that. The parent's point is that if you want this mapping to obey the rules that an actual definition in (say) first-order logic must obey, you run into trouble. I…

Yeah, that's more or less how I feel about it as well. I would even go further and say that the existence of the open world makes the Legacy Dungeons worse. It's quite unfortunate …

This is just plainly false. While not quite as bad as the average Ubisoft game, Elden Ring's world design is very similar to Elder Scrolls, Skyrim in particular. Most of what the a…

You don't have to , and I personally also find small-talk with strangers rather tedious, but in the specific cases brought up by the author, it sounded like he would've saved himse…

Fundamentally, a lot of knowledge we possess as individuals is socially constructed, in the sense that we trust the process and the institutions that created it. Even if this knowl…

> You think John Carmack was the only one trying to make 3d games when Doom came out? Thousands of programmers where trying to. Does that make him a 10x programmer in your opinion?…

That honestly sounds like a failure to communicate with the researcher first and foremost. If it's difficult to prioritize the fix internally due to organizational politics, that's…

My understanding of doing things "properly" as an engineer, is picking the solution with the right tradeoffs for my use case. If the cost to the business of having some amount of s…

> I would suggest looking up what the Dutch did in relation to race equality in history and how we were involved in a lot of slave trade, sometimes even to the US. I am aware of th…

I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for at least a couple actual examples of this change helping people feel better about participating in technology. In the absence of …

> I for one think it's great that people are willing to make things a little more accessible for more people. If people want to be part of our community of developers I think it's …

There is no way to separate dissent from disinformation a priori, other than by making assumptions about the other party's good faith. And so, you can paint anything you disagree w…

The report linked mentions the ACLJ being involved in several ECHR cases, and submitting an amicus brief in favor of the recent Constitutional Court decision. That's it. You think …

> managed to turn Poland against abortion As a Pole, this comes off as incredibly arrogant and self-centered. People outside the US have agency as well, they're not all just puppet…

> One of the problems is that most of what people call ‘bugs’ or relevant ‘information’ about Apple is actually false. Is that actually a problem? Many other platforms have no such…

I wasn't really commenting on what Apple should or shouldn't be doing, just on the tone of the conversation in this thread. That said... Apple have a really good, straightforward o…

It really is one of the most egregious examples of a cultural echo chamber I've seen on HN. We're talking about a brutal police force serving a corrupt and delegitimized regime, th…

> Does every country in the world really have to be a democracy? They don't. Does every country in the world really need to have racial equality and an even-handed police force? Th…

Slightly pedantic correction: This is a performance optimization in CPython. I wouldn't be surprised if other implementations have something similar, but to my best knowledge, this…