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"gypsie" cannot be substituted by "junky" or "homeless", for the simple reason that those words simply mask the ethnicity and immigration overtones, which are very much present in …

I'm from France, and when browsing, I often get paywalled when I reject all non-essential cookies. The CNIL (who is in charge of the application of GDPR) ruled that this was compli…

> The clearest sign a tool is serving you is that you stop noticing it—it becomes invisible. You don’t celebrate its flaws because you’re not turning them into a hobby, rather you …

This is assuming that you'll be priced the fraction of computing that you consumed. But you are actually paying for their infrastructure, for the R&D (and also the computation that…

I agree with the feeling. But if you agree with the analysis of the article, this cat & mouse game ultimately amounts to stop disclosing our reasoning threads through commonly acce…

A tautology is a sentence vacuously true. This is called a pleonasm.

Are you being sarcastic? This has definitely changed with Apple Silicon. Looking at hardware value, the M-series are way more competitive than the Intel macs ever were, and if you …

Tails works like this, and has gained a lot of traction in the past few years — although one may argue that running from RAM is only indirectly responsible for its popularity. I th…

I think there's a large cultural bias at play here. Different nations have different relationships to religion. As a french person, the decision to mark religious content as NSFW s…

Valuing how others remember you is definitely a motivation in life for many. I respect that it is not your own, respect that it may be mine. It is by no means "absurd".

I don't think we have such a lower bound: from a “theoretical" point of view (in the sense of the post), your processor could walk on the cube of memory and collect each bit one by…

(I’m an EU-based user of Apple products) I see your point. However, Apple already provides a translation API[0], a speech recognition API[1], and a Text2Speech API[2], so not a lot…

Note that this is not incompatible with the author's view. The function abstraction does solve something : a problem we faced in the 20th century. While I don't know whether I agre…

Well, doesn't that specific meaning apply here? I mean, the lack of protection for end-users is at first compensated by investment money (low prices and huge effort on support). On…

A few weeks ago, I saw a blog post here about their new billing policy[1]: if you don't use Kagi during a month, they'll pause your subscription. Personally, because of this one fe…

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Intuitively, it seems to me that those examples of classical "non-determinism" are radically different from the quantum ones, in the sense that quantum physics theorize non-determi…

Am I the only one a bit disturbed by this whole communication ? I mean, we all know helping disabled is not the end-game objective of neuralink. And right now, from a very cynical …

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\times denotes the cartesian product (to my knowledge) universally. If 3rd-semester calculus is when you introduce a general definition of continuity (I am not from the US, wouldn'…

I found your comment quite agressive, and a bit out of place. I, for one, do have trouble getting others to read my handwriting (on boards mostly, on paper it's ok). I'm left-hande…

It is unknown whether quantum computing makes NP-complete problems easier to solve. There is a complexity class for problems that can be solved "efficiently" on using quantum compu…

I think you have understood "writing" in a very narrow sense. As mentioned in other replies, Stephen Hawking was a very prolific author. He did not write much, but he sure knew how…

Idk if that was parent's ref, but clopen is a term used in topology