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dejj
·le mois dernier·discuss
RFC 3514 “evil bit” header flag to the rescue: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3514/
dejj
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
It seems like a simplified prisoners’ dilemma: it’s missing the negative weight if everybody presses red.
dejj
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
“The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.”

The Aenid, Virgil, Dryden translation.
dejj
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Multi-paragraph quotation repeats the opening quote in every paragraph, but closes the quote only once.[0]

Traffic signs repeat after every intersection, similarly.

It's a great help in recovering the "parser state" in my mind.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks_in_English#Quo...
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·il y a 6 mois·discuss
"I think this was a powerful lesson on the dangers of AI. Which by the way means 'love' in Chinese."

Elon Tusk, Rick and Morty, S4E4: https://youtu.be/xQHCz9ZZorA?t=129
dejj
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
I was curious, and you’re right. It would be Cargo Culting then, if we believed the ritual actually had an effect on Pratchett in the afterlife.
dejj
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Does “saying the name lest he be forgotten” classify as Cargo Cult?
dejj
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Urbit, is this you?
dejj
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
It’s neat. I wonder if someone attempted detecting a graph coloring problem to replace it with a constant.
dejj
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Plot twist: this universe (planet) was created in order to reverse engineer what the prompt of the previous one was.
dejj
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Agree.

> cargo-culting Stack Overflow

What do you mean by this? I understand “cargo-culting” as building false idols, e.g. wooden headphones and runways to attract airplanes that never come.
dejj
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Valid. Maybe something can be learned from using them more frequently, either by the maker or by the user.
dejj
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
“The office according to The Office” by Venkatesh Rao has the “clueless” act as gatekeepers between “sociopaths” and “losers”:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
dejj
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
“The Datasaurus Dozen”:

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/the-datasaurus-...
dejj
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
I consider Unique as user-defined affine types— half of what makes up a linear type.

Clean and Mercury are both mentioned in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substructural_type_system
dejj
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
> colours are ordered by usefulness

And then I finally realized they’re RGB vectors and additive:

000: black

001: red

010: green

011: yellow

100: blue

101: magenta

110: cyan

111: white
dejj
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
> Tiberian phylosophy

How to pass the Kobayashi Maru test!

> Wikipedia: The objective of the test is not for the cadet to outfight or outplan the opponent but rather to force the cadet into a no-win situation and simply observe how he or she reacts.