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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
RFC 3514 “evil bit” header flag to the rescue: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3514/
dejj
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
It seems like a simplified prisoners’ dilemma: it’s missing the negative weight if everybody presses red.
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·3 miesiące temu·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
·6 miesięcy temu·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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·6 miesięcy temu·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
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·6 miesięcy temu·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
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Does “saying the name lest he be forgotten” classify as Cargo Cult?
dejj
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Urbit, is this you?
dejj
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
It’s neat. I wonder if someone attempted detecting a graph coloring problem to replace it with a constant.
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·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Plot twist: this universe (planet) was created in order to reverse engineer what the prompt of the previous one was.
dejj
·7 miesięcy temu·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
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Valid. Maybe something can be learned from using them more frequently, either by the maker or by the user.
dejj
·8 miesięcy temu·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
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
“The Datasaurus Dozen”:

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/the-datasaurus-...
dejj
·5 lat temu·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
·5 lat temu·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
·7 lat temu·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.