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I hate that, and I usually just skip that part. No point fighting it, I guess.

I really prefer the original list, which is short and to the point. Your #5 is a subset of

    3. Be a member of the prevailing tribe.

Tribe can mean many things here, including: team, company, country, and I guess also gender and skin color (but there's not much you can do about that).

Same with #6 which is an expansion of being charismatic.

Those are actually just regular l's, and the "upside down n" is just a regular "u". The more interesting letters are from the Unicode IPA Extensions range: https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/ipa-extensions/

If I request a password reset, that constitutes an approval to send me that email.

You're just a few steps away from reinventing Twitter!

> Did the foundations of what is knowable by science shift during the night?

Yes! The moment the approval committee decides that certain experiments are no longer allowed, that makes some results no longer reachable by science, or at least not in a reasonable manner.

Wouldn't a simple LED indicator have the same result? My "dumb" dishwasher has a small light it shines on the floor when it's on. Also, if I set it up and close it without actually starting it, it beeps to let me know.

Some Google services have support. I pay for extra storage, and I get Google One bundled with it, which includes a support channel. I haven't tried it myself yet, but I heard that it's reasonable. The real issue is that when you're banned, you get locked out of the whole service.

At first I thought it was about an algorithm to generate text with mistakes on purpose - and that it did a nice job.

Oh, no-one here is claiming that their idea makes any financial (or technological) sense, just that their idea is indeed storing it on the blockchain.

Did you actually read the post? They propose to put it on-chain, and even say

> [O]ur NFT collection could very possibly become the largest on-chain collection ever in the history of Ethereum. Time would only be on our side because as gas becomes more expensive, the window of opportunity to bypass our on-chain NFT collection would fade away.

I don't think right-to-left is the issue, since numbers in Arabic are still written left-to-right. However, they use different digits, which don't fit on a 7-segment display, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals .

And there's also Thai numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_numerals .

> For height 5, it's impossible, by the golden ratio.

Strictly speaking, it's Conway's proof uses the golden ratio. But it could be that there's an alternate proof that doesn't use the golden ratio.

The full cartoon video is still on the official channel: https://youtu.be/jf3ajS5me78

Not sure if I want to get into this discussion... but is underage porn still illegal when it's not technically depicting a real person? And is it moral? I could see it going either way (no child got hurt in the process / but it may push someone with pedophile tendencies towards acting on them / but it could also provide a safe outlet for someone with those tendencies).

I think you need to divide by tan(15) instead, which would give 9330 ft.

How is that better that just stealing a car without the airtag?

What is "virtue signal about virtue signalling"? If you don't need Whatsapp to communicate with your friends/family/colleagues then good for you. In my social circles Whatsapp is a must. Refusing to use it is almost like refusing to have a cellular phone, which is too high a price for me to pay.

My comment started a thread where people felt comfortable to explain why they accepted the terms, so I think I did contribute something.

People seeing this post are split to 2 groups:

- Those who didn't accept the new terms are glad to use the opportunity to virtue-signal.

- Those who accepted the new terms are afraid to admit so.

I'll bite the bullet: I accepted the terms.

If you want more honest opinions, you should probably post an anonymous poll.

According to GP that's still the easier part. A more valuable service would be a "bill-a-company-for-your-open-source-work"-as-a-service.

My take is that there is a wide gap between informal discussions of UB, such as blog posts, and the way compiler writers think of them. So I'm leaning towards the "obvious to researchers" option.

What sort of questions? Care to give a concrete example?

GPT-3 is certainly capable of regurgitating facts, even to the point of rewording them, and connecting a small number of facts together. But it's not capable of making logical deductions in any consistent manner.

Practically speaking, it is not a good advice to just treat log(n) as if it is constant. While it's true that log(n) is always small in practice, the conclusion should not be to ignore it, but rather to notice the constant factor. And in practice, usually data structures with O(log n) complexity also have a bigger hidden constant. For example, std::unordered_map is much faster in practice than std::map. Of course, this is not strictly correct, it's just a heuristics. Quicksort with its O(log n) [Edit: O(n log n)] complexity is a counter-example to this.

I think that this is indeed the formula in GP's question. And indeed sometimes math notation is obtuse like that. It looks like 2 terms, but the triangle goes together with the t as a single term. At other times it might be called "dt" and despite looking like a multiplication of 2 variables (d and t, or triangle and t in this case) it's just a single variable with a named made of 2 characters.

The important thing here is that "For a pulse of width Dt" is the definition of this variable, but this can be easily missed if you're not used to this naming convention.

Okay, you convinced me about that one (I haven't heard about this love rose thing before, and I don't live in the US). But my point about the stirrers still stands.

I also think that the cheap socks are just that. But maybe they're popular due to their additional unintended use.

I seriously doubt many of your predictions.

2. Valorizing excess

Not sure what exactly you mean by this, but having more than you need and showing off is basic human behavior, and I don't see a reason that will change.

3. Bonfires and fireworks

Bonfires are fun and so are fireworks. They have some downsides, but not more than many other fun things we allow.

4. Anonymity

There will always be places where you can act anonymously or pseudo anonymously. See 4chan and bitcoin for example.

5. Air, noise, and light pollution

There will always be the next kind of not-yet-illegal pollution, and the person to profit from inflicting it upon the rest of us.

6. Having more than 2 kids

Most people will have 1-3 kids, some will have more. Nothing absurd about reproducing.

8. Buying new stuff all the time

See 1

12. Golf

Might be less popular, but why absurd?

13. Body modification and tattoos

Basic human desire to control your body and what you look like. If anything it will be more popular as technology improves.

15. Running unaudited code

With the halting problem on one hand (making automatic auditing impossible) and the high value of software on the other, I don't see any way around this anytime soon. Maybe some AI based solution.

16. Non-tailored medicine

One prediction I fully agree with! Especially many invasive examinations we consider standard today.

17. Tribal politics

Human nature...

20. Burial

Also human nature. Not the American style burial with the huge casket and embalming and whatnot. But some kind of burial will always be the norm.

21. Men standing to pee

???

23. Tipping 24. Advertizing

Human nature...

31. Automotive fatalities

Maybe on the road. But what about space fatalities?

Your original comment makes it sound like the main purpose of the small spoon is for cocaine - "Turns out it was for coke". But it's not "for coke", it's for stirring your coffee, and it's just that cocaine users found an alternative use for it. The article makes this pretty clear.

Those all sound like urban legends.

The coffee stirrers are for ... stirring your coffee. They look like a small spoon just because that shape works well for stirring the beverage.

If you generate randomly then, due to the birthday paradox, after generating sqrt(N) values you have a reasonable chance of collision.

The birthday paradox is named after the non-intuitive fact that with just 32 people in a room you have > 50% of 2 people having a birthday on the same day of the year.