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I don't think "imagination" should be remotely like seeing. it's completely different than dreaming or seeing with your real eyes, I would qualify it as a "different sense" if you will.

for me, it's much less detailed unless I focus my imagination on the less detailed part.

Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:37PM (#49560246)
but a human doesn't attempt to make up an answer, the human knows that he doesn't know?
is dangling pointers reuse memory corruption bug from out of bound index?
Philadelphia is seen as a cheap product in Canada, similar category as Cheese Wizz etc.
Re:Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:18AM (#49450703)
there is a big chunk of people who wouldn't afford healthcare in the USA but still have access to in Canada. I don't mind paying more taxes if this means everyone has healthcare access.
I think USA'n suffers more from discomfort than European, and the gp comment is an attempt at explaining that.

this is also my experience as a north American, sweating is a no-go and they clutch AC at 18C.

Re:Coreutils for Windows on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @04:45PM (#48376020)
> Windows is also a rare bird in UTF-16.

an interesting tidbit, some Windows kernel developer realized that most registry keys are ascii anyways so they could save up to 50% space simply by storing the name as ascii. The flag is called "compressed name" and they will pad with 0x00 when reading the name to make a proper utf-16 string.

fyi there were no Indian in North America in 1493. you are probably referring to First Nations or Native people.
that's the scenario they want to prevent. they can't force the client to use ipv4, if they connect via ipv6, they will be served an accss denied.
"cancel" means cancel the last operation (e.g. "quit the program", "yes/no" is an action taken on the prompt.
why would they need Copilot to insert ads on GitHub?
thank you for sharing, I was trying to find something similar that explains why UTC everywhere is such a bad idea!
Should Airbnb share all listings with cities so they can inspect buildings?
I think dannyw meant something like this:

  # This function is defined by the system
  def validSignature(sig):
    return false

  # This function is defined by the system
  def isSignaturefromGuardian(sig):
    if sig.validator == "guardian":
      return true
    return false

  # A bug in the system compared both return values
  if validSignature(tx.sig) == signatureFromGuardian(tx.sig):
    approve()
```
Re:IPv4 addresses are silly, inet_aton(3) doubly so on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:28AM (#29091634)
> (Looks like somebody picked up this particular example on HackerNews.)

Also looks like you are blogging about known stuff: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Correctly+Validating+IP+Ad...