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Re:The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry Notes on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:13AM (#45258254)
“Notes” is short for “lecture notes” and has nothing to do with size.
Re:Architecting LARGE software projects [video] on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:00PM (#44904961)
Is there an active community of people using Python 2 and building things with it? Meanwhile, there are plenty of actively maintained compilers for C89.
Re:Architecting LARGE software projects [video] on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:27PM (#44904559)
> languages like Python & Javascript have been around forever, support for them isn't going away

??? Python 2 went out of support five years ago.

Re:Standard Ebooks on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:09AM (#38840404)
Modern versions of e.g. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" could not be in Standard Ebooks. So easiest to not carry any translations?
Re:Standard Ebooks on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:08AM (#38840390)
> Most (nearly all?) religious texts of major world religions were originally written in languages other than English, and so if SE were to try to host those texts the site would have to make an editorial call about which translations of those texts are the "best."

The site already hosts a number of works that were originally written in languages other than English, and yet it had no problems making an editorial call about which translations of those texts are the "best." The obvious solution would be to just allowing multiple translations of foreign-language books.

Right, because ChatGPT is never wrong.
> they decided that the iPhone 15 Pro was going to be used to film the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro

And they didn’t do that: as far as we know, the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro was not shot with iPhone 15 Pro.

Note that “Oren and Patashnik” is one person named Oren Patashnik.
Re:Introducing TypeChat from Microsoft on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:58AM (#36810805)
As with anything output by “AI”: you don’t.
Re:Introducing TypeChat from Microsoft on Thursday July 20, 2023 @05:01PM (#36806702)
That’s what makes it even more embarrassing.
Re:Introducing TypeChat from Microsoft on Thursday July 20, 2023 @04:49PM (#36806555)
So, it's a thing that appends "please format your response as the following JSON" to the prompt", then validates the actual response against the schema, all in a "while (true)" loop (literally) until it succeeds. This unbelievable achievement is a work of seven people (authors of the blog post).

Honestly, this is getting beyond embarrassing. How is this the world we live in?

Re:Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:07PM (#35670433)
I wouldn’t call it extremely complicated; it is much simpler than the proof of FLT.
Re:Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:36PM (#35669615)
Because Catalan’s conjecture.
Re:Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:26PM (#35669519)
If we exclude 0, the only solutions are 2^1 = 1^2 + 1 and 3^2 = 2^3 + 1