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> The White House wanted 1000 targets and pulled from their database without any due diligence

source?

Re:Taste Is All That's Left on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:26AM (#49211938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0CHrQE794

there's a tension between innate preferences we’re born with, versus cultivated tastes that require effort

Re:SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:14AM (#48934900)
lol, I briefly thought of such a technique, but in the end, found it simpler to just use a synchronization primitive at the application level to serialize db access on transactions where I knew I was going to write. it amounts to about the same honor code.
Re:SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:49AM (#48931486)
busy_timeout is often sidestepped (ignored) when a transaction attempts to upgrade from a read to a write producing SQLITE_BUSY.

By default, SQLite transactions start in DEFERRED mode, acting as read transactions until an actual write operation occurs.

If another connection begins writing to the database while your transaction is in this read state, an immediate SQLITE_BUSY error is triggered regardless of what you set busy_timeout to

Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:33AM (#48674045)
The alternative is a High-Dimensional / Embedding-Like Approach where question responses aren't tied to fixed axes, but rather the full response set is treated as a point in latent space.

Then it's on the researcher to examine the clusters and assign labels. There's also not a nice mapping that's a-priori interpretable in low-dimensional pre-existing axes.

Probably only used in research than consumer websites, under more controlled conditions; there are very few public political tests doing this transparently

what exactly is 'calling a function in two parts'
2016 (up to 2018 or so) may have been the peak of such varied activity in the developer ecosystem, including articles like this, whether it was discussion, ideation, OSS variety, language development.

There has been growth since but it's been concentrated into fewer channels and somewhat industrialized.

Re:Why a Computer Science Degree Still Opens Hidden Doors on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:01PM (#48519132)
you made a funny
Re:Why a Computer Science Degree Still Opens Hidden Doors on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:10AM (#48513903)
what's an example of something you made happen
Re:SQLite is all you need for durable workflows on Friday May 29, 2026 @09:13PM (#48331358)
whats an example of things that you have your agents do that use workflows and sqlite db
irrelevant to the definition, thanks anyway
A democracy means political authority ultimately comes from the people.
What exactly is 'sustainability'
Re:OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:26AM (#46633826)
I like how OBS has subsumed (often low-quality) screen recording apps for me; apart from the apps original intent for streaming
Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:56AM (#45761466)
if your definition requires universal observer agreement you already have that issue with special relativity / light cones / the spacetime metric.

many worlds posits a single universal quantum state it's just only partially accessible to observers, which is different from saying that it simply doesn't objectively exist.

maybe it depends on your definition of objective

Re:Death to Type Classes on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:15AM (#45250025)
peak FP debate was 2015/2016-ish
Re:Death to Type Classes on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:28AM (#45249480)
In the 2010-2020 era, readers of Hacker News used to know how to read Haskell and had strong opinions (pro and con) of it.

That era is now over.

Re:Getting Started with Moon Astrophotography on Friday June 13, 2025 @09:20AM (#44268274)
I assume it depends on the amount of detail you're expecting to get.

Generally there are some broad categories:

1) tracked vs untracked mounts

2) shooting single frames vs shooting with high FPS and processing that into a resulting image.

Re:Why do we get earworms? on Friday May 30, 2025 @09:35AM (#44136092)
whoever came up with the name 'earworm' needs to be shot
Boltzmann Brains usually mean something is wrong in your cosmology
Re:Getting Forked by Microsoft on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @05:09PM (#43776645)
Licenses communicate your intent; if you choose the most permissive one possible that is also implicitly communicated.
Actually, we're already past the peak of star formation in the universe. So the universe is well on its way winding down.. less and less stars are being created. We're seeing the universe more middle aged than especially young

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/s/0oVjIo0XMi

Where did the the values of the coupling constants between the various fields come from?

There are many parameters that do not have a reason for their value.

learning
can we just come up with one common term to to refer to all of my these between sites
Re:The Lost Art of Research as Leisure on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:41AM (#43413489)
How do you know the bird just isn't entertaining itself with its own reflection.
But there's nowhere to put your coffee mug
Re:A computer can never be held accountable on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:44AM (#42934820)
the owner

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