bleistift2 @ bleistift2 @sopuli.xyz

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Without the Google Search deal, Firefox will have less resources to build a competent browser.

Firefox has neglected their browser for years, pursuing vanity features like pocket instead of implementing web standards.

That sounds like you ran into problems when deserializing a number value from JSON, which then got slightly changed due to floating point shenanigans. That’s technically not JSON’s fault. JSON numbers aren’t IEEE754. They’re just numbers. It’s only the deserializers that usually choose to represent JSON numbers as floating point values.

Quoting https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259#page-7

A number is represented in base 10 using decimal digits. It contains an integer component that may be prefixed with an optional minus sign, which may be followed by a fraction part and/or an exponent part. […]

A fraction part is a decimal point followed by one or more digits.

Numeric values that cannot be represented in the grammar below (such as Infinity and NaN) are not permitted.

This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of numbers accepted. Since software that implements IEEE 754 binary64 (double precision) numbers [IEEE754] is generally available and widely used, good interoperability can be achieved by implementations that expect no more precision or range than these provide, in the sense that implementations will approximate JSON numbers within the expected precision. A JSON number such as 1E400 or 3.141592653589793238462643383279 may indicate potential interoperability problems, since it suggests that the software that created it expects receiving software to have greater capabilities for numeric magnitude and precision than is widely available.

A sentence that shouldn’t be this normal.

She lets any app notify her

You should end that fast. Just recently I had to tech-support … somebody … because some bogus web site sent scammy notifications trying to scare … somebody … into clicking a link.

Sure, but have you ever wasted hours of your life checking the documentation for the exact string of case-sensitive letters that force LaTeX not to yeet your image 45 pages further into the document, because that’s THE MOST PERFECT PLACE to put it?

Or they’re confident enough in their parenting that they can allow their daughter to come to her own conclusions about this situation after a while.

Is your ISP from a deep red US state? It loads fine for me.

she doesn’t want to because she knows it will be a difficult conversation.

That’s a lot of assuming. If we argue in her favor, then we might assume that her parents might not be the most receptive. This is a sensible assumption on her part. Any parent whose daughter is suddenly missing will be agitated. This state of mind is not conducive to a rational conversation.

So her reaction makes sense: She asks her brother whom she views as a good bearer of news to just tell their parents that she is fine, so they don’t go crazy. After they’ve calmed down, she intends to explain herself.

I think this is extraordinarily good thinking. Calling her parents immediately with the news that she’s gone will just end in a shouting contest. Not telling them at all is an undue burden on them and might have undesirable consequences like involving the police. This girl seems to do her best to have a calm talk. That’s way more than I’ve come to expect from adults.

Porn

It also checks your browsing history.

She said she’d talk to them afterwards. The way I read it she just wants her parents to not panic because their daughter is gone. This seems reasonable to me.

The alkali metals get more strongly reactive the higher their atomic number.

I thought it was the other way around. Thanks for correcting me.

You’d need multiple people. Or a very quick upload schedule.

Why is it safer to lick Lithium than Caesium?

Radon is a gas. I’d like to see you lick that. Same for the halogens, the noble gases, nitrogen, oxygen hydrogen and probably some I forgot.

Distance travelled is not the only metric by which you can judge a route. Others include:

• Traffic
• Traffic lights or other stops, since it’s nicer to drive uninterrupted.
• What turns you need to make (2 left turns over 6 lanes of traffic? Pass)
• Familiarity
• Road condition
• The view

4 × 2.97 < 11.89.

Insurance prevents people from hoarding money that they would need in case of a (personal) disaster to rebuild/repair/re-purchase their losses. If you know insurance will cover your house if it ever burns down, you spend the money, which helps the economy.

Would you mind sharing the source of that quote? I’m curious about the ‘relative position […] sums to zero’—relative to what? Suppose the mass is completely contained in the ‘upper right quadrant’ in 3D space (I’m lacking the language skill to express that accurately). Then I can’t find a definition that wouldn’t cause the sum to be positive.

Depends on your jurisdiction. In Germany, the bar for murder is one of [1]:

• an [inner] desire to kill
• killing for sexual reasons
• greed
• “other despicable motivations”

and one of:

• cruelty
• insidiousness
• using “tools dangerous for public safety”
• the motivation to conceal or enable another crime.

In my layman’s understanding, pressing the button checks the ‘insidious’ box, since it is not at all expectable by the victim.

As for the first set of conditions, it would probably be down to a court ruling if the person checked the ‘desire to kill’ box (as I understand it, they wouldn’t) or the ‘other despicable motivations’ box – is killing for no reason a despicable reason?

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__211.html

„signs of LLM writing” doesn’t mean that the whole thing was written by it.