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New comment by shikwasa in "Infidel goes wild"

shikwasa — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:39:10 +0000

Just want to say thank you for the absolutely amazing and generous comment! :)

New comment by shikwasa in "CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development"

shikwasa — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:41:29 +0000

I understand the "starting point" part but I find the emphasis on "classless" interesting: you basically have to introduce a non-element selector as soon as you want make even the smallest layout change.

For anything beyond a single page document, I find something like matcha.css (https://matcha.mizu.sh, you can even pick your custom build on the same page) a practical starting point if you want to stay close to the elements.

New comment by shikwasa in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

shikwasa — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:17:19 +0000

The absence of such relationships given here are so many species is exactly the point being made by the author: there is no data to show that it would be safe, let along good, for us to surrender decision making to some more intelligent entity.

> I would expect that in the vast majority of combinations, those n species are not intelligent enough to make decisions for another species...

This kind of statement is very difficult to build discussions upon (not a criticism). "Vast majority", "intelligent enough" are both very difficult to quantify and there is too much subjectivity involved.

New comment by shikwasa in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

shikwasa — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:22:31 +0000

I think the quoted part is saying that given n species and the n * (n - 1) binary combinations possible, there are no examples of the said observation. It doesn't suggest "the set of intelligent species only [has] one member".