CaptainNegative

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by CaptainNegative 7d ago
That is the cash purchaser paying the retailer more than they need to. There's no conservation law stating that store revenue is a constant and missed revenue from one customer must be made up for by another, nor that every additional
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by CaptainNegative 15d ago
> I guess I've been living outside of the US for way too long If you're the kind of person to invent new definitions to fit statistics and then cry about the fabrication's implications then perhaps it's better for Am
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by CaptainNegative 2mo ago
They don't count the additions or shifts because they're both linear time operations, and thus provably at least as fast as multiplication (both in an asymptotic and exact sense). In any case where multiplication is super-linear,
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by CaptainNegative 4mo ago
Does he also run a time machine? He bought TikTok only earlier this year.
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by CaptainNegative 4mo ago
why is the standard response when someone comes down with a serious illness to bring them into a facility where serious illnesses spread readily? sometimes the presently available solutions are subpar. people go with what's available.
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by CaptainNegative 4mo ago
I don't know why someone with a cousin named Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso is that much of a better hire than someone named Jón Bergþóruson, 王
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by CaptainNegative 6mo ago
There could also be some degree of "(5) bandwagon effect" players, who pump money into an outcome specifically to get people talking about its possibility, thereby increasing its probability of coming into fruition.
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by CaptainNegative 7mo ago
> but at some point a state based cyber attack that just wipes wikipedia off the net is deeply damaging to our modern society’s ability to agree on common facts Haven't we hit that point already with bad faith (and potentially gover
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by CaptainNegative 7mo ago
> You can generally reduce the problem to a finite alphabet by taking the finite subset that actually appears in the input. You can generally sort any array in constant time by taking that constant to be the time it takes to sort the arr
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by CaptainNegative 7mo ago
I feel like the section on primality testing with Fermat's test should at least make a shout out to Carmichael numbers and that for some inputs the probability you get a false positive result is 1.
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by CaptainNegative 8mo ago
This is so tangentially related to the P vs NP problem that the title is basically pure clickbait. Remove every sentence relating to polynomial anything and the information content of the write-up doesn't change at all.
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by CaptainNegative 8mo ago
What's a concrete threat model here? If you're sending data to an ssh server, you already need to trust that it's handling your input responsibly. What's the scenario where it's fine that the client doesn't kno
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by CaptainNegative 9mo ago
Capping margins at a percentage also directly breeds inefficiencies. If you could spend $10M to fix a problem that costs you $4M/yr, you're effectively paying $10M now to lose $400k in annual profit potential.
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by CaptainNegative 10mo ago
It depends on their test dataset. If the test set was written 80% by AI and 20% by humans, a tool that labels every essay as AI-written would have a reported accuracy of 80%. That's why other metrics such as specificity and sensitivity
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by CaptainNegative 10mo ago
TOTP inside a password manager doesn't make much sense to me. What's the point of two factor auth if both factors are stored together?
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by CaptainNegative 1y ago
Only finitely many values of BB can be mathematically determined. Once your Turing Machines become expressive enough to encode your (presumably consistent) proof system, they can begin encoding nonsense of the form "I will halt only af
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by CaptainNegative 1y ago
I don't understand the point of this article, as it doesn't define an objective function. It just states a strategy that is only practically implementable for small board sizes (given the cited NP-completeness result) and then cal
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by CaptainNegative 1y ago
Golda Meir was the Prime Minister (head of government) of Israel after having naturalized in the US when she was 19.
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by CaptainNegative 1y ago
The temperature of an object is a macroscopic property basically depending on the kinetic energy of the matter within it, which in a typical cup of water varies substantially from one molecule to the next. If before you could guess a little
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
Not specific to this article, but it's tragic that computer science curricula, and discussions of these algorithms, virtually never highlight the tight connection between binary search and long division. Long division done in binary is
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
I think the problem is in going for a Computer Science degree when you really meant to study Software Engineering.
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
What counts as a standard formatter? Python one-liners are Turing complete even without semicolons, evals, execs, and with finite stack depth. E.g. some formatters keep this at one line, while others introduce line breaks https:/&#x2F
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
> Since P is a subset of NP, everything in P can be also be turned into an instance of SAT. This statement is kind of trivial. The same is true for any language (other than the empty language and the language containing all strings). The
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
This isn't an area I know much about, but wouldn't there be a security risk involved with storing the TOTP seeds alongside the passwords? Or is that not a real concern?
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
no need to be colorist
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
I often find myself mixing Nones into lists containing built-in types when the former would indicate some kind of error. I could wrap them all into a nullable-style type, but why shouldn't the interpreter implicitly handle that for me?
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
Why would you assume this targeted three people? I assume the most likely scenario is that the attackers targeted as many Hezbollah members as they could, and were extremely successful at it.
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
This proof has almost nothing to do with Euclid. The Pythagoreans knew about it more than a century before his birth (Hippasus was apocryphally killed for divulging this proof), and the proof is widely believed to have only been inserted in
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
I don't think that follows at all. Any series of rational numbers that converges to a rational (such as any appropriate geometric series) will still converge to a rational if you remove any finite or co-finite subset of terms.
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by CaptainNegative 2y ago
In principle, someone seeing heido15wkj6@yourraredomain.com, yua16ooaaj2@yourraredomain.com, and kqoq91inhi4@yourraredomain.com in a dump might be able to infer that all of these belong to the same user with a catchall address (especially i

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