bhickey

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by bhickey 27d ago
I'd like to see a "no-build" option to blocks depending on crates using build.rs
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by bhickey 27d ago
I asked Vikash Mansinghka about this 15 years ago. He was using Xorshift as an RNG for a probabilistic inference on an FPGA. Why? It used few gates and was high (enough) quality. Almost everyone should use a csprng, but iykyk.
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by bhickey 28d ago
Ate the pie? You're gonna die.
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by bhickey 1mo ago
Or the time he ran BitTorrent-over-MediaWiki and made a number of people very angry. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/01e4/ecb5a12b6735dd0344d888...
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by bhickey 1mo ago
Andy was a PhD student at Brown when I was an undergrad. Once he hired a magician off of Craigslist for a departmental event. The guy showed up drunk and lost his bird in the building.
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by bhickey 1mo ago
Andy taught me a lot about trolling. I also hear he's banned from every post office within 50 miles of Baltimore.
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by bhickey 2mo ago
Temporarily embarrassed billionaires can be a tough crowd.
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by bhickey 3mo ago
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/it-doe...
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by bhickey 3mo ago
Conrad Anker covered his body in scree. Subsequent expeditions have been unable to locate it. There's speculation that it was secretly removed from the mountain for political reasons.
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by bhickey 3mo ago
> Kaplan is an oaf whose plan to provide paid internet access to refugee camps falls apart once he learns that refugees in camps don't have any money (he also takes points off of Wynn-Williams' workplace evaluation for being &q
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by bhickey 3mo ago
Well that's a blast from the past. When I lived in London I hung out with some of the geniedb team (hey Alaric).
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by bhickey 3mo ago
> [T]hey would have known this car was 5 miles away 23 seconds later. Tack on a reckless driving charge and a speeding ticket.
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by bhickey 4mo ago
Back in 2006 I cornered Bryan in the CIT elevator and asked him for the BattleTris source. Glad to see some progress being made.
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by bhickey 4mo ago
> and while it was so ahead of its time, it didn't get enough of an uptake to satisfy... certain executives in engineering. There's more to the story than just that. Jeff might remember the particulars. I don't want to bad
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by bhickey 4mo ago
Before cider there was Brightly. My recollection was that it was developed by a team in Atlanta and got cancelled before it reached general availability. People were pissed at the time (ex. "cancelling brightly considered harmful"
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by bhickey 4mo ago
> I wonder if those refilling them slipped them in? I recall reading that they were smuggled into the country by organized crime. They'd then sell them for around 60p on the pound to coin heavy businesses (esp. laundry and vending.)
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Fake Pound Coin Database(thefakepoundcoindatabase.co.uk)
1 points by bhickey 4mo ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 4mo ago
This was pretty common with £1 coins until they moved to bimetallic coinage. The fakes would be rejected by vending machines. The biggest tells were poor reeding quality and slightly soft detailing. On very low quality fakes, the face and o
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by bhickey 4mo ago
Celtic kings in Ireland were subject to ritualistic sacrifice if, for example, crops failed.
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by bhickey 5mo ago
There was a comparable controversy with The Exorcist because Linda Blair was dubbed.
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by bhickey 5mo ago
He was also, in my experience, a bit of a jerk. As an undergrad I asked him "with oligo synthesis improving is there any way we stop bad actors from making recombinant pathogens?" His reply was "we can start by arresting peop
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by bhickey 5mo ago
That's a fair point. I was comparing the claim to rolling vs global shutter rather than "take a photo, rotate, take a photo." You can, however, get a true global shutter single exposure panorama using anamorphic lenses.
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by bhickey 5mo ago
The "single exposure" brag is a bit silly. Since it's a swinging lens one side of the frame will be older than the other.
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by bhickey 6mo ago
That's only because that chart isn't bookkeeping nuclear as renewable, which is misleading at best.
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by bhickey 6mo ago
This has nothing to do with opposing gambling. It has everything to do with, say, opposing gamblers poisoning horses to win bets.
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by bhickey 6mo ago
Bertrand Russell has been dead since 1970. I think he'll be okay. Or no worse off.
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by bhickey 6mo ago
> they were expecting it to be big, hundreds of millions of users. No reasonable person shared this expectation. It was Juicero-tier delusion.
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by bhickey 7mo ago
> Without that distinction, what is the difference between a long term resident and a citizen? You fall into an edge case. Irish citizens have special status in the UK as a result of the countries' shared history. In this particular
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by bhickey 7mo ago
> Two thirds of new American homes are in some sort of community association, typically homeowners’ associations, but also co-ops, and condominium associations, and 30 percent of American homes overall. Buyers opt into these associations
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by bhickey 7mo ago
The _state_ isn't alarming, it's the rate of change. The transition is happening on a scale of human lifetimes instead of geological time.

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