cbolton

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by cbolton 6d ago
Looking it up I was actually remembering from Feynman's QED book (path integral approach). I don't have it at hand but I think it's a description based on photon particles. Anyway I agree my description with photon travel &qu
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by cbolton 6d ago
Yeah I didn't find that helpful. What I remember from Feynman's lectures is that photons still travel at "full speed" c between atoms, but if you look at the global progression of light as photons get absorbed then emitt
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by cbolton 7d ago
Maybe it's projecting but what I see is kids ganging up to break a target that is often human/animal-shaped, and that feels different to me.
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by cbolton 7d ago
Yeah I'm not saying it's bad for the children, but it's unpleasant for me. It seems violence is a concept that gets deeper and uglier as you grow. For young children it's often abstract and maybe harmless. I just read a
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by cbolton 7d ago
It never occurred to me to consider efficiency in piñata, but I dislike them because it's making a game out of violence.
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by cbolton 15d ago
What did you do to get the money?
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by cbolton 20d ago
Isn't it a bit arrogant to pass judgement with such confidence based on a three word sentence? Anyway maybe this will convince you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948632 https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by cbolton 21d ago
It's John Nagle as in Nagle's algorithm, I'm sure he has an existing intellect.
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by cbolton 22d ago
They didn't want to add 100K lines of multithreaded C++, for security reasons. See https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064 . (I edited the timeline to clarify)
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by cbolton 22d ago
I just wrote a timeline here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445897
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by cbolton 22d ago
To summarize the timeline: 2015-2021: Google and Cloudinary develop the technical foundations, work on standardization with the JPEG group and write the reference implementation 2021: Chrome and Firefox introduce experimental support 2022:
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by cbolton 3mo ago
I wonder if piracy will eventually fill for physical releases of movies and games. It might be a fun project to make an online store game work on blue ray with nice packaging...
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by cbolton 3mo ago
That's not true, not all games are Game-Key cards, see https://www.dekudeals.com/switch-2-physical-games
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by cbolton 3mo ago
They can include these limitations in a contract which can be enforced like any contract.
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by cbolton 3mo ago
No you can't. Statistical tests assume independent data points. Testing the same individual repeatedly would be pseudoreplication, leading to wrong conclusions. If you mean run different tests, where you collect different kinds of data
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by cbolton 3mo ago
Typst tags by default, which is more than LaTeX can say. But LaTeX supports automatic tags for math which is huge. There's good progress on this in Typst (this release just added MathML support for HTML and MathML is also the basis for
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by cbolton 3mo ago
That just means lower net voltage => lower current => lower torque right? When you do need torque you need current and the losses that come with it.
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by cbolton 3mo ago
Much speculation here. It could well be that Iran's hard-line government will become stronger because of the war. People that were not specially pro- or anti-government probably didn't like seeing the US and Israel bomb their coun
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by cbolton 3mo ago
I'm not defending what the Iranian government did to their people. I suppose I am defending their reaction (closing the strait) to the assassination of their head of state and other government officials. The reaction was predictable an
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by cbolton 3mo ago
Would you say that blocking the strait is more unacceptable than bombing the US and killing the President and most high-ranking government officials? Just trying to establish a scale on what's acceptable in terms of war crimes, interna
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by cbolton 4mo ago
I mean you can connect the computer to sprinklers that activate when the system detects rain in the simulation if that's what you're after (that was just an aside to note that of course you don't get wet from a simulation dis
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by cbolton 4mo ago
Well I don't understand how one can accept this argument. I mean if you believe in mind-body dualism it can make sense. But AFAIK Searle doesn't, instead he holds that there's something special about the brain biology that en
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by cbolton 4mo ago
I'm curious what would be a good example of something where this falls short of what you need? I mean this Typst package just lets you import the notebook content in your Typst document. All the formatting is done in Typst which is als
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by cbolton 4mo ago
> My only complaint is that all functions are pure functions; there is not a way (that I know of) to share state from one function invocation to the next. Indeed user-defined functions are pure. You can work around it like the suiji pack
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by cbolton 4mo ago
For what's it's worth you can render Jupyter notebooks directly from Typst using the Callisto package. You can then style the notebook content as if it was written in Typst, using show rules, etc: #import "@preview/c
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by cbolton 4mo ago
I had to follow your link to get it: I hadn't realized that 57 is not prime. At least I'm in good company.
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by cbolton 4mo ago
Remember the XZ backdoor? Or do you mean that Rust build script attacks are less likely? (Probably true but not much comfort)
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by cbolton 4mo ago
I wonder if using Typst would be a viable solution: the compiler can be built into a wasm component that runs locally in the browser (that's what the Typst webapp does) and it generates good PDFs with working selection/copy/
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by cbolton 5mo ago
Privacy addresses... Isn't it silly to talk of privacy if the prefix doesn't change?
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by cbolton 5mo ago
The first picture looks like aura quartz to me (crystal with an artificial metal coating). Is it natural?

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