eff-nix

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by eff-nix 4mo ago
Exactly. The abstract essentially says “these people make for great employees for X Y Z reasons, but many people look at that and come up with conspiracy theories based on it”. Then the Parent says “look the research agrees with me!”
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
Do we have evidence these people did fellowship together?
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
No.
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
Anywhere I can read more about this float accumulation with 2’s complement?
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
Sure, when comparing 0’s to anything else. But what about normal distribution to uniform in 0,1? The author hand waves something about signs but it’s not very well reasoned - that’s just a single bit in floats. And what of the Pi test - I’d
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
But why do we expect random data to result in more bit flips? That seems harder to argue than the mechanics of a basic branch prediction system.
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
My friend drunk drove and crashed, the cop —correctly— gave him a long talk about how that’s a bad call, then let him off. Does that mean drunk driving is now legal?
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
If you tell the TSA you’re a sovereign citizen for 15 minutes they’re legally required to let you fly.
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
LGB is closer - but that has its own aliasing issues.
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
Evacuation map doesn’t seem to take into account wind at all. But then, if it did Disneyland would need to shut down…
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by eff-nix 4mo ago
Earlier today, I tried to run a simple nix tool a colleague made. 3 hours into the build, it crashed. Something about a missing python import? I ran the exact same ‘nix develop’ again. 2 hours later, it worked. Keep in mind: this was just a