fishtockos

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by fishtockos 2y ago
The idea that Tao has accomplished more than, say, Serre because the latter, who won the Fields medal at 27, only received his PhD at 25 and his bachelor's at 22 while the former received his PhD at 21 and his bachelor's at 16 is
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by fishtockos 2y ago
More like Indy avoided drowning in the boat race scene (which I recall happening very early in the movie)
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by fishtockos 2y ago
This is clever application of existing ideas, not the sort of new idea which is needed. No one can really imagine what sort of machinery will need to be built to prove the RH. A proof is completely outside the realm of speculation at this
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by fishtockos 3y ago
What evidence are you referring to? Look at https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/map/map.withimage.php... and see if you can the smoking gun, please
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by fishtockos 3y ago
See my sibling comment - where does the insistence that octopus is third declension come from? The reality is that while most Greek loanwords are third declension, many are not, and Latin authors tended to not be consistent.
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by fishtockos 3y ago
No. You seem very confident, but octopi is (grammatically) perfectly acceptable. The English word octopus is taken from the Latin (coined by Linnaeus) word octopus, which is of Greek origin. Greek loanwords in Latin were used very incons
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by fishtockos 3y ago
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml is another good collection
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by fishtockos 3y ago
On the prospect of working on a "Uranium-Engine" > Every layman can see that these ideas are exceedingly important. Hence there won't be any money in it. You only make money on ideas which have escaped the general public
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by fishtockos 3y ago
> The main contribution by the US was support vehicles like jeeps and trucks and fuel Obviously, these are all absolutely critical. As is the aluminum, high-octane avgas, etc that the Soviets obtained via Lend-Lease
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by fishtockos 4y ago
Here is Eugene Wigner on Einstein and von Neumann > I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my close
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by fishtockos 4y ago
Anyone knows if this dump contains drug insurance coverage?
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by fishtockos 4y ago
Any advice on up-leveling here? I'm a generalist backend dev that's bounced around startups for a while and am now pushing 40 and have been thinking about how to specialize before it's too late
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by fishtockos 4y ago
> In Neon, incoming WAL is processed as it arrives, and indexed and buffered in memory. When the buffer fills up, it is written to a new file This sounds cool, but what happens if the server crashes? How do you prevent losing the buffer
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by fishtockos 4y ago
From the lower Volga to Karakorum is actually about 5600 km, not 5600 miles. (edit) Still pretty impressive, though, especially in winter
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by fishtockos 4y ago
Misleading article. The defining feature of a mortgage loan is, in fact, that it is backed by real property (i.e, a house). These seem more like loans, secured by crypto, used to buy houses
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by fishtockos 5y ago
Ahh. Surely this explains Klaus Fuchs, the most important spy in the Manhattan Project and a long-time communist?
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by fishtockos 5y ago
Can you explain the API a bit more? If you're batching writes in a single thread, doesn't that imply that clients don't 'know' when their writes are actually committed to disk? Or are their requests kept open unti
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by fishtockos 6y ago
Do you have a source for your claims that "[t]he war on drugs was started as a way to target people of color by Nixon", and especially that Nixon admitted it on the WH tapes? As far as I'm aware the latter is completely fals