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by frud 2y ago
I think that, more generally, intelligent people don't get arrested for crimes for several reasons. First, because they are smarter, they just don't get themselves into jams where murdering someone seems like the best way to get
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by frud 2y ago
The raw words written to the drive are actually re-encoded into slightly larger codewords with nice properties like not having too many zero or one bits in a row, and error detection/correction. Plus I think that the 0/1 bits are
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by frud 2y ago
The game goes through several phase changes as you progress.
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by frud 3y ago
Any form that doesn't have loose fibrils, microparticles, or dust. I'd compare it to wood from walnut trees, which is perfectly safe to handle and use in dining tables, etc., but dust from its' woodworking is toxic.
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by frud 3y ago
I used to work for a company that sold factory automation technology, and had hundreds of manuals for all the products they sold. In the front matter of every manual was a disclaimer that nothing in the manual was warranted to be true. Th
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by frud 3y ago
The real story here is that Air Canada's lawyers argued, among other things, that the chatbot was a separate and independent legal entity from Air Canada and therefore Air Canada was not obligated to honor the made up policy. In other
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by frud 3y ago
For basically forever compilers and languages have been designed with a total ordering on operator precedences. The Yacc compiler generator tool maps operator precedence to integers, as do most handwritten compiler parsers. A total orderin
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by frud 3y ago
Even if it's stable in a game theory sense, it depends on the political class being partitioned into exactly two parties. Otherwise the two biggest parties would have an incentive to smother all smaller competitors. I think the answer
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by frud 3y ago
Fish + fire = sushi
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by frud 3y ago
Wow, cool. A paper that costs $20 to read. I'll be sure to hop on that.
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by frud 3y ago
That's quite an injection if it can cure six children at once.
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by frud 3y ago
I have an idea. Why don't we give new experimental AI systems their own off-grid nuclear power plants so they can't be switched off. There's no way that could go wrong.
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by frud 3y ago
Some are made from dissimilar metals. https://www.coin-database.com/series/japan-47-prefectures-co...
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by frud 3y ago
After 30 seconds of furious googling: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran
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by frud 3y ago
One big thing I remember is that it's illegal to have multiple array arguments reference overlapping storage, so storage regions can't alias. This means functions can be optimized more aggressively. My fingers can't type For
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by frud 3y ago
Thank you. This is the first thing I've read about this story that is at all coherent.
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by frud 3y ago
Quantum or no, there is no shortcut around the 40.66 kJ/mol it takes to evaporate water.
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by frud 3y ago
What exactly is the distinction between water vapor and steam?
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by frud 3y ago
It takes [40.66 kJ/mol]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization ) to vaporize water. There are no shortcuts.
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by frud 3y ago
I can't wrap my head around this story. What does it mean in thermodynamic terms? Isn't there a fixed amount of energy per mass that it takes to convert liquid water into vapor? Why does it matter that the energy comes from lig
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by frud 3y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
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by frud 3y ago
I can't believe that video games still have a "saving data. Please do not turn off your computer" like two-phase commit hasn't been a thing since 1987.
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by frud 3y ago
His method for computing entropy is not so good. His method works for an independent and unpredictable sequence of bytes, but the actual data is a bunch of signed 16-bit residuals that presumably are normally distributed. Really, he shoul
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by frud 3y ago
If you can measure the front and back horizon accurately you can measure the left and right horizons too, and that will give you an accurate down vector. But I don't think it's possible to measure a horizon that accurately. There
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by frud 3y ago
A very precise estimation of which direction gravity is pulling down towards. Which is almost, but not exactly, the vector towards the center of the earth. And it also needs to be disentangled from the suborbital centrifugal/centripe
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by frud 3y ago
I think that in order to calculate your latitude and longitude position using what amount to high-tech sextant readings you have to know your local down vector to a high degree of accuracy. That is, the system judges the position of the Bl
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by frud 3y ago
Any scheme that does not make allowance for illegal moves or invalid positions is not suitable for purpose, IMO. In OTB situations players can make mistakes that no one catches. These illegalities become part of the official record of the
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by frud 3y ago
I wish I knew 1984 better so I could find an apposite quote.
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by frud 3y ago
That was nice.
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by frud 3y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not trying to insult anyone or start a war. But this is a scheme working group, right? Is scheme really that important today to so many people? I haven't touched lisp since I stoppe

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