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Nuclear-Fusion Breakthrough Accelerates Quest to Unlock Limitless Energy Source(wsj.com)
1 points by gralx 4y ago|0 comments
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by gralx 4y ago
The list of sound defeats is kind of a who's who from back in the day: Black, Hawk, Robison, Klein, Leo the Jap, Price, Stein.
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by gralx 4y ago
> ... it is hard to think of a competitor in all of history more dominant over his sport or game than Tinsley. I've got another one: famous hold 'em poker player Stu Ungar never lost a game of gin rummy. Utterly dominant.
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by gralx 4y ago
Commenters excoriate the methadology. First thing I checked was for comparisons with Aleksandr Suvarov, who "never lost a single battle he commanded."¹ Glaringly absent from the exposition. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by gralx 4y ago
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQiIhrutmA
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Video Investigation: Russia Is Using a Secret Network to Steal Ukraine Grain(wsj.com)
6 points by gralx 4y ago|1 comments
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by gralx 4y ago
The darkest Sesame Street skit I ever saw had a muppet jumping up and down on a manhole cover, gleefully repeating "99! 99! 99! ...". A second muppet shows up wondering what it's all about, and the first muppet concedes his s
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by gralx 4y ago
Link didn't work for me. Direct link did: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3534854
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by gralx 4y ago
Right! Didn't think to look it up as a term of art. That means the missing information is temporal: the subsitution in point III narrows indemnity to only those claims which satisfy finally settled at the moment the contract binds.
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by gralx 4y ago
Does anyone know the meaning of "all finally settled claims" in point III? > III. Blanket indemnities. I'm not wealthy, and my insurer won't cover claims that you settle without their consent. Asking me to indemnify y
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by gralx 4y ago
> ... you are abusing OOP and think it's the only way of doing things > ... when you then say you decided to stick with C, you contradict with yourself Figments of your imagination.
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by gralx 4y ago
> Denying people information ... on-brand for Dan Luu. Just to be clear, he does not deny the information. Chronology matters a lot, danluu knows this, and he does make it available. He also made finding it a personal journey for any fir
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by gralx 4y ago
You mount the remote file system as a volume and traverse it as part of the local file system. Super convenient for comparing contents of a local folder to a remote in the command line, using local tools on the remote FS, batch copying both
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by gralx 4y ago
Holy crap I had no idea this was Galbraith's insight. I've heard William K. Black talk about Gresham's dynamics a few times, but always wondered why his use of the term didn't comport with Wikipedia's article on it.
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by gralx 4y ago
Seconded. I subscribed to Financial Times for a year, whose prose, editorial balance, and coverage insight are noticeably inferior to The Wall Street Journal's. I also subscribed to The Economist and feel it is also inferior, but it is
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by gralx 4y ago
You missed this part: > Only mentioning this here just in case the PR spin doctors threaten the researchers into removing mention of Intel on this one.
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NASA Is Building a Team to Study UFOs(wsj.com)
4 points by gralx 4y ago|0 comments
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by gralx 4y ago
Politicians sometimes do the wrong thing is a truism, no?
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by gralx 4y ago
Knock-on effects can just as well be ascribed to alternative targets for those Apollo funds. Those don't take much imagination to come up with, e.g. reducing the student-teacher ratios in schools.
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The AVSIM Hack of 2009 (2013)(avsim.com)
1 points by gralx 4y ago|0 comments
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by gralx 4y ago
On the face of it, no politician wants to risk tanking an org that employs a significant part of their jurisdiction. Providing even minimum wage employment to thousands is an objective public good and hard to do, even for scoundrels. Big em
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by gralx 4y ago
It seems you missed the point of the OG article? It's not about MAiD or the ethicality of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms but about systemic, community-wide failures to help those in need across Canada. The MAiD anecdotes j
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by gralx 4y ago
I agree, and I'll go further. Jan Tschischold didn't think we should use serifs unless text is justified. That convention was one of Wikipedia's main reasons for settling on sans-serif for body text. The page's creator s
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by gralx 4y ago
The turning point for me was when they canned Victoria from r/ama. My experience with it got progressively worse thereafter. I might sign in to it once a year now (using old.reddit.com when I do). When I read posts there, I first conve
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by gralx 4y ago
Easter egg: at one point you can hear him typing on an IBM buckling spring keyboard. Something for the keyboard enthusiasts :)
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by gralx 4y ago
Lamport's early Paxos papers are interesting for a lot of reasons (I particularly like his simple textbook definition of equivalence classes in "Generalized Consensus and Paxos" (2005)), but I agree that the Paxos algorithm g
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by gralx 4y ago
Yeah, TAOCP's casual style puts me off too. Side by side with high watermarks in technical writing like The C Programming Language , Specifying Systems , or Loney's Elements of Coordinate Geometry its shortcomings are pretty o
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by gralx 4y ago
For me it was Windows 10 forcing itself onto user machines for months after launch, even permanently destroying user data to do so.¹ Oh, and the 260 character NTFS path limit, which bit me in surprising ways (MS published a reg hack to get
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by gralx 4y ago
Once you read a little deeper, you'll discover that Johnny's father had him tutored privately from early childhood by some of the greatest minds in Hungary at the time, and during a real golden era for academia in that country. He
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by gralx 4y ago
Yup! And it was no genetic accident. He practiced hard.

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