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by kd0amg 3mo ago
> SpaceX is what it is because the vision is much less tyranny of the masses, and much more damn the torpedoes no one can stop me. Apple did not need to be controlled by a majority shareholder in order to follow an ambitious, cohesive vi
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by kd0amg 4mo ago
> I've been trying to square the physics and my experience. > Pedal B flat is the fundamental, low B flat is the 2x, F 3x, mid B flat the 4x, D the 5X, high F is 6X, G half sharp is 7X and high B flat is 8X. I've always been
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by kd0amg 4mo ago
> We also have a Research Engineering role for which we're actively interviewing: https://careers.ibm.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=113488 ... This page says the job is closed. Also, not sure if my emai
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by kd0amg 6mo ago
Think of it more as "speed is the indefinite integral of acceleration" with the extra constant denoting a choice of inertial reference frame.
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by kd0amg 6mo ago
I took that to mean ≈ "Amount of training data isn't the big factor dwarfing all else." Depends who "we" refers to, I guess. Back when LLM-generated code was new, I definitely saw predictions that LLMs would struggl
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by kd0amg 1y ago
And yet a lot of speakers still seem to need that self-evidently true statement pointed out to them. Tautological advice isn't necessarily bad or useless, especially for beginners.
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by kd0amg 4y ago
What percent of own-content submissions are good original content though?
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by kd0amg 4y ago
Does that button... do anything?
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> Ever try or even see a "Leet-Code" style question that stated the problem without providing example results? This style of question asks the examinee to devise a procedure for producing those results, not to come up with the
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by kd0amg 5y ago
Teaching isn't likely to get you away from unreasonable people with unreasonable expectations.
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by kd0amg 5y ago
We could be extremely, reductively classical about it and say that all of Nerdle's answers point to the same place (⊤, since any answer equivalent to ⊥ is disallowed by the rules), but the real answer is that Nerdle—like Wordle—is si
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> Python's OOP is awkward with object.f() meaning something different from f(object), when really they ought to mean the same thing. Why should they? Coming from other OO languages, I would expect `object.f()` to involve a vtable lo
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> Figure 2 shows plots of overnight and intraday returns for twenty-one major stock market indices around the world. Turn the page and compare Figure 1 with Figure 2. See if you can tell a difference. These images... do not render well o
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by kd0amg 5y ago
The issue is about which edges are in the same plane as which other edges. If this is a polyhedron, AD and BE must be coplanar, and BE and CF must be coplanar. Extending the edges into lines, they don't form a 3-way intersection. G get
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by kd0amg 5y ago
The language of someone who's rational would respond to the issues raised by the interlocutor instead of just insulting him.
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> A quick internet search turned up plenty of speculative results positing that dogs tilt their heads to hear better, to listen for specific words or tones, or to see past their snouts. Sommese found one poster hypothesizing that shelter
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by kd0amg 5y ago
Recursive sum-of-products types also let you do things that sums and products alone cannot.
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by kd0amg 5y ago
OR alone is insufficient because you still need NOT (or AND and ⊥). You can also encode sum-like behavior using negation and products (a continuation consuming a pair of continuations).
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> Option types require generics Why would a built-in option type require more genericity than the built-in array and map types?
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> Interesting that this is pointed out, since I noticed they linked to this article, describing these sorts of jobs being a "teenage rite of passage" to be a myth. The hyperlink's text claims it is a myth, but the linked a
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> I've written plenty of invariants that would have been covered by a static type system but no tests. Do these invariants have some language-level support?
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by kd0amg 5y ago
In order to make woodworking tools, you will probably want a functioning smithy.
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by kd0amg 5y ago
Raising prices doesn't only move toward equilibrium by increasing the quantity supplied -- it also decreases the quantity demanded.
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by kd0amg 5y ago
Catplosions (Tarn loves cats, cats reproduce, too many cats kills DF performance) This was a particularly insidious one because the usual strategy of culling excess livestock doesn't work out when applied to dwarfs' pets (pets c
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> why is 2^68 0% of the "numbers that need to be checked"? The vast majority of natural numbers are larger than 2^68. Only 2^68 of them are less than 2^68, but infinitely many of them are greater.
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> Just drink juice? Far too sweet to be a suitable wine replacement
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by kd0amg 5y ago
When you make a better compiler/runtime, that work on one program benefits many programs. So it is often more cost-effective to improve the compiler/runtime than to improve all the user programs. Developing higher-level language
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> This is disproved very easily by reality - most places have increasing rent YoY. Same goes for house prices. All this proves is that evolving market conditions lead to changes in price. Try charging 2030's market-rate rent in 2021
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by kd0amg 5y ago
It's not counting all spending as costs of living .
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by kd0amg 5y ago
> this announcement, which essentially amounts to "leading VR platform tests new way for developers to monetize applications with personalized ad service". People seem to think this is Facebook injecting ads into games all will

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