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by nmilo 3y ago
So round it, this is engineering, not math. The safety buffer factor accounts for any rounding errors anyways.
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by nmilo 3y ago
1) Who said a set is supposed to be a "collection of items" or any other kind of set in the CS definition? A set is a mathematical object which can be said to contain, or not contain, an element. The natural numbers fall into this
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by nmilo 3y ago
I think you're mixing up math and natural language. A "countable set" in math, by definition, means what I said it means, (or more precisely means it is 1-to-1 with the natural numbers). You can argue that the word itself is
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by nmilo 3y ago
Countable (roughly) means that you can count from one element to any other in a finite amount of time, it doesn't mean you can count the whole set in a finite amount of time.
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by nmilo 4y ago
Couldn't the police in theory get a warrant for the footage on your SSDs? The problem with Ring is that they give data to police without warrants, but in this case the problem seems to be the over-invasion of privacy of the warrant sys
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by nmilo 4y ago
> The donated shoes that ended up in Indonesia have added to a flood of illegal second-hand clothing pouring into that developing country, according to a senior government official there, who said such cast-offs pose a public health risk
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by nmilo 4y ago
No, your processor can only do n things at a time, where n is the number of cores (probably like 8) (simplifying hugely of course). It's pretty easy to fill out 8 cores with 1000s of threads, the coroutines only become useful when almo
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by nmilo 4y ago
... that's because it is a duplicate. If you have a SocketAddr, and you want to access the SocketAddrV6 variant, remembering that you may also have a SocketAddrV4, you need an if let: if let V6(sock6) = addr { /&#x2
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by nmilo 4y ago
Do I live in a different world than everyone here? Stack Overflow is awesome and I don't think I've ever had a bad experience with it (seriously). The response time is like 10 minutes or less since everyone there is so hungry for
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by nmilo 4y ago
How would you even "run the numbers"? How about try the idea and see if it works? All it would take is one hit game for devs to see the potential of web gaming (and they already see it. Why do you think flash games were so popular
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by nmilo 4y ago
It's as good advice as the ABABCB song structure is for writing pop songs. As cliche as they are, you need to understand the rules to know how to break them.
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by nmilo 4y ago
And yet Dan Harmon still manages to write popular and effective stories based solely on pseudoscientific principles. Storywriting is an art, not a science, after all; vague brush strokes are what you need to get the job done, and if it&#x27
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by nmilo 4y ago
So allow Tailwind CSS downloads. The site looks broken because you broke the site.
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by nmilo 4y ago
It doesn't really matter what the compiler people classify as different kinds of optimizations. If the function call is gone, it's inlined. From a user standpoint I don't really care if it's not technically considered an
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by nmilo 4y ago
Funny that "in the style of a Hacker News comment" didn't really work. It's more like "in the style of a 10th-grader's English essay," which is really what all of ChatGPT's outputs sound like. They&#x
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by nmilo 4y ago
Yeah, I never said it couldn't, I said the more helpful thing to say is that UB can cause what looks like dead code to not be dead. If that dead code includes, an rm -rf, or, say, a function to enable/disable arbitrary pins on you
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by nmilo 4y ago
I thought this was going to be an actually useful post about the details of UB, when it happens, and what it generally looks like, but instead it's just more of the same often repeated "if you write a program with UB your compiler
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by nmilo 4y ago
Genuinely curious, what are any advantages of big endian other than "it's how we write numbers in base 10?"
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by nmilo 4y ago
> Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains modest after sequential doses including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. However, the risk of myocarditis after
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by nmilo 4y ago
We used to double-space after a period because that looked better on monospaced typewriters. But in French it's simply a part of punctuation, and getting it wrong means you wrote it wrong. It's as wrong as if I'm writing Engl
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by nmilo 4y ago
They're a non-profit.
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by nmilo 4y ago
A search engine that's just Wikipedia and Reuters sounds like the most boring website on the planet. Sometimes people don't want "just the facts," all the time. Sometimes they just want to have fun. And obviously "m
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by nmilo 4y ago
Why does it kind of suck? Let people believe what they want to believe. It's not like it makes any difference to your life or theirs.
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by nmilo 4y ago
> Musk hasn’t said all that much since the takeover on Twitter, but he has replied to a couple of users who have complained about platform censorship in the past. One is a user called “catturd2” who claims he’s shadowbanned and who tweet
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by nmilo 4y ago
I don't like this viewpoint at all. Spoken English and written English are different languages, full-stop. You can see this in effect when someone is giving a fully-scripted presentation or talk---it just doesn't sound like speaki
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by nmilo 4y ago
> What do people think the future looks like where publicly available resources on the Internet (art, code, etc) aren't fair use for training ML models? A better future to me. I don't want pictures of my face training ML models
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by nmilo 4y ago
Good bye and good riddance. Even just the idea that GitHub should be allowed to train their proprietary AI on other people's work is insane. Much less distribute that AI in a paid package which lets you spit out other people's cod
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by nmilo 4y ago
Then maybe it's time that lower-level customer service reps stop running official company twitter accounts. Maybe you and I see it differently, but most of the world sees a company's twitter account as the official source of inf
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by nmilo 4y ago
I said it should be a hobby. And complaining about your hobby espresso machine taking up too much space in your kitchen is like complaining about your model railway taking up too much space in your basement. No one is forcing you to have a
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by nmilo 4y ago
> Why do we design the most important room in the house around the gear that simply provides our morning cuppa? Because there’s nothing simple about coffee anymore. Who is we? And on top of this being an absurd rich-journalist problem, y

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