norrius

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by norrius 1y ago
> But if I asked you, "Why is this stove burner on?" it would be entirely normal for you to answer, "I'm making tea." This is a confusion specific to the English language, not consciousness in general. Some langu
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by norrius 3y ago
> I can rotate a die in my minds eye without actually seeing it. It's hard to explain. I think I'm the same. It's as if I can imagine a geometry, but it doesn't have any texture or colour. It's not black, not gre
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by norrius 4y ago
What is the "smallest positive number" in the set {x | x in reals and 0 < x < 1}?
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by norrius 5y ago
Sure, if you want to allow non-flat, curved faces, this body is possible. I'd argue this is not in the spirit of the question, similar to the triangle statue mentioned in the article.
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by norrius 5y ago
I come from a country with rather _interesting_ views on what should be allowed online. 451 is used often enough that I've seen it in the wild more than once (and consider yourself lucky if you haven't encountered it...).
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by norrius 5y ago
I suspect this is more about giving that almost-boiling water more points where it can break tension and start forming bubbles. So it doesn't make the water reach 100° faster but makes it more visible.
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by norrius 5y ago
> Whenever an input accepts YAML you can actually pass in JSON there and it’ll be valid ...unless your parser strictly implements YAML 1.1, in which case you should be careful to add whitespace around commas (and a few other minor things
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by norrius 6y ago
Does size/shape[1] mean anything? Or is it my punishment for not using Chrome? [1]: https://i.imgur.com/g8J28D8.jpg
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by norrius 6y ago
Can someone explain what prevents birds of the same subtype from mating? The article mentions that the chromosome 2 cannot cross over in meiosis, but I just fail to understand the mechanics of the process and how that leads to disassortativ
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by norrius 6y ago
> Getting a bank in most other countries is not hard at all and certainly not a "nightmare." I don't know about "most" countries, but my American colleagues in Germany and Switzerland complained about the difficu
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by norrius 6y ago
I love how a (metaphorically) air-gapped system can be attacked (literally) through the air. Maybe the truly critical things should also be vacuum-gapped (and put into Faraday cages while we're at it)?.. But the system still has some
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by norrius 6y ago
> So it broke the experience for all first time users. To be fair, Python 3 provides a very clear error message if you try to use print as a statement, although I don't know when exactly that was added: $ echo 'print &quo
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by norrius 6y ago
I think the choice of an object in this comparison is interesting, altough it doesn't affect the result that much, of course. The 5-franc coin is ridiculously big: measuring 31.45 mm (1.24 inch) in diameter and weighing 13.2 g, it&#x27
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by norrius 6y ago
That reminds me of a story where a student couldn't figure out the properties of some physical system, so he ran a massive simulation of a universe with laws of physics similar to his own (but, of course, cutting corners whenever possi
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by norrius 6y ago
Yes, that's it, thank you! And here's the English version of the article I linked above: https://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm
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by norrius 6y ago
If you do something really simple like a Gaussian blur (which is a type of convolution), it might be possible to find the inverse convolution (de-convolution) and restore the original image with some accuracy. One method is the Lucy-Richard
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by norrius 6y ago
I recall being taught a (fairly rudimentary?) explanation of the memory model that the available space is used from one side as the stack, and from the other side as the heap. Reading the article, I realised that memory management in a conc
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by norrius 6y ago
I am disappointed that the references at the end are made up and are not the prior art in the obviously important field of non-textual languages. I'd really love to learn about that "system for aromatic computation and its applica
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by norrius 7y ago
These are bast shoes [0], known in Russian as lápti, which were the typical footwear in villages until the 20th century. They are strapped to the leg so that they don't fall off. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by norrius 7y ago
Given what appears to be exponential growth, the calculation seems to ignore potential future deaths in the currently known cases. Pardon the morbidity and cynicism, but maybe some of these 14628 people haven't had the time to die yet?
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by norrius 7y ago
Given the next sentence (...if it isn't true, it seems like a polynomial algorithm would be unwieldy indeed), I think the GP actually meant P!=NP to be true.
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by norrius 7y ago
I wonder if the French parts of the book were altered in the translation or kept as is. Or do you get excerpts of untranslated Russian instead, huh?
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by norrius 7y ago
It could work... If you want to set minimal system requirements to visit your website. It will also annoy users of password managers with auto-filling capabilities. "password" is normally used for actual passwords. Besides, nothin
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by norrius 7y ago
> When I first heard about the quantum search algorithm I thought it [O(sqrt(N)) run time] sounded impossible. I just couldn’t imagine any way it could be true. It's curious to hear this from Nielsen himself. Personally, learning ab
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by norrius 7y ago
Was that meant as a joke or am I completely missing the point here? Mathematics provides plenty of tools to work with infinities. In plural, because there are quite literally infinitely many different infinities, which we know thanks to mat
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by norrius 8y ago
I think generally having time-accurate flags and names would greatly improve the look of the chart. It is just weird having modern flags for the Axis countries in WW2, white-blue-red for the USSR (that's not even the Russian flag at th
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At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion(techcrunch.com)
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by norrius 8y ago
For whatever reason, the link does not work for me. Google's cache doesn't seem to provide a copy, so here's one from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180420113021/http://
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by norrius 8y ago
Indeed. What on Earth is “bzzrt pop ffssssssst”? Am I missing something? Google does not help at all.
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by norrius 8y ago
So basically WTFPL-licensed code is as good as not licensed at all, which is a nono?

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