stonemetal

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by stonemetal 10mo ago
If gravity were lower we would have evolved differently, walking would have adapted too. On the other hand babies probably wouldn't be able to walk either. Being mobile, defenseless, and not having "runaway!" as the default
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by stonemetal 2y ago
> IBM to launch an LLM in 2040. What about Watson? How did it generate language? My understanding is it output language well enough to match what LLMs do today.
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by stonemetal 2y ago
>is there a chance we had pseudo gender science as well It wouldn't surprise me if there were a bad actor or two, but suggesting everything in the area is "bad" would.
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by stonemetal 3y ago
>equal numbers of terms won by each party. Therefore, in my view gerrymandering doesn't really have a negative effect on democracy The point of democracy is not to deliver an equal number of victories to each of the parties. It is
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by stonemetal 4y ago
More than half a dozen Boost libraries have made their way to the standard. Boost continues to exist because there is large overlap with the standards committee and they use it as a staging ground to try out new ideas before they are standa
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by stonemetal 4y ago
Delayed ACK seems like the better default to me, whether it is telnet or web servers, network programming is almost always request response. Delaying the ACK so that part of that response is ready seems like the correct choice. In today&#x
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by stonemetal 4y ago
I thought it was common sense to not believe in a thing if there is no evidence of a thing. The only way I am going to believe it was a lab leak is if credible evidence shows up. Until then it is an unknown.
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by stonemetal 4y ago
Content providers pay their ISP bill or they wouldn't be on the internet. End users pay their ISP bill or they wouldn't be on the internet. ISPs unable to figure out how to run a profitable business is no one's fault but th
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by stonemetal 4y ago
If he actually did any research how could he get it that wrong? Nothing about being built in America, just that the owner and charterer must be Americans, the actual operating crew can be whoever. The coastwise endorsement further define
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by stonemetal 5y ago
>(I'm pretty sure they still made money on those who forgot to skip a month) It used to be opt in, not opt out to skip a month. IGN is basically trying to figure out how much they can extract from the good will they purchased.
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by stonemetal 5y ago
I work at an office that does 9 80. At first they tried the half one Friday, half the other, but switched to everyone in on the same Friday. Basically it annoyed and confused customers trying to reach people. It is just easier to say the
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by stonemetal 6y ago
Has Andrei been keeping up with C++? Most of the time I hear about him recently is in context of him being a core D member.
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by stonemetal 8y ago
According to the national debt's Wikipedia page 5.7 trillion is owned by the government. That ends up being about a forth of it.
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by stonemetal 8y ago
Good thing the New York Times isn't in Europe.
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by stonemetal 8y ago
It isn't but it kind of is. It is a 95% chance that you should reject the null hypothesis. For example if we flip a coin a 5 times and get heads every time that gives you a p value .03 for rejecting the null hypothesis that the coin
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by stonemetal 8y ago
Given that P <= 0.05 is the usual standard, I would hazard that if it can't be reproduced at least 95% of the time then you miscalculated P.
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by stonemetal 8y ago
What do the reviewers do? They don't try to reproduce it. So yeah make shit up, as long as it is plausible no one will notice. For example Yoshihiro Sato was recently (2016-2017 time frame) caught fabricating results, turns out he ha
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by stonemetal 8y ago
I didn't realize full size trucks had gotten over 60 feet long and 40 feet wide.
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by stonemetal 8y ago
Everyone has heard of google, attacking them would cause back lash. Non technical people haven't heard of cloudflare so it is a softer target.
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by stonemetal 8y ago
>The effect of this function will be DIFFERENT. Obviously the output will be different the input was different. The equivalent C code would have passed pointers. In that case the behavior would have been identical passed in values not
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by stonemetal 8y ago
Popularity to a certain extent is a prerequisite for viability. Given problem X, and given that language Y is the most suitable language to solve problem X, how likely are you to chose language Y to solve it? If you are unaware of languag
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by stonemetal 8y ago
Note: the article is from 2015. To get better developers need to increase their area (Breadth * Depth). Going deeper and deeper in one area may make you an expert on that topic, but it is easy to become irrelevant if you have no breadth an
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by stonemetal 8y ago
I would put that on the implementations not following the standard rather than the availability of the standard. How many C# devs out there have read their ISO standard?
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by stonemetal 9y ago
I disagree. In the case of MIDI, or a printer it has significant non infringing uses, and they weren't implemented solely, and with great detailed knowledge of the work in question. If you had a printer that was designed specifically
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by stonemetal 9y ago
What do you see as the difference between a trust and the person as far as transparency goes?
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by stonemetal 9y ago
Throwing an exception is explicit as well.
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by stonemetal 9y ago
If you can't sell it, and it can't be paid for directly how can it be worth "between $0.1x and $10x" Some items might be more desirable but you can't pay more or less for them. That is rather different than a raff
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by stonemetal 9y ago
Teenagers go there because it is cheap, and open 24hrs a day. If it is 2 am and you are hungry it is basically Taco Bell or Waffle House with the bell being the cheaper of the two.
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by stonemetal 9y ago
It seems a little expensive but not unusually so. A beagle board is 270. This has double the processor count, and is 64bit vs beagle board's 32 bit. It has 4x the ram of a beagle board as well.
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by stonemetal 9y ago
Does tang yield the same flavor as fresh squeezed orange juice? On the one hand yeah they both taste like their source, on the other there is a quality difference that is noticeable.

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