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by tooltower 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory#P... It turns out they intentionally drain a bit of the storage capacitor, and amplify that weak signal. Some of that amplified charge is then fed back to stor
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by tooltower 5mo ago
In my personal projects, I've used it to insert/delete transactions in a ledger. I wanted to be able to update/query the account balance fast. Like the article says, "fold operations".
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by tooltower 8mo ago
> Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of MusicBrainz one page at a time. Is there a standard mechanism for batch-downloading a public site? I'm not too familiar with crawlers thes
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by tooltower 10mo ago
Are we sure that the base reveals nothing about the factors if n is composite? I have never seen a proof of that. Usually, zero knowledge proofs also require a prover who knows the answer (the factors in this case). This is just a primality
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by tooltower 2y ago
This article is not about the API contract of the hash function, or the abstraction it provides. If you are just trying to hash things, you don't need any info here. It's very much trying to go _under_ the abstraction layer to inv
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by tooltower 2y ago
I still don't see the settings. Can anyone help?
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by tooltower 2y ago
The hash functions used for these purposes are usually not cryptographic hashes. They are "perceptual hashes" that allows for approximate matches (e.g. if the image has been scaled or brightness-adjusted). https://en.wi
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by tooltower 2y ago
Kind of? Keep aside quantum mechanics for a second. In any classical experiment that has random outcomes, would you say that the probability distribution is a property of a single system or a bunch? You can only deduce a distribution from r
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by tooltower 2y ago
> How can entangled system be differentiated from a nonentangled system? The canonical answer to your question is Bell's inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem . But TL;DR: the distinction
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by tooltower 2y ago
Constant depth circuits can solve everything? I feel like I missed some important part of circuit complexity. Or this is BS.
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by tooltower 2y ago
This is like online reviews. If you selectively take positive or negative reviews and somehow censor the rest, the reviews are worthless. Yet, if you report on all the ones you find, it's still useful. Yes, I'm more likely to leav
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by tooltower 2y ago
I have been donating a few hundred dollars to Mozilla every year (or at least most years) for the last 7 years. It's not much, but I might stop that donation now.
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by tooltower 2y ago
I didn't get from the article: are they better than all traffic signals, or signals with unprotected left turns? And what's a good vs. bad turnabout like? I have had to go through a few that feel extremely dangerous compared to ha
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by tooltower 2y ago
I just found this setting in mobile, but I don't know if it's the same feature: Settings > Data Collection > Marketing
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by tooltower 2y ago
I'm interested in attending these in my area (SF South Bay). How should we discover similar meetups? Is there a place we should subscribe to?
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by tooltower 2y ago
This reminds me of the difference between micro-benchmarks vs real programs. I would always include extracts from real texts of a few different types (novels, lists, technical writing, short paragraphs like in a playscript). But a test text
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by tooltower 2y ago
Thanks for the actual paper they published
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by tooltower 2y ago
I'm not OP, but I had no idea KDE had that built in. I'll have to check for something analogous in my xfce config when I'm back at my laptop. Thanks!
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by tooltower 2y ago
> [...] other algorithms may require the sort of induction one gets with constructive proofs to sufficiently verify. There is an art to this which will lead to style changes in C and a slightly different way of building up functions fro
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by tooltower 2y ago
What's the common tool people use these days for manipulating json in an awk-like manner?
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by tooltower 2y ago
Even the CDs these days will often refuse to play without an internet connection.
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by tooltower 3y ago
It might vary from state to state. Here in California it's pretty inconsistent. Anecdotally, in Virginia it was almost always there for every product.
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by tooltower 3y ago
For one, it's really close to the upper end of how massive a neutron star can be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman%E2%80%93Oppenheimer%E2%... says the limit is around 2.01 to 2.17 solar masses.
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by tooltower 3y ago
The idea is that you can pick up cargo, fuel, and rocket-building minerals directly from Mars.
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by tooltower 3y ago
I haven't kept up in recent years. Who are the better competitors these days?
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by tooltower 3y ago
The comment threads here discuss async in many different languages: Rust, Go, JavaScript, Python. Can somebody knowledgeable describe how they are subtly different between languages? Why are they painful in some but not in others? Is there
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by tooltower 3y ago
The latter. The real-world instances are not uniformly distributed across the language. It is pretty easy to randomly generate problems that are hard for current solvers. Caveats: * "uniform distribution" is a tricky concept over
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by tooltower 3y ago
Speaking of fontforge, does anyone know how to preview a few paragraphs of text in a font as it's being designed? A single sentence with a quick brown fox is often not enough.
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by tooltower 3y ago
Does anyone know of an open-source version of PICO-8? I don't even care about any of the features, as long as there's an active community around the project.
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Mass in General Relativity(en.wikipedia.org)
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