tspiteri

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by tspiteri 2y ago
For me it was for a bit, but it was very fragile, then eventually broke and didn't recover.
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by tspiteri 3y ago
So your wife is right, unless she's against AI, in which case she is sarcastically right. > My wife thinks we should never use AI. Ha! Your wife is absolutely right! Artificial Intelligence is a complete waste of time and energy. Af
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by tspiteri 4y ago
> 4 NANDs and an inverter give you a D-latch that lets you synchronize your circuits to the clock signal. A D latch would be enabled all the time the clock signal is high, so it is not suitable for synchronizing your circuits to the clo
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by tspiteri 4y ago
Arb depends on MPFR, so it is not exactly "instead of". https://arblib.org/setup.html#dependencies
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by tspiteri 4y ago
Imagine you get the result correct with infinite precision, and then round to the required precision in the specified way (round up, round down, round towards zero, round to nearest with ties to even, etc.). Correct rounding is equivalent t
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by tspiteri 4y ago
MPFR has some timing comparison on its page. https://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-4.0.1/timings.html Also, MPFR depends on GMP which has integers and rationals. Then there is MPC which in turn depends on MPFR and provides complex
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by tspiteri 4y ago
It's LGPL not GPL.
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by tspiteri 5y ago
He retweeted Suchkov's summary of Putin's "address to the nation regarding his decision on Donbass" ( https://twitter.com/m_suchkov/status/1495831112102338563 ). No surprises there about where Sn
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by tspiteri 5y ago
> Me, because we don't use transparent compression anywhere. Since Fedora 34, a clean install will result in btrfs with zstd compression turned on. (An update of an older install will of course not change the filesystem from underne
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by tspiteri 5y ago
Would it work though? The transistors are quite large compared to today's processor's transistors, and at that high frequency the routing delay for the signal to travel around transistors is quite significant. This seems more usef
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by tspiteri 5y ago
Touch controls. I hate that I cannot turn off my hob in dim light as I have to see which of five barely visible areas I am to touch.
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by tspiteri 5y ago
> in the anglosphere, open source licenses are by default bare licenses -- they do not have the force of contract, meaning they can be revoked at any time. Any example where this happened to back up this claim?
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by tspiteri 5y ago
It depends on the hand motion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZk5rAVuNsc&t=15s
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by tspiteri 5y ago
I love Rust, but I love and recommend ripgrep because of its usefulness, reliability and robustness, not because of the language it's written in. I haven't looked into all the tools in that list, but I would not for example recomm
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by tspiteri 5y ago
I also found the series lacking humour, but maybe that's because I've only mostly watched Mock The Week and Have I Got News for You for the last few years.
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by tspiteri 5y ago
Game of Thrones did not have a budget problem for the last season; it had a writing problem. While other seasons used the novels for the build-up and for the story to make sense, the last season did not. And while the author does know whe
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by tspiteri 5y ago
Some things work differently on TV and on books, and they changed things to make the storytelling better suited to TV. For example Camina Drummer was introduced much earlier in the TV series so that Fred Johnson had someone to talk to on sc
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by tspiteri 5y ago
As long as they profited from the whole thing, I don't think they should be applauded. It's like applauding someone for stealing from the cookie jar for some time and then stopping after an outcry. Sure, it's better than cont
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by tspiteri 5y ago
In that case they can store quarters of a cent instead of hundredths of a cent, and still be able to store $0.0625, while increasing their range by a factor of 25.
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by tspiteri 5y ago
> did a good thing once Discounting something as "a good thing once" sounds weird to me: many things require a huge amount of work to carry off, so "once" here can encompass dedicating someone's life work for dec
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by tspiteri 6y ago
Lucky you :) In my case the only thing I could to do was to change the README of my crate from saying that I plan to migrate from typenum to const generics "when they are supported by the Rust compiler" to now saying "when th
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by tspiteri 6y ago
You're replying to a comment with item id 25196754, and your link has item id 25196874, which comes later.
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by tspiteri 6y ago
The two groups would actually be the same. You can start with a number of people, randomly pick half of them to be given the vaccine, and the other half get the placebo. So there should be no difference, apart from getting the vaccine/
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by tspiteri 6y ago
This reminds me of Ocean's Eleven, where everyone in the group effortlessly understood the Chinese member, but noone understood the British member when he said stuff like "We're in Barney" which he had to explain as &quo
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by tspiteri 6y ago
Maybe web browsers are an extreme case, but I think your model would only work for long term releases. It is not reasonable to expect browser vendors to backport all security fixes to all releases so that users on old releases get essential
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by tspiteri 6y ago
I would also mention something about that with both the DFT and the DCT, the signal is conceptually periodic in time. So if I want to find the DFT of the 4-sample sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, it is like finding the DFT of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 1
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by tspiteri 6y ago
They can legislate for example against app store exclusivity instead of legislating technical app store rules.
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by tspiteri 6y ago
Because dementia is forgetting, not hallucinating.
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by tspiteri 6y ago
Ah, then in that case it's actually five 51-bit limbs making up the required 255 bits. So probably the article has a slight mistake here assuming that 52 bits of the highest limb are used which led to an inaccurate reason when trying t
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by tspiteri 6y ago
No worries, I kinda realized just after posting the comment, which explains why I added the edit. :)

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