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by wombatpm 5d ago
Same seed gives the same sequence. Use that to debug Monte Carlo simulations all the time.
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by wombatpm 9d ago
This has all happened before when the CSS encoding scheme for DVD’s was cracked with the short decss program. And the MPAA wants after everyone and every posting of the code. I had the Tshirt with the code that I bought to support the guy b
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by wombatpm 9d ago
Why bother publishing the code? Anyone with LLM access can recreate it. Instead write up your findings on how it works. Publish that in a blog, submit it to Wikipedia and Reddit. Player piano did security through obscurity. Now make it less
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by wombatpm 9d ago
Please note: This is America where potential civil immigration charges can result in summary execution because poorly-trained wannabe-cop racists with guns make needless escalations. If law enforcement thinks it’s a crime, it’s a crime unti
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by wombatpm 15d ago
But you can smuggle them in containers and trucks to accomplish the same strike thousands of km’s away.
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by wombatpm 17d ago
Widows are when the final line of a paragraph starts the next page. Orphans are when the first line of a paragraph ends a page.
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by wombatpm 25d ago
Example see the Pine Drama shorts on Tim Tok. 5 sec shots with inconsistencies strong together into a 30 sec clip that is 1 part of 56.
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by wombatpm 26d ago
Only app data, not the apps themselves. On restore you need an internet connection to redownload the applications.
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by wombatpm 1mo ago
Which is completely bonkers, because they are going to go on and make copies of their scanned copies- for backup purposes. It would have made more sense for them to be required to store, maintain, and never sell the original. What if taking
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by wombatpm 1mo ago
Night flying, mountain terrain, little moonlight. Pilots focused on distant landing point and hit intervening ground on descent. A crash is usually the end result of several previous bad decisions.
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by wombatpm 1mo ago
Biology would greatly benefit. We barely understand transcription and protein structure. And the straightforward systems that we know like insulin have complex post translational modifications. So while we have a map of the partial proteono
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
I stopped after Malloreon more because my interests changed. Finding out their history hasn’t changed anything for me. But Marion Zimmerman Bradley for some reason has and I have no desire to read any of her books ever again.
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
It’s going to go back to the old boys club where personal connections between research groups and institutions will matter more.
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Public data that can’t be adjusted like Glassdoor reviews? A way to keep recruiters honest? Is this for job xyz that has been reported filled as of Friday? I’d certainly use it in interviews. Job x appears to posted every 10 weeks and repor
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Then should be a paper trail of the position, and a final decision by a person to not fill the position. I feel that as part of unemployment insurance all job postings should tie back to a canonical job position registered with the state wi
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Converting from sour to sweet is easier than sweet to sour. Because the sulfur in sour is the catalyst killer. You may have issues in the early processing steps because of lower viscosity, but you can do blending if necessary.
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Can’t say enough good things about Database Design for Mere Mortals. I keep a physical copy on my desk to give to other developers to read.
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy: every organization has two groups of people. The first group cares about the organization's main goal. The second group cares about the organization itself. Group two always wins, takes control, and
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Lots of scientific code in Fortran has sparse arrays, so a NxN array that only has values on 5 diagonals will store that as 5xN array to save memory allowing you to run a larger problem.
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Sulfur is produced when the H2S is removed from petroleum and natural gas. Elemental sulfur is burned to produce Sulfuric acid using the Contact Process.
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
Physical Chemistry (I think it was Chem 361 at UofI) took most of the semester to get to the point where we could derive the shape of the hydrogen orbitals. Probably the best lecture of that class.
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by wombatpm 2mo ago
XML is like violence. If it’s not solving your problem, you need to use more.
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
Physics 107 at U of I in the 80’s had all quizzes on the PLATO system. Please for the love of mercy do not not go back to inflexible systems for exams and quizzes.
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
Same problem with chemo and radiation. A tumor may start off with a single cancerous mutation, but by the time it spreads there may be several. Once the cell repair machinery has been broken, the cancer cells are prone for more mutations. C
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
You just need to get a breeding pair and you can raise as many as you need.
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
Wasn’t Tesla found to have FSD disengaging just before a crash so that the driver would be at fault?
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
Old joke: Bill Gates walks into a bar. On average everyone there is a millionaire
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
Police would just argue that the second datapoint was wrong.
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
But that is also a problem with structures derived from the methods you list. None of them are 100% equivalent to in vivi structures.
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by wombatpm 3mo ago
Bette White has an honorary degree from there for her Rose Nieland character on Golden Girls

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