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by zzt123 4y ago
That 65.8% seems high to me using benchmarks of UC and Stuyvesant, but it is true Asians would be “grossly over represented” at top schools if not for affirmative action. Thus the current push to enforce affirmative action on the UC system.
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by zzt123 5y ago
The territory is relatively easy to overrun with speed - the defensible choke point is on the wrong side of Ukraine (for the Ukrainians). It is only occupation that can prove to be difficult, or even intractable.
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by zzt123 5y ago
I believe the person you are replying to is saying “discover” relatively rather than Euro-centrically, as they mention a hypothetical Aztecs “discovering” Europe and Africa.
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by zzt123 5y ago
Aren’t fibers designed from the perspective of usage in underlying libraries, rather than something for everyday end users in the fashion of async/await?
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by zzt123 5y ago
What makes the lan port so critical that the M1 max macs are out of the question despite their surpassing performance in your other listed metrics?
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by zzt123 5y ago
I sometimes get the feeling that all my coding is actually a class of mathematical transforms that I have no idea how to define but feel very strongly that it is definable and AI-able. Well it’d a curious day when an AlphaGo moment hits cod
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by zzt123 5y ago
I will have to stop by Oxnard and check it out. I’d been thinking that I must have an atypical experience since FSD is quite wonderful for me. But if a few dozen miles over and you get a city where FSD becomes awful…
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by zzt123 5y ago
That is entirely not true - no one remembers every detail of their life. As for the ones who do, you can do a fairly good impression thereof by simulating reliable synesthetic associations.
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by zzt123 5y ago
Measurable but insignificant. It would take about 10^29 joules to speed Venus up to a 24h day. The Chicxulub impact is estimated at 10^24-10^25 joules. So we need 10k-100k Chicxulub impacts in such a way that the energy is perfectly transla
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by zzt123 5y ago
The MVP wasn’t scalable.
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by zzt123 5y ago
Ah weird. I was on some AWS page that said the cost was $0.01/gB, which threw me off as seeking ridiculous compared to what I remembered. Not sure what page it was, but clearly that is not the actual pricing.
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by zzt123 5y ago
Interestingly, Troy says that egress is expensive on Azure at $0.014 AUD/gB (~$0.010 USD/gB), but that is the same price as additional egress for Linode and DO, and Linode egress has never struck me as expensive. In fact, I’m kind
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by zzt123 5y ago
Thank you Igor for Nginx. Love using it!
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by zzt123 5y ago
This, I think, is a general result of trials/evidence-based medicine in combination with the combinatorics of the human body in combination with decentralized, unsearchable, overly-privatized health data. I don’t think the medical comm
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by zzt123 5y ago
One-click buy was a patent so…
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by zzt123 5y ago
I bet there’s even a patent for “adjust volumes dynamically per speaker based on real-time positional data to increase volume in a balanced way when possible”. If not, I claim this post demonstrates it’s an obvious thing to implement, so lo
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by zzt123 5y ago
PHP supports first class functions though?
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by zzt123 5y ago
Agreed with the look ahead. I’m constantly doing that whether doing a typing test or typing my thoughts. (Currently capable of sustaining 170+ wpm over a minute). This site looks like great fun as a member of the toolbox for making my Colem
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by zzt123 5y ago
Not necessarily I think. As I understand, Hawkins envisions motor skills as involving a kind of “system call” to the old brain, and the fact that the cortical columns are more efficient does not seem to necessarily imply that old brain stru
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by zzt123 5y ago
There was no leap M1 -> M1 Max for single core. M1 Max, when it came out, was pretty much a bigger version of a one year old cpu.
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by zzt123 5y ago
I wasn’t aware of this. Wouldn’t the Jensen Box imply a correlation between intelligence and simple reaction time, which seems to be a contentious point? I’m also reminded of the lack of correlation between the Wonderlic Test and NFL perfor
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by zzt123 5y ago
I don’t know if Jeff Hawkins would agree, but it seems to me that if his ideas involving cortical columns are true, intelligence is indeed capable of being compressed to a single number with statistical significance, due to underlying effic
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by zzt123 5y ago
I don’t know the details of the Delta conspiracy theory, but the evolution of Delta looks abundantly natural, so whatever that theory is, seems unlikely.
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by zzt123 5y ago
I am reminded how even in as controlled an environment as China, He Jiankui broke the rules.
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by zzt123 5y ago
"For example, we know that the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 leaked out of a lab in Taiwan in late 2021." - is exactly (mechanically) true in that Delta did leak out of a lab in Taiwan in late 2021. This statement does not declare t
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by zzt123 5y ago
Seems so in my reading. I assume I must be incorrect though, since that interpretation seems absurd. Yet, not sure how else to interpret it… but I guess this isn’t much different from the master/slave stuff in code, or the removal of t
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by zzt123 5y ago
Learning disabilities do exist. But wrt a 6th grade reading level, it would be shocking if learning disabilities were anything less than a severe minority of the cause. That’s not to say, however, that improper teaching in response to learn
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by zzt123 5y ago
We’re talking about learning basic stuff, not top tier postgrad stuff. The article is about the majority of American adults being unable to read prose at a sixth grade level - that is, years before SF suggests teaching algebra. That is abso
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by zzt123 5y ago
I have an Aeron, Embody, and Gesture. Yet, some of the $300-$400 mesh chairs at Staples feel better. Downside is I’ve never had one of those chairs last longer than 2-3 years before the mesh loosened up more than I’d like, but while they ar
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by zzt123 5y ago
I’m only aware of the Gigabyte Aero (240hz), Dell XPS 13 (240hz), Dell XPS 15 (60hz!?), and Razer Blade 15 (60hz!?). I wasn’t aware some AMOLED phones use dc dimming. I would love to have that. It’s so weird looking at your phone and seeing

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