3pt14159

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by 3pt14159 6y ago
What we really need is a web-of-trust. I've been saying this for years. I know who I trust on GitHub. We even have our public keys there. It's perfectly possible to sign a release with an SSH key, even if GPG would be better. It w
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I dunno. Wolfram has earned a bit of self-assurance in my view. As for the theory itself, I'm in the "wait and see" camp. If it's true or at least on the right path, then it should be generating testable hypothesizes soo
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Same, but I was doing it so often I made an alias to a script in my dotfiles folder. ruby_code = ARGV[0] loop do line = $stdin.gets() l = line break unless line line.chomp! final_ruby_code = 'put
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Is Latvian anything like Russian? I found it impossible to hear the vowels when I was first learning Russian. Even today, И and Ы are difficult for me to differentiate, but I've only been in Russian speaking countries for around three
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I have this issue talking to people on HN all the time. Fundamentally it boils down to this: The people making mid six digits or higher don't want to share exactly how much they make because there is very little upside, and people vote
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Open to correction, but isn't 128 bits a little less than 40 decimal digits?
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
No it is not news in the least. Even Canada has offensive cyber and has members of the military talking with some regularity about how they use it in completely declassified settings. You can literally buy a ticket to a conference and hear
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I disagree. It's not hard to find a zero day in software used for parts of our critical infrastructure. It's not hard to create potent drugs from small amounts of precursors. It's not hard to build a gun or a bomb in a machin
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Most of these are true enough, but this: > Self-interest is the most powerful force in the world. Which can be great, because situations where everyone’s interests align are unstoppable; bad because people’s willingness to benefit themse
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
If you're already on Heroku, you may want to autoscale your web dyno. It's pretty sweet and keeps the bills low unless you get a surge of traffic :)
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
What I do is make the same scripts from project to project then have helpful aliases to run them quickly. For example, since I do TDD and often work on a single test file for a while I have a script in every project called: bin/r
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I have a background in civil engineering with a focus on structural / geotechnical / construction engineering. Standards for hospitals are much stricter than they are for houses. In fact, for buildings like hospitals we have speci
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yeah because the FSB can't use a cutout to send data to Wikileaks /s
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Deaths per joule are the lowest out of any major fuel source except for maybe wind, which is debatable depending on your assumptions about the future.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Sometimes people will say "I'm having a gay ol' time" to mean "I'm having a good time" with a bit of a subversive tint to it, since they know that everyone knows that gay to mean happy is completely outdat
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yeah, this was a while back. The guy used to work for the South African military during apartheid and later worked on systems in Canada and Asia. I'm sure you're right that digital computers could do the job today, but back then t
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I should call the guy up sometime and get the details about what they were working. It wasn't a run of the mill analog computer, but who knows how novel it really was.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It was a true PDE, not an ODE. The circuit was non-trivial, but though I knew PDEs at the time he told the story, I'd never used them on electronics (only heat / pressure flow, and other physical engineering stuff) so I couldn&#x2
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I know a military contractor working on some pretty cool stuff, especially back in the day. On one of their projects they had to solve some really gnarly partial differential equation and weren't really getting anywhere. Since what the
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Social signalling is important. I fully admit that. I wear completely different clothes when I'm meeting a minister of Canada than when I'm hanging out at a think tank beers night. That said, I think there is a correlation between
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Last time I checked, which was about four years ago, the conditions on Venus 40km were such that humans could walk around outside with nothing more than an oxygen supply.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
The executives at Exxon knew about global warming fifty years ago and buried it. They funded research that muddied the waters. They funded propaganda. They funded lobbyists. They even started wars. The older generation is the bad guy, and i
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
In DC there is this concept of "the blob" which is basically shorthand for "The Washington consensus that isn't verifiable, but that most people parrot since to hold an opposing view doesn't really get you anything
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Async is perfect for things like bulk uploading to DynamoDb while you munge through input files or save metadata to postgres. But for 97% of the use cases it's easier to use multiple processes and a normal worker queue.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I addressed this. > I can still write updates to a blog piece or add translations that people send in and everyone benefits from the dynamic nature of content, while still being able to either fallback or verify content at the time it wa
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
The issue is that if this becomes widespread then we're going to get into copyright claims against the wayback machine. When I write content it is mine. I don't even let Facebook crawlers index it because I don't want it appe
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Bash is like a spec ops soldier's knife. Sure it could be used to kill someone (Bash on Balls, anyone?), but it's mostly for doing boring stuff like opening MREs (getting around a filesystem) or removing a deep thorn from the sk
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I mean, it's super sexist but it's loaded with cultural influence. A good man is loyal, works and sacrifices for hard nose causes like the military and at his worst fights for a shilling with no reason to question it. A good woman
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> A man who wears the same coat for 20 years is either a loyal man or a lazy one I took this to mean "coat" in the sense of allegiance. Red coats vs blue coats. A loyal British subject during the run up to the American revoluti
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> it has to be possible to generate it in a logically consistent manner from some initial conditions and simple rules Though I agree with the overall thrust of your response, I don't think it necessarily follows that an existence mu

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