AlotOfReading

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by AlotOfReading 5d ago
Most non-CS hashes should have two parts: 1. A permutation that does as much as possible of the actual bit-mixing and 2. The simplest compression rule possible, though combining can be tricky. Good permutations are much easier to design tha
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by AlotOfReading 5d ago
My middle school had a reading program where the monthly winner would get a book of their choice from the scholastic catalog. This was a very enticing prize to a poor, voracious reader like me. After winning my way through the Hobbit&#x2F
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by AlotOfReading 8d ago
You only have to assume that some instances of piracy would have led to an actual sale and adjust the lost present value to p*price on average.
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by AlotOfReading 8d ago
Reminds me of Michelson's (of Michelson-Morley) famous statement in 1900 that all of physics had essentially already been discovered, so the only remaining work was to apply what was known to new experiments. Similar statements were m
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by AlotOfReading 8d ago
There's deprivation of future value and deprivation of present value. The owner can continue to sell a digital apple, but it's not clear to me that "theft" inherently deprives the owner of future value. For example, I co
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by AlotOfReading 10d ago
Is that a serious question? Many people would consider Potala palace, the Milan Duomo, Neuschwanstein, etc more beautiful than anything designed by Zaha Hadid and Gehry. Myself included, even as someone who likes their work. Limiting oursel
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by AlotOfReading 10d ago
Or have a cut in the outer ring with an insert filling the gap. A partial ring is easiy to bend outwards, but difficult to bend inwards.
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by AlotOfReading 11d ago
There's a fair bit of overlap and people who work in both, but yes, they're distinct specialties. I wouldn't say upset though, except in the sense that grocery store clerks are upset by "if it doesn't scan it's
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by AlotOfReading 11d ago
I've been developing a suspicion that many people simply aren't looking at what their agents produce and can't speak to the quality of it in a fully informed way. For context, I've set up harnesses with recursive automat
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by AlotOfReading 11d ago
It's not known for certain how it was done and we've never found a sketch as far as I know, but some form of master plan is generally suspected for figure mosaics. The customers purchasing the mosaics to be constructed would have
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by AlotOfReading 13d ago
It's the problem of the banality of evil. Stopping someone from dramatically pressing a big red button doesn't solve humanity's largest problems because that's not what caused them. We need to stop millions "boring&
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by AlotOfReading 16d ago
If the buttons are incompatible with the absence of the feature, I'd expect the buttons not to exist when the feature is disabled. Anything else seems like a straight up footgun. I guess it'd also be acceptable to pop up a scary w
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by AlotOfReading 16d ago
You could have looked up the collisions instead of making vague accusations of bad faith. In one, a Tesla going 98MPH collided with a line of vehicles (including a Waymo) stopped at a light. In the other, a motorcyclist hit a Waymo from beh
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by AlotOfReading 17d ago
There's no legislated standard in the US, nor pre-sale verification that a vehicle has met most of the other automotive standards. That's just not how the US regulatory environment works. There's the beginnings of a standard
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by AlotOfReading 17d ago
An ADAS would be L4 if it was designed to be truly autonomous. If it's not designed to be truly autonomous, you have to somehow address the attention problem. Even a good attention monitoring system isn't sufficient, because peopl
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by AlotOfReading 17d ago
using C safely is 99% just using Valgrind and some specific GCC or llvm flags and you’re done I wish that were the case, but it's not. Dynamic analyzers are fantastic and everyone should be using them constantly, but they d
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by AlotOfReading 18d ago
Your house has walls to attenuate photons.
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by AlotOfReading 19d ago
I don’t even know what “see the file system” means. It just means they want to see the hierarchy that the filesystem exposes. Here's a useful diagram [0] from the Wikipedia page on hierarchial file systems [1]. There are ways
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by AlotOfReading 19d ago
My understanding is that many of the classical-heavy orchestra schedules are driven by donor expectations.
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by AlotOfReading 19d ago
Also worth pointing out that when the census can't collect individualized data, they estimate it based on existing government data. The quality of data varies significantly depending on the local government, and pretty much all governm
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by AlotOfReading 20d ago
You can constrain the plane it goes on because there's only a small number of flights between city pairs with a given carrier. You also can't buy a plane ticket for an anonymous person. It has to be for a legal person, which the g
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by AlotOfReading 20d ago
How is ensuring checked bags have boarded passengers not also theater? Airlines openly sell unattended cargo space on passenger flights and it's screened the same way as checked luggage.
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by AlotOfReading 23d ago
It helps avoid the happy path effect. You're always handling something and there's no hidden control flow from the program runtime creeping in because of the cases you missed.
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by AlotOfReading 23d ago
Someone recently made the point to me that a lot of dynamic situations can be rewritten as locally static allocations with proper continuations. The idea being that you re-enter the continuation with more memory when you've exhausted y
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by AlotOfReading 23d ago
Even things like fast food or Walmart are a testament to the abundance the US has You can get similarly fatty foods in most corners of the world. Doesn't matter if you're deep in central Asia or Africa, any urban settlem
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by AlotOfReading 24d ago
I suspect you'd have fewer downvotes if you had simply said "everything is political" instead of bringing up a contentious topic that isn't obviously related.
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by AlotOfReading 24d ago
It's pretty easy to see how it happens. People don't intuitively understand compound interest and defer. You're supposed to start saving during the most financially constrained portion of your life, and those are the dollars
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by AlotOfReading 24d ago
It’s America First, not America Only. "America first, not only" was Obama's policy [0], not Trump's. The US wouldn't be starting trade wars with its oldest, closest allies if the current executive believed
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by AlotOfReading 25d ago
What's the purpose of a map if not to reflect how people actually refer to and interact with these features? Disputed borders are handled that way because people inside those countries have understandings of "their" borders (
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by AlotOfReading 25d ago
GMaps can be extremely slow when it comes to responding to user reports, or updating regional info like road networks or new subdivisions. A lot of that comes down to the fact that Google relies on government entities for authoritative info

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