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by C-x_C-f 2y ago
Ignorant question—how's this different from qemu-virgl? I've been using the latter (installed from homebrew) for the last few years passing --device virtio-vga.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
You forgot GPay! Which I think is a different app (I mean, it has a different name...) though I can't say I'm sure (Wikipedia says they're the same, but the source they use directly contradicts them). It's really comic
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
The C-u C-u trick at 2:03 is such a neat hack. Goes to show how with Emacs you don't have to compromise between customization and productivity: a true hacker can have both.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Not really, it remains true even when you take competition into account. Also, the rest of the industry isn't really playing the same game: all other companies producing moka pots are vastly more diversified. You have e.g. Alessi which
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I'm not sure about the details. IMHO a contributing factor is that they're a company historically centered around manufacturing nearly indestructible appliances (even the newer mokas, however flimsier, don't break easily); on
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Bialetti has been on its last leg since 2015. They're drowning in debt and (in the best case scenario) are headed toward restructuring soon; in any case their future's not looking bright.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Very cool as always! If I may be pedantic about the lede: > The history of coffee provides a rich index of global economic and cultural exchange going back thousands of years. The history of coffee is less than 600 years old.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I'm curious, why L2 norm? Each qubit lives in C^2, does it not? I've only ever seen quantum computing formulated over finite dimensional Hilbert spaces (though to be fair it was only in a math context, no real physics there)
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Yeah the field doesn't have the most stellar track record. From [0]: > Some of the most serious nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll in the world have involved nuclear submarine mishaps. Though I have no idea how the propos
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I'm not familiar with this custom, but wouldn't kids with more balanced extracurricular lives have an advantage over those who fill their day to the brim? Surely after some point you hit diminishing returns, and after that it beco
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Apart from what WJW said, it's not an objective criterion but it essentially means that you don't lose out in terms of initiative or position. A counterexample might be accepting the queen's gambit with black (i.e. 1. d4d5 2.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Money that one can afford to spend can still be saved, so it's of interest to anybody who feels the savings are worth the added effort.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
That's a decade-old strategy: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/04/02/176062612...
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
More like `catch |err| return err` so not that big of a saving but yeah it's more convenient
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> A satisfying explanation of consciousness must offer some phenomena that carries a resemblance to our personal datum as experiencers of sensations. What, in your opinion, would make for a satisfying explanation of consciousness? I thin
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I think one can salvage the distinction between physical reality and subjective experience without positing an abstract ("Cartesian") dualism. It just so happens that most experiences can be categorized as being either external
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I've been to some houses where the shutters had no gaps and they fit the window frame so well that virtually no light made it in, even during the day. It was surreal waking up in the morning, thinking it was still night time, then chec
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Thanks for the link, I love research papers fresh out of the oven. > subject cooperation is required both to train and to apply the decoder That's fascinating and kinda bends my intuition. Can't wait for the paper to be on ***h
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> We built the atomic bomb by building a bunch of facilities out in the middle of nowhere and letting scientists just kind of make it up as they went along. Physics in the years leading up to WWII had reached levels of accuracy and predi
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow; by the same argument, measuring bumps on people's skulls can't be ruled out as not crucial to future science since it hasn't yielded a breakthrough yet. The merits of a scientific methodology canno
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I don't deny that neuroscientists will discover something big in the future; I'm just saying that people should stop expecting that the next breakthrough will come from crude tools such as EEGs and fMRI, at least in conjunction wi
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
If there's one hill I'm determined to die on (given the information that I have anyway) is that any scientific finding extrapolating information from "brain waves" or "region activation" is little more than m
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I've always used \iffalse as a way to comment out text in TeX without losing syntax highlighting, and never thought much about its main use. It's cool to see that it's a crucial ingredient in the definition of \newif (also th
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> After lunch, I went to teach limits to first years students, and with a total straight face I told them that ∞ is not a number. When you apply Alexandroff extension to add the point at infinity to, say, the real numbers, what you'
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Metabolism varies widely among individuals, and there is no clear understanding on the relationship between calorie intake and weight. All the calculators and estimates you find on the internet are based on surface level low-quality estimat
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I count my calories and I eat between 3.5k and 4k. I had a few periods where I ate <3k. These are two separate things. The latter is significant because the fact that I lost weight makes me think that I need my usual intake to retain my
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I don't have perfect pitch but if there's no sound around I can accurately recall the pitch of my alarm (the standard Android one) within a half tone, so I think that strategy makes sense
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
That's always a concern with law enforcement. I say "concern" because it creates perverse incentives for the enforcing body. An extreme case is civil forfeiture, where in some states police depts get to keep the lion share of
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> It's not usually a good idea for government agencies to assume that every company in a particular field is maximally dishonest and criminally inclined. Depends what you mean by "maximally." I think it's safe to assu

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