Cogito

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by Cogito 7y ago
The peloton strategy is the current meta.
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by Cogito 7y ago
I can’t really speak to the why. In any case. I remembered seeing nul in strings in git, not sure if the same place (maybe?) but a quick search shows up some real world usages https://github.com/git/git/search?q=nu
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by Cogito 7y ago
Sure, once you’ve unpacked it into a structure. It’s used for sending stuff over the wire, but also for storing on disk etc. Conceptually it was dealt with as one string, which happened to contain nulls.
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by Cogito 7y ago
> although I couldn't think of a reason why One I've seen in the wild is an encoded data structure, a blob of null terminated strings passed around together.
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by Cogito 7y ago
For what it's worth, I think it's ok for those comments to be boring. The root comment has been hidden, and the mod (who probably hid it) has replied to it stating why it was hidden. That we can see moderation is a good thing; tha
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by Cogito 7y ago
From that article (my emphasis): > One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations. [Edit] And farther down u
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by Cogito 7y ago
Not being able to leave the planet is not really ever going to be an issue. Space debris can make specific orbits unusable, but you can pass through those orbits no worries. You can think of it like the asteroid belt. If you are flying out
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by Cogito 7y ago
Unless the comment has been edited, they never claimed they were "the average". The claimed that most people aren't going to use 100 MB/s 24/7/365 and gave themselves as an example. Their data point is useful,
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by Cogito 7y ago
As per the tradition [0]: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.
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by Cogito 7y ago
I've read it was at max drag.
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by Cogito 7y ago
You're more than welcome! I aim to be sceptical when taking on new ideas or information, and all the questions people have are very reasonable. It's hard to even imagine the size and ferocity of these fires. The problem is when be
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by Cogito 7y ago
That seems plausible, but it doesn't seem to be what's happening. The author of the 480 million affected animals estimate has co-authored an article which talks about the impact on birds (as well as many other animals). The releva
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by Cogito 7y ago
Replying to you directly here because it seems like something you would be interested in. The author of the 480 million affected animals estimate has co-authored an article addressing this in more detail and with lots of references. I'
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by Cogito 7y ago
The author of the 480 million affected animals estimate has co-authored an article addressing this in more detail and with lots of references. I've posted it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990825
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by Cogito 7y ago
On a recent thread [0] there was a lot of conversation around various estimates and news coverage of animal deaths caused by the fires in Australia. I contacted Professor Chris Dickman [1], the author of the '480 million affected anima
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Bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction(theconversation.com)
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by Cogito 7y ago
I couldn't find the publication myself (though I now see others have posted it in other threads [0]) so I emailed Professor Dickson to get his input. In the meantime I looked for some studies, and found two that are interesting and inc
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by Cogito 7y ago
Just to challenge your scepticism a bit > Fourth, roughly 30% of those estimated animals are birds, of which other experts say 99% would survive because, ya know, they can fly away. Of the other 70%, many others would have just walked o
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by Cogito 7y ago
I watched a video [0] of a 'flash-over' of a firetruck, scary as hell. I've no idea how someone could propose to evacuate people through conditions like that. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvy2siEwOZ0
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by Cogito 7y ago
I'll add here because parent is flagged, but the fires can get so hot that the radiant heat will kill you from 100m away. The firestorms suck up all the oxygen, and can cause massive 'fire tornadoes' that have literally flipp
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by Cogito 7y ago
> It's possible to do quite a lot without infinities in calculus and trigonometry This is like Stacey King saying "I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70 points." Pretty muc
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by Cogito 7y ago
And for anyone who doesn't know why .files are treated differently: In every Unix folder there are two special files, named '.' and '..' - the first is a link to the current folder, the second to the parent. It was
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by Cogito 7y ago
Sure, you need a way to verify that the package has been locked by who you thought you were sending it to. Your attack would work by removing Bob completely, you just play his part in the protocol. This is true for any protocol though. If y
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by Cogito 7y ago
The solution to the scenario is (spoiler alert) to attach multiple locks. Alice attaches her lock. Alice sends the locked package to Bob. Bob attaches his lock. Bob sends the twice locked package to Alice. Alice removes her lock. Alice send
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by Cogito 7y ago
This scheme sounds (unsurprisingly) similar to a well known crypto scenario. Here is a page that describes it[0]. Copying from there: You and I need to communicate via the National Postal Service. What you want to communicate is secret, so
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by Cogito 7y ago
What? No. Sex is a normal part of life, but even if it wasn't this is a ridiculous analogy. If I get this vaccine I protect both myself and any future partners I may have. There is no downside (barring potential vaccine side effects).
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by Cogito 7y ago
This is a review of the book "Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866–1896" by Charles Postel. The 'Gilded Age' of America mentioned in the submission title is this period of 1886-1896. The whole review is a bit belaboured,
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by Cogito 7y ago
> Other way around: repo.new would redirect to github.com/repositories/new. Look at that!, it does redirect to github.com/new/ I guess that will be useful for some people? It feels a little bit like mystery meat thoug
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by Cogito 7y ago
So the stated use case is for 'performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it.' So it's expecting users to go to a different website to perform on
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by Cogito 7y ago
Makes a lot of sense, thanks.

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