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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Ugh, this comment has reminded me of the disgusting dystopian fascist police state we find ourselves in; I immediately thought, "I'm sorry, but Mr. Deitrich's dead. I thought they'd arrest him, but when they found a Kora
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
In short, yes. An analogy with cars, where the same law already is being applied, will work. (Do we still do car analogies in 2018? And on sites which aren't Slashdot?) Suppose you get your brakes changed at some place which is well-kn
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Excellent! It hadn't occurred to me before that PyPy's parser error messages could be different from CPython's; I must have forgotten that they rewrote the parser [0]. [0] https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009&#x
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Smart contracts rely on a trusted ledger. The original smart-contract discussions in the 90s were in the context of a contract between various users in virtual open-world games, enforced by the trusted game server. This setting also meant t
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Can you flash firmware to a wyze camera to get them to work on home assistant as they are pretty much the same thing?
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Don't be so dramatic. Baylife has always been terrible, but it was affordable in the past, so people put up with it. If you care too much about what other people think of you, then you possibly aren't spending enough time thinking
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Since nobody's spelled it out directly: Let an approximant be a rational number p/q which is near the desired irrational x. Then, let p/q be a best approximant iff no other rational with denominator smaller than q is clos
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
And they will be forced to learn, the hard way, that this is a bad way to approach algorithms design. The same argument applies to quicksort, and we know how that turned out: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
The best tool for solving these problems is a whiteboard; writing code should be seen as a last resort, and brute-force solutions should be shunned, as they provide no insight.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
They're gnomes . Tell them the truth: they'll be helping to care for the planet. Throw in some vacation and pay and they'll love it.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Ramanujan may have been aware of 1728 == 12² because of 12's recurrence within number theory. (Well, really, 24's recurrence. [1]) He wrote down several equations [2] which feature 12 and 24, and given the time in which he lived,
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
"Oregon Ripped-off, America's Cup, Larry Ellison."
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Hi, here are some modern resources. First, what's the problem? http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/ConfusedDeputy.html What are capabilities? http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-c
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
"So it’s pretty clear by now that “don’t make mistakes” is not a viable strategy." This is more generally known as Constant Flawless Vigilance: https://capability.party/memes/2017/09/11/constant
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Are there any countries with slavery which are outperforming similarly-situated countries without slavery? AFAIK slavery is only useful in Civilization 4 (whip it! whip it good!) and IRL it is no substitute for citizenship.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Not if it's in the Hadean Eon; we have serious difficulty finding well-preserved direct evidence from that time. It could be that we settled on DNA and cells before the geologic record was capable of faithfully preserving evidence of e
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Nobody? http://www.oregonvoices.org/
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
How do the schemes laid out here compare with zfec ( https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/zfec )?
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
This site's JS made me very sad. A lot of points in this post are about appeasing toxic behavior and working with difficult bosses. Why? Appeasing toxicity only increases toxicity.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Reminds me of ologs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1889v2 The category on top of a given graph just adds path equivalences. While that might not seem like a big addition, it's crucial for restricting the structure&#x
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Talks about Hillary Clinton being "cold" and promotes Amy Cuddy's "power pose" pseudoscience. I find this to be an interesting, disappointing worldview.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
He designed CPUs from scratch using a bare-bones minimal Forth (ColorForth) as his preferred way of writing code. The resulting chipset is utterly fascinating: http://www.greenarraychips.com/
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Núñez is not a mathematician and claims an anti-Platonic view of maths which is totally inconsistent with the reality of practicing mathematicians over the past century. In particular, I doubt that they grok the extent to which maths and ph
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
I have a book that is along these same lines, and it says, "Quality is what you like." Quality is between an observer and an object.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
I was tempted to explain, in excruciating detail, exactly what will happen if thermonuclear weaponry is used on North Korea. But you were glib, so I'll be glib too: Many North Koreans, South Koreans, Japanese, Russians, and Chinese wil
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Quantum mechanics has several facets which correspond to path integrals, infinite-dimensional operators, and infinite series, sums, and products.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Here's Woodin talking about his work in this area on a more technical level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVF4N1Ix5WI
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
These levels are known to SREs as Initial, Repeatable, Defined, Managed, and Optimizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model#Leve... These levels are known to Discordians as Chaos, Discord, Confusio
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Sounds like Named Data Networking, which cannot come soon enough. Is anybody doing commercial NDN yet?
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
To clarify, for those wondering, the separatist leader Puigdemont has not (yet?) been assassinated.

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