FabHK

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by FabHK 2y ago
Shouldn’t -3² be the same as 0-3² ?
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by FabHK 2y ago
Yes, if you don’t want your software and services to be ad-funded, then you have to pay for them. I thought that was sort of obvious.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Coming up in iOS 18.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> Apple products are designed from the ground-up as ad-watching appliances. That’s funny. I have virtually no ads on my Apple devices. I associate ads with Windows and Android. And I have several browsers on my iPad, one reason being avo
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by FabHK 2y ago
See, the file system is a fine system for general data, but if you have data of a specific kind, then there’s often a better way than just dumping them in the file system. That’s always been Apple’s approach: let data assigned to a specific
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by FabHK 2y ago
In Excel (and some other languages), unary minus has higher precedence than exponentiation, so that -x^2 = (-x)^2 = x^2. That can bite you (for example when calculating the normal probability density function “manually”).
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by FabHK 2y ago
The Bolshoi does excellent opera and ballet. Private US health care is way more expensive than basically anywhere else in the world, while delivering worse outcomes than most places. Want to trade anecdotes all day? We can do that. Or you c
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by FabHK 2y ago
Any large disaster will be caused by a long list of failures. Chernobyl was a particularly colossal screw-up (mostly a concatenation of unlucky coincidences, one specific instance of ignorance due to political meddling, and severe human err
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by FabHK 2y ago
Private industries have no good record of quality or efficiency. See Three Mile Island, Bhopal, Fukushima, Enron, Theranos, etc. With the cheap talking points out of the way, one could examine this question carefully and objectively now.
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by FabHK 2y ago
The article and its predecessors lay out the legal doctrines under which company CEOs can’t just take whatever they want from “their” company.
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by FabHK 2y ago
And the extent to which the expectation of the function of the random variable exceeds the function of the expectation of the random variable depends on the variable’s variability (or variance), as can be seen eg by a Taylor expansion aroun
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by FabHK 2y ago
Agreed. It's a great interview question. For a story-telling position.
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by FabHK 2y ago
You are correct. So, the statement should not be "if you win the lottery jackpot, then you win less than the average lottery winner", but "if you win the lottery jackpot, then you win less than lottery winners win on average&
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by FabHK 2y ago
(I think cortesoft was responding to pif, whom you also responded to, thus agreeing with you.)
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by FabHK 2y ago
Nice. And, say the lottery jackpot is a constant 6$, then the average winning per player is 3$ (case 1) or 6$ (case 2) or 6$ (case 3), each equally likely (case 4 is not applicable), so $5. However, if A wins, A wins either $3 (case 1) or $
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by FabHK 2y ago
In Germany (2021), online purchases were paid by: 33% Bill & bank transfer 20% Direct debit 20% PayPal 11% Credit card 16% various others https://www.handelsblatt.com/finanzen/banken-versicherung
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by FabHK 2y ago
Related: Suppose Bitcoin's difficulty is tuned correctly to the target block time of 10 mins/block. Then, if you pick a block uniformly from the list of blocks, its expected length is 10 minutes. However, if you pick a point in ti
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by FabHK 2y ago
A DC-10 can't fly when one engine comes off unplanned (and it has two engines left in that case...): as the aircraft was beginning its takeoff rotation, engine number one (the left engine) separated from the left wing, flipping over th
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by FabHK 2y ago
Good idea. If individual parents prohibit their kid from using a cellphone in school, it would be standing out in a weird way, thus creating a classical collective-action problem, tragedy of the commons etc. The school taking the step to ba
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by FabHK 2y ago
Ah, fair enough. I think we agree mostly then - he is fed up, he is justified in it, yet it is not very productive. (I wouldn't call it toxic, though.)
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by FabHK 2y ago
It seems to me that YouTube cripples their web player on purpose to "entice" you to download their app and upgrade to premium.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Infuse is great. I use it to play stuff (in basically any format) from the NAS through the Apple TV on a dumb TV.
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by FabHK 2y ago
As outlined in some other thread, mpv is not able to stream eg to ChromeCast, unlike VLC. Maybe VLC supports certain things that make the previous-frame thing harder. I suspect it is so, but I don't have insight into the detailed archi
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by FabHK 2y ago
I guess I don't want my video player to let audio exceed safe volumes...
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by FabHK 2y ago
Why is it incumbent on the developers (who know their codebase and its capabilities better than the forum posters) to explain their decision to the forum posters begging for a feature, and not only explain it, but explain the decision and t
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by FabHK 2y ago
Quite remarkable that you call the developer toxic when those were his replies paraphrasing what users had said and demanded up-thread. > that is no way to talk about other volunteer developers that contribute their time. He is not dissi
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by FabHK 2y ago
> If it had the stability of entire countries behind it, it wouldn't fluctuate this much and even if it did, if everything's in that currency then you don't notice it in daily life either. Common misconception. You basical
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by FabHK 2y ago
Money (like stocks and bonds and ETFs and ...) is already digital.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> if receiving payments would’ve been as easy as receiving email from the beginning. In Germany, every business (and some individuals) has published their account number for ages (on the letterhead, website, etc.), typically right next t
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by FabHK 2y ago
Fun fact: In China, most people don't carry a wallet anymore. It's all on the phone.

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