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by KMag 4y ago
More importantly, I think more accurate nukes along with good satellite multispectral and signals intelligence means that top generals carrying out orders for nuclear first strikes can be more certain that they're signing their own dea
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by KMag 4y ago
Interesting. I had an internship at a company that did inertial navigation, mostly for defence applications. I only knew of ring lasers for use in gyroscopes. (Send a laser around a loop wave guide/fiberoptic, and any translational
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by KMag 4y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, no. At my previous job, I wrote a short Python script that took /usr/dict/words and gzipped it and also converted to UTF-16LE (inserting a null byte before every character) and gzipping that. T
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by KMag 4y ago
No subfield matches, no comparisons other than == and != on the whole field, and only works with deterministic encryption... so leaks like a sieve under many threat models.
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by KMag 4y ago
I believe text is their only reliable way to update the model's internal state in a way that reliably transfers information. (Its internal state is a black box.) I presume they feed in the prompt and dump internal state to disk, rath
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by KMag 4y ago
There's a scam where two people go into a store and pretend not to know each other. One gets change from the other, but doesn't have the correct change. They then get the cashier involved to help with the "problem" by
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by KMag 4y ago
Whoah... whoah... whoah... how dare you insult whiskey like that!
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by KMag 4y ago
I was developing trading systems at Goldman then. I remember that day. I got a call that evening to come in early the next day to discuss additional preventions and mitigations to implement. Scarier was the day I put out a change request
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by KMag 4y ago
It could be nationalist/originist instead of racist, depending on if they literally thought Scandanavia didn't have such people, or if they intended to convey that they didn't think ethnic Scandanavians could act in such a wa
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by KMag 4y ago
There are really terrible people everywhere, luckily in low percentages.
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by KMag 4y ago
Note that the railing has to be high enough that even with the swaying of the boat, it's not going to hit you below your center of mass. A lot of boat railings aren't tall enough.
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by KMag 4y ago
I have some sympathy for Mitnick. My understanding is that most of the damage he caused was due to opportunity cost and direct costs of catching him, at a time when a direct path into a security career was less obvious.
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by KMag 4y ago
Did you find a very skewed sex ratio in your embryos? My dad has a sister, but has only two sons. My brother has 3 sons and one daughter, all natural pregnancies. My wife and I have 1 son via IVF, and the other 4 embryos we had checked fo
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by KMag 4y ago
Except that there are often different tax rates between capital gains and dividends. Even if there weren't tax rate differences, reinvesting dividends effectively compounds the tax rate annually, whereas the capital gains tax is a sim
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by KMag 4y ago
In the late 1990s/early 2000s, I used TWM because it was light weight, and easily customizable to have 1 px borders on windows (and no bar at the top) to maximize my screen real estate. Java Swing and TWM interacted poorly, so when Li
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by KMag 4y ago
More than 20 years ago, I wrote networking portions of such simulations. Even for the unclassified components for those simulations, many of the components were still both commercial secrets and considered munitions under ITAR export contr
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by KMag 4y ago
Rate of survival under what circumstances? Even for the simple case of pairwise one-on-one dogfights, there could easily be a rock-paper-scissors scenario where there's no single dominant plane. Also, the data would be from simulation
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by KMag 4y ago
Our ability to count sperm cells, for instance, isn't decreasing yearly.
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by KMag 4y ago
A lot of server workloads also aren't about maximizing flops/Watt or iops/Watt, but rather setting up DMA between the disk controller and the network card and having a low idle power, to get the most network throughput per Wa
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by KMag 4y ago
But weren't they forced to purchase StrongARM/XScale from DEC as part of their hyperthreading patent infringement settlement?
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by KMag 4y ago
The thing is, these probably aren't rampant. I doubt more than 0.01% of all Windows machines have a Go or Nim binary on them.
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by KMag 4y ago
... and most stock markets are also decimalized now. I remember reading the newspaper for my 7th grade investment club run by my math teacher. Prices were in 1/8ths of a dollar, as I remember, and maybe the penny stocks were in 1&#x2
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by KMag 4y ago
I suspect it's just an over-fitting problem. By some (likely ML-derived) metrics, Go and Nim binaries don't look like MSVC binaries. My general feeling is that we're going to see many years of ML over-fitting for common case
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by KMag 4y ago
It's pretty common in the financial world. The US government doesn't offer zero-coupon bonds, so the big banks create special purpose vehicles that buy US government bonds, split the cash flows into the strips and the zero-coupon
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by KMag 4y ago
For one, the TrustRank paper discusses some variations on link structure ranking, some of which are less computationally intensive than PageRank for incrementally updating. Back 20 years ago, Google News and the more frequently updated web
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by KMag 4y ago
There are known link structure metrics besides PageRank that both scale better and are harder to game, though I'm not sure how their effectiveness in ranking compares to PageRank in the un-gamed case. I used to work on Google web searc
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by KMag 4y ago
One interesting thing about at least some versions of the Oberon system is that they found that it was faster to store programs as compressed abstract syntax trees on disk and compile them at load time instead of storing them on disk as nat
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm saying if the way to know that you're predestined to be saved is that bad things aren't happening to you, that doesn't square with Jesus, Peter, and Paul, and many other early leaders having been tortured and killed
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by KMag 4y ago
Again, I'm not a theologian, but this sounds like some mixture of predestination and prosperity gospel, not merely predestination. Most of Jesus's most influential early followers were hunted down and tortured by the Roman author
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm not a theologian, but my understanding is that 5-point Calvinism actually claims all people are bad (total depravity of Man) and that Christians shouldn't think they're better than other people, since it's not the pe

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