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by KMag 4y ago
Hmm... most of my exposure to Microsoft CS papers was in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Perhaps things have changed, or maybe it was just the set of authors that I read. In any case, the layout was markedly different, and once my friend
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by KMag 4y ago
Language determining what we can think is the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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by KMag 4y ago
Back in school, I remember mentioning to a friend that "Don't the Microsoft Research CS papers look a bit different? Whenever I feel like a paper looks a bit off, I look up and see the authors have Microsoft email addresses.&quot
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by KMag 4y ago
> and even determine what we can think The strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been discredited. People can and do easily create new phrases to describe new concepts that don't exist in any language they speak.
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by KMag 4y ago
Sample size 1: I have tried from time to time. Google seems to have Hong Kong trail maps in its data set, just poor quality as to which trails are passable.
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by KMag 4y ago
> Another machine, a push down automaton, has memory capability greater than the FSM, but lesser than the TM. What you've written is correct, but someone who's not reading carefully might mistake "capability" for &quo
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by KMag 4y ago
It used to be the case that the credit card companies put language in their merchant agreements language requiring the merchant to change the same price for credit and cash transactions. I'm not sure how many places they just lost the
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by KMag 4y ago
On a side note, hiking is incredibly popular in Hong Kong (mountain sides too steep to practically build residences right in the middle of one of the most densely populated places on Earth). However, Google maps is comically bad for hiking
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by KMag 4y ago
To expand a bit on what you wrote. The Fisher space pen was developed entirely with private funds, and sold to NASA to fill a real need to not release graphite to be inhaled or cause short circuits.
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by KMag 4y ago
If the government subscribed wholly to utilitarian ethics, it's arguable that it would be an ethical imperative to contaminate the fentanyl supply with vaccine. I don't agree, and think it's immoral and unethical to subject c
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by KMag 4y ago
I've heard it's cheaper, but the half-life is so short that just to keep the withdrawal symptoms at bay, addicts need to dose more often than if they're using heroine, oxycodone, etc.
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by KMag 4y ago
Right. My understanding is that it's very common to have fake oxycodone or heroine that's fentanyl or carfentanyl, and the short half-life of fentanyl and carfentanyl means that addicts will get withdrawl symptoms in just a few h
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by KMag 4y ago
I think most companies and industries where bonuses make up a significant portion of total compensation still usually have annual inflation adjustments to base salaries, largely to avoid this problem. In an ideal world, people would be a bi
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by KMag 4y ago
If each function is in its own section, then all function calls would need to be indirected through the PLT/GOT, even function calls within the same translation unit? Ouch.
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by KMag 4y ago
They're also better for stability in numbers of employees, as it's easier to reduce expenses in bad years without having to go through layoffs.
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by KMag 4y ago
Though, note that both Android and Google Maps were acquisitions. Someone needed the vision to acquire those companies, for sure, but their initial incarnations aren't great examples of Google innovation.
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by KMag 4y ago
The US is safer if you don't bring home classified information. You don't have control over what the president does. It's in your rational self-interest to not bring home classified information. Your perception of fairness
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by KMag 4y ago
One interesting thing about the AS/400 is that all or almost all of the userland programs were distributed/stored in TIMI (Technology-Independent Machine Interface) format. It's a bytecode that gets AoT-compiled to native co
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by KMag 4y ago
Crockford's version of base32 [0] (sometimes called crockford32) treats 0, o, and O the same when decoding, likewise for 1, i, I, l and L. It also doesn't use the letter U, to reduce the chances of including English obscenities.
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by KMag 4y ago
Yea, sounds like terrible advice. I tried pot a couple of times in college, honestly really disliked what it did to my memory, and disclosed it on my EPSQ 2.2 clearance paperwork. I had absolutely no problems. The background check folks
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by KMag 4y ago
A PDF file is a program for a virtual machine that draws characters. For instance, I believe fonts in PDF work like PostScript fonts, where (for left-to-right languages) each glyph in the font is actually a bytecode function that starts wi
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by KMag 4y ago
The Haber-Bosch reaction is exothermic, but requires elevated temperatures, so I suspect that there are significant economies of scale when scaling up the reaction vessel size due to reduced surface area to volume ratio.
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by KMag 4y ago
In my experience, when an auto-formatter re-wraps a line that gets a char or two too wide for your coding standard, it generally does an aesthetically poor job of it.
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by KMag 4y ago
Supposedly a wild strike caused the steel hammer to strike the steel pipe and spark, and there was a narrow flammable channel next to the dowel leading to the main charge.
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by KMag 4y ago
Jogging my memory from over 20 years ago, the "reference" reactive foodstuff they used was "processed pork product" (Spam). Looking at the available Spam can sizes, maybe it was 340g processed pork product. Maybe they
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by KMag 4y ago
In the late 1990s, MIT's East Campus dorm organized an annual Sodium Drop from the Longfellow Bridge. (Later discontinued after a chunk of sodium survived, oxidized to concentrated lye, and chemically burned an unfortunate clean-up wo
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by KMag 4y ago
A few years ahead of me in high school, the wrestling team had a one-handed wrestler. A friend of mine on the wrestling team told me it was because the guy was helping a guy make a pipe bomb, using a hammer and a wooden dowel to pack match
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by KMag 4y ago
At least in my experience, if I listen closely to the standard announcements, this is the explicit recommendation from the pilot/cabin crew as well.
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by KMag 4y ago
Anyone from MIT's Tau Epsilon Phi around to confirm/deny that TEPaphone is still running? In the late 1990s/early 2000s, a friend of mine (a brother in TEP) told me about their PBX hand-wired from mechanical relays and stepp
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by KMag 4y ago
It looks like maybe Apollo/Domain systems use an epoch of 1929-10-14 instead of 1970-01-01. Maybe that's the birthday of one of the early developers (or their spouse). There's nothing particularly magical about the Unix epoc

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