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by KMag 4y ago
I think it's more likely a problem that the GP poorly worded their initial statement, rather than actually moving the goalposts. They were probably having trouble with a few thorny bugs, tried ChatGPT, got nowhere, and forgot to quali
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by KMag 4y ago
I don't think we understand enough about the dark energy driving inflation to say that. If the force is constant for a given pair of particles at a constant distance, and the atoms are currently stable, that would seem to imply that t
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by KMag 4y ago
No way, half of my diet gives mice cancer! It would stink to be a mouse!
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by KMag 4y ago
Due to accelerating cosmic inflation, some galaxies are receding from us at faster than the speed of light, so their light will never reach us. The majority of galaxies (everything outside of our local cluster, IIRC) will eventually be re
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by KMag 4y ago
If you're sad about the missed opportunity for sex, console yourself in that it's never as good as your imagination, unless your imagination is pretty poor. (Insert obvious "then you're doing it wrong" retort.) On
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by KMag 4y ago
They mention limits on acceleration, etc. I presume there's a standard table somewhere. I'm not sure if they use median survivablility or some higher quantile.
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by KMag 4y ago
In other words, ignoring taxes, in a long-term holding strategy, one would expect reinvesting dividends from a stock to perform as well as if that stock just didn't pay dividends (all else being equal, which it never is). Though, takin
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by KMag 4y ago
The first link cites Fingerprints of the Gods, chapter 14 as racist, but doesn't give any quotations. I haven't read any of Hancock's books, and I have far better things to do with my time (apparently, among them, browsing H
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by KMag 4y ago
Don't get me wrong. He strikes me as a bright guy who gets a kick out of (and if he profits, so much the better) fooling average people. But, has he actually suggested or implied that European society was more advanced back then? Has
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by KMag 4y ago
I think a minimally modified "steel man" version of the contended statement is that _modern_ Europeans don't have any _European_ ancestry that goes back beyond 40,000 BC. Their ancestry is known further back; it's just
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by KMag 4y ago
Yea, a friend of mine's younger brother suffered a stroke in college, and couldn't remember his laptop password. My understanding is that at least some of the important files were encrypted.
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by KMag 4y ago
I get the impression that in some jurisdictions, deferred equity compensation kicks in earlier than one would otherwise expect, in order to hit some employment law cut-outs for "highly compensated executives". I worked over 10 yea
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by KMag 4y ago
Our brains are also water cooled, and yet our bodies often actively increase temperature.
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by KMag 4y ago
In other words, a survivable accident is approximately an accident in which one or more occupants could have theoretically survived, even if in fact they all died. One or more survivors would seem to prove the accident was survivable.
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by KMag 4y ago
Don't forget web3 on-chain canaries!
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by KMag 4y ago
Hmm... I haven't read the official spec, just the Microsoft documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref... In any case, the behavior is rem, not mod. Ada has both rem and
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by KMag 4y ago
C#'s % is explicitly the remainder operator, not the modulo operator.
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by KMag 4y ago
The last I used Matlab, it also required you to assign your return value to a variable with the same name as the function. Presumably Gnu Octave also has the same feature.
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by KMag 4y ago
> PHEVs are the best vehicle if you drive less than 60km per day, and mostly have stop-go city driving (so you can recharge on braking). Nit: it's the low average speed of stop-go driving (less air resistance) that makes city drivin
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by KMag 4y ago
> Might as well believe in Halley's Comet and enjoy a cool glass of koolaid. Have I just run into an Internet conspiracy theory where Halley's Comet is "what the man wants you to believe, wake up sheeple?"
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by KMag 4y ago
> The run queue (high load) issue seems the kind of thing that could be an issue with the client kernel Under Linux, a high load roughly tells you that the system is bottlenecked on something, where that something isn't necessarily
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by KMag 4y ago
The article is paywalled. Even if (and I haven't read the article) the explanatory power of mean outcomes is equal between diet content and diet timing, it's absurd to think that the worst-case timing (as long as one isn't s
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by KMag 4y ago
Most likely an autodidactic exercise. I'd love to see the source, even if, or especially if, it's half-finished. Seeing someone work their way through the snarls in such a project would be useful.
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by KMag 4y ago
Not my project, but I'll ping it over to Dmitry. One thing is that it's possible that Ellx uses exceptions to detect time series and lift regular functions into time series functions. I'm not sure the implementation details.
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by KMag 4y ago
Quick shout out to Ellx[0] (I presume, Excel pronounced backwards), which I discovered on HN a couple of years ago when discussing where I'd like to see spreadsheets evolve. It's basically functional reactive spreadsheets in Java
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by KMag 4y ago
I make heavy use of mental imagery while navigating. Is that not the case for most people without aphantasia?
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by KMag 4y ago
I thought my wife's aphantasia is related to her difficulty in orienting a map and figuring out where she is on the map. If GPS is off by half a block and/or the magnetic compass has the map mis-oriented by more than 45 degrees,
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by KMag 4y ago
So, the afternoon/evening of November 24, 2019, I was driving, my wife was navigating, and my mom and step-dad were in the back of the rental car, driving from Turin to Genoa on the A6. Unbeknownst to us, there was a major bridge coll
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by KMag 4y ago
> If you're willing to throw out security and use one of the many EVM clones... The devil is in the implementation details, but if we're talking about eBPF vs. EVM... one of them was designed for deadlock-free execution of untr
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by KMag 4y ago
> The weight of the battery pack is great for traction in warm / dry conditions, but when driving on ice that weight is just momentum sending you sliding into snow banks. Not necessarily. In Minnesota, people often put sandbags in

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