MereInterest

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by MereInterest 1y ago
Oh, absolutely, and I usually push for having users installed a more recent compiler. The problem comes when the compatibility policy is defined in terms of the default compiler provided, because then it requires a larger discussion around
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by MereInterest 1y ago
> Corollary: hats off to Red Hat for supporting their distro releases for such a lengthy period of time. This has been my bane at various open source projects, because at some point somebody will say that all currently supported Linux d
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by MereInterest 1y ago
To any other readers, if nxobject’s post reads as a non-sequitur, it is because bitlax edited their post from its original “Only applies to citizens.” to “ Citizens certainly do.” shortly after posting.
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by MereInterest 1y ago
> Only applies to citizens. If the right to a fair trial is restricted from any person, it may also be restricted from every person, by claiming that that person is part of a group not afforded a fair trial. If you were arrested, how wou
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by MereInterest 1y ago
You are correct that no such permission is required to use, lend, or resell a book. It would be unethical for a seller to impose a requirement for such permission. By the poster’s analogy, it is similarly unethical to impose a requirement
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by MereInterest 1y ago
> Pedantism is the lowest form of pseudo-intelligence. You can’t just lay this bear trap of an opportunity and expect me to not pedantically state that the word is either “pedantry”, the activity performed by pedants, or “pedantic”, to d
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by MereInterest 1y ago
Nitpick: O(n^2) is quadratic, not exponential. For it to “increase exponentially”, n would need to be in the exponent, such as O(2^n).
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by MereInterest 1y ago
Yup. The most prominent I can remember are the Beats By Dre headphones, where about a third of the weight is from metal parts that are either purely decorative, or whose functionality does not at all depend on being made of metal, based on
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by MereInterest 1y ago
> (note: I have no intention of using gold for beverage containers... I like my skin not blue) I thought gold was biologically inert. Any chance you’re thinking of argyria, which is caused by exposure to elemental silver?
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by MereInterest 1y ago
> The wear and tear on tarmac is directly related to the weight of the vehicles that use it. From empirical studies, damage to the road is proportional to the fourth power of axle weight. A bike with rider may weigh 200 pounds, where a
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by MereInterest 2y ago
If the contract doesn’t correspond to what the salesperson said, wouldn’t the company still be on the hook for false advertising and/or fraud?
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Not a data scientist, but my understanding is that restricting the set of training data for the initial training run often results in poorer inference due to a smaller data set. If you’re training early layers of a model, you’re often reco
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by MereInterest 2y ago
I think I’d distinguish between rewrites and refactors. A rewrite starts from a blank slate, where a refactor starts from the previous version. Being unable to understand the code in its entirety does not mean that somebody is unable to un
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Until I realized this, the title was quite confusing. If “20,000 leagues” were referring to depth, it would be enough to go all the way through the Earth, exit the other side, and then make it a quarter of the way to the moon.
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by MereInterest 2y ago
I haven’t used it, but it sounds like make’s —-assume-new flag does exactly what you want for the first part. It lets you rebuild everything that would result from a changed file, including all side effects, without needing to first update
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by MereInterest 2y ago
It doesn’t even need to be a diamond to have dependency problems. Suppose I have two dependencies, A and B. Dependency A also depends on B. Now I have two copies of B, one from my submodule and one from A’s submodule, and there’s no guar
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Technically, it is possible for floating-point Inf to stop propagating prior to the final result, depending on the operation. For example, 1/Inf produces zero, as does exp(-Inf). But those are cases where the larger a value is, the le
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Holy cow, "problematic" is an understatement. So the airline employee gives a list of people who don't have enough time to assert their rights, the DEA confiscated any cash they found, and then gave what sounds like a kickba
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by MereInterest 2y ago
By that same logic, if somebody tells me they will pick me up on the way to a movie, I should go there on my own because they aren’t here already. I should walk to the movies, because my car is not currently running and whether or not it s
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Splitting the file doesn’t need to be part of the file format itself. I could split a file into N parts, then concatenate the parts together at a later time, regardless of what is actually in the file. The OP was saying that zip files can
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Or they lie and say that the email address you provided isn't on their mailing lists. As if I hadn't just followed a link from an email they sent.
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by MereInterest 2y ago
And why trademarks should be dissolved in bankruptcy, not treated as a transferable asset. If there’s a break in continuity of the provider, then the public has no guarantees about the quality after such a break.
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Though from the wikipedia article [0], it looks like it has only been used successfully three times (2017, 2019, and 2020). There's a fourth in-progress by Johnson&Johnson, where the summaries state that the bankruptcy has been tw
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Avoiding this issue would be a pleasant side effect of encryption. Since encrypted data is indistinguishable from noise, it wouldn’t matter if the underlying format has specific bit patterns that mimic a signal pattern.
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Except that you could have part of the surface covered in 1 molecule, and another portion covered in 2 molecules. Since you never directly measure the thickness, this would produce the same apparent thickness as a uniform 1.5 molecule thic
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by MereInterest 2y ago
My understanding is that the actual body of water was larger, but that the oil would only spread out to one molecule of thickness. So you start with a larger area of water, and measure the diameter of the resulting oil slick.
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by MereInterest 2y ago
There’s a couple of possible reasons. First, you probably spilled more oil onto the plate. In the experiment, 0.81 milliliters of oil spread out until it covered a circle with diameter 84 cm. Most spills would be more than a mL of oil,
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by MereInterest 2y ago
That sounds like a non sequitur. The same would be true of money spent on stock buybacks.
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by MereInterest 2y ago
Aren’t they taxed differently, though? To my knowledge, dividends are taxed as ordinary income, whereas sales following a stock buyback may be taxed as capital gains (if they were held long enough before that point).
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by MereInterest 2y ago
I agree, and that's why I try to avoid any prevarication on the point. Because the head of marketing will at some point ask developers to break the law. Treating privacy law as a grey area gives the marketers more room to pressure de

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