OscarCunningham

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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
People get struck by lightning or have epileptic fits, and it doesn't wipe their personality.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
People don't need lamb in an emergency.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
I would be interesting if finding quantum circuits was one of the things that quantum computers were good at.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
Do all of that using a PRNG seeded for the book and the reader's ID. So your copy of the book is the same every time, but different from everybody else's.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
One example of a time I used a bare except was when I wanted a program to retry three times if it failed for any reason. I just wrapped everything in a for loop with a catchall except. The problem occurred when our scheduling program (Airfl
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
I guess the point of charging the company at the time of disposal would be that they'd be earning interest on that money in the meantime. So they'd be incented to make it last longer. It wouldn't work for several reasons thou
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
In Conway's Game of Life, the first self-constructing machine used this principle. It has two construction arms, and the recipe for them to create new copies of themselves is encoded in gliders and bounced back-and-forth between them.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
> Rationale: We used the same operator name for full-table and grouped aggregation to minimize edit distance between these operations. Unfortunately, this puts the grouping and aggregate columns in different orders in the syntax and outp
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
I just had a look at RFC 4180. This is the grammar they suggest: > file = [header CRLF] record *(CRLF record) [CRLF] I find it kind of wild that you have to have at least one record. Suppose I have a program that lists the events that oc
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
That explains something I was puzzled about recently. How the Amish can keep buying land for their famously many children, while using less modern technology than their competitors.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
Why do people suggest inflating away debt rather than just defaulting on it? I'd guess that the debt markets would punish the two options equally, because bonds would lose the same amount of real value either way. But inflation also sc
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Compromising the Secure Boot Process(schneier.com)
12 points by OscarCunningham 2y ago|1 comments
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
That's assuming that wind tunnels are not Turning-complete. Terry Tao has this fantastic idea of proving the Navier-Stokes equations blow up by proving the existence of a 'fluid computer'. https://terrytao.wordpres
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
I-1i think this i0s funnier t0o apply t0o short words. Also t1e word 'a4d' i0s pronounced like i1's written.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
The experts do in fact track the entire Pareto Frontier in this way: https://biggieblog.com/tracking-the-global-opus-magnum-recor...
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
It's nothing to do with money. We're literally producing more and better goods than the previous year. This can be due to better technology, more tools, or increasing population (and probably some other factors I forgot).
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
One simple way to do January and February is to treat them as part of the previous year (with an adjustment for the constant you remember for those months).
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
If he ran in the same direction as the station was rotating then he would feel extra force pushing him into the ground, whereas running the other way would cancel some of the centrifugal force. I wonder if the directions would feel like &#x
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
I remember thinking about this when my dad lost his job after the 2008 crash. He worked on machines that made computer chips. People still wanted computer chips. And yet there was no means to connect the two.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
This person made a quine in Piet: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2009/10/piet-quine.html?m=1 . The image there is broken, but there's a copy here: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/23255&
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
It's a similar situation to the Kepler Conjecture ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_conjecture ). The proof was already known, but people weren't sure it was correct until it was formalised.
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by OscarCunningham 2y ago
This is the genius of the episode naming for 'Friends'. They're each called the thing you would actually say to describe them, like 'The One with All the Cheesecakes'.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Where the comic title usually is, avove the top 'Random' button. It just say 'Machine'.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Looks like the page was renamed to just 'Machine'. I don't know why that would be. Surely not a copyright issue?
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Has this been solved?
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The Plasma Channel on YouTube built a small one of these drives: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ulk4hw7pUZY . The thrust to power ratio is not fantastic, but I just love the idea of machines with no moving parts.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The funny thing is that because he elves are immortal it's possible for Aragorn to marry his first cousin, sixty two times removed.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
I'm reminded of that time that Netflix held a million dollar competition to find the best algorithm for predicting movie ratings, and then didn't use it.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
No. The centre of each meta-cell is full or empty to display the state of the cell. You could remove all that and it would still be simulating the Game of Life, it would just be hard to tell what was happening without zooming in.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
If our 'fundamental' physics is actually emergent from a lower layer then we might expect that our laws are actually leaky abstractions. Very occasionally things at the lower level will happen in an unusual way that causes the law

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