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by SEMW 7y ago
> if I filled a hard drive with random bits and sent it to you, you could be found guilty of not knowing the decryption keys for that disk. Technically true but misleading. It's true in the same sense as "if I plant evidence to
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by SEMW 7y ago
Gary was using a much more powerful instance (both in cpu and memory) that this post uses when he reached 2 million with Phoenix. But Phoenix is also doing quite a lot more per connection than node. Basically for multiple reasons they'
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by SEMW 7y ago
> This is indeed astounding and unprecidented - the court ruling, that is Not sure I'm convinced of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Civil_Service_Union... , the first case to hold that prerogativ
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by SEMW 7y ago
You can swipe at an angle (around 45° up or down) to open the menu, and straight out to go back. Not very intuitive/discoverable, but works pretty well once you get used to it
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by SEMW 7y ago
The trouble is that `if(value)` or `value && ..` ends up getting used as an idiomatic shorthand for "if value is present" even in languages (such as javascript and python) where 0 is falsey. Because most of the time it wor
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by SEMW 8y ago
You're making the (very common) mistake of taking a poetic English-language interpretation of a physical law -- which is necessarily lossy/imprecise, since the actual law is mathematical -- and over-interpreting the words without
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by SEMW 8y ago
> imagine a light that can manage to penetrate a bathroom wall, and tell me you don’t think it’s maybe a bit too powerful for consumer use ;) Visible light has a wavelength of a few hundred nanometers; wifi is around 10 centimeters. Mate
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by SEMW 8y ago
Sure, of course. That's a philosophical position known as Dualism[0]. The trouble is that what the author has done is base their argument on an assumption of dualism, but not made that assumption explicit. If made more explicit, the qu
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by SEMW 8y ago
The human brain, like everything else, ultimately runs on the laws of physics. If the laws of physics can be simulated on a computer, then the brain is theoretically simulatable on a computer. So any argument that a computer cannot even in
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by SEMW 8y ago
AFAICT none of the links you give offer any support for the claim that "psychiatry is bullshit". Several, if anything, support the exact opposite (e.g "antidepressants to be more effective than psychotherapy" -- 'ps
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by SEMW 8y ago
> How do screen readers handle other aspects of mathematical equations? For example, if I have an equation like "A equals B to the C", how do I represent this such that a screen reader will say it correctly? This was one of the
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by SEMW 8y ago
> But that's not what I wanted. I wanted Chrome's url bar to interpret those unicode code points as an italic version of the actual unicode code points I want. Chrome should add a check for edge cases like these and add branche
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by SEMW 8y ago
It doesn't and shouldn't. The whole point of having Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols as separate unicode code points, rather than just using normal latin characters with style markup, is so they can be used when the different let
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by SEMW 8y ago
By definition only one place can be the Schelling point: the one that, in the absence of any coordination, a plurality of people think would be picked as the one that a plurality of people think would be picked as... etc.
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by SEMW 8y ago
To clarify that a bit -- while the semantics are that erlang can only send messages between processes, what the BEAM actually does under the hood can certainly involve memory sharing, for efficiency reasons. E.g. binaries >64 bytes are s
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by SEMW 9y ago
To be fair, Google Docs' core offering is live collaborative editing, not 'being a CDN'. Sure, there are ways they can support each at different times if they really wanted to, but it seems perfectly reasonable for them to sa
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Ably MQTT adapter public beta(blog.ably.io)
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by SEMW 9y ago
> performant is not considered a real word in English, although I commonly see it used... This is close to being a contradiction in terms. The purpose of words is to communicate, and if a word is being successfully used to communicate --
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by SEMW 9y ago
No? The data for the makeup of energy in the universe is mostly from CMB anisotropy (plus various measures of how fast the universe is accelerating, like how much supernovae have been redshifted). Finding out that galaxies in the early univ
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by SEMW 9y ago
Matt Might's Codemesh 2017 keynote: "Winning the War on Error: Solving Halting Problem, Curing Cancer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkHgKCqAcI
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by SEMW 9y ago
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature
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by SEMW 9y ago
> Who would bear the risk? Who would bear the losses? Also, what would happen to bad drivers on the system, would they get fired like Uber fires them? You're talking as if this were some bizarre new thought-experiment that no-one&#x
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by SEMW 9y ago
Contra sibling comments, it technically isn't a legal requirement. It's entirely voluntary, a memorandum of understanding between manufacturers, facilitated by the EU. Obviously 'voluntary' here deserves some scare quote
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by SEMW 9y ago
Where did you get that that particular attorney is "obligated to be present"? He's not being sued, Uber is. Uber obviously has to be there in some capacity, but they have no shortage of lawyers, both inhouse and external coun
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by SEMW 9y ago
> The article address this argument though and says that the Foundation has already stretched the rules. That bit of the article is arguably misleading. The foundation is not stretching its rules in awarding it to three people. That stre
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by SEMW 9y ago
I'm confused. They say they can give more interest because they don't have the costs of traditional banks. But then in the FAQ, they say that they're a middleman for a bank acct provided by a traditional bank ("Your mone
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by SEMW 9y ago
Thanks Jonathan. Everyone: the above gives a lot of very helpful context & explanation for this (from when the patch was first posted in Dec 2015)
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by SEMW 9y ago
Of note: that quote's from a spokesperson for Die Linke, which is the direct descendent of the party (the SED) that governed Soviet-occupied east Germany between 1949 and 1990. Which was hardly well known for its high levels of freedom
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by SEMW 9y ago
Note that binaries >64 bytes are indeed stored in shared memory and reference counted. (Including utf8 strings (as opposed to charlists), which are binaries in erlang). See http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide&#x2F
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by SEMW 9y ago
An empty list in Elixir is [], and is truthy. Parens aren't used for any collection type in Elixir ( `(1,2,3)` is just a syntax error), so the lispyness explanation for () being nil in Elixir, while neat, doesn't really make sense

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