SilasX

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by SilasX 2y ago
Yours seems like an unusual case. Lighting is something that’s least vulnerable to Jevons effects because (after electrification reached maturity) people already use all the artificial light they could ever want and don’t look for ways to u
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by SilasX 2y ago
Well, it's referred to as a cash-and-stock deal but I can't find any more detail about how much is stock: https://seekingalpha.com/news/4412466-mongodb-acquires-voyag...
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by SilasX 2y ago
It doesn’t matter how much they try to walk it back and not sound so criminally insane. Refer again to my second paragraph: The issue is, would the author ever think of writing this article for any other instance of saving lives ? If not,
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by SilasX 2y ago
Agreed. It reminds me of the article about how self-driving cars, by being safer, would worsen the organ waitlist.[1] Like, in what other context would you raise this concern about saving lives? It's the same kind of dishonesty, pickin
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by SilasX 2y ago
Related: there as a reverse engineering/CTF challenge (which shall remain nameless to prevent you from cheating) where my solution involved injecting shellcode that adds specific number to the stack pointer. But your shellcode -- inclu
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by SilasX 2y ago
Agreed. And the article talks about that some: >Most personal finance math is basic arithmetic – the same arithmetic that most of our students currently struggle with. The hard part is everything else: impulse control, peer pressure, sta
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by SilasX 2y ago
Yes, this is a very general insight, not just for education, but for any presentation: work backwards from what problem you're solving with the material. Then everything makes so much more sense!
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by SilasX 2y ago
Related issue: how every website seems to migrate to some smartphone-optimized version that looks like a mobile app blown up to a bigger screen that works much worse on desktop. Hall of Shame: Twitter, Facebook, even Vanguard. What's e
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by SilasX 2y ago
>I think this debate about utility misses some of the functions of education that the Romans (like Aulus Gellius and Macrobius) discuss: they talk about education having three parts, ... Sure, but I was making that point in the context o
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by SilasX 2y ago
I mean ... once you put it that way, yes, I'm actually willing to bite that bullet! (Or at least a cleaned-up, steelmanned version of it.) It's vanishingly unlikely that any student who learns "personal finance", with no
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by SilasX 2y ago
Reminder: in 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture issued a statement that they're "not in charge of Gundam" (because of a "scandal" where their employees were editing the Japanese Wikipedia page for it while a
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by SilasX 2y ago
Which, again, is still a different argument than the one you originally made.
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by SilasX 2y ago
>All you need is napkin maths. We gain energy by turning carbon into carbon dioxide. Now, we need the same energy to reverse it, but with a loss factor. That's just not true. While the conclusion may be correct (about it not being f
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by SilasX 2y ago
>Hashtable analyses don't care how you get the hash function - it can take exactly 72 hours to arrive, but as long as the oracle satisifes some probability distribution guarantee, it's good. That is an O(1) operation, a single
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by SilasX 2y ago
>In standard big-O you take as an assumption that memory operations are O(1) No. If it look up big-O in a math book, it's not going to say anything about that. You can add assumptions on, but that's not big-O anymore, but somet
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by SilasX 2y ago
I have a saying: 1) Welfare-enhancing 2) Politically-popular 3) Simple Pick any two. There are policies that meet all three ... but they've already been implemented, and no one debates them.
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by SilasX 2y ago
The problem is, big-O doesn't use the word-RAM model mentioned in the comment. That's something you have to bolt on to the get the O(1) hashtable result. Which is the very point I was making originally, that you have to go outside
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by SilasX 2y ago
But that would actually help it because you can store how far down the match is by that point in the tree, and know how few digits you have to actually compare.
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by SilasX 2y ago
Okay, so some communication tips: 1) You should have led with that to get to the point immediately instead of cryptically alluding to the existence of such a point and adding an irrelevant example. 2) Your point was already made in an initi
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by SilasX 2y ago
>Before 9/11, hijackings weren't unheard of, but they were almost universally political stunts with some "hostage situation" to taste [1]. As a passenger, if you just played along, your odds of getting hurt were quite
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by SilasX 2y ago
Also that we (in both boarding and deplaning) let people hold up the entire line to use the overhead bins, which shouldn’t be necessary.
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by SilasX 2y ago
What are you taking about? By the actual standards of big-O that allow you to derive the constant run time? See the second linked comment which establishes that it only becomes constant when you add in practical hardware considerations. No
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by SilasX 2y ago
I honestly don’t know who the audience could be, other than “people who like to tell others they’re in the know because they read AI companies’ press releases.” At no point do I see an actual elevator pitch/tl;dr/summary of wha
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by SilasX 2y ago
This is always a point of frustration for me. Under the normal big-O model, hashtables aren't, and can't be O(1) lookup, even for the mythic perfect hash function! You can only get the O(1) figure by breaking the big-O model and
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by SilasX 2y ago
>I don't think the UK government would try to put Apple out of business if they don't comply it's more likely that they would just get heavily fined until they do so. Sufficiently advanced "escalating fines until they
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by SilasX 2y ago
Wow. No mention in this history/hagiography of the 2019 global add-on outage where (after banning unsigned add-ons even if you enabled them in about:config) they forgot to update their certs? Some of the HN threads: https://
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by SilasX 2y ago
I didn't move the goal posts; I just used a slightly different word. No offense, but it's ridiculous (sorry, "insane") that I'm dealing with pushback on the point the point that religious believe things that would b
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by SilasX 2y ago
You’re disputing that major religions ever hold deeply implausible claims as an article of faith? Really? I mean, if they didn’t, then they probably would be religions, just “stuff everyone believes or has reasoned discussions about”. Spoil
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by SilasX 2y ago
What point of mine is that replying to?
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by SilasX 2y ago
Am I wrong? Read the quote again: "appears to behave normally in regular matters and is capable of independent living, does not match other DSM symptoms, but believes insane things". None of you think the major religions teach

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