Sniffnoy

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by Sniffnoy 7d ago
> They intentionally broke bitwise operators on volatiles because they wanted to be impose their atomic religion everywhere. Could you elaborate on this?
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by Sniffnoy 8d ago
Wondering: if the process for the upper part of the sandwich is the complement of the process for the lower part, why was it so much more difficult? What would go wrong if you took one of the earlier lower-sandwich processes, and complemen
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by Sniffnoy 11d ago
At least according to this article[1], you're correct; the practice of eating brains that caused kuru to spread was a recent innovation. However, the article doesn't say how recent. I guess I'd need to go read the actual
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by Sniffnoy 12d ago
So I got a really high score before I signed in, only signed in afterwards, and now, even though my high score displays on the "best wave" display for me, it's nowhere on the global high score board. I'm just going to ha
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by Sniffnoy 12d ago
It's especially bad that they can hide behind the UI sometimes...
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by Sniffnoy 12d ago
The controls/rules are pretty unclear. This thing could use a controls/rules option.
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by Sniffnoy 12d ago
So on reading this comment I was like, "oh, I see, Arby's, like RB, roast beef?" Except on looking it up, that's not the explanation! "Arby's" does come from the initials "RB"... but it doesn
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by Sniffnoy 16d ago
The article mentions at the end the problem of coloring graphs on other surfaces. It's worth noting, it's known, for every surface, what the maximum chromatic number is of a graph on that surface: https://en.wikipedia.
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From Hookswitch to Grave(computer.rip)
41 points by Sniffnoy 22d ago|4 comments
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by Sniffnoy 24d ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu
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by Sniffnoy 27d ago
Responding to something from the linked Patreon post: > Blackboard (as well as Epic and SharePoint) are classic examples of software where the user and the purchaser are different and the purchaser basically doesn’t care about the user,
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by Sniffnoy 27d ago
That's not what the term "backfire effect" refers to. The term "backfire effect" refers specifically to one specific consequence of this; namely, it refers to the idea that presenting evidence against something c
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by Sniffnoy 1mo ago
I expect the name is more of a joke, not a tease of some result they've yet to reveal.
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by Sniffnoy 1mo ago
It's kind of buried in the article, but it's worth noting that this vest is meant only to guard against solar storms, not cosmic rays; those remain a significant problem. > The vest, though, does nearly nothing against galactic
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by Sniffnoy 1mo ago
Do you know until when?
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
I think what's going on here is that you've misunderstood the theorem's hypothesis. The hypothesis isn't that no three of the points are collinear; rather, it's the weaker statement that there isn't any one
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
You can, in fact, predict the effect of an atomic bomb without detonating it. Sure, you can't have the same certainty as if you'd detonated it -- empiricism is important; they tested the Fat Man design for a reason. But you may
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
> History may be written by the victors, but the losers still get to dictate theory. I feel like Tanner Greer's old post "History is written by the losers" is relevant here: https://scholars-stage.org/histo
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I was confused at first when you asked if the 8-flow is relevant, when like, the 8-flow is a key input that the cycle double cover is built out of. Then I realized, oh, I guess technically they're not using the 8-flow, they're us
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I think "importance" here is just being rated as 1 to 4 stars. So it's not "second-most important" but rather "one of the top 5 most important". That doesn't change much, but FWIW.
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
People don't talk about the cycle double cover conjecture here because this isn't a math website. Its lack of mention here is therefore poor evidence.
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
Based on the title, I was expecting this to be about the idea of power transmission via microwave (as seen in e.g. SimCity), but actually it's about microwave communications links used by electrical companies.
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
This is guest post by Cynthia Dwork; that's Dwork's writing, not Aaronson's.
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I feel like you ought to be go lower than 17, down to 9, by not counting the 3 generations of fermions as distinct (so you've just got up-type quark, down-type quark, electron-type particle, and neutrino). After all, if they can mix w
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
(2020)
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I like this explanation of cricket for Americans: https://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/baseball.html
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
The blog post mentions a draft of a manuscript though. I was expecting something like a preprint. He's not willing to post that draft yet?
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I put in my name, and four boxes popped up -- one for "American mathematician", one for "spelling bee contestant", one for "American poker player", and one for "fitness industry entrepreneur". In fact
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu

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