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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Indictment is here: https://www.justice.gov/media/1318376/dl?inline Edit: The indictment doesn't say much, seems the bulk of the information is in the "declaration", which is here: https:/&#x2
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Why is this an archive link? The original article is still up; indeed, it's from yesterday: https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-mess...
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A line or line segment has Hausdorff dimension 1, while a point has Hausdorff dimension 0. In general, ordinary n-dimensional space has Hausdorff dimension n. That's why I referred to the Hausdorff dimension of the Cantor set -- equa
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
The set is what has the dimension. And the set under discussion (the Cantor set) is the set remaining after repeating this process infinitely many times. That is to say, every time you repeat the process, the set gets smaller; so, if yo
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I mean, the comment is badly wrong and a substantial parts of it are basically nonsense. Ideally one should write a reply explaining why, but this takes time and people aren't always going to be willing to do that. Like right now, I
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I feel like it's worth linking here to the big report from a few years ago: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSA... Probably the most relevant part from the summary is: >
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> Despite the constitution's claim that the government should "provide for the common defense" it seems that most people interpret that as meanig uncommon threats (atomic war) and not common ones like fires and floods. I m
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Why Automaticity Is Real(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. These are, in fact, n-dimensional spheres -- the set of points at unit distance from the origin in n+1 dimensions. (It's n+1 because, e.g., a sphere in 3 dimensions is intrinsically 2
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
The post links to a followup post where he discusses this point further: https://www.cold-takes.com/more-on-multiple-world-size-econo...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
The post links to a followup post where he discusses this point further: https://www.cold-takes.com/more-on-multiple-world-size-econo...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> My difficulty with this piece is that despite mentioning economic growth over and over and over, even extrapolating a comparison to the number of atoms in the universe for some reason, it gives no working definition of it at all. This
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
This comment is Bulverism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism ) and makes no attempt to engage with whether the linked post is actually correct or not.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
So, they got a crash because one part of their system made a distinction that another didn't. OK. What's really left unexplained here is where the need came about for precision to be represented in this way. Like -- at first the
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
The article explicitly says that it's talking about number of spatial dimensions, it's not including time. It says the new theorem shows that black holes can form into up to 7 spatial dimensions (plus 1 for time). (This isn&#x27
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
No -- the point of a frame-buster script is that it's a script included on a page to force that page out of a frame, it's not something the user runs deliberately.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> Some of deprecated elements won’t render without some extra work, for example <frame> and <frameset> are designed to be used instead of a <body>, for I guess some kind of collage web page made up of other pages. The a
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
1. We're discusing here floored integer division, which outputs an integer, not something more general like a real. 2. Even if we were discussing exact division, the ratio of two integers is a rational. The rationals are countable. M
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Ah, I see.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> Really? Do you really want to translate mega to 百萬 (million) in any context? Would its use as a metric prefix not be a correct context for this?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Hm, I guess a second-price auction would only help somewhat with that, huh?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Note: That's not actually a ring. If you use XOR as addition as it's a ring. You could say it's a semiring, but that's probably not the most useful description of it. A more-fitting structure would be an appropriate s
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Worth noting that (AIUI) such test ROMs are often used these days to test the faithfulness of emulators.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I mean, the function for straight printing is puts; I don't know why people keep using the much more complicated printf in cases where no formatting is involved. Edit: OK, I guess puts includes a newline, so you'd need to use fput
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I mean, talk about what's on the news if that's what you want to discuss, but don't go around asserting "nobody is talking about this!" when in fact plenty of people are talking about it. If you're restricting
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I mean I guess the basic response here is that this is because the environment you pay attention to and consider noteworthy is the news, which is different from the environment I pay attention to and consider noteworthy. I feel like these o
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Plenty of people have been talking about that, from my memory?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
There's an interesting little wrinkle here I read somewhere (sorry, I forget where) -- it's likely that it would not have been so expensive to merely produce something that would have worked in place of FOGBANK, or even that would
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
"Proxy war" does not generally imply that both sides have proxies, only that one does.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Again, it's not clear that the confetti story actually happened at all, let alone in a tournament. (I mean, likely after it started spreading someone tried it in a non-tournament setting, but such a case wouldn't be the origin of

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