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> when I started at FB in 2013, they probably had […] about 10% of the sales people [they needed] I find that hard to believe. Looking at https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform... , th
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> for a module to end up as a dependency in the CI pipeline, it had to be explicitly selected by a person first I disagree. I think it’s entirely within the license to have your pipeline automatically pull in the latest version of a libr
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Human intuition often is very bad for this kind of question. For example, for n=2⁶⁴, there are about 4×10¹⁷ primes and about 4×10⁹ squares less than n.
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HN messes up time stamps when submissions get reposted. I wrote my comment two days ago. I don’t think the title contained “(2023)” then.
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> I think for coding, the wording of the MIT open source license makes it clear that copying and distributing the software is authorised on a small scale and it's very clear that the act of copying must involve a person. I agree wit
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(2025), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf#Colossal_Biosciences says: “Independent experts disagreed with the Colossal Biosciences' claim that these animals are de-extinct dire wolves, asserting that the
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I think “new math” is ‘just’ humans creating new terminology that helps keep proofs short (similar to how programmers write functions to keep the logic of the main program understandable), and I agree that is something LLMs are bad at. Howe
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You have to, but you probably shouldn’t do it by trying to add the inputs. That opens a door for DDOS attacks. Returning an error on inputs that are too long (for some definition of it) is the way to go.
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> And it looks like they might not solve the Asse II problem For those who wonder: Asse II is a salt mine that has been used for storing radioactive waste. That started as “place barrels in rows, leave space for inspection” but later tur
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Makes sense. Coal mining can be automated, and that has been partly done. If coal mining still would be done mostly manually, there would be way more coal miners, or, more likely, coal mining would be unprofitable, and be a thing of the pas
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> What reasons wouldn’t also reflect wear against the roads though? Off-road driving.
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That wasn’t an operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob : “Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product intended to provide a more user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Wind
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> I've been told that it's effectively a mental illness if discovered during childhood (as is ambidexterity). Yet I can't help but think that it is not a mental illness, but rather something else. https://en.wik
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“then tried to move my queen from c5 -> e5” Are you sure you typed “c5e5”? It’s very picky about how you specify a move. “e2e4” is fine as a first move, for example, but auto-capitalized “E2e4” is losing immediately. Quite weird, given t
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And not everybody wants to use that option all the time. Asking a human makes you feel dependent more than using a tool does.
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> Only if you can actually prove that it matters. That advice is often given, but I think few C++ programmers follow that to the letter, because you often know beforehand where your performance bottleneck is, and using some simple heuris
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FTA: “problem 1: webdav or NFS? The two filesystems I could that were natively supported by Mac OS were WebDav and NFS. I couldn’t tell which would be easier to implement so I just tried both” I might find out that it is incomplete, buggy
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> There are 2 losses, before storage only a part of the incoming solar energy is eventually stored into chemical bonds, the rest being either converted into heat or not absorbed. Capturing some heat as non-heat still would make a house l
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> It's just headers, lists, block quotes, codeblocks, and a few inner emphasis and link formatters, basically That, and in-line HTML. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html : “For any mar
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> Apparently people smoked on submarines for a while. More than ‘a while’. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4344412/ : “In the mid 1970s smoking was allowed virtually everywhere; by 2000 there were only
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And these are also available in clang. https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-... : “Vectors and Extended Vectors Supports the GCC, OpenCL, AltiVec, NEON, SVE and RVV vector extensions”
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>> Unicode code points are 32 bit > 21-bit, actually Less than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point#In_character_encodi... : “The Unicode code space is divided into seventeen planes (the basic multil
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There is a difference between “legal counsel” or “legal representative in court”, with the former being less restricted (“has a law degree” vs “attorney/has passed the bar exam”) Because of that, I think you can practice law without be
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I wouldn’t know whether that’s true, but this is partly hardware. That tends to make things more expensive, as, at some point, design bugs get really expensive both in time and in dollars, and chances are there were design bugs late in the
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FTA: > Hardware Specs > […] > Memory: 4GB LPDDR4 RAM > Storage: 16GB eMMC In contrast, https://openwrt.org/supported_devices says: > Sufficient Flash to accommodate OpenWrt firmware image > 8MB min (bare m
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> The interesting thing here is the Undefined Behavior (UB), well... actually two UBs, thanks to which there are three possible correct answers: 11, 12 and 13. There’s UB, so any answer is possible, isn’t it?
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FTA: “U.S. President Donald Trump resumed ramping up a six-decade-old American ecomonic embargo on Cuba in January after cutting off its main supply of oil from Venezuela and threatening sanctions on Mexico, its second largest supply, and
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> If it can get out of check by taking an unprotected queen then it is again not very interesting I don’t see why that would be uninteresting. Before analyzing this, it isn’t clear that there is no way to place four black queens and a bl
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> Sometimes the price of natural gas is even negative, there is too much of it. Googling that tells me there was/is too much of it locally . The gas is a byproduct of drilling for oil, and there was/is insufficient pipeline ca
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I’m not sure they are heavily subsidized (alone or compared to other energy sources), but let’s ignore that. Because they require an upfront investment that many households cannot make. Also, whether such investments make economical sense f

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