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Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake(msn.com)
1 points by Someone 8mo ago|0 comments
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by Someone 8mo ago
One can discuss what “choosing three points independently and uniformly at random from the interior of a unit circle” means, but whatever you pick, I don’t think that method is doing it. Doesn’t it have half its circle centers have 0 < c
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by Someone 9mo ago
FTA: “Therefore I will have to close the report as out of scope ” and “05/02/2026 - Report Closed as wont fix/out of scope” I think it’s a bit early to say “won’t fix”. AMD only said that it was out of scope for the channel
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by Someone 9mo ago
I would guess that’s because those chips were designed for use in systems that didn’t have a CPU, but reading the data sheet, it doesn’t look as if you can easily hook up this thing to 7-segment LEDs, so maybe this is a matter of “this is h
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by Someone 9mo ago
For the sake of an argument, let’s assume "The Outer Space Treaty (1967) has a loophole. If you launch from international waters (planned by SpaceX) and the equipment is not owned by a US-company or other legal entity there is signific
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by Someone 9mo ago
Should be doable on consumer hardware nowadays, if you cheat by using a file system that either supports sparse files ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file ) or block-level deduplication ( https://en.wiki
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by Someone 9mo ago
FTA: “In addition to these built-in integrations, Xcode 26.3 makes its capabilities available through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that gives developers the flexibility to use any compatible agent or tool with Xcode.” There
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by Someone 9mo ago
FTA: “We use mathematical modeling and analyses of twin cohorts raised together and apart” So, take one cohort of twins raised together and see how well their life spans correlate. Take another cohort of twins separated at or near birth a
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by Someone 9mo ago
> And replacing SysVInit with systemd is, objectively, bad for understand the core of Linux. I know there are strong opinions on this, but isn’t systemd part of the core of most Linux desktops nowadays?
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What is and is not considered thread safe by Excel(learn.microsoft.com)
2 points by Someone 9mo ago|1 comments
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by Someone 9mo ago
What do you do with the steam afterwards? If you eject it, you have to bring lots of it with your spacecraft, and that costs serious money. If you let it condensate to get water again, all you did is moving some heat inside the spacecraft,
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by Someone 9mo ago
For those wondering: to juggle 4 balls, you either have to decrease the time between catching a ball and throwing it again or increase the time a ball is in the air. Unless you start throwing feathers or balloons, the latter requires you th
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by Someone 9mo ago
I think almost all tool making engineering is self-improving. You can’t make a modern screw making machine without more primitive screws, and you need a less sophisticated screw making machine to make that.
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by Someone 9mo ago
my_string = "foo" // stored as ref->1 Only if you explicitly intern the string. Interning can be expensive because - the runtime has to check whether the string already is interned. - you’re permanently creati
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by Someone 9mo ago
Their patent ( https://patents.google.com/patent/US4785361A/en ) doesn’t mention a laser, but of course that doesn’t imply it wasn’t a laser. I would guess (more or less) identically damaging multiple floppy disks i
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by Someone 9mo ago
That logic is somewhat [1] correct, but it doesn’t say anything about whether all, some, or only this particular iPhone 16 Pro Maxes are hardware-defective. [1] as the author knows (“MLX uses Metal to compile tensor operations for this acce
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by Someone 9mo ago
> Rules: > MUST > Support up to 100 tags > Represent tags as strings That doesn’t require the strings that represent the tags to be the tag strings, So, one can bend the rules by representing tags by single-character strings or,
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by Someone 9mo ago
> product types have to be heap-allocated Conceptually, that’s true, but a compiler is free to do things differently. For example, if escape analysis shows that an object allocated in a block never escapes the block, the optimizer can re
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by Someone 9mo ago
The typical computer algebra system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra_system ) implements trigonometric functions just fine (with varying levels of sophistication) They can be implemented, but what you c
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by Someone 9mo ago
A problem, but also way better than the solution “just look at every photo” you had without that image search feature. I think these manual tools tend to prefer recall (“make sure you return all the photos asked for”) over precision (make s
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by Someone 9mo ago
> Unlike the PC market, the comprehensive list of "other vendors" is two entries long Before there was “a sort of standardization in the industry” the comprehensive list of “PC vendors” was one entry long. Years before that, th
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by Someone 9mo ago
EV trucks got a head start because we already have extensive electricity networks, though. That makes rolling out charging stations a lot easier than rolling out a hydrogen distribution network (the existing network to distribute gasoline w
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by Someone 9mo ago
> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer. That’s easy to accomplish isn’t it? A cron job that regularly checks whether
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by Someone 9mo ago
FTA: “A high-level athlete doesn’t need to see a sports doctor. […] Professional athletes benefit from much better […] medical support than novice or amateur runners” So, which is it? You might say their “specific programme that includes
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by Someone 9mo ago
I have a hard time envisioning that, too, but I think one can construct boards with rook or two bishops being closed in behind a setup with all 16 pawns still on the board, with the opposing king on the other half of the board.
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by Someone 9mo ago
But for chess, the spread in number of moves is a lot larger, and the branching factor is higher. 20 more half moves and a branching factor of 35 isn’t unreasonable, and gives you an underestimation of over 10³⁰. And these tweaks do not com
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by Someone 9mo ago
I do not see how that’s a good estimate. For example, take a game length of, on average, 4 and a branching factor of 10. That gives an estimate of 10,000. Chances are there are games of lengths 3 and 5, too. With that branching factor, ther
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by Someone 9mo ago
> the game is a draw if there exists no sequence of moves that could lead to checkmate. Interestingly, although this has almost no strategic implications, it means that... it's almost impossible to write a program to detect draws th
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by Someone 9mo ago
> he had a vo2max of 30, that probably means he can’t run a mile in less than 12 minutes or so. He’s probably not at all healthy… Health and fitness correlate but are different things. VO2max is more about fitness than about health. Also
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by Someone 9mo ago
Or LLMs weren’t good enough yet years ago, but the growth curve looked so promising that an investment seemed a good idea. Also: do you have a reference for “a couple years ago Microsoft [made] LLM-assisted coding a big part of their produc

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