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by Someone 2mo ago
> Translation = words + intent. Plus style, plus, certainly in the case of the Odyssey, rhythm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_(poetry) ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey#Narrative_an
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by Someone 2mo ago
> and no longer includes AppleCare+ by default. On the one hand that gives users an option. On the other hand, that is a way to hide a price increase. Also, those doing this are almost obliged to take AppleCare, as ( https://ww
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I don't entirely understand why they "didn't want to touch it"? Customer: it’s just this specific solder job “They”: that’s what you say, but there might be other issues, and we cannot tell without spending lots of
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by Someone 2mo ago
Correction: over 10¹³. Still a lot.
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by Someone 2mo ago
> One CVE even lists the same person twice! Not necessarily. Could be two persons sharing that name. See https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/382
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by Someone 2mo ago
I haven’t read the article, but for allocations that large, chances are they get allocated as entire memory pages and the garbage collector returns that memory to the OS. Also, even if it doesn’t, in a 64-bit address space it takes lots of
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by Someone 2mo ago
Logic. “It would be more effective in avoiding false positives”: consider a single hash function. To get a false positive, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition is that the bit position that it computes is set. If you use multiple hash
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Isn’t Apple potentially under a lot of pressure due to the DRAM prices Maybe. On the one hand, if there is a strong ceiling to what users are willing/able to pay for a smartphone (might not be true, with all those people making $$
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by Someone 2mo ago
FTA: The room-size machine weighed around a tonne. I think “around a tonne” is very light for “room-size”, so I googled, and found https://www.tnmoc.org/news-releases/2019/2/5/colossus-decryp... , which s
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by Someone 2mo ago
Assuming independent hash functions, giving each hash function it’s own bit table is equivalent to having one bit table with a number of bits equal to that of the sum of the numbers of bits in each hash function. It would be more effective
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by Someone 2mo ago
Postfix doesn’t need parentheses. Prefix technically doesn’t need, either, if you avoid functions taking variable number of arguments and have a grammar that can reliably detect function calls (could be hard if you’re allowing higher-order
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I love the error handling Even if you prefer manually checking for errors after every call that might fail, I fail to see how one can love go’s verbosity. Compare go’s foo, err := bar() if err != nil { return ERR; }
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by Someone 2mo ago
> This is why i dislike systemd. Things not working the way I expect means I have to do more work to figure something out. Even if the change is a genuine improvement?
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by Someone 2mo ago
Heat is relatively hard to hide. The best solution likely spreads it out over a large area, creating a building with myriads of tiny holes.
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by Someone 2mo ago
> It probably wouldn't help much against ballistic missiles, but it might make it more resilient against drone attacks. I think the two kinds of attacks are so different that they require different defenses. Drones need not fly in s
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by Someone 2mo ago
> The whole "some person's face" thing doesn't work because most people won't be familiar with them. There’s millennia of history of having coins and paper money faces that most people will not be familiar with.
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by Someone 2mo ago
> A tile value is supposed to track rarity — the rarer the letter, the more it should cost That’s up for debate. I would think it’s ‘fairer’ to have them track the ease at which they can get placed, and that letters occurring frequently
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Surely there could be some way of creating a JsonArray of native Java Strings, Booleans, Doubles, and Integers without requiring clients to explicitly convert each value into a JsonValue I think so to, and it surprises me that they wri
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by Someone 3mo ago
Not “30% fuel efficiency”, but an improvement of 30%. FTA: “The project aims to demonstrate up to 30% improved fuel efficiency for a typical 250-nautical-mile regional turboprop mission”
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by Someone 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsatellite : “A subsatellite, also known as a submoon, moonlet or informally a moonmoon, is a "moon of a moon" or a hypothetical natural satellite that orbits the moon of a pla
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by Someone 3mo ago
>> writing SIMD is just about as easy as a for loop > and then the first example requires 12 lines to replace one line of scalar code. > Be honest and say SIMD is hard but the results are worth it! I think SIMD, and certainly th
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by Someone 3mo ago
Because free still exists and there is no “allocate this number of bytes of memory; I promise to free it with a call to free_size ” call, you can’t have a malloc implementation that doesn’t track block sizes. I think the only thing free
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by Someone 3mo ago
Not trivial for Putin, but I think Russia would be in a period of huge turmoil for a while, but continue to exist just fine.
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by Someone 3mo ago
>> If you can convince the caller to keep track of that metadata themselves you obviously don’t need to. That can be important. > That's why C23 introduce free_sized Is it? C23 still has free , so there’s no guarantee callers
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by Someone 3mo ago
> The current Western discourse on post-war Russia, for all its variation in political packaging, aims at one thing: the destruction of that sovereignty or its radical limitation. All I ever read are demands for Russia to end the war, ac
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by Someone 3mo ago
Ignoring whether this is a good idea: - can this be made to work cross-application? You would have to be able to detect that a paste happened somewhere - you can’t know whether a user wants to paste the same text twice. How do you handle th
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by Someone 3mo ago
> I mean you’d probably just generate random low descriptive length f(x,y,z), check for a const determinant then poke for invertibility. That’s true, but for “a ~3 day computer search”, it seems you would have had to be extremely lucky t
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by Someone 3mo ago
You would have to show what you did try. Typically, you can describe that in the form of a partial result (see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture#Partia... ) or as another conjecture.
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by Someone 3mo ago
Password managers not only store website passwords (e.g. for shared drives or command-line tools), so they IMO shouldn’t be part of a browser. Also, for those using multiple browsers, how would, say, Firefox access passwords or passkeys if
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by Someone 3mo ago
> and forced to download their authenticator app AFAIK, that’s not forced, ‘only’ strongly directed towards. You certainly can use a third party authenticator with Microsoft accounts, and I expect that to work with OneDrive, too.

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