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by Someone 3mo ago
> and yet the counter example is something a grad student in 1997 could have found w a ~3 day computer search Is that true? Even restricting this to f(x,y,z) and coefficients and powers to 1 ≤ x ≤ 10, there are a lot of polynomials to ch
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by Someone 3mo ago
> I am assuming it would be because multiplying would still be faster than reading from a lookup table? Even if it isn’t, it still would be a lot cheaper. With 32-bit integers, the lookup table would have 2⁶⁴ 64-bit values. If my math si
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by Someone 3mo ago
> This situation has.. no precedent as far as I can tell.. - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers... : “Windows can automatically download recommended drivers for the hardware and d
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Go is not a better C, in the sense that you cannot write an OS with it Can you even write an OS in pure ISO standard C? I know atomic ( https://en.cppreference.com/c/language/atomic ) was added in C11, but is t
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Customers do adapt to this, and expect future discounts (sales) at release date already, and defer their purchase accordingly (despite valueing it higher!). > But in reality, customers are not 100% rational Or they are, and assign h
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by Someone 3mo ago
The article itself says something different (required for ≥ 30 optional for < 30): “The Pentagon will begin screening active-duty service members 30 and older for testosterone deficiency every year […] Service members younger than 30 wi
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by Someone 3mo ago
> The translation feature is also available on your phone which you'll need to pull out when using it anyway, because otherwise the other party won't understand what you're saying either... I think a major use case for liv
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by Someone 3mo ago
I don’t think the OP is starting from WASM code; they’re starting from a language with SIMD primitives that map closely to those of WASM. There, you often have information to prove function arguments do not alias.
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Nothing would prevent a device from accurately detecting battery levels of NiMH batteries Wouldn’t the NiMH batteries have to be smarter in that case, keeping track of their own historical behavior? That changes over time, and devices
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by Someone 3mo ago
> These results will get reported back to the graphics software authors and the distribution packagers and the ecosystem will improve. There's no sense with Microsoft that kind of improvement is possible. It wouldn’t surprise me if
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by Someone 3mo ago
Similarly ( https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/14/microsoft-data-center-uses-1-d... ): “Microsoft’s oldest hyperscale data center in the Netherlands, a series of interconnected warehouses along the A7 in Middenmeer, c
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Liu allegedly kept an Apple-issued laptop after departing the company and exploited a vulnerability to download dozens of confidential Apple documents while he was working at OpenAI How come Apple didn’t remotely wipe that laptop or at
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by Someone 3mo ago
> The UI of git - for better or worse - directly reflects its internals. I disagree. For example, we have, from “git checkout —help”: git checkout has two main modes: 1. Switch branches, with git checkout <branch> 2. R
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by Someone 3mo ago
Thanks! No pictures and way uglier than Apple’s HIG book, but much more than I ever found.
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by Someone 3mo ago
Maybe, but I’ve searched for it many times out of curiosity, but have never managed to locate it online, and wouldn’t know if paper copies exist. From Wikipedia, I get to https://web.archive.org/web/20010204033600/
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by Someone 3mo ago
That’s straight from the standard. https://en.cppreference.com/c/numeric/math/hypot : “if one of the arguments is ±∞, hypot returns +∞ even if the other argument is NaN” ⇒ I expect this choice got careful co
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by Someone 3mo ago
> RYO is the best way to learn, if you have the time to learn The problem is that nowadays, people roll their own solution, don’t take the time to learn (somewhat understandably, given the complexity of today’s stuff. You simply cannot l
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by Someone 3mo ago
I did mention “perceived” and also included shouting in my list because of that, but I could have been clearer. Also, the set of people who feel unsafe by just having somebody who’s noticeably poor in their proximity definitely is not empty
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by Someone 3mo ago
> The idea is to define persistent or temporary bookmarks for directories: be add work ~/Work bm temp build /tmp/build > and then use them directly in paths: cd @work ls @work/project How is that
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by Someone 3mo ago
It’s a safe bet that sndgndgndgndy isn’t referring to that metric, but to the (perceived) probability of getting shouted at, mugged, etc. That, I have been told, is definitely a problem in the USA. I think that’s because they’ve painted the
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by Someone 3mo ago
But the problem is: everybody doing a trip with a transfer has real-time constraints. With Interrail, that is doable. You’ll have to mostly plan for overnight stays in large cities, but that’s what most Interrail users want to, anyways.
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by Someone 3mo ago
> notably the Monster Raving Loony Party. The _Official_ Monster Raving Loony Party ( http://www.loonyparty.com/ ), you mean? Wikipedia (of course) has a page on it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offic
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by Someone 3mo ago
> If anything the bias is the other way around. You get to see all the 80 year olds who are fit enough to interact with society. You never see the the ones who are wasting away in their homes, hospices, and hospitals That’s true, but I s
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by Someone 3mo ago
> but that's on the destructor or the pointer, not on reference counting per se. It is on reference counting per se. If the reference count of a reference goes to zero, the runtime has to make the memory available for reuse. That’s
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by Someone 3mo ago
It makes, if cultural expectations lag reality of longer life spans. I think it does; society thinks 80-year olds are physically less fit than they are in reality, shaping expectations of what 80-year olds should want, and I also think 80-y
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by Someone 3mo ago
I expect they would tell the units that they get more points for results in zone A than in zone B, and allow teams to move (or move their drone operations) towards zone A. They seem flexible enough to do that, tweaking the system fairly fre
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Reference counting has deterministic timing Define “deterministic timing”. - One object going out of scope may mean calling free once, but it also can trigger calling free billions of objects, even for the exact same object - Even
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by Someone 3mo ago
> By 80 most people have […] already lived through all the important milestones they could realistically see. That’s at least partially culturally determined. As the healthy live expectancy creeps up slowly, I expect that idea to change.
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by Someone 3mo ago
It’s quite an accomplishment, but this is done rarely ( https://oceanrowing.com/statistics lists less than a thousand completed rows world-wide), and the weather hugely affects how long it will take to do it. Also, my geogra
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by Someone 3mo ago
> It sounds like they are trying to create a category that’s already largely filled by the golf cart at half the price. I think a main difference is that this is road-legal in the EU ( https://microcar-coalition.com/l7e-ex

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