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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I'm surprised no one has said Wikipedia yet.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
America never claimed to have a completely free market: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/031815/united-state...
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Generally, it's a very pragmatic thing like being able to quickly run something to make sure it's working but some other part of the code is temporarily broken because I'm currently changing things and don't care that th
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Although the title sounds like clickbait, this is a Veritasium video about an interesting principle of physics: The Principle of Least Action. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_principles
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I use IntelliJ now and I definitely miss this feature of Eclipse.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
After reading this, I was interested to see how Intel is doing with their 2nm process. It turns out that they've shelved 2nm and moving ahead with 1.8nm (18 Angstroms, hence the "18A" name). This would be really great for Int
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939609
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914024
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Found Sabine Hossenfelder's HN account! I am, of course, joking but she posts this sort of easy and empty clickbait.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
If you're a reader of Quanta, there's nothing new on this page. It seems like a repackaging of some simple concepts in a pretty web format to attract a less sophisticated audience.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
The time dilation at the event horizon is infinite for an external observer. It appears that the person falling into the black hole slows down and never passes the event horizon. They redshift until you can't see them anymore. For the
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
It's an interesting read. Needs more citations. Some of it seems plausible but without evidence it's just a nice story. HN doesn't accept political stories so this will be deleted: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Hacker News prefers that the headline reflects the content of the linked page rather than editorializing.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
An aspect of the UI I really like is the way previous results stay available while doing new ones.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Starlink provided free internet services to Ukraine when Russia invaded but later on asked for payment. Elon has a history of cancelling orders for Teslas if people criticise him. I feel like Starlink isn't the sort of company the worl
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Pro tip: be aware that people could be using these words to mean different but related concepts but don't assume that everyone makes the same distinction when you're using these words.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I suspect that many people of HN are well aware of this and are using modulo correctly. I know I am.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
My predictions: - The researchers will not give a testable definition of consciousness. - The researchers will indeed find that the biochemistry of brains are affected by quantum effects. Something we know already because chemistry is atoms
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Geoff Shepard is clearly not unbiased. According to his Wikipedia page, he worked in the Nixon administration and that some of his work is co-sponsored by the Richard Nixon Foundation.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
A recently opened interchange in Sydney seemingly made things worse rather than better: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/... Although the culprit here might be misaligned goals
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
The only thing I've learnt from this post if that google indexes HN posts very quickly. The only result on google for this number is this post itself.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
The title put me off a little. My initial reaction was "Well you're probably privileged, lucky, or both. And I bet you don't have a mental health problem." However, the article makes some good points and I'm genuine
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I was careful to specify WordPerfect 5.1. That was the last non-wysiwyg version. Yes, they didn’t pivot to wysiwyg fast enough and was caught out.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I think there's some serious rose coloured glasses going on here. I started my first job as a developer in 1994. My first task was to add some XDR to our RPC code to ensure big-endian and little-endian machines could talk to each other
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I have a Seagate 8Tb SMR drive that I use for movie rips from my Blu-rays. In Australia "format shifting" is allowed if you keep the original format. Linear writing and reading of 30Gb files is a great use case for it. Edit: Actua
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Reminds me of a time when I was a dev team lead and I needed a decision on something that affected my team's work. Either choice was fine for us; we just needed a decision so we could get started. I really didn't want to get invol
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Interestingly, neutron stars do contain a small percentage of protons.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Oh yes, you're right!
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
This is great! Mostly when I think about branch prediction, I'm thinking about the end of a loop so this was a great read. There have been a lot of comments about the example presented being quite artificial and I agree but it is simpl
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Looks great to me and even does what I want when I turn my phone sideways: increase the size of the text.

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