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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Seems like any sort of solar panel on the ground is going to be prone to get nasty stuff on it. I guess they might just have them at an angle, then trust the rain provide some light cleaning, while a street/rail-cleaner could go by for
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Same reason we have safety rails around roads. Plus, if we want solar roads, solar power would be a perk. I mean, once the road is dominated by self-driving cars, presumably we can implement new driving requirements beyond what human drive
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Solar roads seem like a really cool technology. Like, if they worked great and were affordable and everything, then awesome! But, practically speaking, they seem to violate the [single responsibility principle]( https://en.wikipe
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Viruses tend to evolve pretty quickly. In fact, Ebola's already not just one strain, so differing Ebola strains are likely more prone to different versions of this treatment. In practice, it'll probably work out to be sorta like
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Their best-overall reduced down to 29%. The 6%-figure was for a sub-population of victims who received one of the treatments early. There's probably a sub-sub-population of young-adult victims who're in good health and received e
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
The title calling it "curable" feels a bit misleading. To explain... Ebola's a viral infection, like the common cold or the flu. If someone gets sick with it, then usually their immune system should fight it off naturally,
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> But it comes with the side effect of gaining a voice in your head. And that voice is a fucking vicious asshole to me. In the recent years the thoughts even started subvocalizing and I have to forcefully remember to make it stop. I don&
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
This guy needed Twitter. Speaking of which, seems like there're probably folks like him around today.. anyone know of any?
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I appreciate your focus on open-source here since this feels like a really sensitive security scenario. I mean, personally, I love the idea of just scanning all of my paper documents into a massive electronic database, but I'd really
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Has anyone made a keyboard app that suggests or/and auto-corrects messages to incorporate puns? Or it'd be neat to have an app that, before sending a text message, would suggest pun-nier versions.
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
[SE.Math]( https://math.stackexchange.com/ ) is for pretty much any sort of math question you might have. At least for traditional mathematics -- statistics, numerical algorithms, data science, AI, etc., tend to better fit o
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
From a quick skimming online, it sounds like there's a policy to embargo private correspondence until all involved haven't been around for at least 5 years. In this case, it seems that Russell took a much younger woman as his thir
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> Twitter is accusing me of "impersonation" "@BitmexRekt" probably looks like "@BitmexAsdf" to someone who can't parse "Rekt". Seems problematic for two reasons: 1. If a Twitter rep doesn&#x27
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Perhaps a silly question, but is this entirely legal in the US? This is, can I just download the source code and look through it without any major caveats like already owning the corresponding game or having permission from the publisher? I
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Hard to infer humor here sometimes -- were you kidding? Just in case, since I can see someone else being serious about this, I think the gist is that neural-networks tend to be fairly approximate things such that we're not particularly
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Yeah, I get the marketing perspective; just, we typically describe primitive data types in terms of what they are from a technical perspective rather than a marketing perspective.
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Definitely feels click-bait-y. Ditto for them calling it "Brain Floating Point" [1]. I mean it appears to be a typical floating-point numeric data type with some of the precision truncated to reduce its cost. I guess they might b
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Grats on the lucky score! > A lot of people saying the orders are going to be cancelled -- seeing as I currently have both body and lens in possession, I find that unlikely. Gotta agree that it's unlikely for these orders to be canc
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I completely get that it's entirely normal for people to get anxious about changing science, technology, and societal norms. And I also appreciate that, as the rate of change increases, we should expect to see greater anxiety from a l
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
The article says: > Computer scientists and traditional engineers need to speak the same language--a language rooted in real analysis, linear algebra, probability and physics. This is saying that the ontological common-ground between Com
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> Have you been on a retreat? If so how was it and would you go again. If not and you are interested in one - what has prevented you thus far? I haven't been on one. I'm not really interested in doing one so much as curious ab
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Some of the downvotes may be from crypto-programmers' frustrations, too. I mean, obviously, someone has to code crypto, or else it wouldn't exist. But, whenever you try talking about the topic online -- whether you're doin
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Yeah, a dispatcher would have to be designed to guard its secrets. For example, it'd have to ensure that it can do tasks in whatever window it needs to, have a logic for simulating CPU-load if an attacker might be able to watch the CP
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Constant-time operations feel like such a hack. I mean, sure, if we could ensure that all operations were always constant-time, that'd be a rather simple, stress-free way to get time-invariance. But the low-level implementation assump
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc. Seems like you could access Google/Bing&#x2
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
VB.NET was one of my first languages. I also used VBA, especially in Excel. Despite BASIC's intent to be simplistic, I think that C-style syntax is more intuitive; moving to C# was a great step. Still, VB.NET felt like magic when I f
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> Just look at the web technology that HN runs on! Honestly, I'd prefer a version of HN that had some more modern features. It's the community that makes this place worthwhile. I sometimes wonder if the folks behind HN keep th
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Ohh that's actually a good point! And I'd liken LaTeX to Chrome in that regard. This is, like Microsoft Internet Explorer before it, people have to use it and work with it because it's the standard that everyone has -- not
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I suspect that a lot of people'll feel like you. I still hear about people who prefer slide rules (over calculators), or derivative tables (over symbolic calculators), or steam tables (over CAD), or cameras with film (over digital), or
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Could you explain that a bit? For example, are you implying that the modern web is somehow too complex? Or/and are you implying that we should've stuck to some simpler alternative than the modern web? And if so, what might that

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