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It's been about ten years since I did any kernel work, but last I checked Linux doesn't use most of the fancy features of the CPU to avoid trashing more registers than necessary. If you know you don't do any floating point op
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The findings of a 2013 report from the United Nations titled, “Wake Up Before It’s Too Late,” say small-scale, organic farming is the only way to sustainably feed the world. The report they're referring to can be accessed here: http
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This is a real concern. But as I see it, the difference is that the last time around, everyone was sold on the potential applications -- which turned out to be way harder than anyone realized. This time around, the technology is seeing real
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The employment rate would be higher. And total wage dollars paid would be higher too. But hourly rates, particularly at the low end, would be lower than now and probably below a livable amount.
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Apple allows updates like this as long as it doesn't substantially change the behaviour of the application. Of course the definition of 'substantially' is, deliberately I think, left open to interpretation. But new features a
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My hope is that constraining the search space, you'll also solve the 'common sense' problem. I'm constraining it in three ways: 1) The solver tries to make the tests pass one at a time: it finds a solution that passes te
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by a-priori 10y ago
As a side project, I'm actually working on something along those lines. https://github.com/michaelmelanson/autocoder My theory is that by reducing the search space enough , it should be possible for a computer to
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There's a theory in economics about the optimal size of a firm. How big should a company be? The optimal size could be infinite, where all of society acts as one firm. Think Communist-style command economy. Or it could be one, where ev
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As I understand it, shady creditors and debt collectors will sometimes contact the deceased's family. They claim you have inherited the debt, or have some moral obligation to make good on their relative's debts, then pressure you
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Lots of teams have different expectations about how granular a user story should be, and some of this has to do with the project. How fast can you design, develop, test and deploy a meaningful amount of new content? One explanation for the
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When I worked on a team like this, the rule was that when you came free and are looking for work, before you started any new stories you looked at the work in progress to see if you can help out to expedite any of it. The idea is that it&#x
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This is probably over-complicated and would cause hard-to-diagnose behaviour, but here's a random idea: use a multi-armed bandit algorithm to pick which eviction policy to use. You'll want to keep a queue of recent evictions. When
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by a-priori 10y ago
Another example is Saskatchewan, Canada. Like Colorado, its borders, on all four sides, are defined by latitudes and longitudes.
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It's not quite the stable marriage problem, because in the stable marriage problem you're trying to find an optimal 1:1 pairing. It's also not the NRMP problem because in that case, residents are only matched with one hospita
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We elect politicians whose full-time jobs it is to understand big and complicated issues, and to decide on our behalf how to deal with them. That includes the right to make and break treaties with other world powers. Why should something li
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Or, perhaps, it's a compelling reason why things like this shouldn't be decided by referendum.
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Yeah, it's pretty silly to say "no military risk" about any single location. Yes, France is as geopolitically stable location as there is on Earth, but it's also part of NATO and NATO has rivals, like Russia and China, w
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I don't know if there's any source with a wide variety of formats, but there are various sites with some samples. Here's one for H.264 videos, mostly movie trailers, encoded using various parameters: http://www.h26
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by a-priori 10y ago
On the Wikipedia page, it says "the hydraulic fluid and pressure was supplied through an off-board system" so I assume that those are hydraulic in that bundle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_truck
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One private-sector approach would be to fund education with equity instead of debt. Lenders can agree to fund a student's tuition in exchange for X% of their income for some fixed number of years Y after graduation. The lenders can cho
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"In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see the pure state." - Richard Hamming
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That will never happen. It would take the simultaneous failure of two independent systems, each of which are highly reliable. If the MTBF (mean time between failures) of one component were, let's say, ten years of continuous use then
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by a-priori 11y ago
That's not how it happened at all. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as a unified state, can be traced to the Treaty of Darin of 1915 between the United Kingdom and Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (aka 'Ibn Saud'). In the treaty, the UK agreed
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"Legalize" means it's fully legal to produce, distribute and buy. It may be regulated, so you may need a license and follow certain rules, but other than that it's like any other product on the market. "Decriminaliz
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CSS Modules, built with Webpack configured to use extract-text-plugin, will meet all those criteria.
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Yes it is a religious belief. Whether you realize it or not, what you're describing is the Protestant work ethic imported into North American culture by Puritan settlers from Germanic regions of Europe and Scandinavia. https:/&#x
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This sounds like a job for Dead Man's Snitch. https://deadmanssnitch.com/
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Last night, I was playing Crusader Kings 2 as the Byzantine Empire. I had just conquered Jerusalem in a holy war (after the Catholics failed to take it in a crusade, ha!) and everything was good. I had tons of money rolling in, I was secure
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I don't know if it's a cult. That's why I hedged my whole comment with "maybe I'm imagining this but...". It's too early to say whether it works. There's a saying I'm trying to remember, somethin
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The thing that strikes me about it is how this article makes Zappos sound so much like Scientology or other cults. Maybe it's just because I have a paranoid, skeptical, anti-ideological streak, but the similarities are striking to me.

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