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by abetusk 4y ago
""" 1. Let us start by getting the obvious out of the way. Moore’s law is coming to an end. It is slowing down rather than coming to a grinding halt, but already Dennard scaling has broken down, which eliminates many of the r
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by abetusk 4y ago
I love this. It would be awesome to do this with a bladerunner theme. Like, sitting in a spinner going somewhere, with all the different cars, spinners and maybe buildings passing by.
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Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions [pdf](cmustrudel.github.io)
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I think Roy was the worst. They turned him into a smug, entitled American. I think the actor playing Reynholm was the best of the worst but I agree that he didn't manage to get the confident over-the-top intensity that Chritopher Morri
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by abetusk 4y ago
My opinion is that the original British IT crowd just had actors that were of a different caliber. It's painful to watch all the actors around Richard Ayoade in the American version.
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On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data [pdf](starai.cs.ucla.edu)
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by abetusk 4y ago
From the README: """ Colliding any pair of files has been possible for many years, but it takes several hours each time, with no shortcut. This page provide tricks specific to file formats and precomputed collision prefixes t
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by abetusk 4y ago
My apologies, I mangled the delivery of what I was trying to say. I was trying to highlight the concerns about incomputability as the concern is real. Finding "the smallest program" of anything is, in general, for a wide a way of
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by abetusk 4y ago
You're not considering the exchange for space versus time. A short program may be able to compute the digits of pi to the accuracy you want but you're discounting the runtime and subsequent resources it uses to compute those digit
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by abetusk 4y ago
This is a pretty unkind reading. The author almost surely was using zip as a synonym for compress . Some people use "hoover" as a proxy for vacuum, even though they're not literally using a Hoover vacuum to clean. Movies a
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Proebsting's Law(proebsting.cs.arizona.edu)
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The Trouble with Gerbers(brianredbeard.com)
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Lessons Learned from Implementing “Wave Function Collapse”(fxhash.xyz)
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by abetusk 4y ago
This article is exceptional. It may be reductive or even wrong but at least it's trying to quantify these issues and it uses actual data . Not only does this allow for analysis, it also makes it, in theory, falsifiable. If the article
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by abetusk 4y ago
I've only skimmed the article so their solution seems like a totally valid way to do polygon intersections for their purposes, but for people that want to do this in a more rigorous way, there's something called the Vatti clipping
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by abetusk 4y ago
Inventor of the "Drake equation" [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
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by abetusk 4y ago
You're absolutely right. This is why the Creative Commons organization created CC0 in the first place to get around the differing and/or vague implementations of "public domain" [0]. As the author is most likely American
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by abetusk 4y ago
This comes up every so often and in my mind, there is an answer and it has to do with how well the notes in the "temperament" combine to produce near-enough approximations to simple fractions. That is, take a temperament, combine
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by abetusk 4y ago
Wow, this take is so utterly infuriating. There's so much wrong with this take on so many levels that I wonder if it isn't just trolling. Let me answer it in what I think is the most generous reading: Copyright is not meant to be
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by abetusk 4y ago
If I understand your argument right, this is essentially saying that the dark ages were dark. First off, I'm not even sure that narrative is true. Second off, even if it were, there's still the Middle East and Asia. I, unfortunate
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by abetusk 4y ago
So, to me, this provides the beginnings of an answer to "how else could the industrial revolution have happened?" Choose a place that has slowly ramping up energy consumption so that they start supplanting it with coal until there
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by abetusk 4y ago
I see, so you're saying the author of the post got the order wrong. In other words, Britain discovered coal, to some extent, then started using it earnest and neglected the forest-as-fuel-source infrastructure that was needed to keep r
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by abetusk 4y ago
The basic argument is that without a clear use case to overcome the version 1.0 troubles of (steam) engines, there was no incentive to work out the kinks and pumping water out of coal mines was the big "killer application" of such
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by abetusk 4y ago
You might want to update your narrative about that. Leo Szilard created a petition to try and convince Japan to surrender instead of using nuclear weapons on them [0]. This was signed by 70 scientists but never made it up the chain of comma
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by abetusk 4y ago
OK, the GitHub page spells it out better [0]. > Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap. In addition to listing out some of the required specs (for a localized area) [1]: > ... generation ... needs ... 8GB of memory ... ru
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by abetusk 4y ago
There are services hosting OSM data, often times requiring paid API access for anything other than personal use. OSM is amazing, for sure, but standing up even a small OSM service that only services a map in your local town/city/c
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by abetusk 4y ago
I'm a little confused as to what this actually is. Is this a route planning built on top of OSM? Does this bundle OSM data "all in one" so that you can more easily host an OSM server?
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by abetusk 4y ago
I guess that's the idea I'm trying to explore. I'm with you that, in theory, I see a value proposition there but in practice it's pretty thin. I remember using delicio.us to find out some interesting links based on some
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by abetusk 4y ago
It looks like this is a Chrome only service, so when my chromium installation gets janked and I have to switch to Firefox, then my bookmarks are lost again. It also looks like this is a Google service which means if Google sunsets this serv
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by abetusk 4y ago
I got burned many times when losing hard drives or computers, upgrading computers, switching between computers or just using different browsers, that bookmarks tied to the browser are ephemeral and shouldn't be trusted. I effectively s

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