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by ahh 10y ago
Is there an easy way to remove a clock from Android? How about OSX?
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by ahh 10y ago
Think about what you're saying: "It's a red herring! We know that schools spend money they get on dumb things!" Yes, that's my point. :) If we could magically fix that, it might--in principle--become a good idea
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by ahh 10y ago
First off, that's a blatant ad hominem. Moreover, if your best argument against the guy you're claiming is defrauding everyone is "I can't be bothered to read his work"...
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by ahh 10y ago
> Or give public schools $3K per student, > and you'll see huge changes. It's a lot of money. Yes, you'll see them spend $3K more per student. You won't actually see any improvements in the students, though. http
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by ahh 10y ago
The answer is in the article, sure (OP: much lower altitude satellites, so much lower RTTs), but that was an incredibly rude way to say so. Please don't do that.
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by ahh 10y ago
This system is interesting but has a crucial flaw: I legally can't take part. I have a job now, which claims ownership over any tech-related IP I create. There are processes for getting exceptions, but a) you won't get them for
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by ahh 10y ago
I find it interesting that most of the people I see on e.g. Facebook talking about moving to Canada are, in fact, not eligible to do so. (At least without a job offer in hand from a Canadian company to sponsor you.) (Canada's a lovely
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by ahh 10y ago
Anyone who says this has not seen an Astaire movie. Here are two routines I found in literally five seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfnNwXxJeIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac6o8PXthzQ
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by ahh 10y ago
I gotta wonder: if this was really a way someone was trying to steal an election...why would they bother? Once you have thoroughly owned the voting machine system and can set weights why not, I don't know, just ignore the counted ballo
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by ahh 10y ago
I'm not an engine expert, but I thought a substantial disadvantage of water injection was incomplete combustion (see for example the billowing smoke here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_KC-135_J57_wet_ta
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by ahh 10y ago
Matt Levine's column/newsletter is one of the things I look forward to each day. His vignettes into finance are consistently interesting, discussed both in depth and understandably to neophytes, and with a dry humor not matched b
102.
by ahh 10y ago
I am unclear how that's an argument for thousands of pages of regulations covering minutia.
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by ahh 10y ago
They're trying to build a train system in my town (Seattle.) I live in the middle of the city in a major neighborhood. If there are no cost overruns (hah) or schedule slips (anyone want to bet on that?) then I will have access to one t
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by ahh 10y ago
'patio11 put it well: "Suppose your company offered 'unlimited salary'." Makes it pretty clear the social pressures that would show up.
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by ahh 10y ago
Right! I agree with you! I'm saying that because T'so is wrong, that the kernel RNG, while still better than other options, will not be as good as it should or could be.
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by ahh 10y ago
The biggest problem with "always use /dev/urandom" is that the kernel developers themselves--wrongly--think that this problem is more difficult than it is, and think that you shouldn't do just that. This manifests i
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by ahh 10y ago
Endorsed. Even fork _with_ exec can be real trouble. This is one of my bugaboos at work: due to poor life choices and high pain tolerance, I own the infrastructure we use to spawn subprocesses (carefully.) For various reasons (security most
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by ahh 10y ago
It can in fact make predictions in a number of circumstances. The most common case is FDO ( https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO ) - with FDO coverage GCC can easily demonstrate a particular vcall is ~always a particular ty
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by ahh 10y ago
GCC in fact performs this optimization.
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by ahh 10y ago
Very cute argument, and very much in his style--he was famous, as the author notes, for heuristic arguments that weren't very formalizable but had a lot of beauty. One story I heard is that a computer scientist tried to explain the P=N
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by ahh 11y ago
I love frozen veggies (especially peas). I do wish there were better options for leafy greens, though: I don't care for spinach (specifically), and I assume kale / arugala / mustard / etc don't freeze well because I
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by ahh 11y ago
You missed the point: the city is necessary for finding a partner, not a job. Remote working, at a bare minimum, lets you be employed anywhere. You need a critical mass to have any chance of dating (unless you're extraordinarily desira
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by ahh 11y ago
Yeah, I know that now. Too late to move at this point, I have two dogs , own a home in the city, have an established career...moving would be incredibly expensive and risky. Going back to any previous move I made in the past, I'd never
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by ahh 11y ago
Online dating still requires you to be in a location with an extremely large population of single women. It doesn't matter if you visit the one bar or OKCupid if you've already asked out and been rejected by the only three eligibl
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by ahh 11y ago
This works once you have a (supportive) partner. It requires living in nice rural communities where you will never, ever meet a new person, though, so if you start it single you'll stay that way forever. So I'm in a major metropo
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by ahh 11y ago
Why don't you contract to a CPA then? I wouldn't think you'd be opposed to hiring a professional for his specific skills.
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by ahh 11y ago
FWIW deadlifting definitely helped, not hurt, after my back injury. (Admittedly, I hurt it deadlifting with poor form, but fixing the form and strengthening my back with it was the single biggest contributor to getting better.) MMV, of cour
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by ahh 11y ago
Yahoo is in the business of running fantasy football: a service which adds up points and tell you whose team wins. Draft Kings is in the business of running a fantasy-inspired gambling scheme: people pay them money, and some fraction return
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by ahh 11y ago
Depends how many hash tables you have! :) I agree that it's a marginal gain here, but Thomas asked for a case where predictability of "more difficult than a LCG or Mersenne Twister, but not infeasible under crypto assumptions&quo
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by ahh 11y ago
An interesting case would be something like hash flooding prevention. The cost of a full CSPRNG is probably not worth it--no security is broken if we lose the secrecy of one generated seed--but at the same time we want something that is at

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