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by ajb 2y ago
Have you looked at old books in the google books archive? You quite frequently find pages where the page-turning robot has screwed up, with results like distortion, lack of focus, weird smearing effects as the page was still moving when the
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by ajb 2y ago
Apple regularly does acquisitions (like, multiple per year), so I guess it's not impossible - but they seem to usually be much smaller companies which presumably assimilate. Their last big one[1] seems to have been the purchase of I
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by ajb 2y ago
It depends on the paper. Some takeaways round here seem to come in very robust paper bags, although takeaway is perhaps not as challenging as a full bag of groceries.
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by ajb 2y ago
Yeah, it's extremely hard to see what's going on, or predict what results the different moves might have.
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by ajb 2y ago
It might be good news in that it's fairer. But in the current situation, it might have been better news for the opposition to have made the usual concession to the ultra-orthodox and allied with them to kick the ultranationalists out o
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by ajb 2y ago
The UK has something like this: it's called "legal deposit". Publishers of books and periodicals are required to send copies to the enumerated deposit libraries (one of which is in Ireland despite no longer being part of the
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by ajb 2y ago
This. Optimal use of an arithmetic encoder is with P(symbol | all previous symbols), not just P(symbol). Obviously there are practical problems with storing all possible contingency tables, so for something like HEVC there is quite a lot of
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by ajb 2y ago
Yes, you can incorporate more-permissively licenced code into a GPL codebase. Tokio seems to be MIT which I think is compatible
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by ajb 2y ago
My apologies, I misread your comment. I think it's safe to say that the number of animals killed by pet cats is disputed. It will also be quite different in different places; my figures come from my area. The situation is also very dif
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by ajb 2y ago
[Edit: I had misread the above comment, which is not saying 'per year'] While cats do indeed kill wildlife, I suspect that "thousands of animals per year" is a big exaggeration even for ferals. It might be true if their
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by ajb 2y ago
Switches don't need to change anything to support QUIC, precisely because it uses UDP. So, the deployment of QUIC doesn't involve any technical changes that would enable a version of QUIC that worked directly over IP. It's
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by ajb 2y ago
I don't know where I read this, but ISTR that one of the motivations of the (failed) JTRS military radio consolidation project was that US infantry were carrying around insane amounts of weight, partly in batteries for various radios.
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by ajb 2y ago
I should perhaps have said "works round" rather than fixes - yes, it has to run over UDP but the quic team had an explicit goal of not allowing the network to interfere further : see sec 3.3 and 7.5 of https://dl.acm.or
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by ajb 2y ago
That's explaining what normally happens -what the subject differs from
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by ajb 2y ago
Actually, the mistake in IP was in not encrypting the next layer, so that networks can block transport protocol innovation by filtering anything other than TCP and UDP. This is the mistake that quic has fixed.
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by ajb 2y ago
One missing from your list is real-time media. Retransmission, or even just buffering for reordering, adds latency so it's better to take the hit of a loss with error correction or packet-loss-concealment
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by ajb 2y ago
This. --force-with-lease is what --force should have been in the first place. Hopefully they will eventually make it so, and rename --force to something less accessible.
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by ajb 2y ago
It could be, but I've not seen an approach to therapy that advocates tweaking like that. Most aim to identify a form of words that "should work" and then advocate persisting "until it works".
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by ajb 2y ago
AI doesn't devalue art, it devalues corporate pablum. But guess what many artists earn their living off, when they haven't made it with their vocation yet.
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by ajb 2y ago
An important concept , and one that also has implications for mental health treatment. Eg, many talk therapies operate under the assumption that 'saying the wrong words in your head' is a factor maintaining the problem, and replac
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by ajb 2y ago
Hmm zipcars in my area (London) are usually clean.
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by ajb 2y ago
It varies, if you look at meteor lake [1] the different die go from 27..100 sq mm (Compared to the h200 which is an insane 814 sqmm) But I don't see any obvious advantage to small triangular die. Once the die are small if doesn't
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by ajb 2y ago
The problem with that is that you can't do it by making straight chord slices of the the wafer - each cut has to terminate or it will go through the middle of the next hexagon. But it does sound plausible - surely lasers could do this
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by ajb 2y ago
The Delta Debugging algorithm is an underused tool, which is not only applicable to debugging, but any task where you need to find a minimal satisfying subset. For example, it can also be used to automatically find an (approximately) minim
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by ajb 2y ago
So, I agree that an awful lot of what passes for research and treatment is chosen based on the comfort zone of the practitioners, more than what is most likely to be found to help the patient. But I think in this case you are attacking one
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by ajb 2y ago
The funny thing about Argos is that it was originally not a store, but just a collection point for promotional giveaways. There was a promotional scheme called "Green Shield Stamps", whereby shops gave the customer a number of st
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by ajb 2y ago
Ok that's clever. I suspect if would be difficult in many places to find enough pavement slots without re-routing a lot of cables and pipes. And yet, the Dutch must have introduced this solution relatively recently - I guess they alrea
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by ajb 2y ago
From the article: "To enable more precise diagnosis and selection of the best treatment for each individual, we need to dissect the heterogeneity of depression and anxiety. The dominant ‘one-size-fits-all’ diagnostic approach in psychi
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by ajb 2y ago
Yes, that's normally how utilisation is understood - as the fraction of time used by requests, which is therefore a dimensionless quantity.
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by ajb 2y ago
A lot of despondency about this. But I think part of why this stuff gets through is that techies are campaigning in the wrong way Those advocating for it have a visceral pitch: your kids will be in danger if this doesn't pass. Those

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