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by arethuza 2y ago
A few months back I spent a couple of hours writing a binary TM simulator (yes I know you can download them - I wanted to write one) and then spent a couple of weeks running various TMs for days on end... They exhibit quite bizarre amounts
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by arethuza 2y ago
Was it this one? https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2725
723.
by arethuza 2y ago
Also worth noting that, from a practical perspective, even very simple programs/TMs can exhibit very complex behaviours that make it difficult to work out whether they will actually halt or not. At the time of writing there are 2833
724.
by arethuza 2y ago
Clearly Count Binface not being in the House of Lords is some kind of administrative oversight?
725.
by arethuza 2y ago
It's probably because of this "nonsense" that people see these cars as exclusive and therefore worthy of putting up with the nonsense...
726.
by arethuza 2y ago
The "ludicrously capacious bag" thing in Succession makes fun of this very point - Tom (who is from a relatively modest background and therefore sensitive about such things) makes fun of Greg's girlfriends bag: https:/&
727.
by arethuza 2y ago
The governments of France, Germany and Spain are the largest shareholders in Airbus but they aren't majority shareholders as together they total only about 26% of shares? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#Larges
728.
by arethuza 2y ago
Yes, I'm being "irrational" by some viewpoint, I know that.
729.
by arethuza 2y ago
"Most people would accept that level of risk" I wouldn't and I definitely wouldn't if I had other people in the car.
730.
by arethuza 2y ago
That presumably explains why some of Microsoft's own products use sequentially assigned GUIDs in SQL Server rather than random ones - using NEWSEQUENTIALID() rather than NEWID()?
731.
by arethuza 2y ago
Not related to the Great Glen Fault but the Parallel Roads in Glen Roy are fairly close and worth a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Roy#The_Parallel_Roads_of... Edit: Also have a look at the Lochaber Geopark:
732.
by arethuza 2y ago
Speaking of Ancient Aliens - I did have also read a book by Erich von Däniken when I was younger (9 or so) although I had realised that was nonsense by my stage of hunting maps for alignments it probably influenced me to think about it.
733.
by arethuza 2y ago
My own favourite is the Highland Boundary Fault - the northern edge of the rift valley that is central Scotland: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Boundary_Fault
734.
by arethuza 2y ago
When I was a kid (11/12 or so) I was fascinated by finding alignments between ancient things in the landscape (of which there are many here in Scotland!) - eventually I came to the realisation that given the scale of the maps I was loo
735.
by arethuza 2y ago
Seems instant to me and when I checked in the Firefox debugger the network calls are taking between 30ms to 50ms to respond.
736.
by arethuza 2y ago
He was an expert in complex multi-organisation enterprise integration and was the go to guy to work out why horrific distributed transactions were failing... He also did a lot of cool stuff as side projects in his own time - just none of th
737.
by arethuza 2y ago
Yes that sounds pretty sensible. Do you ever have a conversation with these people as to why they think they couldn't do it?
738.
by arethuza 2y ago
I once froze in an interview when asked a simple technical question - I'd been giving a presentation for an hour on how to launch a new product and I was asked by the CEO how to do something technically trivial - my brain could not do
739.
by arethuza 2y ago
I once worked with a guy who was an incredibly good developer and I was surprised when he didn't see anything special about the number 64 (i.e. a power of two) - turns out that he'd never done any bit fiddling type work so he hadn
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by arethuza 2y ago
You can also have social housing operated separately from central/local government control but have a strong regulator - this is how it works in Scotland.
741.
by arethuza 2y ago
Did a lot of kids die in pools before that law was introduced? NB I'm in Scotland so outside pools aren't a big risk but I also grew up in a small fishing village on a very wild and rocky coast with high cliffs and the idea of any
742.
by arethuza 2y ago
The other major downside of loser pays is that it makes litigation very difficult to stop once it starts - and lawyers, funnily enough, will always say that you have an excellent case encouraging people to start litigation....
743.
by arethuza 2y ago
Bothies are awesome: https://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/ My favourite is probably Camasunary: https://annestravelsandhikes.com/2018/02/16/a-walk-to-camasu...
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by arethuza 2y ago
From my reading, the attractive nuisance doctrine applies to children - who I would have thought would be the people least likely to pay attention to "No Trespassing" signs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attra
745.
by arethuza 2y ago
Scotland is part of the UK and has right to roam.
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by arethuza 2y ago
Some areas in Scotland also have bye-laws stopping camping during the summer months to reduce potential environment impact: e.g. https://www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/things-to-do/camping/ca... These are relatively
747.
by arethuza 2y ago
It's pretty much access for any non-motorised activity (including camping) here in Scotland: https://www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/
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by arethuza 2y ago
"where on earth do you live to pay this little?" Not being from the US I'm slightly surprised that you are surprised!
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by arethuza 2y ago
It's something like that, quite an effective tactic for dealing with my neurotic/OCD tendencies though :-)
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by arethuza 2y ago
What I found most surprising about a lot of US city "downtowns" is how utterly dead they are in the evenings and at weekends.

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