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by azernik 6y ago
My very-low-confidence prediction is that we'll see a burst of experimentation once foldable screens become viable.
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by azernik 6y ago
Sure. But the Red Army certainly trusted most Ukrainians enough to integrate them into elite combat units.
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by azernik 6y ago
There's this concept of "mature" technologies that have reached more or less the optimum characteristics and are only going to see slight tweaks until requirements or materials change. eg the assault rifle has seen only one m
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by azernik 6y ago
They should absolutely be critical selectively, based on the actual performance of that leader. The point of the criticism is to provide a deterrent to oppression and mismanagement, and a deterrent doesn't work if it's applied wit
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by azernik 6y ago
After the collapse of the USSR, none of the states around Russia were in any condition to confront the Russian Federation itself. All of the little post-Soviet wars were among the smaller Republics.
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by azernik 6y ago
It was never part of Poland, unless you're going waaaay back to the Teutonic knights. Even then, it was controlled by an ethnically-German ruling dynasty with its power base outside of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to Nor
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by azernik 6y ago
Depends on the ethnic minority - the USSR had very fine-grained distinctions between "reliable" and "unreliable" ethnic groups. For example, Armenians (because of their hostility to NATO-member Turkey) were very much all
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by azernik 6y ago
Einzige staatliche Fernuniversität.
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by azernik 6y ago
Copying my reply to GP: This is a US-vs-everyone-else terminology difference. In most of the world "state" refers to a sovereign entity, "nation" refers to an ethnic group, and "nation-state" is a state identif
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by azernik 6y ago
This is a US-vs-everyone-else terminology difference. In most of the world "state" refers to a sovereign entity, "nation" refers to an ethnic group, and "nation-state" is a state identified with an ethnic natio
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by azernik 6y ago
In this case, they are following the judgment of lots and lots of experts, just like with COVID.
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by azernik 6y ago
I can also claim in court that I have been wronged by an ethnic group, and that the proper remedy for that is genocide. Again - "there's a pending court case alleging this" is not a reason not to take down that kind of cont
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by azernik 6y ago
The point of having a critical media is that the electorate can actually punish their leaders for bad things. Leaving those leaders in place because criticism is actually good defeats the point.
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by azernik 6y ago
> Does FB unreasonably restrain competition? (My answer is no) The lawsuit specifically cites Zuckerberg talking about acquisitions (in this case, the failed Twitter acquisition) as giving "extra time... to get our product in order
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by azernik 6y ago
Because the government has decided that the existence and viability of rural communities is a policy goal in and of itself; and that basic telecommunications services are necessary for public safety and good government in such communities.
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by azernik 6y ago
They actually lost the center booster, so not entirely nailed. Unfortunately we didn't get good imagery of that particular catastrophe, but if Starship goes down in flames it will be within reach of lots of ground-based cameras. Would
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by azernik 6y ago
Yeah you do - the kernel uses linked lists to store everything from running tasks to memory pages . Insertion and deletion of entries are much faster in a linked list than in an array, and that's a very performance-sensitive operation
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by azernik 6y ago
Not just an instruction, but a branching instruction. Branch predictors will probably do pretty well on this, but still.
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by azernik 6y ago
If it's high up in the article, and the headline is misleading, that means the problem lies with the editor rather than the journalists. Journalists do not write their own headlines.
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by azernik 6y ago
I was being loose with the words "everything" and "only". GP comment was curious about why they've only heard about "linked lists" in a language, C, which like Modula-2 does not use them as the basic sta
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by azernik 6y ago
C is the only language where they're called "linked lists"; everything else just calls them "lists".
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by azernik 6y ago
My assumption was that the comment I replied to was directed to Americans, and recommending the ICRC itself as opposed to the ARC.
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by azernik 6y ago
Though donating to it isn't a substitute for donations to the American Red Cross for disaster relief purposes. The ICRC specifically deals with armed conflict. For disaster relief you'll have to find another reputable charity.
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by azernik 6y ago
"Officials administrating the permitting process have discretion to act." City councils are political bodies, and within their jurisdictions are the ultimate authority on what should and should not be allowed. LEOs are employees o
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by azernik 6y ago
More like 5+ launches to get it refueled - the payload of Starship is MUCH smaller than its fuel load.
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by azernik 6y ago
Yeah, but if they're lying they'd lie on the high end, not the low end. If it's actually 99%, they'd say 99.999%. If it's actually 10%, they'd say 35%.
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by azernik 6y ago
Grubhub itself, in this article, claims only 35%.
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by azernik 6y ago
"Rogue-lites" usually refer not just to persistent state, but to persistent progression across runs.
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by azernik 6y ago
Different students have different challenges. In urban areas, hardware access can be the limiting factor.
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by azernik 6y ago
Forget ML; just a queryable database where your analysts can plug in a known surveillance target and see who they're talking to has lots of value. (IIUC, that's Palantir's original core product, not anything in the ML space.)

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