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by balnaphone 6y ago
Same, from Canada. My guess is that it will come back up later.
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by balnaphone 7y ago
There is no quantification of the predictive power of any of these models presented in the linked-to article. In fact it appears highly misleading, since they directly contrast (a) data from 1970-2017, with (b) a model written in 1973 predi
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by balnaphone 7y ago
The phone switch for Nortel's Meridian PBX system circa 1994, which supported SONET and IP, had about 16 million lines of code. The complexity of a touchscreen is less than 1%, maybe less than 0.1% of that. Lines of code, however an
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by balnaphone 7y ago
Rabies, influenzas, haemorrhagic fevers, West Nile, coronaviruses, and Zika might like to have a word with you on the subject.
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by balnaphone 7y ago
> For comparison mod_perl was 1999 or so I used mod_perl extensively in the summer (May-Aug) of 1996; it was the only way I found to embed perl directly into the server process, at the time. See also http://apache.perl.org&#x2
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by balnaphone 7y ago
By the way, godbolt.org is great for testing this kind of stuff. Here is a link to verify my claim: https://godbolt.org/z/u68_9m .
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by balnaphone 7y ago
Using gcc-9.2 with the usual AVX-512 flags, I get xor512d: vmovdqu8 zmm1, ZMMWORD PTR [rsi] vpxorq zmm0, zmm1, ZMMWORD PTR [rdi] vmovdqu8 ZMMWORD PTR [rdi], zmm0 vzerouppe
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by balnaphone 7y ago
For the equivalent of vi's 'yyp', you must do C-a C-k C-k C-y C-y, or more likely 'C-akkyy'. The first C-k only kills to end-of-line, to capture the line ending (\n) you need another C-k. The first C-y only puts ba
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by balnaphone 7y ago
Yes. However, it's "something else", meaning that the ecosystem is dramatically different. Furthermore, the majority of that ecosystem should be evacuated on a regular basis. E.g. bury an apple in soil during humid warm wea
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by balnaphone 7y ago
Don Libes is also the author of "Obfuscated C Code and Other Mysteries", which is the first book I ever read that really explores all the dark corners of programming in C; it's a really great book if you use the C language. I
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by balnaphone 7y ago
One doesn't normally keep soil, with its rich microbial ecosystem, inside of their domestic toilet bowl.
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by balnaphone 7y ago
FYI, whitequark is a woman.
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by balnaphone 7y ago
Nice project! What platforms does the backend run on? Linux only? Or BSDs as well?
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by balnaphone 7y ago
See also Joseph Tainter's "The Collapse of Complex Societies" (1988). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter
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by balnaphone 8y ago
The two words can be strung together just fine in English. Think of the word "rub", then "rubs", then "rubs search", then "rubsearch". The final 'b' in "web" is indeed pronounced
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by balnaphone 8y ago
The article states: "Remember when I said that certain dating businesses can print money? This is one of them. A 2006 reveals that the company was then bringing in about $45 Million of revenue a year." I'm wondering what the
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Summary: Submarine advertisement for PolymathNetworks' STOs.
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by balnaphone 9y ago
"The iPhone didn't set off the smartphone boom, because hey the blackberry existed." My sentiments exactly, and I can't understand what you're trying to say here. You've defeated your own point.
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Note for users in China: you'll still need Shadowsocks in your stack (e.g. shadowsocks + CN2 + dns crypt/mask + IPv6 tunneling), since WireGuard is vulnerable to "deep packet inspection" and this is not a priority for Wi
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Favorite quote: "Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." --John Perry Barlow
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by balnaphone 9y ago
An explanation of this kind of visualization given in a stanford lecture by Steve Mann, see 35-45 min into video. Stanford Seminar: 42 years of Phenomenological AR for Natural/Reality/Direct User-Interfaces https://www.
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by balnaphone 9y ago
In case you haven't already been acquainted... THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT by TERRY BISSON http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html GREYLORN by KEITH LAUMER http://www.gutenberg.org/files&#x2F
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by balnaphone 9y ago
To be fair, it's now 23 years later, and macOS is still not as usable as a circa-1995 Mac. It's a bit crazy!
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by balnaphone 9y ago
There is a product called Novamin that can help remineralize teeth, currently owned by GSK. They took the competition out of the marketplace, and AFAIK only put it in certain "Sensodyne Repair & Protect" toothpastes, which al
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Do you have scientific evidence (or "proof") of this claim, assuming you're referring strictly to dental caries, and perhaps receding gums? I don't believe it, whatsoever. In fact I challenged some friends (a dentist, a
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Readable PDF link http://www.viriya.net/jabref/cognitive_and_attentional_mecha...
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Exactly. For a custom imaging pipeline, constructed via application-specific design, every element that is a black box invalidates the measurement aspect of the output. The sensor control system is an intimate part of that system. For exam
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Water from a properly-functioning bidet certainly does provide water and water abrasion, since the pressure is far higher than an open pipe. In fact, if a bidet is activated full-blast without someone on it, it will typically reach the cei
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by balnaphone 9y ago
Agreed. The press will say it's "beloved," along with government-sector employees, but in reality you're as likely as not to encounter people very frustrated by the system. Everyone thinks it's better than what exi
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by balnaphone 9y ago
See https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=COMPARAMETRIC+IMA... This paper discusses exactly the scenario you discuss.

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