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by bazzargh 9y ago
No - 5000 TPUs were used for training, but the 100-game matches used just 4 TPUs (bottom of p4 in the paper)
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by bazzargh 9y ago
"2 or so hours of record time on a charge. That doesn’t seem sufficient." I'm not sure why the blackbox style of camera hasn't caught on more. (like eg http://www.rideye.com/ , but I'm sure there are
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by bazzargh 9y ago
I wrote one of these hackertypery-presenters a while back: https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/a267b97a52f7a1f70c46 some slight differences; doitlive drives recording for you; I used ttyrec, so you get some more natural t
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by bazzargh 9y ago
(late reply but...) we did actually look at that; someone had a blog post about using docker for testing nginx when we did this (~3yr ago). You hit a number of problems. Our nginx listened on multiple addresses and ports, which weren't
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by bazzargh 9y ago
I hit this problem too - we had >100k lines of nginx config. My answer was to write a tool to simulate what happened to a request, logging the decisions made each step. It was limited in what config I'd programmed it to understand b
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by bazzargh 9y ago
Every time ntp comes up I wonder what happened to ntimed. https://nwtime.org/projects/ntimed/ ...latest on it appears to be that Poul-Henning Kamp is building a house and that's taken up the time that was dev
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by bazzargh 9y ago
there was a time where london's dogs were so Onerous they felt that it would be a good idea to pour oil over the water Have been wondering about this sentence since I read it, it seems there must be multiple typos in it for it to mak
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by bazzargh 9y ago
From Quanta Magazine's 'about' page: To reach an even wider audience, we have syndication partnerships with several publications, which reprint our articles. https://www.quantamagazine.org/about/ And I
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by bazzargh 9y ago
Was curious about this as well, especially that go does use FPATAN on 386 but not Amd64 - found this bug which explains the issues involved: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17069#issuecomment-24637...
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by bazzargh 9y ago
There's a second series of Top of The Lake, it finished airing in the UK last week, it's definitely current. Apparently coming to the states next month.
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by bazzargh 9y ago
The clojure piece - I'd just forgotten the name. https://github.com/livingsocial/lein-dependency-check
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by bazzargh 9y ago
One of my workmates open-sourced this: https://github.com/livingsocial/bundler-patch ...which is mostly what we used internally for working with bundler-audit. We ran this scan in CI, on deploy, and also on a cron for
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by bazzargh 9y ago
You don't need a robot arm at all. Consider clamping the test object inside a transparent sphere, resting on wheels that allow the sphere to be rotated. Instead of dipping, partly fill the sphere with liquid, test displacement at many
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by bazzargh 9y ago
Adobe deserve a pile of the blame here for the pdf spec - it only requires the magic to appear in the first 1024 bytes[1] (and that %EOF appears in the last 1024) - thus allowing silly tricks like PDFs that are also another file type [2]. [
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by bazzargh 9y ago
explain why Google Maps really wants to stalk my location even when not using it actively Turn by turn navigation. It's called out as a use-case for this on the Apple docs for this service. https://developer.apple.com&#x2F
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by bazzargh 9y ago
It's already too late in most cases, getting permanent residence rights elsewhere in the EU requires you to have lived there for 5 years; but there's under 2 years left before UK citizens lose their rights to work elsewhere in the
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by bazzargh 9y ago
that's not true at all, Section 5 applies to everyone, and deals with passing on secrets you've obtained from people who have signed the act. That said, and IANAL, this document is not covered because of 5(2) - there's no r
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Veggies: Haskell code generation from scratch(joachim-breitner.de)
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by bazzargh 9y ago
Fruit smoothies and sneakers? In Palo Alto, everyone told me the best coffee was at Zombie Runner, which is a running store...? So I guess that could happen. I was just passing through for a couple of days so never had the chance to try it
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by bazzargh 10y ago
This was from the BMJ Christmas issue - every year they publish a 2-week special full of nonsense like this. As it happens, 4 of the papers in BMJ Christmas Issues have gone on to win Ig Nobels: http://www.bmj.com/content&
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by bazzargh 10y ago
The first time I read about voice programming (in Heinlin's 'Number of the Beast', the flying car they use is voice programmable[1]) I considered how you'd implement it and figured what they do in the book was too cumber
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by bazzargh 10y ago
A counter-example: Thalidomide. Refused approval by the FDA multiple times (the drug company kept resubmitting it), there were only 17 children born with Thalidomide-related birth deformities in the USA. Promoted as a wonder drug for mornin
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by bazzargh 10y ago
BT was/is obsessed with squeezing every last drop of bandwidth from POTS connections ... that wasn't what they wanted to do at all . BT were preparing to do FTTH when I joined them in 1994 (I left in 2001). This was as you say
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by bazzargh 10y ago
I heard about the Ardechoise cycling festival off the back of Robert Marchand's previous record - it's his club, they named a hill after him, etc - and got inspired to travel there and enter one of their Randonneur routes a coup
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by bazzargh 10y ago
It's doable. The original work on reflow was done by Thomas Breuel back in 2003: http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wda2003/Papers/Section_II/Paper_5.... One of the problems with doing this in pdf is that for mos
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by bazzargh 10y ago
Chrome lets you disable that request: Preferences->Show advanced settings->Content Settings (under 'Privacy')->Notifications Select "Do not allow any site to show notifications" Myself, I find this just as bad a
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by bazzargh 10y ago
For low maintenance, the cheapest geared option is to use a hub-geared bike. Since the chain never shifts, it's heavier gauge and experiences less wear. It's also fitted tighter, so is very unlikely to drop off. As upofadown menti
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by bazzargh 10y ago
No. They've stolen the hash, so if they crack it, you've just let them waltz back in. The correct response is force a password reset, and _delete_ weak hashes so that they cannot be stolen in a subsequent breach. At worst, store a
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by bazzargh 10y ago
We started using screenhero (paid) before the slack takeover, but were using paid-for slack too so nothing changed for us. The integration is fairly weak, you can launch a screenhero session from within chat but tbh I tend to use screenhero
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by bazzargh 10y ago
I have to wonder if the recently discovered ice deposits on mars would do the job https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mars-ice-deposit-holds-as-m... If this really is just a metre down and 80% water it's got to

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