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by bdowling 4y ago
Hi Kranar. See my other post with the reference to linear bounded automata. I think you're right on all points. Also, I agree that "simulates" is probably the wrong word. There would be a one-to-one mapping between FSM states
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by bdowling 4y ago
Looking at Wikipedia, what I'm thinking of may be equivalent to a Linear Bounded Automaton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_bounded_automaton Specifically, I'm thinking of the "less restrictive defi
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by bdowling 4y ago
My point, which I admit isn't very poignant, is that you can make an FSM that simulates a TM that only uses a finite portion of its tape. Yes, for some machines you will always be able to construct an input that exceeds what a particul
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by bdowling 4y ago
I edited my post to change the qualifier from " that halts " to " that halts on a given input ". Perhaps I should change it to say that you can build a FSM that simulates a machine with a bounded, finite tape. Obviously,
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by bdowling 4y ago
Not quite Turing-complete, but any Turing machine that halts on a given input can be simulated by a sufficiently large finite state machine. At each step, a complete TM state can be represented by a tuple of <TM state #, cell position,
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by bdowling 4y ago
The LAMBDA function in Excel can define an infinitely recursing function without using scripting. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing...
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by bdowling 4y ago
Did you market the photos yourself or use an agency?
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by bdowling 4y ago
> clicker-training them like dogs to use the appropriate pronouns In my experience, this “clicker-training” consists of childishly threatening to kill themselves if others don’t give them what they want.
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by bdowling 4y ago
If a court ignored the law and imposed a criminal sentence merely because it didn't like the defendant, then that would be an injustice and you would call the convicted person a victim.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> I would not generally find Deseret News ... a credible source in this context. Deseret News isn't the source, their article just paraphrases from other sources (60 Minutes, Wall Street Journal, BBC).
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by bdowling 4y ago
This is my take as well. Terms like "egg-having partner" are inappropriate here because they are used solely to incite flame wars and to demoralize others. They are an impediment to the kind of curious discussion that HN strives f
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by bdowling 4y ago
2019 was excellent. Each day, the puzzle would have you adding new features (new instructions, addressing modes, input/output handling) to the emulator. The early days were fairly simple, but things got progressively more complicated.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> This is a WTF NO!!! I’m pretty sure the author was exaggerating, because no sane person would use an enraged gorilla to tighten fittings. Gorillas are simply far too dangerous to be trusted with important plumbing work.
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by bdowling 4y ago
These are only rare and valuable because (a) enough people alive now know about this kind of thing and (b) when they were relevant, most people threw them away because they were junk. That’s a both (1) an uncommon thing, and (2) interesting
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by bdowling 4y ago
Well, he might be foolish to want his kid to have a full sibling. I don't think her being in prison should prevent that.
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by bdowling 4y ago
The CEO isn't the one who is ultimately in charge, because the CEO is appointed by the board of directors, who are elected by the shareholders. Ultimately it is the shareholders who decide whether they want to stay invested in a busine
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by bdowling 4y ago
The remedy wouldn't be to shorten lengthy sentences, but to allow women to have children while in prison. According to a quick google search, some prisons already allow this, possibly in part because of this issue.
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by bdowling 4y ago
If a woman’s prison sentence is so long that she would be infertile by the time she is released, then that may impact various constitutional rights. That was my point.
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by bdowling 4y ago
Preventing a woman from bearing children may violate her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment (8th Amendment) and her reproductive rights under the due process clauses of the 5th and 14th Amendments.
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by bdowling 4y ago
If the government decided it wants me to receive loan forbearance at 0% interest, then it’s my civic duty to accept it. After all, I don’t want to be labeled some kind of troublemaker.
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by bdowling 4y ago
You may be able to sue the government for the violation of your civil and constitutional rights and the damages it and its doctors caused to you. That will be true regardless of whether the doctors themselves violated any ethical rules. I s
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by bdowling 4y ago
"Tesla engineers don't just work on in-vehicle code though. The servers and systems needed to implement Tesla's telemetry and software updates would be in the same ballpark of expertise, albeit with much less scale and differ
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by bdowling 4y ago
It would be reasonable for Twitter to pay Tesla for the audit work, because otherwise it would be a misuse of Tesla resources to only benefit the Tesla CEO.
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by bdowling 4y ago
It's so simple, I don't understand why everyone's grandparents don't do this.
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by bdowling 4y ago
My point here is that severance isn’t free money, it’s a transaction.
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by bdowling 4y ago
Severance is usually given only in exchange for a waiver of all legal claims (e.g., harassment, discrimination, unpaid wages) you may have against the company.
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by bdowling 4y ago
It's relevant, but it's illegal for a prospective employer to ask about and it's against a prospective employee's interest to raise the issue.
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by bdowling 4y ago
You shouldn't discuss family obligations at a job interview, full stop.
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by bdowling 4y ago
Note: In the US, this concept is explicitly in the Copyright Act: "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or disc
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by bdowling 4y ago
> the SCOTUS did rule that it was copyright infringement. In the US, "[T]he fair use of a copyrighted work ... is not an infringement of copyright." (17 USC 107, Oracle at 14). Whether there is a difference between a finding

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