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by beagle3 2y ago
The boner measurement may seem weird, but it’s a very informative measure of general health, vascular health, and a few other things. My friend who worked in a sleep lab as a student was tasked with measuring several aspects of boners. The
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by beagle3 2y ago
I disagree. An optimization that speeds a program by x2 has the same effect as running on a faster CPU. An optimization that packs things tighter into memory has the same effect as using more memory. Program semantics are usually referred t
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by beagle3 2y ago
It is not an optimization ; it changes program semantics - converts programs that will run out of stack eventually regardless of the amount of available memory (and raise exceptions an the process, for example, which a program might rely on
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by beagle3 2y ago
Which Garmin model do you use? Do you know if the measurements provided by an Apple Watch are as informative? Trying to decide which one to get.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Windows NT was supposed to be a modernized VMS (And legend has VMS+1=WNT, each letter individually…) - and given a face similar to Win 3.1 (and then 95/98/Me and then they were unified in XP) It has a lot of the VMS features, and
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by beagle3 2y ago
Don’t remember where I read this theory, but the gist is that dreams are simulated events for practice/preparation, and they are therefore surprising and very diverse - you need to practice social interactions, fight or flight, shame,
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by beagle3 2y ago
I am well aware, as I have written in other comments. The occupation is of the same size, the settlements are getting larger within it. Sadly. The settler movement are crockpots that have non trivial government representation. They also had
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by beagle3 2y ago
The entire West Bank is occupied since 1967. Are you saying Israel is invading Jordan?
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by beagle3 2y ago
Well, we have two precedents we can consult. Israel occupied Sinai in 1967 and had settlements there[0]. Then, following a peace agreement with Egypt, Israel pulled back in 1982, removing all the settlements and settlers, some by force. Isr
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by beagle3 2y ago
Israel is occupying the West Bank in the same way that it did since 1967. That occupation did not grow larger (or smaller). The policies are heinous, possibly war crimes. But Israel did also occupy Sinai and Gaza, and no longer does (well,
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by beagle3 2y ago
Can you show me, on the map, an area which was not occupied by Israel in 1968, but was occupied 6-oct-2023? Because I can show you the opposite.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Can you find, on the map, an area which was not occupied by Israel in 1968, but was occupied on Oct 6 2023 (before the Hamas attack on Israel which prompted Israel's re-occupation of Gaza in 2023-2024?) Some are being relocated inside
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by beagle3 2y ago
Yes, that is true that Israel pulled back from Gaza completely in 2005, removing its settlers in the process. Gaza and the West Bank are distinct. Israel never pulled back from the West Bank, but that part of the occupation is the same size
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by beagle3 2y ago
You are aware, I hope, that Gaza is not in the West Bank? The west bank has borders with Jordan and Israel. Gaza has borders with Egypt and Israel. Israel indeed never pulled from the West Bank, and sadly, it does let settlers live there. B
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by beagle3 2y ago
You are aware, I hope, that Israel pulled back from Gaza completely in 2005, and from Sinai in 1980? It’s been growing smaller since 1973 (and never technically annexed any area it did temporarily take in a war)
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by beagle3 2y ago
It obviously wasn’t so strict since the Palestinians were still able to send thousands of rockets. Gaza also has a border with Egypt, which Israel doesn’t control. For their own reasons, the Egyptians also blockade Gaza - although they did
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by beagle3 2y ago
Fast loaders were a thing after 1987, and we’re plenty fast, even the tape ones were acceptable. Not cartridge fast, but 10 sec floppy disc load for games, about 30-60 secs for cassette.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Not at all. Frame rates varies widely, resolutions varied widely. The exact behavior was in e.g. pixels/frame, and you had to work hard to get the same feel on a 50hz 256x192 4Mhz z80 ZX Spectrum, as you did on the 60hz 160x200 1Mhz 65
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by beagle3 2y ago
My use case would be to get my WhatsApp database…. Anyone knows if it restores properly? (Useful even if not … WhatsApp search is abysmal, the db file is much more useful)
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by beagle3 2y ago
John Earnest’s “Decker” is basically HyperCard, open source, free, multiple implementation (for web in JS and also native cross platform SDL+C). The language is not AppleTalk, but one called Lil - nicer, IMHO. It captures old HyperCard magi
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by beagle3 2y ago
Would you trust a restore of those “do not back up” data you have a copy of? Or is this for inspection only?
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by beagle3 2y ago
And XML is essentially lobotomized and extra verbose Lisp S-expressions, going back to the 1960’s
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by beagle3 2y ago
Borland’s Interbase. I also vaguely remember an optional SQL interface for Btrieve circa 1990, but I might be mistaken.
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by beagle3 2y ago
You do need to use a canonical representation, or you will have two distinct blobs that look exactly the same, tricking other users of the data (other posters in a forum, customer service people in a company, etc)
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by beagle3 2y ago
WxWidgets uses native widgets, for better (e.g. automation, screen readers) and for worse (weird platform differences, flickering, lots of “common ground” limitations). FLTK draws the controls on its own - for the better (incredibly fast, c
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by beagle3 2y ago
What was the largest IRC channel you lurked in (that didn’t have constant net splits?). I don’t think I ever passed 10K, and rarely passed 1K. IRC did it on an incredibly small scale, IME.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Can you elaborate? Personally, I was also very picky about who I follow, and also only use “Following” (never “For You”) and the only difference I felt with the Elon acquisition is less censorship — which is both good and bad — and makes it
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by beagle3 2y ago
“Characterstic function” is (was) an overloaded term. What you described is more often referred to as an “indicator function” these days, with “characteristic functions” denoting the transform (Fourier, laplace, z - depending on context). C
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by beagle3 2y ago
Actually, “apply a random matrix” is often the solution to a large dimensional space involving near neighbours. The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma asserts that a multiplying by a random matrix (some conditions apply, but iirc rotation matrices
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by beagle3 2y ago
If you actually read the effectiveness and safety research with a critical eye, you would realize “rigorous” is often the wrong adjective, whereas “cherry picked” to the point of “fraudulent” is often more in line with reality. Case in poin

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