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by boothby 1y ago
Careful what you wish for, the last change to the US flag appears to have been accomplished through an executive order. If isn't a red field with a gold T in the middle come July, I'll be moderately surprised. https://
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by boothby 1y ago
I take it you've never had a conversation on a dance floor, across a street busy with traffic, or without any risk of waking the baby (or your enemies, I guess), or behind somebody's (highly proximate) back. Sign languages are for
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by boothby 1y ago
The only thing left to do is pipe the output of a coma patient in an fMRI into the controls of an electron microscope. https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
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by boothby 1y ago
Congress has a jail, sure. But I and the comment I was responding to were regarding the judiciary. To put a finer point on it: if the president orders somebody to do something in violation of federal law, and then pardons them, can the law
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by boothby 1y ago
> Statute can absolutely constrain the executive. This is an open question. The judicial branch has authority, on paper. But without means of enforcing that authority, it cannot truly constrain the executive.
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by boothby 1y ago
Indiscreet discrete mathematician checking in. If they said "exactly" we'd have a real problem. Instead, "precisely" in this context means "human eye cannot distinguish from exact value at a stone's thro
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by boothby 1y ago
> ...7.5 min maps... This is the second response in a row where you've read something I wrote and responded to a very specific thing I did not say.
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by boothby 1y ago
I didn't say I've never encountered an incorrect map, I said they aren't rendered useless by dropping on an ill-positioned rock. You can send digital maps to the printer, and insert them into a ziploc, before leaving your ho
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by boothby 1y ago
One time, I dropped my phone in a parking lot and it landed face down on a pebble rendering my screen completely unusable. That's never happened with a paper map in a ziploc bag. Funny thing. I was in search and rescue as a teen, and
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by boothby 2y ago
Not really. Until recently, ClearView has been used by local police departments, which are not strongly aligned with both sides of the political spectrum. Likewise, DHS and TSA are not strongly aligned with both sides of the political spe
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by boothby 2y ago
I'm prone to RSI, and I started using a logitech trackman in '99 or '00. I've occasionally had periods of using mice or trackpads, and extended use of either causes flareups. I've never had flareups with a thumb b
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by boothby 2y ago
The most terrifying part of the administration's theory is that the president should have unilateral and unchecked authority over who is allowed to be in the country. As tiring as it is to see so much of American politics here, we nee
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by boothby 2y ago
Python supports a third way: start at -1. And if you think about it a little (but not too much) then there's some real appeal to it in C. If you allocate an array of length n and store its length and rewrite the pointer with (*a+=n)=
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by boothby 2y ago
Elon's a general in the culture war being waged by your country, and you're asking why bearing his standard is seen as a political choice. I'd say that your question should be directed at Elon. Likewise, Russian citizens are
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by boothby 2y ago
Due to zoom's resource-intensity and my non-work laptop's dire lack of resources, I find myself using Lynx with some regularity today. I absolutely love it. Thanks, Lynx devs!
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by boothby 2y ago
If I felt obliged to correct every single misconception I read here, it certainly would be tiring. Instead, I generally allow myself one comment and maybe a response. And that's not limited to work-related posts; it's how I budg
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by boothby 2y ago
Not just one, though. We've sold a few to customers, not to mention the computers in our Burnaby lab that you can easily access through our cloud service.
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by boothby 2y ago
A very simple description of an FPGA is that it's got a bunch of switches on the ends of wires. Some of the switches can connect wires to logic elements and some can connect wires to other wires. In this view, programming an FPGA is
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by boothby 2y ago
> I'm curious by what measure you suggest it's "too cold". I'm accustomed to thinking about superconductors in an environment on the order of around ~0.01K. And, it's worth spending a little time understand
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by boothby 2y ago
Hot* take: -233 is too cold for Celsius. I'm okay with folks reporting critical temperatures in C once they get near room temperature, but this is only 40K (which is blazingly hot in my world, but regardless). But, it's cool to
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by boothby 2y ago
I just googled "indium chewing gum" and was not disappointed.
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by boothby 2y ago
State highways are well maintained because the federal government demands it in exchange for significant funding derived from federal gas tax. You've had a taste of utopia, but you haven't bathed in it. https://en.m.wi
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by boothby 2y ago
I can't wait until highways and roads are carved up and sold to oligarchs. Every mile driven is a microtransaction (or maybe not so micro, if it's a monopoly). Maintenance is a major cost center, so they'll minimize that in
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by boothby 2y ago
By banning "abortion" they've prevented doctors from providing adequate care for miscarriages . Politicians on the so-called "pro-life" side of this debate are stridently opposed to looking for a middle ground. T
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by boothby 2y ago
They're claiming to have found a small number of microscopic particles that are superconducting at 500K, with details on how they found those particles. They acknowledge that making contact with those particles to directly test their
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by boothby 2y ago
Back of the envelope calculations from the abstract: An 8-bit tiny pointer would be sufficient to reference an array of size 2^2^2^3 ≈ 1e77 (≈atoms in the visible universe) with fullness 31/32 ≈ 97%. Or size 65536 and fullness 63&#x2F
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by boothby 2y ago
> and enjoy your life. As somebody who hacks on, around and in esoteric languages for fun; I must object.
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by boothby 2y ago
I'm probably too much of a stickler for high school. If I had students try to trick me with T/F confusion I'd immediately announce a "round towards the wrong answer" policy and watch 'em tidy up right quick. S
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by boothby 2y ago
People using quantum computers for random uncorrelated 50/50 bitstrings makes me unreasonably angry (disclaimer: employer in profile, this is my personal opinion). At best, it's just a test of how well we've got the calibrat

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