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by bsza 3y ago
> A watch is there to be able to synchronize with outside events And to better predict rising tides (the ideal time for fishing), to plan your day and your trips better, and to boil eggs exactly the way you like them. It's a luxury
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by bsza 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_possessions_of_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_overseas_colonies
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by bsza 3y ago
This model works well in countries that already have the wealth to support it, usually from spending centuries colonizing other countries and sucking them dry. It doesn't work quite as well in the countries that had been colonized.
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by bsza 3y ago
> I don't think it is totally inconceivable You could create a kind of "reverse" grandfather paradox by preventing future events predicted by the simulation from happening. Perhaps it could run fine up to the point that it
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by bsza 3y ago
If the laws and initial state of the universe can be expressed in few enough bits, then all you need to store is a title and a date. Run a simulation of the universe, fast forward to the date the movie was released, use an AI to find a thea
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by bsza 3y ago
You can still report it as malware (which it actually is)
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by bsza 3y ago
Wolfgang von Kempelen (creator of the fake chess automaton known as the Turk) made a similar thing in the 18th century. [0] It had multiple reeds tuned to the same frequency - conceptually similar to the Voder. It might not be coincidence t
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by bsza 3y ago
People giving out tips on how to "improve" this probably didn't read the FAQ. > The Free Movie is not about quality– in fact, that interpretation, that rawness, is the specific terroir want in the final film. To paraphrase
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by bsza 4y ago
> Smart switches which fall back to regular switches if they malfunction is fantastic. Not if they do so when you’re asleep. Fallback behavior should be always off, so it won’t wake you up in the middle of the night following a short bla
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by bsza 4y ago
Not a physicist, but Wikipedia seems to disagree with this. > Due to this effect, known as gravitational time dilation, an object falling into a black hole appears to slow as it approaches the event horizon, taking an infinite time to re
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by bsza 4y ago
...and when you're intubated with an NG tube.
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by bsza 4y ago
> Every heard people saying "Sorting takes O(n logn) time"? They are clearly assuming comparing two numbers can be done in constant time. Where n is the number of items . Not the number of digits! And we don't normally ta
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by bsza 4y ago
We're still at O(N * W) time. It might be possible to implement xor using only +, - and bit shifts (though I'm not seeing any obvious way to do so), but count_ones stays a bottleneck; I'm pretty sure you can't do that in
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by bsza 4y ago
You're using n as a parameter of the machine's specs, which is a big no-no. You can't just come up with a bigger machine for each consecutive value of n. If that were allowed, all algorithms would trivially be O(1). We usuall
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by bsza 4y ago
Yes, but then the last algorithm runs in the same time as the one before it. Using xor here really only gives you a constant factor improvement (which is still nice!). Reminds me of the problem “find the only missing number in a scrambled l
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by bsza 4y ago
W cannot be larger than the size of the character set, so even the first algorithm runs in O(N) time. It's a cool trick, but it didn't make the algorithm asymptotically more efficient as the OP suggests.
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by bsza 4y ago
> you might as well rebase or cherry-pick Both tools are pure vandalism compared to merge. Among the two, cherry-picking is preferable in this case because you're "only" destroying your own history, so in the end, it'
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by bsza 4y ago
Yet it predicted the future more accurately than Blade Runner (1982) where people still use pay phones in 2019.
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by bsza 4y ago
On the contrary, this is the sentiment that encourages us to make free software in the first place. This is the only reason FOSS exists, even. Who in the world would license something under the GPL if its terms didn't make it clear tha
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by bsza 4y ago
Because it's an expectation about the quality of the maintainer's work. FOSS and code quality are two very different things, and they should stay that way. The saying "looking a gift horse in the mouth" comes to mind.
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by bsza 4y ago
As were 1 to 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzMa7LZuyAc
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by bsza 4y ago
By that logic, Baby Shark is the greatest masterpiece of all time, with over 11 billion views on YouTube.
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by bsza 4y ago
And if it does hold water, they’ll climb it anyway. https://youtu.be/RG9TMn1FJzc
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by bsza 4y ago
The very first "refactor" is broken, the last line should be `make_pizza(["ham", "pineapple"])`. Which is actually very easy to notice if you actively watch out for repetitions. Ironically the author just demon
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by bsza 4y ago
My go-to for memorizing numbers is Goroawase (0 = ma, 1 = i/hi, 2 = ni/fu/tsu etc.). It is less flexible in comparison (you can't choose the vowels freely) but uses less phonemes, so I think it's more intuitive for
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by bsza 4y ago
Kicad doesn't have autorouting though, so you'll still end up either doing it manually or using a 3rd party tool.
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by bsza 5y ago
My mom is a doctor and once was called to the site of a frontal crash that happened at 100 km/h (two cars moving at 50). Only to examine the bodies, there was no one left to save.
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by bsza 5y ago
> FreeCAD files are nothing more than zip files containing text documents That’s good to know. Though the fact that they’re zipped probably means they are not meant for humans to read anyway. Also, I don’t think GitHub or GitLab supports
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by bsza 5y ago
For me, it's VCS friendliness. Try checking a .fcstd file into git and see what changed between commits. Also, it's extremely reassuring to have a description of your model that wasn't generated by a program. In earlier versi
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by bsza 5y ago
The US isn't the litmus test of everything though. In the EU, road deaths dropped sharply in 2020. https://etsc.eu/euroadsafetydata/

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