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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
When New Zealand went shopping for a new electoral system in the 1990s, we ended up with one based closely on the German model, including the 5% threshold. The Israeli parliament was frequently pointed to as an Awful Warning of what would h
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
G is the apparent magnitude in the green part of the spectrum. Astronomers have a standardised set of optical bandpass filters to record the brightness of a star at various wavelengths - U (ultraviolet), B (blue), V (visual), G (green), etc
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
Tried entering my email. Fail 1 - doesn't allow autofill. Then tried signing in. "Enter the passcode that was sent to <email>." Fail 2 - no passcode was ever sent. (Yes, I tried the resend button multiple times, because
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
“having to use a slightly different OS to get a totally better CPU performance” FTFY
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
"From our home on the Earth, we look out into the distances and strive to imagine the sort of world into which we are born. Today we have reached far out into space. Our immediate neighborhood we know rather intimately. But with increa
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1597/
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
There is genuinely no value in blockchain tech. However, I regret that I am not qualified to help you with the other part of your question.
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
Proposed: That we are far enough into the 21st century now that “turn of the century“ should default to meaning 2000, not 1900.
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
The term you're looking for might be "abstraction penalty". For tools that can identify where the bottlenecks are, I recommend watching Emery Berger's talk "Performance Matters" from CppCon 2020 (either of the
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
First Law of Aviation: Take-off is optional, but landing is compulsory.
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
(1) The cloud will continue to grow. Cloud-related stuff like Azure and Docker will continue to be a good learning investment. (2) Once Microsoft work enough of the bugs out, which I'm guessing will take another 2-3 years, I suspect Wi
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
Tried to contact you but can't find your address.
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
I like the idea, and I'd be happy to pay for it if it worked properly, but I can't get it to see my iPad. I followed the procedure at the bottom of your page but it still doesn't work. My iPhone shows up (didn't need to
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
For maximum troll points, use "variant pi" and "lowercase omega with macron" for two different variables in the same paper.
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
In the poster for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, it looks like the AI caught "time travel" and "phone booth" and tried to draw a whole bunch of TARDISes.
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
"One of the basic issues with subtransactions is that they increment XID – the global transaction ID." If the subtransaction is later rolled back, this is starting to sound like the kind of speculative execution information leak t
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
My favourite example of apparently unrelated words with an unexpected common root: "government" and "cybernetics" both come from the Greek "kubernetes" (helmsman).
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by captaincrowbar 5y ago
No, it isn't. Nobody was talking about blockchains that far back. What this is about is the early pioneers of the commercial digital payment market that was eventually dominated by the likes of Paypal and Stripe.
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
Why does a JSON parser need a random number generator anyway?
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
What is life? A forkbomb implemented in hardware.
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
When I lived in New Zealand, I once had an American caller ask me for the number of our other office, which happened to start with 555 (which has no special significance in NZ). It took me some time to convince her that I wasn't trying
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iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop(arstechnica.com)
18 points by captaincrowbar 6y ago|16 comments
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
Oh, I agree. But the article is about the apparent contradiction: what do ultra-capitalists like Musk and Bezos see in a series about a communist utopia?
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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans(bloodknife.com)
152 points by captaincrowbar 6y ago|294 comments
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
"Why don't they just switch to RISC-V?" is the new "This will be the year of Linux on the desktop".
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
For sale: Slightly used DeLorean. Only driven from time to time.
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
Maybe they can pioneer 5fa.
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
tl,dr: (1) There's no evidence of anything wrong with AMD's RNG. (2) Lots of people on Github and HN don't understand the birthday paradox.
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
Bye 2020, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use floating point.” Now they have 1.999998 problems.

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