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by cjg 6y ago
That chart is highly confusing. For example, if a family has three children spaced 2 years apart, they would only contribute to the three children part of the plot for just over half the time that they contribute to something other than no
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by cjg 6y ago
Random ordering of elements in a list is often used in maze generation. It's possible that a permutation that had only one cycle might produce a maze with a particular structure.
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by cjg 6y ago
They eject something from the system.
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by cjg 6y ago
Except that eBay uses a particular auction model where by extending the time doesn't matter much. If you bid the most you would be prepared to pay for something - you don't pay that price - you just pay enough to beat everyone els
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by cjg 6y ago
My favourite in this category is the impossibility of a halting oracle, which relies on the assumption that there is infinite memory. An assumption which is wrong in most practical cases. There's a trivial implementation of a halting o
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Do NOT stop worrying about blocking in async functions(reddit.com)
2 points by cjg 6y ago|1 comments
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Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day(medium.com)
3 points by cjg 6y ago|0 comments
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Remote Pair Programming(agilealliance.org)
1 points by cjg 6y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 6y ago
https://k8slens.dev/ provides more info.
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by cjg 6y ago
Bell's Theorem doesn't say that at all. It just puts constraints on what such a deterministic system would have to be. For example a non-local deterministic system could well be compatible with Bell's Theorem.
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Quantum clocks and temporal localisability in gravitating quantum systems(nature.com)
2 points by cjg 6y ago|0 comments
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Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by cjg 6y ago|0 comments
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A different kind of theory of everything(newyorker.com)
14 points by cjg 6y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 6y ago
Depends on the Unicode encoding, no? Although, to be fair, it's probably UTF-8.
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by cjg 6y ago
A helicopter on Mars is a challenge due to the low air density: https://youtu.be/GhsZUZmJvaM
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by cjg 7y ago
http://archive.is/tfWyx
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Synthetic Fish(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by cjg 7y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 7y ago
It isn't stealing. After you torrent something, someone else doesn't have less. It also isn't treated as stealing by (most countries'?) legal frameworks. It's copyright infringement - and not even commercial infring
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by cjg 7y ago
It gets zipped so the duplication goes away. In fact, repetition is deliberate to get better compression.
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by cjg 7y ago
A balancing cactus - e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plan-Toys-0410101-Balancing-Cactus/...
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by cjg 7y ago
The article links to the code: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/whats-enc/blob/master/b... and provides an explanation of what it does: AES decryption with CBC mode.
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by cjg 7y ago
vardbg is for Python, so rr isn't very helpful. However, you could use RevPDB: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/07/reverse-debugging-for-...
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by cjg 7y ago
This could be a simple / cheap way to get a time-travelling debugger. Run your code through vardbg generating a video. If that run results in unexpected behaviour then you can step back and forward through the video and see where thing
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by cjg 7y ago
I think the person you are replying to meant "should" in the sense of "I want things to be a certain way" rather than "I think it is true that".
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by cjg 7y ago
In "The Regulation of Emotion": "the experimenter burned scented candles in the room, which she presented as part of her research on aromatherapy. She told some participants that the candles would freeze their current mode st
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A Strange Black Hole Is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime(sciencealert.com)
1 points by cjg 7y ago|0 comments
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QM can be understood through stochastic optimization on spacetimes(nature.com)
3 points by cjg 7y ago|0 comments
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Self-Aware Video(youtu.be)
1 points by cjg 7y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 7y ago
The first few autonomous vehicles have clear utility. The first few machines on IPv6 did not. There's no network effect holding back autonomous vehicles.
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Write with those green dots on your GitHub profile(github.com)
2 points by cjg 7y ago|0 comments

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