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by crdrost 5y ago
> they have colored costumes which are faceless? Sorry this is maybe idiomatic, the idea of “faceless” as being without any visible personality... Ebert was making the point that real teenagers have varied interests and personal preferen
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah I wouldn't even want nitrile gloves on with the stuff. It is worth explaining just what is wrong with it. Mercury of course is a toxic compound, but kids used to crack mercury thermometers in their mouths and suffer no consequence
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by crdrost 5y ago
And of course, the question of orders of analysis and their peril was immortalized brilliantly in the death of Vizzini. https://youtu.be/U_eZmEiyTo0
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by crdrost 5y ago
I mean everything is what you make of it. The fact that wasm is sandboxed allows some genuinely new things. Imagine a JSON file starting with a line that gives a base64-encoded WASM parser for JSON. (Or a hash on a public database if you&#x
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by crdrost 5y ago
You've got one of the big words that I would insert into this discussion -- science. I think the two biggest words missing from here are "science" and "risk." As Alan Kay puts it, science is about getting a descript
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah, the biggest problem that people get into with microservices is that they allow the communication structure to dictate the app structure. A monolith gives you some refactorability because you can run what would have been "integrat
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by crdrost 5y ago
The pop physics around relativity is particularly bad so I am happy that helped! Relativity does not have to be super mathy, special relativity is kind of just a postulation that maybe there's a different sort of Doppler shift in the w
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by crdrost 5y ago
Late to the party but FWIW I used to be an atheist and then a Buddhist and am now a Christian... My attitude is very different from the evangelist’s, it says “look that was an important part of my journey and if that’s the direction you’re
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by crdrost 5y ago
I hear you, and that's how things work at my present shop. However, let me give a strong defense of the point. It turns out that the only thing you can test is a pure function. This is just the nature of a test, we pin down the inputs
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by crdrost 5y ago
Note that this also happens pretty much whenever anybody has any sort of template system that they want to support substitution into. You decide that you want to support substitution and suddenly you are building static analysis and documen
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by crdrost 5y ago
Bonus points, I tried to do these calcs and the basketball likely has a terminal velocity ≈ 19.7 ± 0.3 m/s whereas the tennis ball likely has a terminal velocity ≈ 22.7 ± 0.4 m/s... As air resistance kicks in the tennis ball shoul
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by crdrost 5y ago
Physicisty type here! It's actually easy to calculate because it's so small. If you dropped them side-by-side the difference would require factoring in the curvature of the Earth and would really be way below anything you might me
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by crdrost 5y ago
My favorite is, given that I have a baby and I am a trained scientist and I live in the US, I find myself converting milliliters to fluid ounces a lot. Right now the Google Assistant will correctly transcribe the request to a Google search.
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by crdrost 5y ago
So in case you missed what is wrong with that, what is wrong with that is that you have a very checkered history of chickenhood. Viewed your way, a chicken actually gave birth to a nonchicken who gave birth to a nonchicken who gave birth to
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah. You can try to compare the mass of quality material in one vs the other and I can see why Trek would win that faceoff. But the universe of Wars is just more relatable and this sort of kneejerk biases that way. • Gritty vs clean • Thie
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by crdrost 5y ago
I mean that's a bit over-simplistic... It's not that a nonchicken lays a chicken egg, that implies an either/orness of chickenhood that would be radically unique. What actually happened was that at around 10,000 years ago a g
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by crdrost 5y ago
It's worse than that, karma is mostly about location location location. You're talking about probability of upvote, but that needs to be multiplied by the number of people who read the comment, and that depends heavily on where it
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by crdrost 5y ago
I don't recall that being a hit piece, although I guess it had the function of one. What I remember being really shocking was, this was apparently a science journalist who was advised by Tesla support to do something that violated the
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by crdrost 5y ago
Ouch. Addiction is a form of cyclic preferences... you love/crave/indulge X then you hate/feel-the-repercussions-of X then you love/crave it again, over and over. Often the X is not quite what you think it is. It's
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by crdrost 5y ago
So GHZ is just a name for a specific arrangement that is maximally entangled. John Preskill has some lectures on quantum computing for the University of Waterloo I believe, also a Hans Bethe lecture at Cornell. If you are just looking for a
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by crdrost 5y ago
Oh that is a really fun way to make the minuses interleave! I will definitely be reading that arXiv link!
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by crdrost 5y ago
So not having yet read through OP I am not terribly surprised that this is true and I can kind of give a quick sketch in terms of a QM game that I want everyone to know, called Betrayal. The idea is that it's a collaborative game for t
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by crdrost 5y ago
So, the cost to the company becoming large is that politics exist. There are too many stakeholders and they want to pull things in different directions and you have to be politically savvy in order to balance between them. This is not every
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Stripe CEO to “fund biomedical investigators to pursue whatever” they want(twitter.com)
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by crdrost 5y ago
Heh. I can quote the answer as the answer is easy. If you want the time between the last sound and the next sound to average T, schedule the next sound to begin at next = last - T*Math.ln(Math.random()) Explaining why this is corr
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by crdrost 5y ago
This sorta exists in Java 17: sealed interface Result<T> permits Ok, Error {} record Ok<T>(value: T) implements Result<T> {} record Error<T>(error: Throwable) implements Result<T> {}
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by crdrost 5y ago
A Nana Grizol song concludes with the line, Cynicism isn't wisdom It's a lazy way to say that you've been burned. Seems, if anything, you'd be less certain After everything you've ever learned.
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by crdrost 5y ago
I'm not sure any wording helps, because the reason it strikes us so poorly is that it's such an implausible idea. It might help to make it more concrete, to say “assume that we've proven this for say n = 3, all sets of three
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by crdrost 5y ago
The article was not about antitrust but about vulgarity. Like the old school vulgarity, “the speech of the common folk.” The claim is that computation right now belongs to the nobilis and eruditus populus , and things like Excel and Hype
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by crdrost 5y ago
Right but that gets into scaling problems and arguments... for a hundred people sticks might work, for a thousand it gets dicey, by 10,000 things start to break down as factionalism spontaneously emerges: within our tribe we handle things v

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