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by csense 1y ago
This is confusing. A 1920x1080 24-bit RAW image is a file of exactly 6,220,800 bytes. There are only a few possible permutations of parameters: Which of the 4 corners comes first, whether the row-major or column-major order, what order th
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by csense 1y ago
> what Biden did with the CHIPS act where they invested in the factories, employees, committed to doing so long enough to make a multibillion dollar investment safe Don't get me started on the CHIPS act. I was a true believer in it
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by csense 1y ago
One important cause of comparative advantage is cheap labor. Or perhaps I should say comparative "advantage" because cheap labor is actually bad from society's point of view! It used to be that a person in the US could grad
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by csense 2y ago
How do they know some entrepreneur won't buy a boatload of them, export them from China to France or Indonesia or wherever, then re-export them to the US? Especially if said entrepreneur is working with (or an outright front for) US in
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by csense 2y ago
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" The original point of Bitcoin was that someone else didn't keep custody of your money for you. You'd keep custody of it yourself, on your
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by csense 2y ago
> As for the Rust belt. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it’s not going to recover. There’s no chance it ever meaningfully does > I don’t understand any of this unfounded confidence Usually when I post about political topics he
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by csense 2y ago
I'm not really happy about this either, there's a strong case to be made for tariffs to be limited to enemies, rivals and economic cheaters. But on the other hand, the US's entire industrial base has fallen into complete ruin
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by csense 2y ago
> "if you don't want it to be done to you don't do it to others" Doesn't work. We opened trade to China in the '70s. They took advantage of us, stealing IP, manipulating currency, paying their people terri
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by csense 2y ago
Tariffs aren't conserving the status quo. Rather, they're an attempt to return to an (allegedly) better past state. Specifically, a past state where foreign companies were unable to outcompete domestic ones [1]. It's also a
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by csense 2y ago
So honest question: A bunch of people who currently own stock are deciding they'd rather have cash instead -- that much is obvious. But what exactly are they doing with the cash? Don't want to hold onto it, everyone says devaluat
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by csense 2y ago
Translating uppercase to lowercase adds 32. Maybe it's not "thinking" in terms of "add 64", but rather "translate uppercase to lowercase, twice".
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by csense 2y ago
If so many companies are such a disaster, why isn't someone founding a startup that says "We won't do any of that crap here" and eats said companies' lunch? Might be such startups are unstable, because once the lunc
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by csense 2y ago
If only someone invented a monetary system where the supply of money was determined by an algorithm that didn't constantly pump new money into existence all the time. Oh wait, they did. But for some reason, most people on HN say Bitco
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by csense 2y ago
> Why is globalism such a bad idea Having grown up in the Rust Belt, it's a bit baffling to me that there are intelligent people out there who don't understand why it's a bad idea. It's a race to the bottom. The
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by csense 2y ago
This doesn't have to be geopolitical or cryptography-related. He could have committed some ordinary crime -- say, he had a hobby stealing Legos -- then someone at the university said "Why is this closet in your lab stuffed with h
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by csense 2y ago
Reproducible: If Alice and Bob both download and compile the same source code, Alice's binary is byte-for-byte identical to Bob's binary. Normal: Before Debian's initiative to handle this problem, most people didn't th
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by csense 2y ago
Yeah, you'd need to include some kind of correction term for an A > B situation. Building value can be negative, if the costs of renovation or demolition would be greater than the value of the land. But building value could also be
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by csense 2y ago
> being able to determine the unimproved value of the land X = Unimproved land value A = How much it would cost to build the building B = Improved land value A+X = B, solve for X, you get X = B-A. We can measure A based on the building&#
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by csense 2y ago
Agree, "largest" base has some pathologies. Put machine #1 at the starting location, run in one direction, and put machine #2 just before time runs out. This is going to be a huge factory (as measured by its bounding box) but it&#
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by csense 2y ago
If you can't receive signals from the GPS satellites because some country's military is jamming them, how does having an accurate on-board clock help? Are they somehow able to determine position via dead reckoning? How does that
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by csense 2y ago
What you're describing was actually the second problem. The first problem (that ~80% of the article was about) was having ~1k threads reading from mmap'ed files. When you run out of memory, the kernel's supposed to drop some
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by csense 2y ago
Having lived through the 1990's, "Deflation = bad" is a claim I am very skeptical of. In the 1980's and 1990's computer industry, your dollars could buy a lot more megahertz or megabytes every year. If the "def
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by csense 2y ago
> Reflexive "ugh govt" is a result of decades of Reagan-ite propaganda. Looking at federal spending as a percentage of GDP [1] it seems we've been hovering around 20% for most of post-WW2. There was a huge spike for COVID
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by csense 2y ago
Rather than shut it down, would it be possible to sell the forum to someone in the US for a little bit of money, like $20 or something? Idea being the US-based owner migrates the DB with posts and user logins to servers hosted on US soil, t
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by csense 2y ago
I've dipped my toes into machine-readable mathematical proofs. The theorem proving software called Coq [1] is written in OCaml. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq_(software)
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by csense 2y ago
This is a really stupid situation all around. To issue a cert for a client (say example.com), the CA sends a random number challenge to the client (say 12345678). The client then responds by making a DNS record for _12345678.example.com bu
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by csense 2y ago
Does that mean they have cables physically connecting their AC grids to the European AC grid? How many megawatts can those cables transfer? Which direction is the transfer going to be? Will they be buying electricity from Europe or selli
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by csense 2y ago
What kernel versions is this available? How do you check if it's enabled? Are you likely to get it automatically if you run a recent stock Debian / Ubuntu / Alpine / Arch / Mint / whatever? Or do you have to
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by csense 2y ago
> an overconfident 25-year-old that just downed three lunch beers with a wet burrito at the Mexican place down the street from the office on a rainy Wednesday That's...oddly specific.
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by csense 2y ago
I'm trying to follow the example and getting lost. > Imagine the scenario where "mary had" occurs in the following positions: [1, 6] and "a" appears in the position [2], so "mary had a" occurs in the po

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