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by cvoss 11mo ago
We measure distance in space, and time intervals in time, and so velocity is just plain old distance/time. Special relativity doesn't change that. What changes is that if you start traveling at a different velocity, your measureme
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by cvoss 11mo ago
There's two modes that I know of in American dinner/meal party culture. 1) Host provides main dish, and guests bring miscellaneous supporting items (ideal for a casual party where the menu need not be coordinated carefully, and pe
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by cvoss 11mo ago
> The biggest problem at many parties is an endless escalation of volume. If you know how to fix this, let me know. Ideally, a guest breaks a cheap glass. The sound is heard across the house. The helpers immediately spring into action, l
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by cvoss 11mo ago
It is always with great fear and trepidation that I install the drivers for my discrete GPU on my Ubuntu system and configure the system to use it. The state of affairs might be better these days, but I remember it rarely working and having
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by cvoss 11mo ago
Sure, nothing in the article is wrong. But if someone has to be told most of these things, and they already are a professional developer? What were they doing when they were supposed to be learning their profession?
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by cvoss 11mo ago
Or some parentheses. Is "due to" naturally left-associative or right-associative? I would have said 'right', which gives the unintended reading of the sentence. Attention lapses due to (sleep deprivation due to flushing
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by cvoss 11mo ago
And some people literally need an actual pipe implanted to assist with CSF drainage. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/brain-shunt/abou...
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by cvoss 1y ago
This is a very problematic choice and as much as I want to think it wasn't malicious, at every turn it sure looks like it's meant to be inflammatory. I can think of exactly one good reason to mark religious content as NSFW (under
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by cvoss 1y ago
It's named that for a reason. It has to do with invariance under an arbitrary selection of parameters like scale, hence, choice of railroad gauge. At least they tried to give a descriptive name! Most ideas are named after the people wh
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by cvoss 1y ago
> Please, please don’t highlight language keywords. Agreed with almost everything the author had to say, but not this. Hard disagree. In my view, keywords are the single most important thing to highlight. I'd be ok without anything
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by cvoss 1y ago
In some sense, our small size with respect to astronomical-scale processes does not make us all that fragile, because we are also very short-lived with respect to these things. Afraid of the impending collision of Andromeda with the Milky
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by cvoss 1y ago
The radiation on the way in has a different frequency than on the way out. For example, there is UV included in sunlight. But black body heat at Earth's temperature radiates in infrared. Clouds are very opaque to infrared, and more (th
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by cvoss 1y ago
It's more spooky and interesting. When we switch to discussing the single particle case, the "wall" is a metaphor. You have a single particle in a low energy state at position A. There is another low energy state at position
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by cvoss 1y ago
This article is all vapor. After reading it in it's entirety, there is only a short section that's actually about the headline, and it communicates nothing about what the headline means. What is 17x what?
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by cvoss 1y ago
Well, it would be a step backward in the right direction to go with spelling it 'kube' and pronouncing it 'koob'. That would hew to the original Greek. We'd also bring cybernetic back closer to kubernetes. And circl
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by cvoss 1y ago
> They can find other people to spend time with. In the context of this game world, that circumstance manifests as the player getting fired from their job. Perhaps a person would like to keep their job and so does things they otherwise w
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by cvoss 1y ago
The author's understanding of ritual/tradition as the sum total what religion means is at best extremely naive, but I am receiving it as condescending and dismissive. There was a way for the author to redeem the subtitle of the ar
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by cvoss 1y ago
The law simply requires that the content recommendation algorithm not be shared between the two apps. [0] Thus, it must be rebuilt by the new team, and not maintained or controlled by the old team. The licensing approach is a temporary solu
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by cvoss 1y ago
Ah, yes, of course the read bit should move into the exponent, since it's an input, not an output of the function. But the key point I was making is that there exists a formula. (I don't really care what the formula is.) The part
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by cvoss 1y ago
Why is knowing that there are 181 M 5-state machines difficult? Is it not just (read*write*move*(state+halt))^state? About 48^5, modulo "essentially different".
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by cvoss 1y ago
Try going a whole day (like a Saturday) without consuming any digital media. It can be a challenging experience, but totally worth it, even if just once, to feel what it's like to not be tied to such things. I found it very relaxing an
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by cvoss 1y ago
> According to our friend Chick3nman, the same RTX 5090 can crack 4.18 billion (with a “b”) of these hashes every second. It may just be imprecise writing, but this is very misleading. The stat is that 4.18 B hashes can be computed per
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by cvoss 1y ago
Perhaps there is something about the environment of an economically disadvantaged household that could be improved by a stipend which allows at least one parent the breathing room to dedicate full time attention to the child instead of a jo
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by cvoss 1y ago
Firefox > Settings > Accesibility > Zoom on all websites. Many browsers have similar settings.
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by cvoss 1y ago
It doesn't it matter for this article whether there exist possible executions other than the one the author inquires about. The point of weak memory models is to formally define the set of all possible legal executions of a concurrent
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by cvoss 1y ago
> sure, use an extra atomic to synchronize threads What? That would make the situation worse. The execution has a weird unintuitive quirk where the actions of thread 3 seem to precede the actions of thread 1, which seem to precede the ac
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by cvoss 1y ago
The article explains the gate cost mostly comes from O(n) multiply-under-mod ops on O(n)-bit numbers. Each op could be naively spelled out as O(n^2) gates. So the whole thing looks cubic to me at worst.
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by cvoss 1y ago
The answer is in the paragraph in between the two you quoted from. The money for the purchase has already been appropriated by Congress and awarded to Intel. The awards didn't previously have this giant string attached where Intel give
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by cvoss 1y ago
It does matter how and where a PR comes from, because reviewers are fallible and finite, so trust enters the equation inevitably. You must ask "Do I trust where this came from?" And to answer that, you need to know where it come f
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by cvoss 1y ago
Yes, but for an even more immediate reason. The axiom of choice itself is a non-constructive axiom. It asserts the existence of the inhabitant of a certain type, without in any way furnishing the inhabitant. But Lean sequesters off the clas

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