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by cwmma 1y ago
Twyman's law doesn't state you should ignore those outliers it just predicts that they are more likely to be mistakes then genuine.
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by cwmma 1y ago
in American math classes (as opposed to science classes) you almost never expand PI or sqrt(2), you either cancel them out or leave them in the answer until the end. Maybe if it's a word problem you sub them in the very last step but
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by cwmma 1y ago
Iain M. Banks "The Culture" does this, it's how the Minds work, discussed in Look to Windward and Consider Phoebus iirc.
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by cwmma 1y ago
if we're nitpicking, glaciers push down the crust they are on ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_depression ) so when glaciers melt the land underneath is at first underwater before emerging
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by cwmma 1y ago
Software engineering is a young and still rapidly changing field, it is extremely likely that the state of play will have significantly changed over the course of somebody's career. There is fertile ground for a new outside the box id
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by cwmma 1y ago
100 years ago the term "armchair general" was already 25 years old.
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by cwmma 1y ago
He has an entire article on the subject[1]. Basically when you take into account distance and angles penetration is much harder. 1. https://acoup.blog/2019/07/04/collections-archery-distance-a...
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by cwmma 1y ago
Rome recovered because if its literally unmatched in the ancient world ability to recruit armies and put orders of magnitude more men in the field as a portion of their population. Hannibal never marched on Rome because he knew he could nev
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by cwmma 1y ago
It's both, the farther you get from the center of the galaxy technology can be more complex, the speed of light is higher, and computation can be faster.
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by cwmma 1y ago
they did try to hide some of this stuff, by abusing attorney client privilege, which is one of the reasons the judge is SO pissed at them.
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by cwmma 1y ago
how well does just the sqlite database gzip, the indexes are a lot of redundant data so your going to get some efficiencies there, probably less locality of data then the text file though so maybe less?
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by cwmma 1y ago
I was just thinking about how much I miss the old old Jepsen, the same matter of fact and directness but full of memes, see for example, the old redis post https://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis .
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by cwmma 1y ago
This happened in 1996 though.
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by cwmma 2y ago
For the record this is an example of the "Fencepost error" where the last item in a range gets double counted as the first item in the next range and is incredibly common in dyscalculia (the math version of dyslexia) as people wil
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by cwmma 2y ago
Parquet or some other column oriented data format is probably closest to what you want without getting into indexing your flat files or similar
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by cwmma 2y ago
But when you drink <coffee>, it quickly washes around those bones and into your esophagus. It doesn't stick around. It's like getting a cross tattoo to become Jesus. coffee will be digested, and absorbed into your bloodstrea
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by cwmma 2y ago
they likely aren't under an obligation to tell investors about it immediately and simply putting something in their quarterly report about it will probably be fine. That being said if they put something in some communication that said
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by cwmma 2y ago
In most countries it's the judge who oversees discovery not the rival lawyers to avoid the whole 'using discovery as a weapon to waste your opponents money' issue while still allowing for the right evidence to come to light.
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by cwmma 2y ago
The very few shots they showed in the demo video, which one could assume were the best ones they wanted to highlight, do not look good, like it's not as bad as Ice Ice Matrix [1] but it does not look good. 1. https://www.you
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by cwmma 2y ago
so first off, if you are noticed in a crowd but not identified, that might single you out to be pulled from the crowd. Also if you have a distinctive face paint then your image might be shared more, or just noticed more in the images that a
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by cwmma 2y ago
Especially at the time it came out, surveillance footage was mainly going to be reviewed by mark I eyeballs, so the inability for computers to notice where a face was is going to be way outweighed by the person being sooo much more recogniz
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by cwmma 2y ago
no
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by cwmma 2y ago
this is basically what they are doing, but instead of charging actual money they are making visitors spin the CPU ideally in a proof of work problem, which has the same outcome from the crawlers perspective.
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by cwmma 2y ago
Is the 2nd part true though? In the US sales taxes are mostly applied at the state level where the governments don't have particularly privileged access to the banking system and is enforced by being able to physically go to the mercha
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by cwmma 2y ago
if your takeaway from this article is that the most objectionable thing was that somebody gave her some religious encouragement but only after first making sure she was actually religious, then I feel like you are giving the rest of us athe
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by cwmma 2y ago
Georgism is orthogonal to cryptocurrency. Like how is cryptocurrency even related to consolidating all taxes into one on the unimproved value of land, this seems like such a nonsequitur.
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by cwmma 2y ago
Yeah but it's orders of magnitude more sweet then regular sugar, so you use way less of it
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by cwmma 2y ago
It's not considered an "artificial sweetener" as it's usually extracted from natural sources.
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by cwmma 2y ago
this is 1000% not true, plenty of naturally occurring substances are turned into profitable medicine, aspirin and insulin are examples off the top of my head.
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by cwmma 2y ago
can bring a quart zip lock bag stuffed to brim with nips (50ml bottles of booze) through TSA security. While you are technically not allowed to drink them on the plane absolutely nobody gives a shit as long as you are not an idiot about it

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