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by cyphar 4y ago
You do need a quantum explanation if you are considering it one photon at a time (since photons are are part of the quantum mechanical model), but that doesn't mean you need quantum mechanics to explain the phenomenon. Every classica
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by cyphar 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me this phenomenon is entirely explainable classically (and fairly simply) by using the fact that linear filters dot product the polarisation vector of the incoming light with the polarisati
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by cyphar 4y ago
It is a consistent outcome, the recent election is an anomaly. The explanation for why this is the case is a bit complicated but the crux is that only one candidate can win in each seat and while we have preferential voting, the preferences
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by cyphar 4y ago
> That’s only unrepresentative if you privilege parties over constituencies. There’s an argument for that but it’s not a given. How would multi-seat electorates privilege parties over constituencies? It would literally mean more represen
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by cyphar 4y ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to say it's not an important discussion, just simply that if we start by saying that no country which is not anarchist cannot be called a democracy feels like a semantic gotcha if we're talking about el
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> There are many flavours of representative democracy. It depend what is being represented. In the British system that’s constituencies. In proportional systems, that’s political parties. Neither are particularly more or less inherently
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by cyphar 4y ago
Ah okay, you're having a philosophical argument about the concept of a direct democracy and how it technically should be a form of anarchy or possibly anarcho-syndicalism. While I think that is also a very interesting topic and I'
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by cyphar 4y ago
> Please don't lump the extremely broken US political system with the slightly less broken British and former colonies (Canada, Australia, NZ, etc.) and even less so with the rest of democratic countries around the world which is us
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I am repeating what I have heard from other Swiss people, so while you may not feel that the electoral system is as good as it should be (which is a completely justified opinion in any country and I am sure that Swiss people are not a monol
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by cyphar 4y ago
> That’s the argument advocates of direct democracy generally support, but no actual democratic systems fully implement direct democracy. To be fair, Switzerland comes very close. The public can pass initiatives or constitutional amendme
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by cyphar 4y ago
> libraries (which have effectively zero collaboration) Have you never studied with other people together at a library? Most of my time spent in library during high school and university was spent working together on assignments or study
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by cyphar 4y ago
It's not "technically" true, it's simply true. As for enshrining rights, Canada has the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms[1] which is a constitutional document that includes the freedom of expression. New Zealand
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by cyphar 4y ago
> Sadly I do not see the UK/AU/NZ/CAN creating their own Constitutions. Australia and Canada both have constitutions (I don't know about the Canadian one, but the Australian one was definitely written by Australians),
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by cyphar 4y ago
The three-axis control system (in particular the concept of ailerons) developed by the Wright Brothers was inspired by the way birds twist their wings.
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by cyphar 4y ago
This is the general flaw with plausible deniability cryptosystems. While it sounds like you could use it to still hide secrets when forced to hand over your keys, the flipside is that you can never convince any entity that you have actually
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by cyphar 4y ago
It should be noted Go hasn't spit out static executables by default for at least 5 years now (if not longer), and if you want static executables from Go it requires several arcane incantations (not unlike getting a static binary from G
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by cyphar 4y ago
Have you already posted it in https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/ ? I couldn't find it.
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by cyphar 4y ago
Author of openat2(2) here, yes it would (as well as protecting against races where the target directory is having path components changed to symlinks during extraction). RESOLVE_IN_ROOT would be more akin to extracting in a chroot(2). But y
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by cyphar 4y ago
> Speech-to-text. It's pretty good and the spread of automated closed captions to youtube videos is a definite benefit. But broadcast TV will almost exclusively use human subtitlers still, because the last few percent of accuracy is
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by cyphar 4y ago
You don't plan out the entire solve in your head during inspection. At most you plan out the cross and maybe the first F2L pair, the rest is dealing with what you see when you see it (so for the majority of the solve it is a question o
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by cyphar 4y ago
Clearly it's been too long since I've been to a competition.
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All cubes in each round are scrambled the exact same way (a computer generates a 40-move scramble that is scrambled by volunteers before the cubes are returned to the tables).
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by cyphar 4y ago
A better analogy would be to ask whether we should count the time Bolt spent stretching before the gun was fired. If Bolt hadn't stretched, he would've been slower but he still would've been pretty fast.
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by cyphar 4y ago
Interesting video. As an ex-cuber, I disagree that including inspection time would make the event more fair or would reduce the number of ties. The reason there's so much variance in inspection time (usually over 8 seconds since that&#
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by cyphar 4y ago
> You can kinda guess with the numbers only, but many paid transport systems have had near perfect info on this their entire service lives. It would be weird to lose it. This level of indiscriminate surveillance is absolutely abnormal fr
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by cyphar 4y ago
I don't know if this is the case in the US, but in Australia it's very easy (and relatively cheap) to take your employer to tribunal over violations of employment laws (if it was very clear-cut or severe violation you could even m
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by cyphar 4y ago
> If it’s a company provided laptop then it’s a good idea to assume that every keystroke, DNS request, and network packet is fair game. From an OPSEC perspective, sure. But the question was whether it's legal for an employer to do i
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by cyphar 4y ago
That Windows article gives a better argument than I ever could as to why putting the size in the argument list is better than in the struct. Some pre-openat2 Linux syscalls are designed in the same way. (Having no forwards nor backwards com
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by cyphar 4y ago
That is the exact solution described in the link I included in my comment (I am the "Aleksa" in that article). It is not entirely trivial (certain edge cases need to be handled) but it is entirely doable. But string arguments also
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by cyphar 4y ago
You can't trivially extend structs in a kernel ABI (to be fair this is worse in Linux as there is more than one libc and many programs do raw syscalls bypassing the libc anyway -- though it can still be done[1]) but string APIs are sim

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