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by danbruc 3mo ago
Vaguely related, there is also the unfinished Cathedral of Justo [1] near Madrid built by a solo developer since 1961 and essentially by hand and more or less from scrap and whatever people donated. Justo Gallego Martínez died in 2021 at ag
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Planetary Defense Officer [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Defense_Coordination...
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by danbruc 3mo ago
What do you prefer, a plane crash or a nuclear war? But that does not matter, I did not say a airplane crashing is preferable over something, I said it is not a bad event for everyone. It is bad for the people on board and their friends and
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by danbruc 3mo ago
The point of the example is that something that would generally be judged as obviously bad often turns out to not be bad from all perspectives. The same obviously also holds for good things. But I did not intend to imply any economics. The
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by danbruc 3mo ago
1. An airplane crashes, everyone dies. Clearly a bad thing. Not so quick. For the funeral industry this means additional business, a good thing. And this is true for a LOT [1] of things, they are not good or bad, right or wrong, their judgm
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by danbruc 3mo ago
What did those movies cost? More like a movie ticket or more like a Blu-ray?
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Bug report. In blueprint the selection rectangle does not align with the mouse cursor except at the origin.
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by danbruc 4mo ago
It was, tutorial video from 2015 [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnX8DLmjkCA
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by danbruc 4mo ago
This already existed ten years ago in the desktop version, not sure if it also was in the web version all the time.
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Not only nuclear power plants have cooling towers. Here [1] is, for example, a coal-fired one in Poland. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-fired_power_station#/medi... EDIT: To elaborate a bit, if you are bur
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Died in August 2010 [1], so he was still alive when this happened in August 2006. [1] https://www.aachen-gedenkt.de/traueranzeige/profdr-ingwalter...
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by danbruc 4mo ago
I am not a mathematician and did not read the unit distance solution too carefully, but my impression was that it used a variation of a known technique to solve the problem. And that makes perfect sense to me, there are a lot of techniques
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Related but not strong enough. 17 x 17 x 17 = 4,913 is 2^8-smooth - no prime factors larger than 2^8 - and it is less than 2^16, but 17 x 17 = 289 does not fit into a byte. Smoothness is required but not sufficient for a product representat
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by danbruc 4mo ago
This is just looking at it from a different perspective. Both, one 64 bit integer and the product of two 32 bit integers represent a number up to 2^64 with 64 bits. But while all 64 bit integers are unique, there are, as you say, several re
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Each x is prime with probability 1/ln(x), each x has M/x multiples less than M, as a fraction of M that is just 1/x. Together that makes 1/(x ln(x)) with the indefinite integral ln(ln(x)). If we plug in 2^32 and 2^64 [1]
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by danbruc 4mo ago
No RAM. Instead of having a general purpose multiplier that multiplies an input with a weight stored in RAM, just have a multiplier that hardcodes the weight. In some sense replace each weight with a specialized multiplier and wire them tog
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Did some try to estimates what it would take to bake interference for a capable large language model into silicon so that one can pipeline inputs through it and produce outputs at one token per clock cycle?
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by danbruc 4mo ago
All the primes above 2^32 are out, but that accounts for only two point something percent.
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Probably still does not work. Assume a request takes X ms and let us look at what you will observe depending on where within a tick period it arrives. If it arrives anywhere from 0 ms to (20 - X) ms after a tick, it will complete before the
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Your second one is somewhat in the right direction, I think. My guess would be that you split the circle into eights, that keeps the tangent slope between zero and one. Then you can go along one axis from 0 to sin(45°) times the radius and
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Why is it »/newest« but »new«? Or is it »new« but »/newest«?
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Checked new for the first time. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322267
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by danbruc 4mo ago
According to Copilot you can get one or two offspring per year from a tulip. So if you spent the price of a really nice house on one of those, it will take you quite some time to multiply the price down into reasonable territory. And even i
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by danbruc 4mo ago
What if they reject a customer not because of their wrong Ferrari color but their wrong skin color? I am not saying that they are the same thing, but there are probably acceptable and unacceptable reasons for rejecting a customer. And to me
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by danbruc 4mo ago
That line is not that clear. Putting up a sign in your shop selling only to white people or not selling to Jews will get you in trouble in quite a few jurisdictions. On the other end of the spectrum you have things like a bouncer rejecting
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Ignore that car, but what is this? This is a brand that permanently banned Paris Hilton for painting her Ferrari pink, Kim Kardashian for modifying her 458, and Justin Bieber for wrapping his in neon blue. Where does that fall on the line
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Also Wazzup? was later. And the dialog looks different in screenshots you find online but then again there have probably been quite a few releases. Still, I would say those images are not real or maybe from some modded version.
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by danbruc 4mo ago
I would not call it trust because in this kind of consensus protocols, namely permissioned consensus protocols, you assume trust between participants, you assume you know the participants and they are not malicious. Otherwise you have to go
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by danbruc 4mo ago
Just to be clear, this is not a problem with this construction. As any two blocs overlap, there can be no split with a bloc on each side. But that is also the problem, a subset containing a bloc is relatively rare property. So while at firs
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by danbruc 4mo ago
The key correctness insight is this: any two majorities of nodes must overlap in at least one node. So between any two consecutive global state changes [...] at least one node participated in both. This single overlapping node carries forw

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