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by desertrider12 2y ago
It's not a secret, they explain it all here: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
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by desertrider12 3y ago
This is cool technology. The first thing I thought was, that looks a lot like the building that contains the Dead Sea Scrolls (1). This was also designed to stay cool in the desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_
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by desertrider12 3y ago
Oh yeah, chrome. I was thinking the anti-block was tied to my account since clearing cookies and updating ublock's filter list didn't fix it, but I'll give firefox a try.
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by desertrider12 3y ago
It doesn't for me - first I got warning popups, and eventually videos wouldn't load at all. I found a different extension called Ad Speedup that basically plays ads at infinite speed, so the ad's first frame loads, but then t
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by desertrider12 3y ago
Angkor Wat isn't the only temple around Siem Reap, though. I agree that standing around with hundreds of people waiting for the sun to come up, then all crowding inside at the same time isn't the best experience. But on that same
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by desertrider12 3y ago
That's the 'how', not the 'why'. I think biological incentive here means, the reason human evolution retained certain traits. An interesting theory for that is that gays and lesbians can cooperate with their sibling
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by desertrider12 3y ago
They said there's a clear pattern both for suicides in general and suicides by firearm.
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by desertrider12 3y ago
> This is different from the "center of population", which is the balance point Does the difference only come from the earth curvature? I’m thinking if two lines each split the population in half, their unique intersection must
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by desertrider12 4y ago
I did have to retake multivariable (calc 3) and linear algebra, but I'm grateful for that senior year HS class because: - the college versions were a breeze, which was a relief because the workload from other courses was high - having
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by desertrider12 4y ago
But the goods being bought with the credit cards went up 8%. Consider before: Bob bought thing X for $100 before and then paid Y% interest on that debt. Now he buys it for $108 and pays (Y+4)% interest. It’s more expensive all around, even
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by desertrider12 4y ago
A lot of good things happened (could add womens suffrage too) but there was also supreme court endorsement of eugenics (Buck v Bell 1927). Then Woodrow Wilson’s Espionage Act during WW1. In Schenck v US and Debs v US, the supreme court uphe
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by desertrider12 4y ago
Nope, there will just be 2^8 tables (constant overhead per table) each with 2^24 24-bit keys. If you start with an array of any N keys, they have 32N bits of information. But once you insert them all into an unordered set like this, you thr
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by desertrider12 4y ago
I think the issue was more that they would copy-paste those lines from somewhere else and then forget to change one of the expressions.
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by desertrider12 4y ago
I think Visual Studio at the time could inline functions - VS 6.0 from 1998 definitely could: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/doc/optcode.htm . Especially if explicitly marked 'inline', then it would happen at
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by desertrider12 4y ago
Depends on how long to sustain - 0.5 HP is 373 watts, which is more than male pros sustain over a whole race stage but less than some can do for ~10 minute sections. [1]( https://cyclingtips.com/2017/06/just-how-goo
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by desertrider12 4y ago
On some derailleurs, you can remove a pulley to get the chain off as a closed loop. Still a pain, but in my case would save a $5 master link that isn’t supposed to be reused at all (sram 12 speed).
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by desertrider12 5y ago
There was a really great short story by Ted Chiang about this concept (finite communication between forks): https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freed... . I found it from an HN post a couple months ago.
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by desertrider12 5y ago
Nothing, they are just drawing and shading quads as a practical GPU benchmark. Each pixel could be shaded with a pseudorandom color generated as the hash of its screen coordinates.
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by desertrider12 6y ago
> algorithms aren't patentable I wish. The RSA cryptosystem was patented and under license until 2000 in the US, even though the math wasn't secret.
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by desertrider12 6y ago
That's pretty much what I meant by the matrix exponentiation method - applying the map (a, b) -> (a+b, a) repeatedly. Your function definitely uses tail calls, but I was just trying to say more than tail call optimization is needed
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by desertrider12 6y ago
This isn't really related to your question, but I don't think tail calls could help for Fibonacci since f(n) branches to two calls, f(n-1) and f(n-2). And each of those branches into 2. So it can't be done in a finite stack a
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by desertrider12 6y ago
Reading this article was a surprise for me, I didn't know of this issue at all. But this is pretty ridiculous. If it's possible to write scanf, which matches chars from a stream, why can't sscanf just do the exact same thing
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by desertrider12 6y ago
In a way, there are many more independent cores in an Nvidia GPU than #SMs, since the SIMD (warp) is only 32 threads wide, and >1k threads can be active at a time per SM. Each warp has its own independent program counter. So if you reall
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by desertrider12 6y ago
> the onboard computer on the latest Teslas is capable of mining BTC profitably I would be interested to learn more about that. I thought the bulk of the Autopilot compute power is in dense neural network inference which wouldn't be
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by desertrider12 6y ago
For shorts and trading on margin that all makes sense, but I still don't get why that would prevent retail investors from buying regular shares with their own cash. Where does the broker assume risk in that transaction? Edit: nrmitchi
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by desertrider12 6y ago
Shorts aren't options, they don't have expiration dates. You can hold a short indefinitely just by paying interest on the borrowed share value when you entered the position. You can even keep the short from being forcibly closed d
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by desertrider12 6y ago
We didn't lose any branches of government, but the proceedings of the legislature were disrupted for most of a day. I'm sure if they had been working on an emergency thing and not a formality that it could be continued in a bunker
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by desertrider12 6y ago
OK, now I understand that the logs of these values are for pencil+paper addition and subtraction, not slide rules.
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by desertrider12 6y ago
I think the point of these was for when they read low-precision values out of a printed table and then multiplied them using slide rules. Even though the article doesn't say it, I can't think of any other practical reason to multi
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by desertrider12 6y ago
Are the "File 1" and "File 2" links in mail supposed to open something? I got to that point and I think that's how to find the bank account number but I'm not sure.

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