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by dkbrk 4y ago
She also wrote a long-form essay which covers the same material but goes into much more detail: https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html
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by dkbrk 4y ago
I'm surprised there's no mention of Goodhart's Law [0]. Even if the metric is "well understood and free from human/social factors", once you start using it as a target that will no longer be the case. [0]: htt
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by dkbrk 4y ago
Time would be much less of a problem if Terrestrial Time was used internally everywhere. That is: if TT (realized as TAI) were used as the fundamental definition of time, rather than UTC; and UTC were treated as just another timezone. Then,
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by dkbrk 4y ago
> I'll take plain text over WYSIWYG any day, thanks. I couldn't agree more. It's a bit convoluted, but one thing you can do is write code in plain text files, in the Power Query M language, and load it using a combinatio
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by dkbrk 4y ago
Depends on context. If, for your purposes it would be reasonable to talk about a single datum, then sure, it's plural. But in common use it's a singular mass noun.
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by dkbrk 4y ago
For information on this sort of thing the USGS mineral survey is an excellent source. There's the general overview on copper [0], annual summaries, e.g [1] for 2022, and the more detailed "yearbook" [2] which it looks like is
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by dkbrk 4y ago
> What is corresponding to the physical pattern in your brain? What word would you use to describe that thing that is corresponding to the physical event? This presupposes something else exists, beyond the pattern itself. I might give th
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by dkbrk 4y ago
When I taste an apple that corresponds to some physical pattern in my brain: electrical impulses; neurotransmitters; neural connections being created or destroyed or changing in strength, etc. I see no reason that needs a special word to de
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by dkbrk 4y ago
> So if we accept that qualia exists (which, after all, seems intuitively sensible), we are burdened with the apparently impossible task of explaining how consciousness can be generated by physical processes. No, you don't get to ju
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by dkbrk 4y ago
I think it's worth noting that the main attack described in the paper, against SIKE, depends on exploiting some behavior peculiar to that particular algorithm (what the paper calls "anomalous 0s"): > The attacker simultane
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by dkbrk 4y ago
That reminds me of this story: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8u0q6i/tifu_by_scarin...
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by dkbrk 4y ago
1. Constraining the first stage to return over land would massively impact payload. This would be even worse than a Falcon 9 RTLS, because at least with that it can do a boostback, so the 2nd stage is still put on a relatively flat trajecto
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by dkbrk 4y ago
There's nothing really to solve. Dry-cask storage can be used long term. The waste is secure, easily monitored, and if at some point in the future reprocessing makes economic sense that can be done too.
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by dkbrk 5y ago
> it's trying to push users to abandon Firefox on mobile The funny thing is, extensions are completely functional on mobile. All you have to do is: 1. Create a collection at addons.mozilla.org containing exactly the addons you want
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by dkbrk 5y ago
The problem is contrast, not scale.
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Frink's units definition file is a great read: https://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt I use Frink very regularly as a calculator. I've got a keybinding in emacs to bring it up in comint-mode, which works ve
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Or... we could store Terrestrial Time and treat leap seconds as part of the timezone data. This isn't a complete panacea, there would still be clock drift and updates could still cause time to be non-monotonic. But a timestamp would ha
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by dkbrk 5y ago
The back shell isn't really involved in heat dissipation per se. Most of the heat is carried by convection out the vent. The critical thing is that the back cover is carefully engineered, in coordination with the spacing to various bit
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by dkbrk 5y ago
I understand there's a bit more to it than that. Here's the section in Professor Whyte's talk: https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4?t=2215 > It's even more subtle than that, in fact this is really one of the
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by dkbrk 5y ago
> Theory dictates that with stronger magnets, the reactor can be scaled down (with the square/cube, can't remember exactly), and thus cost and time to develop Here's the quick summary: B: magnetic field strength R: length
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by dkbrk 5y ago
I think this loss it a bit more painful than you imply. Sure, they're prototypes, but these are the latest prototypes. They were probably equipped with laser links, and while 40 satellites is only a small fraction of the entire const
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by dkbrk 5y ago
That's like saying a ship sank not because of the hurricane, but because it was flooded and ended up capsizing. Sure, it wouldn't have sunk if it had stayed in port, but we still say the hurricane was the cause.
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by dkbrk 5y ago
I think friction works best when it's not completely out of the player's control. That way it's an opportunity for the player to exert their agency. If the player can't exert any control over friction though, if it'
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by dkbrk 5y ago
It's a test facility. They have to take the aircraft out from overhead cover in order to actually test them. Testing only at night would be much too restrictive. They track all observation satellites and meticulously schedule aircraft
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by dkbrk 5y ago
In the 1950s the United States Air Force wanted to figure out what pilot dimensions they should design to. Things like the exact position of the controls and position and size of the seat. They measured over 4,000 pilots on 140 different di
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by dkbrk 5y ago
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
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by dkbrk 5y ago
This is a really good review. Anecdotally, some years back I started developing pretty bad RSI from typing. I was also a pretty mediocre typist. So I switched to Dvorak and got serious about touch-typing. I found it much more comfortable an
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by dkbrk 5y ago
I hadn't hear of the 50-char recommendation before, just the 72-char limit. In Emacs, magit and git-commit-mode accommodate this well, I just found. Setting git-commit-summary-max-length to 50 and fill-column to 72 has the behavior tha
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Cache lines are 64 bytes not bits. That is: a cache line can store 8 64-bit numbers.
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Yeah, I had this misconception for a while. I think it's useful to understand how git actually stores objects as blobs and trees, but the mental model of "commits are diffs" is still useful. Commands like git-cherry-pick re

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