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by dmurray 1y ago
I think you should read it as "even with unpainted wooden blinds". The right paint should indeed be better.
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by dmurray 1y ago
What a wonderfully HN response to a biographical piece on James Gosling. For my part, most of the Java code that I have written that needs to use IP addresses needs somewhere between 1 and 10 of them, so I'd never notice this overhead.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Banks are doing a relatively bad job of capital management, but they're also doing less and less of it. Investment funds of all sorts manage the world's money. Your retail bank might originate mortgages, but it almost certainly s
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by dmurray 1y ago
Is that better or worse than having one really good one?
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by dmurray 1y ago
I've been saved from more than a few Zoom meetings where the free plan ran out after, I think, 40 minutes. Even in at least one organisation that was paying for Zoom - maybe not everyone was set up to host unlimited-length meetings.
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by dmurray 1y ago
There will be a rebranding in the next ten years. Airbnb will get a slightly more blocky or rounded version of the same logo and ads everywhere announcing how "Airbnb is now Air". I can't tell who owns air.com, but the websit
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by dmurray 1y ago
Switzerland has a weak federal government. The cantons are smaller than US states, but have more autonomy, and a lot of matters are decided by direct democracy. Yet they still seem to have good public infrastructure.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Isn't it the other way around? One revolution of your pedals gets one revolution of the wheel. Normally you'd get several revolutions out of it. So you need to pedal faster than you're used to, but each push is easier. It&#x2
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by dmurray 1y ago
But the changes in TFA were of the other of 75% improvement for "dumb" changes that were agnostic to the details of the tests being run. Saying you got a 5-7% improvement from a single change, discovered using the profiler, that t
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by dmurray 1y ago
Couldn't you study coronal ejections just as well if the moon were bigger? You wouldn't see them on all sides of the moon at once, but in return you'd have more total solar eclipses. From an aesthetic point of view, we'r
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by dmurray 1y ago
The world gold production is about 3500 tons/year. Order of magnitude, you should be able to add about 10% to that without causing the price to move any more than its normal yearly fluctuations. [0] https://www.lbma.org.uk&#
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by dmurray 1y ago
Predicting things like that is exactly the job of insurers and reinsurers. They're very good at it and it actually becomes easier at scale. How many houses will be made uninhabitable by subsidence in the US in the next 5 years? I predi
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by dmurray 1y ago
"funding militant organizations" isn't the same as committing acts of terrorism. Nobody would have said the US should have responded to the 9/11 attacks with airstrikes on the CIA headquarters.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Increasing the amount of documentation disproportionately hurts real students (or real social welfare claimants, etc). The scammers can figure out getting the fake documentation once and then scale the process - that's literally their
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Is that what BoldVoice is actually doing? No, I don't think it is doing that, I'm just taking issue with cccpurcell, who seems to believe that any definition of accent strength is chauvinistic.
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by dmurray 1y ago
And an SMBC comic, perhaps inspired by Larson, where all the animals are shouting "Do me! Do me!" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/springtime
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by dmurray 1y ago
The article defines accent strength in precisely this way, as the difference "relative to native speakers of English". That group has a vast range of accents, but it's believable that that range occupies an identifiable part
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by dmurray 1y ago
Aren't these all the same things by astronomical levels of precision?
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by dmurray 1y ago
If this discovery is real, you'll need to buy another 168 books and they'll span a large bookcase or a small room.
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by dmurray 1y ago
The AlphaZero paper claimed it was vastly superior to Stockfish, the top open source engine, based on a 100-game match against Stockfish. It turned out Stockfish was running with way less compute. It's not an apples to apples compariso
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by dmurray 1y ago
My local club is full of (mostly older) players who play once a week for a few hours. They don't train outside of this, but they play with proper equipment, sometimes play leagues, sometimes play a few strokes well, and beat anyone who
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's exactly at the level I thought was communicated by the title and introduction. "Human level competitive", "solidly amateur-level human performance", "beat 100% of beginners and 55% of intermediate players&
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by dmurray 1y ago
But the company that figures out platooning can also work on self-driving, or can partner with or sell itself to the company that does figure out self-driving. Working on platooning - assuming it's a more or less viable business idea o
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by dmurray 1y ago
According to Wikipedia they aired music by Black musicians from day 1, with the Specials among others in their first program [0]. They were criticized for not having enough black acts. That's a reasonable criticism, but let's no
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by dmurray 1y ago
Most of the benefit of the Shuttle program, and manned spaceflight in general, has come from R and D on the launch process, or from the prestige and bragging rights of being able to launch humans into space. So once they're up there, y
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by dmurray 1y ago
There is no "the number of teams", because this league has a promotion/relegation system. There are 20 teams in the league at any point in time, but 150 or so professional clubs and tens of thousands of others who participate
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by dmurray 1y ago
I'm reminded of SMBC Comics' recent proposal for detecting the use of AI: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/security
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by dmurray 1y ago
I would have thought I could reasonably tour Ontario, but holy shit, it's 3 times the size of Peru?
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by dmurray 1y ago
The question is self-answering as soon as you read the first two sentences though. > Columbia...has an endowment of roughly $15bn. Mr Trump’s administration withheld a mere $400m in federal funding. With the best investing in the world,
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by dmurray 1y ago
> it won't show up in profiles except for ones that capture stacks I don't think I've ever used a profiler that couldn't report you were in F() here. One that only captures your innermost functions really doesn't

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