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by dmurray 2y ago
Have private security work the private event. Send a token number of police along, at the city's expense (the same number they'd normally assign to an area with 50,000 people out and about, so the sports event isn't sucking d
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by dmurray 2y ago
> And the clumsy Arc<Mutex<Something<TheOtherThing>>> makes users feel bad about using runtime cost paid types Yeah, this would look worse than any of the "complicated syntax" examples in the blog post. A lang
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by dmurray 2y ago
If you have finite monkeys, let's say they number M, but infinite time, then for small values of M it would be faster to breed the monkeys until one of them evolves into Shakespeare.
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by dmurray 2y ago
0.8 correlation with adult height for boys aged 4, according to [0]. The real study [1] is paywalled but looks legit. I'm guessing it's even higher at age 12, though it might be confounded by puberty soon after. [0] https:/&
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by dmurray 2y ago
It's better that it's not funded out of generosity. Now the OS projects can have two revenue streams: one funded by generosity, one by self-interest.
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by dmurray 2y ago
That's not public transportation."Mass transportation", maybe. Shuttling athletes and their minders from the Olympic village to the venues is a different set of challenges from delivering a city's residents to their plac
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Where Townland is optional. Not really optional in most cases if you're not actually in the "large town somewhat nearby". I would say the large town part is more optional. You're not going to get post delivered to &
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by dmurray 2y ago
The US also has 9-digit postcodes which usually map to a single building or smaller: aren't they public too?
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by dmurray 2y ago
Would you consider making the optimizer available as a standalone tool? I've wanted a tool to do this - set a target portfolio and tell me what trades to make, taking into account transaction costs and index rebalances. I just want to
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Looks like, unsurprisingly, the resolution is more about mandating censorship than it is about curbing actual crime. Well, the EFF's take on the resolution is always going to be more about the censorship it introduces than how mu
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> I've never understood why anyone would think this would matter. Like they're camping in our neighborhood for the week and this saves everyone money somehow? This seems obvious to me. My neighbours were getting their gutters c
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by dmurray 2y ago
You might trust yourself to read a bunch of blog posts on technical deep dives into the system and make up your mind based on that, though. (Whether that's a good thing or not I don't know - perhaps you'd end up agreeing with
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by dmurray 2y ago
If you're changing your vote based on which side was the latest to have a major "scandal", you're part of the problem.
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by dmurray 2y ago
This was posted 53 minutes ago and no one has given us the Vimes Boots Theory of Economics yet?
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by dmurray 2y ago
> importing (like everything else in Python) is just a "syntax sugar" around loading the code on a file and running it instantly. Not quite - it also checks whether the file has already been imported, and does nothing if so. An
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by dmurray 2y ago
I'd expect they have both: dedicated machines that they usually use and are sometimes idle, but also the ability to run a job on GCP if it makes sense. (I doubt it's the other way round, that the Deepmind researchers could come in
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by dmurray 2y ago
> I ended up using some free project that had pre-transformed osm data for what i needed. That seems close enough to "the proper way". The OSM core devs can concentrate on providing the data in the format that existing OSM fron
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Lead was added to gasoline since the 1920s...the last was Algeria in 2021. Right, so we figure these things out within 100 years or so at most. We've been dealing with hunger for millions of years, you'd expect there to be so
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by dmurray 2y ago
> I would still buy it and just moderate my use. I think I'd still use it exactly the same amount (I fill 1-10 pages a day) but I'd be more careful about letting unused pages go to waste.
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by dmurray 2y ago
No mention of how it performs when you need random access (seek) into files. Perhaps it underperforms the file system at that?
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> the court has changed to the right, which generally (but not always) means less defendant-friendly, more government-friendly. I would say the court is generally less defendant-friendly and less government-friendly. Maybe in the narrow
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by dmurray 2y ago
Right, that's a good example: it's the most mainstream of variants, gets support from FIDE and rich sponsors and world champions, and improves on perhaps the biggest complaint people have about chess - and it still only attracts a
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> In particular, in that variant it would be so easy: just let the first move be duck only! I don't see why that would make a significant theoretical difference. Black plays first and moves the duck, he can block either e4 or d4 (or
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by dmurray 2y ago
People get hung up on the unfair White advantage in chess, but actually it's not large enough. In tennis, on every point there's a big advantage to the server. Not because he "gets to go first" but because he gets a seco
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Things I thought I had expertise in and have posted about disproportionately on HN: chess, Python, HFT, Fermi estimation, Ireland. Keywords the site actually associates with me: language, English, article, team, book. To be fair, at some zo
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by dmurray 2y ago
Who? Everyone in the video is running by 6 seconds in, and it reasonably takes 2-3 seconds to be clear that this isn't just a normal geyser eruption. Some of the runners are shambling or in a very light jog, but that looks like it&#x27
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by dmurray 2y ago
> there is no way _any_ policy change too bad for Israel wouldn't have led to serious financial issues for any party. AIPAC is damn well connected. Well, yeah, it might not have been good for Biden financially or for the US strategi
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by dmurray 2y ago
Depends what was in the phone call! If he said "I'm going to drone you and everyone in your cabinet and all of your family" that would probably have done it, coming from the one person on earth who can credibly make that thre
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It's a file that was downloaded from Crowdstrike's servers, which have presumably been whitelisted in the firewall, and used to configure the software. Of course it's a software update, regardless of whether the file says .e
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> When they call too much you should obviously not bluff! This leads to very boring games of poker. I don't know, poker theory is all about optimal ranges and Nash equilibrium, but there's something satisfying (and very practic

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