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by dmurray 2y ago
They would release the update in a testing/sandbox environment first before rolling out kernel-level changes to every computer on their network . They're the same team who mandate you use a 3-year-old browser version and 5-year-o
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by dmurray 2y ago
If you want to maximize your chances of winning a very large game like this, you need to play quite a lot riskier than is intuitive, you definitely do not want to pick a popular player if your model predicts someone else will outperform him
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by dmurray 2y ago
I'm not sure if the article is tongue in cheek, but almost all of the skill and almost all of the noise in these games usually comes from your choice of value function, i.e. your ability to predict how many points a player will get i
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by dmurray 2y ago
It's sorted alphabetically, not by expenditure. "Admin" is less than "Games" in every year.
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by dmurray 2y ago
They don't guarantee you zero downside compared to investing in the index, though, but compared to putting your money under the mattress. It's relatively easy to achieve a return profile like these promise with some combination of
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by dmurray 2y ago
I think GP is suggesting an insider could introduce a bug, have a confederate "find" it, and split the money. At $5m I think more than a few big tech employees might decide to write themselves a new minivan.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I'd still like to ask a version of the same question, is gallium so special that it only makes sense to do this experiment with gallium? If sterile neutrinos cause the production of germanium from gallium to be 80% of what we thought i
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by dmurray 2y ago
It's currently illegal to melt down pennies for scrap metal. Every so often there are stories about hedge funds who have millions of them and are waiting or lobbying for the laws to change [0] I think it's mostly a cute story rath
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by dmurray 2y ago
It's also normal for embassies of big countries in smaller countries. In Dublin there are a few big embassy compounds (US, Russia, UK, Germany are the only ones I can think of). Everyone else, even big dogs like China and India, has a
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by dmurray 2y ago
But STOP does mean stop. Stop executing this subroutine. If the program were instead (as a set of commands for a person, not a turtle) START WALKING; STOP; START CLAPPING; STOP; ... any child would understand what was intended. It would be
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by dmurray 2y ago
You need to read How I Met My Wife ! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...
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by dmurray 2y ago
You could extract the barcode at all times in the future by setting the system clock (you can do this on non-rooted phones, and keep it that way at least if you do it in airplane mode). The Android docs mention a "secure timer" in
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by dmurray 2y ago
Right, or equivalently, you can rely on the million eyeballs and the million developer-years poured into those OSes, while developing your project with a much smaller team.
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by dmurray 2y ago
People keep saying this, but the trend in warfare these days is for limited wars, not superpower against superpower. A modern carrier group has plenty of air defences and anti-drone capabilities to hold off a small- or medium-sized enemy, a
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by dmurray 2y ago
> At the moment, Bython is written in Python. PR #1: Makes Bython self-hosting
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by dmurray 2y ago
> I work in finance, so I have had numerous trainings on NPMI from different points of view. What point of view did you get training from other than the point of view of your company's compliance department? I've worked in trad
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by dmurray 2y ago
Take all the Roman alphabet apart from the vowels - 21 characters and length 6 gives you 100 million possibilities which is plenty for most applications. You can still get vaguely offensive sequences like FKNNGR or BLKCNT, but at some point
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by dmurray 2y ago
I liked the ChatGPT version better. The repeated "one" is paticularly jarring and not a stylistic feature of the original (which has man...einen , two different words reasonably translated as "one"). "Misfortune&qu
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by dmurray 2y ago
It doesn't really matter if the codes are the same. The attacker has a 1 in 1 million chance of guessing right, assuming 6-digit codes. This isn't acceptable for most applications.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Now if only someone would add a decent text editor.
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by dmurray 2y ago
> the "tea kettle" effect every time the BBC was between programs or went to commercial This effect is famous, although of course the BBC does not show commercial content in the UK. I wonder if the effect has diminished with th
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by dmurray 2y ago
> They don't have to pay for it but it's rude not to. Given that this is the Netherlands, that sounds like "they won't pay for it".
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by dmurray 2y ago
Inland water-based transport has fallen out of favour these days, not because there's anything wrong with it but because road and rail have got so much better in the last 150 years. If canal technology had improved at the same rate and
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by dmurray 2y ago
This is a cool project, but it's fair to say that 10 litres of petrol a day isn't sufficient scale to be described as "THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels". It's a research prototype.
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by dmurray 2y ago
> What would compel a State to recognize any new Federal ID in the future if they already have the power to disregard Federal IDs in theory and practice? The same thing Congress does to add a workaround for any law it's constitution
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Come to think of it that's suspiciously close to what i'd guess AWS would charge for transit (which you alluded to, i think) - so this is showing streamers what they would be paying if they self hosted? It was always going to
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Hosting video is expensive; a Twitch streamer (Thor) mentioned that an 8-hour stream at 1080p with 8,000 viewers costs Twitch nearly $5,000, while 720p still costs around $1,300. This sounds way too much - prohibitive, in fact, when ch
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by dmurray 2y ago
That at least sounds like it's plausibly for safety reasons, don't go splashing water around the thing plugged into a live socket. It's much weirder when Apple makes the same design decision for a mouse.
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by dmurray 2y ago
No, if you have a $1m house and you're intending to downsize to a $500k house, and they both lose half their value, that's $250k less in your pocket for retirement.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Also, people who own multiple homes, and people who are in the biggest house they are likely to own and expect to downsize.

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