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by dmurray 3y ago
Both, but they cheated a bit on the Sun. Per TFA: > To respect the scale, the globe represents the Sun including its corona. That's not really a meaningful measurement as the corona could extend anywhere from a few hundred thousand
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by dmurray 3y ago
No, post-quantum cryptography is focused on methods where encryption can be done with classical computers. Post-quantum methods have other disadvantages, primarily that they haven't been studied as deeply as traditional methods (especi
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by dmurray 3y ago
> The U.S. "won" Korea, Iraq, Vietnam, and Afghanistan in the same sense that they "won" WW2 - those countries were bombed back into the stone age and the existing governments fell. This might be taught in US schools,
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by dmurray 3y ago
Historically (and now, for the most part) books were copyright the author, but a large of the profits accrued to the publisher. That system worked fine.
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by dmurray 3y ago
You could use the same pattern as DeprecationWarning. It's suppressed by default and test runners like pytest enable it. A new ReplWarning could be enabled by interactive tools only. I think I agree though: what you really want to spec
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by dmurray 3y ago
How about def __repr__(self): import warnings warnings.warn("Use exit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit") return super().repr()
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by dmurray 3y ago
It should print the first to stdout and the second to stderr. That's completely consistent with how stdout and stderr are usually used. The regular Python REPL doesn't distinguish between stdout and stderr (perhaps it should!), bu
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by dmurray 3y ago
It will. The negations are only being applied on the way back up the call stack. The mutual recursion version in a sibling post can be made to work though.
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by dmurray 3y ago
Right, I didn't propose a compiler-level flag (though the original suggester did), I specifically said it needs to work at the block or file level.
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by dmurray 3y ago
I agree in principle - what's the point in deciding to use Rust but turning off the borrow checker? But on the other hand - Rust already has unsafe mode, which is exactly for allowing you to avoid some safety checks when you've de
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by dmurray 3y ago
Financing by taxes but having the state determine which degrees are "useful" is a poor combination that falls victim to all the usual mistakes of centrally planned economies. Is the Education Department bureaucrat in charge of dec
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by dmurray 3y ago
Yes, it seems that the state of the art admits this as a possibility (though it seems surprising, and you can make a hand wavy argument dismissing it, as another poster does downthread). Eg this survey by Scott Aaronson: https://
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by dmurray 3y ago
> Let's keep in mind that SFOs "standard operations" is purely economical, it's about making more landings so the airport earns more money. Having more, and more regular, landings is also in the greater public interes
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by dmurray 3y ago
> if everyone does this, it will erode the signal of what stars are supposed to mean. What signal? To me, starring a Github project means "I'm interested enough in this project to want to be able to find it again". That&#x
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by dmurray 3y ago
So at Jane Street they made custom decks for this, they didn't start with a regular deck?
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by dmurray 3y ago
The images show cards with just the suits on them. Is that how the game is usually played? It seems that playing with a normal deck (suits and ranks) would change the gameplay considerably. For example if you see the A-2-3-4-5-6 of one suit
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by dmurray 3y ago
One way to be sure is you could accumulate 12 hearts and then be certain the goal suit is diamonds. In practice you'll have to guess with much more limited information.
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by dmurray 3y ago
The other approach to private methods is weird. It breaks the object-oriented paradigm. Why should my Dog be able to check out the internal StomachContents of another Dog, while that information isn't available to a Vet or even to the
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by dmurray 3y ago
"2% per annum", per the abstract, so the ugly manager returns 6%. I agree the effect seems too large to be believable.
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by dmurray 3y ago
My passport says something like "to alter this instrument, or to utter it so altered, is an offence". This always read strangely to me - it's an offence to have a real passport, but claim it's a fake? But this definition
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by dmurray 3y ago
The photographer says it had been expected to decrease by 3 orders of magnitude, which would definitely be noticeable with the naked eye. The video in a sibling comment by bscphil also seems to show it decreasing by ~2 orders of magnitude (
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by dmurray 3y ago
If this was in Ireland, the workers wouldn't be laid off as of today - they'd at least have the option of a "consultation period". While that might be just a formality in terms of retaining their jobs, it would give anyo
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by dmurray 3y ago
Actually, Germany has a higher GDP (4.4t USD/year) [0] than any of the 50 US states, led by California [1] at 3.6t USD/year. Perhaps you meant GDP per capita, which would make you correct, but your post certainly wasn't phras
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by dmurray 3y ago
What? Other voting systems still end up with a winner. If you had score voting for the US President, people would still spend a fortune on it, and the winner would get the same as he does now. "No matter who you vote for, the Governmen
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by dmurray 3y ago
Checked with a Chinese native speaker who also thinks it's 阮.
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by dmurray 3y ago
> it isn’t surprising that brewing was women’s work along with cooking in general. What's interesting here is precisely that brewing beer was a domestic job (and therefore women's work), in a way that baking bread, for example,
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by dmurray 3y ago
It's also an extra point of failure, an extra account to manage, etc. I have seen plenty of low-traffic Rails (and other) apps where neither hosting cost nor performance would be significantly improved by adding a CDN.
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by dmurray 3y ago
It used to probe the clash of quantum theory and gravity, but it still does too.
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by dmurray 3y ago
I checked the run-up length, too. The long jump runway is 40m or ~2000 units, and the player only needed 1305 units to build up speed for this seventh jump.
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by dmurray 3y ago
Oh I completely agree, I'm just shitting on the idea that this has anything to do with the game being "Turing-complete".

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