dmurray

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by dmurray 6mo ago
Aside from "killing us and giving us cancer every single day", isn't "diatomic oxygen" the stuff we breathe every single minute and need to survive? I'm not normally one to miss the sarcastic or satirical posts
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by dmurray 6mo ago
They can take the other side of your other themselves, lose money sometimes, but make it up in the premium they charged you in the first place (or in the old days, from your other trading fees or your monthly subscription payment). Cloud pr
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by dmurray 6mo ago
It seems completely in the spirit of Gas Town. A respectable software provider should warn you about this kind of behaviour at install time, and give you the opportunity to opt out. Gas Town fulfilled all its obligations in this regard with
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by dmurray 6mo ago
The author's home page reveals that he has an interest in amateur rocketry. Strontium nitrate doesn't sound suitable as a propellant, so I suppose he wants it to generate visual effects. https://spiegl.org/unsorted
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by dmurray 6mo ago
Wanna cyber?
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by dmurray 6mo ago
Cyclists will normally do the same thing passing out other cyclists at a 5-10 km/h speed difference, and it's definitely useful there.
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by dmurray 6mo ago
It's not trivial for the casino to track this against a determined adversary. If you're already thinking about "good opsec", you can get someone else to help cash out your winnings. A buddy from out of town, or a losing
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by dmurray 6mo ago
It's an important distinction because it prevents the defence of "oh it's just an old law, there are lots of old laws on the books that everyone knows aren't relevant, they can't be tidied up for political reasons&q
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by dmurray 6mo ago
QQQ is the same as Nasdaq, for this meaning of Nasdaq. The article isn't a great source, agreed. But it does give this calculation: > Oddly enough, had SpaceX entered the Nasdaq-100 with a market capitalization of $1.75 trillion on
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by dmurray 6mo ago
Actively managed funds like that charge around 0.5% to 1% a year. E.g. [0] The most prominent Nasdaq ETF, QQQ, charges 0.2% [1] Spacex will be around 4.5% of the index [2]. If you believe the thesis of the article that Spacex is about 30% o
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by dmurray 6mo ago
Lots of powerful people are unpleasant, but Musk additionally got involved in politics in a very visible way at a very partisan, polarising time in American history. He didn't attract as much hate before 2024.
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by dmurray 6mo ago
It doesn't take extreme memory on your part to remember to avoid that opening after the first 9 losses, or indeed the first one. There are 5-10 other reasonable options for you on the first move alone. It doesn't take extreme memo
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by dmurray 6mo ago
Meh, I think the description is accurate. AlphaZero did pioneer neural networks for board evaluation, even if there was prior art on this. AlphaZero also showed a revolutionary new approach to search and training which Stockfish did not ado
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by dmurray 7mo ago
Doesn't it also make sense in the context of modern networking assumptions? I've never had to connect to PostGres in an adversarial environment. I've been at work or at home and I connected to PostGres instances owned by me o
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by dmurray 7mo ago
Who said anything about instantly teleporting? Uber could cut the cost in money to 0 but still operate cars which are bound by the laws of physics and the rules of the road. Maybe returnInfinity already spends 12 hours a day in Ubers, or ot
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by dmurray 7mo ago
I don't understand your point. Are you saying that it's possible to get adequate training on a real ship, and using the fact that you managed to do it as an example? Of course it's possible to train on a real ship. But the sa
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by dmurray 7mo ago
I don't get this part > Here, you asked R0, R2 and R3 to abstain from casting further votes in the first three columns, signified by black x. If I can ask them to do that, and rely on them to go along with what I ask - why not skip
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by dmurray 7mo ago
I don't think programming languages follow English grammar or syntax closely. If X then Y , sure. While X, do Y ? Maybe. For X equals Y, X equals Z, X is incremented, do A ? Hardly. Match X case Y1 Z1 case Y2 Z2 ? Definitely not Na
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by dmurray 7mo ago
It's a Pascal's wager. If you're convinced Armageddon is going to happen at some point, then you should do all you can to prepare for it happening in your lifetime. And that approach is explicitly encouraged in the Bible: &q
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by dmurray 7mo ago
Even if she was guilty, they shouldn't have imprisoned her for 3+ months without interviewing her. The AI didn't tell them to do that.
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by dmurray 7mo ago
China does it well. You can't get unemployment benefit, but if you can turn up for work sober every day and are prepared to do menial work, you are guaranteed a job. Chinese cities are clean and tidy, not because people don't litt
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by dmurray 7mo ago
If you're interviewing at Google, the expected answer to the interview question can't be to use Google's internal tools. "Use Postgres" is the standardized, understandable answer for anyone outside Google who need
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by dmurray 7mo ago
> Part of the issue is that somehow you can buy just the "assets" half of a company and ignore the "liabilities" portion. You really can't and they didn't. If Brewdog has creditors who lent it money or suppl
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by dmurray 7mo ago
Depends if it's total amount wagered or total amount lost. If amount wagered, at typical takes for bookies/casinos/lotteries that would mean people would lose in expectation 0.1% to 5% of their income. Seems like a reasonable
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by dmurray 7mo ago
> At 0.5 mph differential, the overtake takes 291 seconds — over a minute of blocking the outside lane. Annoying, but it gains the driver 5.0 extra miles across a working day. The driver gets there 5 minutes earlier in exchange for causi
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by dmurray 7mo ago
Why is fuel consumption 5x more per mile but 10x more per hour, if the trucks are moving more slowly than cars?
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by dmurray 8mo ago
And Hendrix played the guitar left-handed, so the other way made more sense for him.
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by dmurray 8mo ago
I don't think students in 2026 need any encouragement to use LLMs, but sure, it would be strange if the LLM companies didn't give away student plans cheaply.
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by dmurray 8mo ago
It makes sense if you're Irish or British. People here who are blond and blue-eyed but whose ancestors come from Ireland assume they have Viking ancestry, and they're probably right since the Viking era was the main time Scandina
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by dmurray 8mo ago
The only product they've announced at the moment [0] is a PCI-e card. It's more like a small power bank than a big thumb drive. But sure, the next generation could be much smaller. It doesn't require battery cells, (much) hea

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