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by dmurray 8mo ago
> Somewhere in this section — and if you’re like most readers, it happened around 1300 or 1200 — the language crossed a boundary. Up to this point, comprehension felt like it was dropping gradually, but now it’s fallen off a cliff. This
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by dmurray 8mo ago
And while it might sound like government intervention incompatible with a market economy, short selling of banks has been prohibited in Spain, Italy and the US at various times in the last 20 years. Only in downturns as an "emergency r
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by dmurray 8mo ago
I can verify it looks fine. Not absolutely rigorous, e.g. > "You have far more knowledge of the stars and the planets than any other living man" Why " far more knowledge"? I don't see any emphasis like that in t
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by dmurray 8mo ago
It looks extremely accessible. I can puzzle through the pages I looked at with school-level Irish. The script can be mechanically translated to the modern characters, no ambiguity there. The spelling and grammar isn't the perfectly sta
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by dmurray 8mo ago
Perhaps playing 1. e4 2. Bc4 3. Qh5 4. Qf7 (and resigning or offering a draw if some move isn't legal) would minmax this further The problem isn't really well defined. Elo rating is assumed to be determinable independent of what o
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by dmurray 8mo ago
ToledoChess [0] has a few implementations of this in different languages. Some highlights: 2KB of JavaScript with castling, en passant, promotion, search and even a GUI 326 bytes of assembly, without the special rules I don't think the
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by dmurray 8mo ago
The program that resigns every time unfortunately does a lot worse than random. But it depends on the population it's pitted against - it should at least pick up a few points against copies of itself.
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by dmurray 8mo ago
> 200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself? Statistically speaking, yes, I absolutely would. Well, probably I would have been part of the un
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by dmurray 8mo ago
The article says the US currently imports about 10,000 tons of tungsten per year, and has no active production, so that's also its current usage. Tungsten costs about $200/kg [0] So the total US tungsten usage is $2 billion/
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by dmurray 8mo ago
VLC failed on other videos from the same source. Ubuntu's default player worked. I've rarely used it. Some bug in VLC with whatever codec these use, and then some system level bug allowing that to kill the whole machine.
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by dmurray 8mo ago
The experiment in the article goes further than this. I expect a self driving car to be able to read and follow a handwritten sign saying, say, "Accident ahaed. Use right lane." despite the typo and the fact that it hasn't se
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by dmurray 8mo ago
Why not? The Vietnam War drew plenty of organised protesters. The details would be different, but big popular actions can still be coordinated through traditional media and word of mouth. Lack of social media didn't prevent the French
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by dmurray 8mo ago
"You can't do X" is a much different experience from "you can do X, but you need to spend a year and thousands of man-hours of paperwork applying for permission to do it". In China, if the five-year plan prioritizes
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by dmurray 8mo ago
I didn't get to dig much further into it, but for those of you who suggested ideas: - not always the same frame. The first three failures were within seconds of each other, possibly the same frame. I tried again the next night and it g
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by dmurray 8mo ago
Maybe you can scale to have one operator operate ten or a hundred household robots at a time. An autonomous robot that has 99% reliability, getting stuck once an hour, is useless to me. A semi-autonomous robot that gets stuck once an hour b
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by dmurray 8mo ago
Last night I downloaded a TV episode and played it in VLC. 30 seconds in, the power failed. Fine, it's an old laptop I'm using as a media server, battery is long dead - this never happened before but maybe something is loose. I ch
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by dmurray 9mo ago
Doesn't the screen already go blurry when you're not wearing your glasses?
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by dmurray 9mo ago
Protecting from a nation state adversary should probably be a goal for the kind of enterprise software MS sells. Protecting from specifically the nation state that hosts and regulates Microsoft and its biggest clients , probably not.
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by dmurray 9mo ago
They could start by observing the rate at which birthday cards are delivered on time, and not vary too much from that. I suppose the impact on productivity isn't known in advance, and it might be that failing to receive a birthday card
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by dmurray 9mo ago
This is a study from an elite institution published in a respectable journal in the social sciences. Certainly they took the time to perform a controlled experiment and assigned managers at random to deliver the birthday cards late or on ti
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by dmurray 9mo ago
It says it's different to human skin in multiple aspects. Do I need more collagen or more moisture in my skin? I would expect evolution made some pretty good choices around default human skin for typical human activities, and if more
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by dmurray 9mo ago
Maybe eBay should publish the price the winning bidder actually bid. This would let people stop thinking "I lost by one cent" in that situation. It also has a marketing benefit: look at all these people who got great bargains re
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by dmurray 9mo ago
They don't want to guarantee an interview to everyone who sends them an improved solution, either. If three people send them improvements, they'll probably get interviews. If three thousand do, the problem is easier than they thou
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by dmurray 9mo ago
cURL would operate such a program in good faith, and quickly earn the trust of the people who submit the kind of bug reports cURL values. Your bank would not. Nor would mine, or most retail banks. If the upfront cost would genuinely put off
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by dmurray 9mo ago
HF propagation is flaky at the best of times. It's affected by the day/night cycle and by the weather.
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by dmurray 9mo ago
I agree with this reasoning. I think this is more than intuition, it's pretty much a formal proof.
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by dmurray 9mo ago
> 2029: $50.00 (Suuuuuuuper bullish case) - Approaching Google’s ~$60 ARPU. By now, the infrastructure is mature, and "Conversational Commerce" is the standard. This is what Softbank is praying will happen. There's no way
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by dmurray 9mo ago
> ... and there are only eight argument names. Which seems... limiting. I would be fine with a programming language that limited functions to 8 arguments. Not because I never have a use for more, but it's a cost I'd be willing
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by dmurray 9mo ago
7 billion kg at the density of water would fit in a cube 200 m on each side. All the plastic ever produced could be stuffed back into one medium size coal mine. There are thousands of such mines and they are already ecologically disruptive.
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by dmurray 9mo ago
There hasn't been a debate. The headline is not reflective of the facts. There hasn't been any agreement to fast track this bill, but the politician sponsoring it has said in a radio interview that (surprise!) he thinks it should

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