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by drfuchs 6y ago
Can anyone knowledgeably speak to what these gizmos can and can't do? Can I tell it to "please back into the driveway on the left side, but not so close that I can't open the garage door, and open the trunk, so I can easily l
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by drfuchs 6y ago
There's 2 trillion USD betting that you're wrong, and virtually zero betting that you're right (AAPL Short Percent of Float = 0.00% as per Nasdaq). Buy some puts and you'll make a killing.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
The lie-by-omission is leaving out the security aspect of having a walled garden. It’s not well expressed if you read this as an essay, but it is natural for on-the-fly spoken language.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
The Einstein statue pictured is on the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington DC. http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/visiting-nas/nas-building...
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Nope. As per Dennis Ritchie's 2004 comment in https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/HAWoZ8g... , the "dd" command's name is a joke about the DD ("Data Definition")
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Compare this to how it was pre-web: Just in time for the post-war baby boom, Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Baby and Child Care" was new parents' single go-to source of information for decades; selling over 50 million copies, it
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by drfuchs 6y ago
And he found it by “reading the code”!
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Almost a third of MIT undergrads attend tuition-free, according to https://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html
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by drfuchs 6y ago
In the US at least, you typically don’t even meet the owner. (Never mind that it’s not easy to make sure you’re paying the real owner without the aid of the various intermediaries. Nolo Press has good books about buying and selling homes an
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by drfuchs 6y ago
The intensely loyal Phyllis Winkler. You couldn’t even get into DEK’s office without going through hers, which I think was a unique arrangement in Margaret Jacks Hall.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
If it’s in a (United) State with “employment at will” then they can rescind any time, or fire you in the first nanosecond of employment for that matter. Unless you have a signed contract that says otherwise, of course.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Native-born bi-coastal boomer American here. Never heard this usage until my house was remodeled and the general contractor used it. I had to stop him and ask what he meant. (I didn’t feel too stupid since the vowels and syllable stress ar
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Leapyear has a financial interest in having you believe that. Are their algorithms open-source? If not, can you buy a copy, or is it closed-source, SaaS-only?
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Additionally, you can segregate a large array (that never has a pointer taken to any of its elements) into a separate 64k area pointed to by ES. Since the only way to refer to an element is with ary[i], you always know when to use the ES se
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by drfuchs 6y ago
WASM is specifically designed to be cpu-independent, so you can run a single .wasm file on any machine. In contrast, LLVM IR is designed to be cpu- and OS-specific. Take a look at the very first line in the example: ‘target triple = "i
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Another great thing about slide rule days is that results are naturally constrained to 2 or 3 significant digits, so you'd never see nonsense like "The mountain is 10km high, or 32808.4ft" as if the 10km figure was accurate t
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by drfuchs 6y ago
This is the lab where the world’s very first disk drive was created. The project got canceled by headquarters, because it would eat into IBM’s cash-cow punched card business. But they just kept on working on it, being very far away and har
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by drfuchs 6y ago
No, Latanya Sweeney has absolutely nothing to do with Differential Privacy. The author seems to have confused her with Cynthia Dwork.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
A few I've run into at random: BusLine Magazine, with an ad in the back for "BarfClean! Just spray on to solidify, for easy removal!" (The ads in the front were less lurid: "Our new seats are 32% lighter!") And, mor
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by drfuchs 6y ago
You might want to also check that 128-bit multiplies are implemented as only two 64-bit multiplies and a couple of additions (assuming no overflow; three multiplies if you need to get the right answer mod 2^64).
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by drfuchs 6y ago
The article’s title is actually “128 bit division” while HN currently shows it as just “Bit Division”. I suggest both be changed to “Optimizing 128-bit Division”. Nice article, btw.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
One reason that extending BART down the peninsula is a non-starter is the political power of the owners of hundreds of properties that you’d have to eminent-domain and knock down. Plus the fact that the citizens (through their representativ
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Stanford to discontinue 11 varsity sports programs(news.stanford.edu)
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Some universities automatically admit children of faculty, but Harvard is not among them. Source: Me, DP of Harvard faculty member. See also https://hr.harvard.edu/faculty
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by drfuchs 6y ago
One point of an international student renting an apartment in the US and taking a class over the Internet is that they're in the right time zone, and don't have to stay up all night to attend classes and other sessions (with the k
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Typically, in the Ivy League / Stanford, a one-child family with annual income of over $150k to $200k (depending on the school) will pay full tuition. Really. And incomes of less than $65k-ish get you a free ride. Details vary.
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Some do, but not many. Wikipedia has a good entry for “race film”, and http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/afamfilm/ looks like a great resource. Also check out https://www.criterion.com/current&#x2F
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by drfuchs 6y ago
In the first half of the 1900's, there were "race films" from Black-owned studios that were actually financed like this. The studio would create a trailer that they'd then show to theater-owners. Exhibitors who liked the
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by drfuchs 6y ago
Best grumpy-used-book-store-owner experience ever: A friend and I went into an exceedingly cramped used book store in SF years ago, each looking for a particular title. Books were on shelves and also stacked in piles scattered along the two
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by drfuchs 6y ago
They had a small store at on College Ave in Palo Alto for years. It was near their headquarters, so while you could get every one of their products there, it also functioned as a kind of beta-test distribution point; some of the items were

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