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by dzdt 4y ago
The usual definition of stated "reserves" is the amount of natural resource known to exist in explored, proven deposits. As the demand for a resource increases, more exploration is done and reserves increase. It is wildly incorrec
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by dzdt 4y ago
The gain is mentioned in the article: without such discipline sometimes when you #include button.h (what you expect to be innocuous header file for a desired button functionality) you accidently inlcude nuclearpowerplant.h (a giant monstori
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by dzdt 4y ago
Musk is already locked into the deal. If it is possible for him to back out he will have at least one billion dollars in breakup fees. [1] This could be a setup to give him an reason to cause a breakup of the deal (he can't just walk
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by dzdt 4y ago
Somewhat clickbait title: Alexander Grothendieck is the mathematician for anyone who might already know about this.
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by dzdt 4y ago
A really good in depth take on how the U.S. immigration system works for a highly skilled technology worker (Intel,Google,Amazon,Startup) from the point of view of that person.
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by dzdt 4y ago
> There is literally volumes of the absolute best music being made on YouTube, but it never sees the light of day... For many (most?) people, the most important role of music is participating in a shared culture. You want to be able to s
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by dzdt 4y ago
As an American, it seems too me that our country is at an end of a long upwards arc of scocial progress. While technological progress continues, it isn't clear that progress will be good for humanity. Global warming looms as an immense
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by dzdt 4y ago
Not the OP, but lots of places have HR-mandated uniformity of interview questions to try to avoid some sorts of bias.
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by dzdt 4y ago
Fair enough to be skeptical. Some responses to your points: > the bar to doing something useful in mathematics is extremely high Ah but the bar to do something interesting in automated theorem proving is much lower. Solving exercises f
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by dzdt 4y ago
This is the opposite direction to what I expected to see for new theorem proving efforts: "Good old fashioned AI" vs leveraging advances of deep learning for natural language. I think the direction that is ripe for advance is a tw
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by dzdt 4y ago
0.005 is 1/200. How thick is a 200 page book? About an inch seems right. Its not clear to me how much difference there is between 0.005" and the thickness of a sheet of paper.
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by dzdt 5y ago
I am having trouble distinguishing. Is this article more "industry insider gives insight on why cheap electric cars are unlikely soon" or "industry dinosaur fails to understand how mammals could take over"?
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by dzdt 5y ago
LDS research centers are open to anyone regardless of religion. Some records are digitized but have access restricted to the research centers; others may be only available on paper or microfiche.
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by dzdt 5y ago
Microsoft doesn't even want you to develop indie windows applications anymore. They are pushing Windows S mode where webapps just work and anything else has to come thru the windows app store. The solution to that extra friction is ju
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by dzdt 5y ago
The title doesn't do justice to the chillingness of this result. AI drug discovery tools are remarably powerful chemical weapon discovery tools, and are widely and easily accessible.
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by dzdt 5y ago
One avenue for progress that the author overlooks is distinguising between quantum mechanics interpretations where wave function collapse is considered part of the theory vs. where wave function collapse is considered to be a useful approxi
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by dzdt 5y ago
It is more profitable to convince consumers that a previously unrecognized thing is a problem that needs solving. Then your 'solution' can be the best and only one available. For previously recognized problems there is so much p
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by dzdt 5y ago
Story time! What was your famous easter egg?
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GM seeks US approval to deploy self-driving car without a steering wheela(arstechnica.com)
8 points by dzdt 5y ago|4 comments
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by dzdt 5y ago
In my experience the professor-authored books are not the same story. Professors teach one or two sections and earn a few dollars per book (author share on technical books is small!). Their main optimisation using the book they wrote is r
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by dzdt 5y ago
College level textbooks in USA are a total racket. The major textbooks come out with a new revision roughly annually, where the material is reorganized enough to change section and exercise numbers. The purpose is to destroy the used textbo
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by dzdt 5y ago
The Commodore 64 has a similar "feature". It has a separate 4-bit per address * 1k "nibble" ram chip for the screen color attributes. The processor and data bus are 8 bits wide. When the processor reads from color ram
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by dzdt 5y ago
Inside humor is a kernel of truth, and in the subtle washed-out humor of this article I think the kernel of truth is that people WANT tools that they can use from childhood to old age. Tools that will remain constant. Tools that can serve
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by dzdt 5y ago
The reason the unit is "steps" is there are now popular inexpensive gadgets that count "steps" so it is a unit for which we are accumulating sufficiently large datasets to carry out such studies. Just like the best came
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by dzdt 5y ago
Any details? I am interested in WSL.
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by dzdt 5y ago
Of I forgot my middle-schooler's cheepo Win10 laptop. There there may also be questions of minimum specs. Does anything change with Microsoft family account features?
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by dzdt 5y ago
Possible points I know of: the desktop has a little-used Bluray drive. There is discussion of Bluray functionality being removed. Also I've tried etherium mining on the desktpp gpu, which uses memory parameter overrides and overclocki
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Ask HN: Should I accept the free Windows 11 upgrade?
36 points by dzdt 5y ago|85 comments
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by dzdt 5y ago
Your numbers are not right. I don't know which dictionary Wordle uses, but for scrabble competition (SOWPODS) there are 12478 valid 5 letter words. [1] By my experience the Wordle dictionary is similarly complete. But while you overes
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by dzdt 5y ago
Possibly I am an old fuddy-dud but if your engineers prefer video tutorials to written docs I think you might have hired the wrong engineers.

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