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by dzdt 10y ago
To summarize failure modes: (a+b)/2 fails if |a+b| is too large to represent as a finite floating point number (overflow/underflow), also bad for a,b = +/- infinity. (a/2 + b/2) can be inaccurate for a/2 and b&
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by dzdt 10y ago
Pumped hydro or battery storage are one possibility. Smart pricing to industry who can throttle back usage if demand outstrips supply is another.
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by dzdt 10y ago
If you are interested in old computer role-playing games, you should check out the CRPG addict's blog [1]. He has played (usually to completion) every CRPG thru 1986 and every one that runs on DOS thru 1990. The reviews have great hum
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by dzdt 10y ago
Fun quiz. Go to a page like http://codepen.io/tholman/pen/EwlKd . Try the following colors. Without looking it up, which ones are real named colors and which are artifacts of the bizarre scheme? "fire"
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by dzdt 10y ago
If you search houses at random, what percent contain no contraband at all? A lot of the counted "successes" could be incidental. Swat receives a tip on a major criminal operation, finds a single joint stashed somewhere, calls it
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by dzdt 10y ago
That was fun! I did spot one of the downsides of crowdsourced input: a dick doodle was one of the archetype images for "crab".
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by dzdt 10y ago
This is the value-destruction side of copyright protection. With more reasonable length and more easily determinable copyright status, efforts like google books would be able to do so many more things. But without a permissive legal frame
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by dzdt 10y ago
I read the details of the advantage differently. Not that it gave a better killing blow, but that it increased reusability of the spear point. It acts as a crumple zone, like we have in cars now to protect occupamts in a crash. For the sp
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by dzdt 10y ago
Cable television periodically has "channel blackouts" where the cable operator feuds over price with the content provider. I guess we can expect to see this now for internet. Imagine going to Netflix to find an error 5xx instead
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by dzdt 10y ago
Already major appliances are generally crap quality, with a lifespan of 5-8 years as opposed to the 20-30 years obtainable in past decades. I want a quality war on appliances, not a price war!
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by dzdt 10y ago
The defendant here got their initial copy of the law by such an open records request! See the mention of $1207.02 in the first paragraph, that amount being the copying fee. The state here is insisting he cannot distribute further copies.
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by dzdt 10y ago
The "annotated" version is the official law of Georgia. The freely available code you link to is missing the annotations, despite those being officially adopted as law as well. Without the annotations, you do not have the full la
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by dzdt 10y ago
Can anyone comment on the credibility of this news outlet or the supposed source here?
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by dzdt 10y ago
Subway infrastructure should probably target a useful life of 100 years. Over that time, demographics will shift to an older population even as city population increases. It may look cheaper to skip improvements now, but long term I doubt
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by dzdt 10y ago
Yes, this year's melt season hasn't started yet. And yes, it has been a snowier-than-normal winter for Greenland. That doesn't negate the long term trend of melting!
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by dzdt 10y ago
Family farms.
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by dzdt 10y ago
The New York Department of Buildings response to this article (June 2016) : Skypicker presented the department with plans for a small, truck-mounted crane... However, when we inspected the Skypicker in use at a construction site, we found
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by dzdt 10y ago
Yes. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/21...
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by dzdt 10y ago
You have a gut feeling it will revert. Okay, great. But the consequences are on the scale of a significant fraction of the world's GDP as well as a significant fraction of the world population. Should we maybe have someone study it
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by dzdt 10y ago
No, there was no reliable measurement before satellites. Quoting wikipedia: Useful satellite data concerning sea ice began in December 1972 with the Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) instrument. However, this was not direc
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by dzdt 10y ago
Look at this graph of global sea ice extent for every year since 1978. It is insane how much an outlier the last 9 months are. Like sesame street level "one of these curves is not like the others" kind of outlier. https:/&
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by dzdt 10y ago
Question: the demos on the website are not smooth in my mobile chrome browser. Is it even POSSIBLE to get glitch free per display frame update in a browser? I grew up with the c64; the kind of tearing and frame-rate glitches we see on nea
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by dzdt 10y ago
Possible continuing cyber-sabotage? See https://nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-missil...
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by dzdt 10y ago
Compared to copyrights, patent expiration is much more reasonable!
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by dzdt 10y ago
What rubbish! A commodity only has value in a form and location where it is under demand. There is no way iron will ever be delivered to the surface of the Earth from an asteroid in a way cost-competitive to terrestrial mining. So the ef
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by dzdt 10y ago
Yes! That is the quote I was looking for.
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by dzdt 10y ago
This reminds me of a quote by a master magician, which I unfortunately can't locate right now. The gist was that one way that magic tricks work is that the audience would never believe the sheer amount of work that goes into developin
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by dzdt 10y ago
Evidence please? All the research I have seen suggests harsh punishments do little to deter crime. See e.g. this National Institute of Justice page as a jumping-off point: https://www.nij.gov/five-things/pages/de
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by dzdt 10y ago
As usual, I like Matt Levine's take on this : https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-06/cargo-blo... . The problem to be solved here is not chiefly technological: It's getting all of those
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by dzdt 10y ago
Things are not much different today, unfortunately. See e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/nyregion/fishkill-prison-... .

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