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811.
by dzdt 10y ago
I wonder if they will reroute the main spillway down its new channel. That looks like it might be easier than trying to fill the hillside back up all the way to the previous level.
812.
by dzdt 10y ago
It takes a certain kind of perspective for wikipedia to be called a "small amount of data." English wikipedia alone would run to about 2500 print volumes. Imagine telling an AI researcher from 1995 that that was "small&quot
813.
by dzdt 10y ago
C4 handles a similar subset of C to what selfie does, but is a full order of magnitude smaller : about 600 lines. And it is very readable despite the terseness!
814.
by dzdt 10y ago
I think "amateurish" is overly harsh here. He sets out a very professionial plan of measuring and testing. It is a nice post. Yes, probably true that requiring a non-broken hash function is strictly better than his preferred pri
815.
by dzdt 10y ago
See https://what-if.xkcd.com/147/ . Niagra Falls is usually flowing at 100,000 ft^3/sec, the same as the spilway. Granted your 3ft pipe is a bit bigger than a drinking straw, but closer to the straw's scale
816.
by dzdt 10y ago
Internet crap is a required part of the Blu-ray standard.
817.
by dzdt 10y ago
At one point 10ish years ago the starflight source code was posted online by one of the authors, but it went back down pretty quickly. Someone might have a copy though. A few of the files are on archive.org, but not the main body. http:
818.
Planet Nine: A One Year Update(oklo.org)
4 points by dzdt 10y ago|0 comments
819.
by dzdt 10y ago
With all the work on compilers and programming languages, doesn't it seem like linker and loader technology is ripe for a major overhaul? This kind of "chaos theory" linker crap is ridiculous.
820.
by dzdt 10y ago
Fair enough. I should have said "fails to emphasize" not "fails to mention".
821.
by dzdt 10y ago
Somehow the article fails to mention that the speed will depend heavily on the input string: both its size and distribution of whitespace characters. Even assuming the question is for the limit of very long strings, the distribution makes a
822.
by dzdt 10y ago
Related blog post : https://radfordneal.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/exact-computati... As someone who has worked with building, testing, and numerical software, this seems like a great thing. Generally floating
823.
by dzdt 10y ago
The Amish attitude towards technology is a pretty good model of what an eventual Mars colony will need. When (or if) people finally travel to Mars to stay, the biggest risk to the colony will be being dependent on imports from Earth. It wi
824.
by dzdt 10y ago
It seems that google has a more coherent theory of how users use maps at different zoom levels. At the outermost zoom, physical geography is emphasized : terrain shows prominently, and political boundaries at the national level with hints o
825.
by dzdt 10y ago
This is begging for a C++ FQA style hate blog post. Paging Yossi Kreinin? Seriously, "Delete const three times to move 53,064 bytes to read-only data segment and save 729,168 bytes of code." WTF? [1] http://yosefk.co
826.
by dzdt 10y ago
I confirm this mal-redirect on mobile.
827.
by dzdt 10y ago
How did an unkown entrant convince high-level pros to take a match? Pros don't like playing random Joes because the chances of an interesting game are vanishingly small.
828.
by dzdt 10y ago
I don't understand the game rules fully. What happens if a head is cut off which is connected directly to the root? Rule (2) says Go to the node right below the node connected to the severed head—labelled in purple in the diagram—an
829.
by dzdt 10y ago
Google published a pretty detailed research article about their approach a year ago. [1] A competent deep-learning team with access to a compute farm of ~1000 gpu's could be be following the google recipe. That is a nontrivial expense
830.
by dzdt 10y ago
This article badly needs pictures!
831.
by dzdt 10y ago
I think the engineers (and astronauts) accepted 1 in 100 odds of failure as a price they were willing to accept to be part of the project. That is not a "death machine", just a risky and exciting one. For comparison, that risk i
832.
by dzdt 10y ago
It is kind of a "too little, too late" problem. C added complex numbers a decade after C++ spun off, so the two languages have different approaches. And C99 complex number support was slow to be added to compilers. On the UNIX
833.
by dzdt 10y ago
Fortran is also better at complex numbers. In Fortran these are a native type with every bit as much support as for real floating point types. Not so in the top competing languages (C/C++).
834.
by dzdt 10y ago
I have noticed there is a strong bias that women are more often referred to by their first name compared to men in the same position. For example in discussing college professors, a single-word identifier for a male professor is most often
835.
by dzdt 10y ago
That means they adjust for things like that heart attacks in 80-year-olds are more likely fatal than in 40-year-olds, so a hospital serving mostly the former is expected to have a lower survival rate for heart attack patients. They are tryi
836.
by dzdt 10y ago
Probably the author was using an old unicode reference. They were added relatively late, in Unicode 3.2. Or could be he just missed them!
837.
by dzdt 10y ago
They describe this as a third-generation vehicle, but it still requires multiple human-driver interventions over a single journey. How many more generations to reach reliable true autonomy?
838.
by dzdt 10y ago
Why is why password rolling is then based on an alphabetical roll, or pure numerical increment, or month and year. No real entropy gain!
839.
by dzdt 10y ago
Evil pro-tip : you can output a csv file and name it "foo.xls". Excel will open it fine, with just a click-thru complaint dialog that no one will read anyway.
840.
by dzdt 10y ago
Ironically (?) no such problem on mobile!

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