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by eesmith 1y ago
Sure, and one of my co-workers in Palo Alto had his primary residence in Washington State. But at least he rented a studio in the Bay Area for when he was down during the week. Here, the two bedrooms were added to the police station so the
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by eesmith 1y ago
Do I read it right that that GNU Coreutils has fewer than 700 tests? That seems rather a small amount.
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You wrote: "Every single time I read about this, it's the person adopting it who claims they don't smell. Not others around them." This article breaks your observational streak: "And before you ask: He appears well-
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Constitutional guarantees are in "tension" with each other. (That's the phrase I've heard lawyer-type people use.) The Constitution also says that Congress can regulate interstate commerce, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
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> And they point out, the school, with a $15 billion endowment that is larger than some Ivy League universities, takes no federal funding. Just because there's discrimination, that doesn't make it illegal. So, sure, it's d
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by eesmith 1y ago
I am not a subscriber. In LibreWolf I went to the page then switched to reader mode.
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Not well. "When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential syst
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https://www.usmint.gov/resources/business-guidelines-faq > Can I melt, drill holes through, or mutilate U.S. coins? > Maybe. It is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 331 to alter a U.S. or foreign coin with the intent to
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by eesmith 1y ago
In answer to my own question, no, except for the trivial expansion to 64-bits. https://cdb.cr.yp.to/cdb-20251021/cdb_hash.c.html with constants at https://cdb.cr.yp.to/cdb-20251021/cdb.h.html .
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Good catch, and yes, it would seem so.
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And update the hash algorithm, yes?
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My guess was right. "18 when she married 81-year-old Union Civil War veteran". Civil War vets had pretty good benefits, which would continue with their dependents. Some married for those benefits. A few spouses of Civil War vets l
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by eesmith 1y ago
Sure, but there are all sorts of known legal risks to title. That's why title insurance exists. Do Canadian title insurance regulations really allow the insurance companies to not provide coverage for indigenous land claims? That seems
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by eesmith 1y ago
I don't know about Canada but in the US we get title insurance as purchasing the land doesn't grant indefeasible title. It's not like this issue is unique to First Nations and treaty rights.
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If it is fake, why do the data centers do all they can do hide their water consumption, including NDAs ( https://virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/data-centers-non-disc... ) and lobbying against forced disclosure
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by eesmith 1y ago
The 100% branch testing is on the compiled binary. To exempt unreachable assert branches, turn off assertions, compile, and test. A more complex C program can have index range checking at a different place than the simple array access. The
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This concerned Hertz's experimental verification of Maxwell's work, in the 1880s.
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> Completely baffled as to who said this Follow the URL after "Quoting", on the line immediately following what you quoted. I gave URLs so you could read what actual experts are saying and doing. > Only that industry dwarfs
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> though I'm sure smoke stacks loft that significantly in many cases It must be nice believing that your personal views are always correct. To know that those geoengineers who want to disperse aluminum oxide to reduce the Earth&#x27
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That aluminum is not in the upper atmosphere. Quoting https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89909-7.pdf > ... the satellites are mostly aluminum; most meteoroids, in contrast, contain less than 1% Al by mass 25
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One key difference is the satellites have a lot of aluminum - a light element - while meteors do not. Estimates I've seen are that the amount of Al in the upper atmosphere will be dominated by satellite demise. And we don't know h
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The fancy word for assuming O(1) access and not needing to spill over into longer addressing modes is, I believe, "transdichotomous model" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdichotomous_model > In comput
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My desktop CPU came out in 2017, so 8 years old. sum() of a list with 100M floats took 0.65 seconds. The explicit loop took 1.5 seconds on CPython 3.13. But again, yes, Rust performance runs rings around CPython, but that's not enough
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The int/long unification occurred a long time ago. ("long" was Python's name for BigNum.) There is now no such thing as "exceed the bounds of its provided integer types". Guido van Rossum, who started and lead
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Ahh, so you do the find first, and keep that around before loading. I have bad memories of using a network filesystem where my Python app's startup time was 5 or more seconds because of all the small file lookups for the import were re
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My post was a response to the sedatk conjectural "I wonder how much things would break if all imports were lazy by default." I have zero concerns about this PEP and look forward to its implementation.
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All my code which uses import probing would fail, such as fallbacks: try: import module except ImportError: import slow_module as module Conditional support testing would also break, like having tests which only run if modu
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Is this satire? > First, get rid of speed bumps. It is ridiculous in 2025 to limit car speed by making roads unpleasant. Second, it’s time to make speed cameras properly Bayesian: every time you drive past a camera at a legal speed, you
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by eesmith 1y ago
Let me see if I have it right. You don't like Python's use of IEEE 754 float64 for its "float" type because it's already so slow that you think Python should use a data type which better fits the expectations of pri
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You shouldn't add hundred million 32-bit floating point numbers in the naive way. You should use Kahan or Neumaier summation. In Python these are available as math.fsum() and (in recent Python releases) the built-in sum function. If yo

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