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by ermir 5y ago
I gave this some thought and came to the conclusion that a continuous wave hitting a fractal would not have a defined reflection, since the fractal does not have a traditional derivative it would also not have a tangent at a point.
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by ermir 5y ago
I assume these waves are not continuous but made out of many points and then just simulated over time, like a game engine. But since fractals have infinite detail, does that mean that for every number of points we choose for the wave we&#x2
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by ermir 5y ago
This is not a mere leak from some government office, but also includes a lot of "notes" by local Socialist Party staff that are assigned to "watch over" a small section of their local population, such as an apartment blo
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by ermir 5y ago
Most factory-made food has preservatives and other stuff that stabilize the food and prevent botulism. In particular many foods use vinegar to increase acidity and make it impossible for botulism to bloom.
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by ermir 5y ago
The botulism spores are abundant in soil, but they don't get activated unless the conditions are met. The main condition is an environment without oxygen and the presence of proteins, which happen both in sealed oil-garlic containers.
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by ermir 5y ago
Botulism is why you cannot make and keep garlic oil, every time you want to use it you must make a fresh batch.
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by ermir 5y ago
Damn, I was just kidding but apparently others were not: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-we-should-star...
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by ermir 5y ago
Next up: How Eating Insects Is Proof That The Future Is Now.
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by ermir 5y ago
And the square root of that is 135, which causes 25% of the total trouble. If we could only find these people and get rid of them, we'd have paradise on Earth! And that's how genocides start.
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by ermir 5y ago
It’s about normalizing vacation, and having a minimum means you’ll take as much time off as anyone else on the team. Unlimited PTO means take as much as you want, but you have to have excellent social awareness to not damage your standing.
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by ermir 5y ago
https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A... Found the old explanation, it seems I had misremembered some details but it’s still super insane.
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by ermir 5y ago
A few years back the FB app reached Android’s limit for the number of classes defined in the codebase (2^16), so the FB engineers wrote a hack that ran before the app to somehow bypass this limit. Apparently they don’t delete anything and j
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by ermir 5y ago
Sounds very cruel, another sign that we can't control our technological growth at all. I have a friend, a former FAANG veteran that has dedicated his life to destroying what he calls "techno-Satan", maybe he's on to some
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by ermir 5y ago
My experience as a programmer has taught me that this will be the most evil thing we can do to ourselves.
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by ermir 5y ago
I guess it is true in this particular example, since 0 is a primitive and assigned by value. But what if you got it from an outside function, such as init(), and it was an object instead? Then you would have to guarantee that the return val
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by ermir 5y ago
If you have code like: let x = 0; doSomethingAsync(); // does not touch x console.log(x); There's no guarantee that x will have the value 0 by the time you get to console.log(x). The value of x might have been changed by an o
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by ermir 5y ago
I tried this exact thing last year, and it does not work for a particular reason: the JavaScript event loop guarantees that a function will run to the end before any callbacks will run, but an await is an implicit callback (a Promise under
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by ermir 5y ago
Your incentive is to beat the bigger game, that is, the one that maintains your friendship and keeps the other person playing. If one person is significantly better than the other and wins all the time, the other party will lose interest an
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by ermir 5y ago
The chips, PCB, and all electronics have their embedded serial number in them. It's very likely many of these will survive a direct explosion, and once these identifiers are extracted from them, the supplier/manufacturer/vend
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by ermir 5y ago
The unspoken issue with these drones is the fact that they’re widely available and made up of commercial-off-the-shelf components. A guided missile requires expertise in chemistry, materials science, and a lot of expensive experimentation.
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by ermir 5y ago
Making stuff like this still requires specialized software, but software development is far more readily available and accessible. The proliferation of software is also essentially effortless, so a terrorist group or similar could have a si
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by ermir 5y ago
It's the same multiplying effect that software has on other business ventures. Software can be scaled, optimized, perform complex features, and duplicated without cost.
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by ermir 5y ago
By "softwareization" I mean the transfer of the difficulty of making weapons from software to hardware. Programmers and programming knowledge is far more widely available that specialized hardware or techniques. We've already
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by ermir 5y ago
I've been dreading the "softwareification" of weapons for quite a few years now. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about how weapons can nowadays be readily and cheaply made with commodity parts and
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by ermir 5y ago
You go for a looks-like prototype when you have a team and want to inspire them to move forward, when you want to impress investors or when you are planning a Kickstarter or similar. You go for a works-like prototype when you're experi
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by ermir 5y ago
An MVP in the gaming space is a complete demonstration of your core gameplay loop. For example, an MVP Pokemon game would have one urban and one area with tall grass, 2-3 Pokemon, 2-3 NPCs with dialogue, 2-3 NPCs with that challenge you to
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by ermir 5y ago
Disgust is intimately tied to the defense against disease and pathogens, and the wrinkled snout/nose serves the function of closing down the airways to prevent pathogens from getting inside. Jordan Peterson has an excellent series of l
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by ermir 6y ago
The "truth" and "reality" categories are particularly destructive landmines, as without a shared understanding of the world there can be no communication, therefore violent conflict is inevitable. It feels like these men
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by ermir 6y ago
After seeing the philosophical landscape in places like YouTube, I can't help but agree. A large proportion of Philosophy YouTube channels push forward arguments that are completely wild and outside the realm of experience of the norma
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by ermir 6y ago
What I feel is the missing piece that would tie a truly decentralized social network is a decentralized identity management system. I am ordinarily a massive blockchain skeptic, but it could possibly be usable here. It should be possible to

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