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by filmfact 6y ago
I just stared at a globe, and it’s possible, but not from a geostationary orbit. Think about a hemisphere projected onto a 2d circle - you can see all points on the surface of the hemisphere on the projection. Logically it must be possible
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by filmfact 6y ago
But do you agree it would be a bad shooting if you subtract the taser?
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by filmfact 6y ago
>>> If anyone else had done the same, I have no doubt it'd end the same way. But isn’t that the problem though? Shouldn’t police only use deadly force in the face of an imminent objectively reasonable deadly threat? Someone ru
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by filmfact 6y ago
Lets restructure the problem slightly, so the objection is clearer. Instead of binary data, think of decimal numbers. We’ll take a five digit number and compress using function f to a four digit one. We could come up with many different way
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by filmfact 6y ago
Exactly. A more specific objection is that the ‘pigeonhole principle‘ applies. Another way of looking at it is reducing it to absurdity: if it worked, you could repeatedly apply such a compression scheme until you are left with just a singl
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by filmfact 7y ago
Checkout this talk by Brandon Rhodes - it explains the context in which the Hobbit and LoTR were written in. I won’t spoil it, but I think it’ll answer your question. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVlqBxpCG24 It’s also, coi
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by filmfact 7y ago
Thanks - I hadn’t come across the exclusion ranges in postgresql before - I’d need to take a look at how it works in practice.
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by filmfact 7y ago
Best to use a database with native bi-temporal support, a query planner can get very confused about tables with bi-temporal columns and few constraints, to the extent that it always fails to push the temporal conditions up through the joins
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by filmfact 7y ago
Blooms 2 Sigma problem [1] suggests that while it is cheaper to get access to the material, you’ll do better if taught by an expert tutor. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
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by filmfact 7y ago
>>> Windows 7 was supported with security updates for over 10 years (2009-2020). Second to only Windows XP (13 years) So basically forever = 10 years as far as you are concerned? I have an elixir of immortality that you might be in
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by filmfact 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_asylum
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by filmfact 7y ago
Well to be fair to the 2600 - the ibm bios brings a fair few kilobytes of code to the fight.
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by filmfact 7y ago
Isn’t this a hyperloglog?
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by filmfact 8y ago
Quick and dirty
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by filmfact 8y ago
It’s an okay operating system, but it could use a good text editor.
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by filmfact 9y ago
Actually it has to do with how film is shot. Lightbulbs pulse at mains frequency, shoot indoors at 24fps in 50hz land and you'll get a horrible 1hz strobe effect. There are tricks you can do with shutter angle that negate this, but the