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by firethief 6y ago
Apparently it was no longer enough to frequency-scale the lower-utilization human brains.
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by firethief 6y ago
> The coin toss example given here seems tautological. Why would my unfair coin have to abide by some norm of probability? If I were designing such a coin, it would obviously include a mechanism for tracking state such that if the last t
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by firethief 6y ago
That can get arbitrarily close to true, but I think it is false
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by firethief 6y ago
Addition is O(log n), so the naive version is O(n log n). Gauss would have used a pre-[1960]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm ) multiplication algorithm, with complexity at best O((log n) ^ 2). Using an
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by firethief 6y ago
> This is binary all-or-nothing thinking. It considers 90% the same as 0%, since both are not 100%. Thinking is not just "binary or not"; there are degrees. If exposing that group of people would be 90% pointless, it's not
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by firethief 6y ago
It's a known long-term-battery-health issue. The catching-on-fire part is not normal.
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by firethief 6y ago
Not quite. Ages are usually counted from 0. ln(0) is undefined, but after that from the first moment after birth until some time in its 52nd day, a dog's age is negative in dog-time (that's probably why it's considered import
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by firethief 6y ago
Ok, so if clean water is unavailable for more than a few weeks, hop on down to the clinic and trade some ammo for a thyroid checkup? If you're planning for the end of the world, then yes you'll want a backup water plan. For realis
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by firethief 6y ago
Thru-hikers use it for six months at a time. It's safe enough for emergency use for someone with no preexisting thyroid issues.
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by firethief 6y ago
> I'm having a hard time convincing myself to leave iTerm for Alacritty, just for a speed boost. I've never understood why anyone would want a higher-throughput terminal. Better latency I could see, but throughput? I'm not
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by firethief 6y ago
It couldn't be that stupid-sounding by accident. I think the name is a defense against people feeling like it's a pretentious thing to order at McDonald's.
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by firethief 6y ago
> I wonder if the Apple appstore (at least watchOS/tvOS) approach of using bitcode as the one-time artifact and then turning that into concrete instructions later would be possible for an entire Linux distribution (Gentoo II). I cou
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by firethief 6y ago
I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering. I used to have diskless machines on my network set up the non-nix way: system directories full of tftp and pxe stuff; root directories constructed by an OS's installation proc
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by firethief 6y ago
Another way you can use nix-shell: with Nix, shell scripts can declare their dependencies. For a random example, I have a script that extracts chapter information from a DVD. Its shebang looks like this: #!/usr/bin/env
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by firethief 6y ago
Let it wait
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by firethief 6y ago
> I specifically like the idea of zero waste stores where you bring your own containers to fill. Not only do you eliminate waste, reusable and sealable containers are so much nicer than what most products come in. How would the food arri
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by firethief 6y ago
On second thought, the choice they've made isn't as sadistic as it sounds. I was thinking of the standard as a contract between the language implementor and the programmer, but actually it is a contract between the language implem
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by firethief 6y ago
This would be kind of hilarious if true. It seems like they could have just said: malloc won't give you a pointer that overlaps with the storage of any live malloc'd object. Such a malloc is implementable without too much troubl
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by firethief 6y ago
In the dark ages, that would have allowed a single-pass compiler to reuse registers more aggressively.
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by firethief 6y ago
Other languages manage to be parsable without the syntactic aesthic getting Lovecraftian. I think the other factor in C++ is the how much has been added to the language while maintaining backward-compatibility.
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by firethief 6y ago
> Evaporation rate should be proportional to surface area, so the volume of extra water you need to add to make up for that should also be proportional to the surface area too. This would be accurate at room temperature, but under stovet
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by firethief 6y ago
Fasting has downsides in a population at risk of muscle wasting, and vitamin C induces high oxidative stress in this dose range. What's to research?
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by firethief 6y ago
Really? How many pounds of it do you think you could eat in a day?
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by firethief 6y ago
Cars are not an animal, nor are they energy-efficient compared to a condor. And Steve's dead.
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by firethief 6y ago
For the "gig economy" to become a good example of positive things as far as wadges / benefits and etc goes, the market tech would need to lack power over the workers, whether because of competition or regulation. That's
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by firethief 6y ago
Cheapness of labor is not necessary for the system the author is describing to work (although it's probably a factor in how that system is able to be the present equilibrium). The system in Quito may be less efficient (i.e. there may b
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by firethief 6y ago
If people took a high-tech test and were told that that advice was personalized, imagine how much better compliance would be though.
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by firethief 6y ago
I can't tell if this is satire or an extreme example of the logic motivated reasoning leads to
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by firethief 6y ago
> Whether it's suburban coyotes killing off family pets (a big problem in my suburb at the moment) or rural clashes between ranchers and wolves, you cannot just let the situation unfurl without official intervention. This is complet
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by firethief 6y ago
That's explained by the Anthropic Principle. In the universes where the almighty added surfactants, we wouldn't be here talking about it.

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