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by firstlink 4y ago
Essentially illegal in the US though, given school requirements.
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by firstlink 4y ago
> That only includes a subset of the total attempts that you would start selecting a door, not all. In the trial invalidation version of the problem, but not in the problem as stated. The problem as stated provides, the host does not r
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by firstlink 4y ago
> Fair point, but the host can only reliable pick an empty box if he knows which boxes are empty You're ignoring the difference by posing a non mathematical objection to the statement of the problem. This is like having a physics pr
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by firstlink 4y ago
After two years, the SFC is escalating to "asking publicly". Wow, they really are great stewards of the copyrights which have been assigned to them!
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by firstlink 4y ago
This alternate problem (commonly known as "Monty Fall") has always infuriated me more than the original. I do not believe it is possible that it matters whether the host "knows" or doesn't. The problem asks for the
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by firstlink 4y ago
I think the 100 box explanation misses a subtlety in the problem. Conditional on those 98 boxes being empty, box 17 and box 68 are equally likely to have the prize. The key is that you have a large probability of backing the host into a cor
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by firstlink 4y ago
> Oxide not only offers the best healthcare plans we could find, but we also pay 100% of monthly premiums – a significant benefit for those with dependents. I confess I read TFA just to see when the other shoe would drop, and there it is
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by firstlink 4y ago
This has been repeated ad nauseam but it does not pass the smell test. If SVB were solvent then it would not be in receivership.
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by firstlink 4y ago
ABI compat: yet another price we pay for the legacy incremental compilation hack known as linking.
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by firstlink 4y ago
> iterators > without loops This is a false dichotomy. You can use iterators to replace three-clause loops without changing the body: for row in 0..rows { for col in 0..cols { arr[row][col] } } This is
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by firstlink 4y ago
If the scope is the lifetime of the program, then it hardly makes a difference. Note that rust programs exit upon return from main anyways.
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by firstlink 4y ago
> When you write `int a;` you create a variable which has `sizeof(int)` bytes of memory. It doesn't work with Rust, a place in memory is an attribute of value not of variable. `let a: i32` doesn't allocate memory, memory will c
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by firstlink 4y ago
Doing this using a destructor, or worse in straight-line code, turns out to be unsound. So it's more than marginally useful for those familiar with Chesterton's fence.
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by firstlink 4y ago
What you're suggesting is that a political preference to put the experts in positions of power is actually bad?
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by firstlink 4y ago
> in shell This advice is highly dependent on specific choice of shell. This kind of quoting is unnecessary and discouraged in zsh, for example.
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by firstlink 4y ago
`cargo install` is a one-shot build of a program and all of its dependencies from source; in what sense does it "update" any crates?
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by firstlink 4y ago
> you do use it but have safe guards in place Isn't this the same thing that everyone else is doing, except they're not pretending to be special by falsely claiming that they're using no unsafe? My impression of `forbid(un
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by firstlink 4y ago
The only time I've ever used a signed integer rust is to store (temporarily) an offset of some unsigned value!
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by firstlink 4y ago
This seems right at first; however, about half of the armv8 spec is taken up by a copy of the armv7 spec and info about interop between the two ISAs. So armv8 isa is considerably constrained not only by the interop requirements, whereby an
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by firstlink 5y ago
> I believe unvaccinated people seeking medical treatment from the same "elitist establishment" they had nothing but scorn for is a somewhat more obvious demonstration of the same principle. Many people, whether anti-vax or not
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by firstlink 5y ago
You mean, literally the very first (non-nav) link on their homepage ( https://archive.is/dL91E )? I.e. https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IR0546-FDA-Pfiz... ? The one titled &quo