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by gajjanag 10y ago
> The glue is quite large. Then how is that mpv gets the "glue" work done with significantly fewer lines than VLC, as I pointed out? > I hope you are joking. Look at the performance of ffplay... I am obviously not joking her
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by gajjanag 10y ago
This is part of the reason why I wish we had more of an "open food" movement. As it stands, it is astonishingly difficult to make well reasoned choices about food. There are numerous gimmicks that can be played going far beyond th
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> There is a lot more than just codecs and formats in a media player. :D As you are the VLC lead, I understand where you are coming from. Nevertheless, depending on the perspective, a media player can be legitimately viewed as codecs+fo
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by gajjanag 10y ago
I think yes, but then I have not read TAOCP beyond the first chapter. What I can say is that "Concrete Mathematics" is a terrific book. It is the best general "math for algorithms" book I have seen. Its exercises are won
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by gajjanag 10y ago
I hope not. I really dislike the asymmetry between the ability to take pictures of anyone in public easily (assuming spectacles or an equivalent comes out), with low chance of detection (unlike cameras/phones, which are harder to disgu
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by gajjanag 10y ago
I wish someone did a detailed analysis on the whole drug supply chain, in order to determine the best place in the chain for intervention. I bring this up as I remember a fascinating security economics paper that examined the economics of s
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> ML is the one I'm most excited about at the moment. I don't deny that ML is useful (I work in the field of statistical inference), but I am bothered by the characterization of "ML" as a great invention. First off, &
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Exactly; a good system by definition should be robust to these kinds of things.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
This is a great point, and indeed the article is overly simplistic. I think though that what really matters beyond the base cost in this point is the depreciation cost over time. This is of course much harder to estimate.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Exactly. Memory safety is a very nice property, but is not complete by itself. This primary emphasis on memory safety was part of a critique of Rust by Andrei Alexandrescu: https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-the-bright
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Rich people contribute more to society Maybe in the sense of economic contributions, but this is far from clear for contribution defined in a general sense.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
As someone who has gone down the rabbit hole of measure theory, functional analysis, and the like, I completely agree with the wonderful balance that Prof. Osgood strikes. For a concrete instance, he brings up the distributional viewpoint o
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Nonetheless, the Doomsday Clock has been recently advanced: https://chomsky.info/06122016/ .
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Personally, I had an awful time during my PhD, and between the penury and the toil and the bleak prospects afterward, I'd say you're definitely in the minority on this one. Do you have any evidence for the minority claim beyo
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by gajjanag 10y ago
My fascination with the 777 lead me to a great documentary on Rolls Royce and jet engine manufacture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfomloUg2Gw . Note that Rolls Royce faces stiff competition with chiefly General Electric
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> I think a prison sentence on someone's record will make them more likely to repeat the crime. With the criminal record, minimum wage, or close to, are the only options available. What difference then does it make it if is 30 days
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by gajjanag 10y ago
As I pointed out above, I don't think 3 year prison sentences are an answer. Just saying that the proposed solution of a fine/30 days sentence will likely not decrease the rate of bike theft.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> 1. I would think either a fine or a 30 day sentence is more than enough. What makes you think this will deter them from repeating the crime in the future? For a drug addict in search of a fix, bicycles have high liquidity on the market
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Use Signal: https://whispersystems.org/ I like the idea, but don't know of a good method to get my contacts to use Signal as well without making myself look extreme in my views. Any suggestions for this? For examp
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Freight generally needs to be handle all of the problems that a cab does (turning, stoplights, other cars, getting from point A to point B, etc.), mostly because pretty much all freight trucks need to go through a town/city at som
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> The core thought is that people trade up for comfort (including privacy), but that they lose out on the overall bonds with other people that are what really makes us happy. The fundamental importance of high quality bonds with other pe
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> But market forces only work well when there's a lot of competitors. Facebook, on the other hand, is very close to being a monopoly — and just like relativistic speeds break classic mechanics, just like that the monopoly status bre
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by gajjanag 10y ago
A method that is more complete was described on HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791052 . For OS X implementation, see the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795351 and the
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Any example? Really depends on what means by better and what one values. Still, here are some relatively unambiguous ones: global warming/climate change, the fragile nature of the current equilibrium wrt nuclear weapons. Maybe lon
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Not a whole chapter, but yes, I had forgotten the exchange near Cirith Ungol.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
FWIW, some ideas on how to reduce time spent on cooking: 1. Pressure cooking - saves not just time, but also energy. 2. Cooking in bulk, e.g. over the weekend, freeze or refrigerate the contents, and heating in a microwave over the weekdays
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> That's how you get better stuff though, with cycles. This is an assumption that is not necessarily true. In the short term, there are plenty of examples of places where it is not true. As for this being true "asymptotically&q
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Nobody has written epics about anyone digging someone else's toilets as far as I know. This is not unique to the Mahabharatha or other Indian epics. As for the caste system, yes, it has had a lot of evils. But then almost all populatio
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> I'd even appreciate a "trash mode" for rm as default. Then you do something like "rm purge" and only then it actually kills everything put in between calls. Tons of user documents would have saved that way, ins
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by gajjanag 10y ago
I am a bit surprised that no one else has mentioned the "warrior diet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_diet , explained in more detail in https://books.google.com/books/about/Th

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