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by gizmo686 3y ago
You can run networking through phone lines similar to coax.
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We've known the current crop of AI is hilariously vulnerable to jailbreaking. Complete amateur humans are regularly able to do so with less than a days work. If the story was "AI driven fuzzer finds 0 day in popular application&qu
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by gizmo686 3y ago
The bill only applies to the TSA. Customs and border protection are still allowed to do so.
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This observation is the reason we think the universe is expanding. As an analogy, consider the 2 dimensional surface on the surface of a balloon. As you inflate the balloon, the distance between any 2 points increases, and it increases more
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by gizmo686 3y ago
So, it is less that "Wayland does not support screensavers", and more of "Wayland supports screensavers that work like they did under X. But the way things worked under X is so stupid that it is not worth considering".
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by gizmo686 3y ago
> Does second mover in Go have some sort of artificial benefit in scoring or playing? As in -- is there something to compensate for moving second? Yes. The second player typically gets an extra 6.5 or 7.5 points.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
For Japanese, the choose to talk only about the phonetic system is doing a lot of work, as it is (mostly) just used for grammatical purposes, with most content words being mostly or entirely composed of the non-phonetic Kanji. A typical Jap
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The article specifically addresses this point. The argument is that both public and private spaces are highly regulated, so having a space of your own is nessasary for freedeom. If society would let the homeless people do as they like in pu
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Code is here: https://github.com/emilk/ram_bench/blob/master/list_traversa... The author makes 2 allocations: Node* memory = (Node*)malloc(N * sizeof(Node)); Node** nodes = (Node**)malloc(N * s
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by gizmo686 3y ago
As it turns out, the information density of a region of space is bounded by it's surface area, not its volume. If you try exceeding that bound, you collapse into a black hole. This observation led to the idea of the Holographic princip
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by gizmo686 3y ago
You sometimes see Õ(_) as a variant of O(_) that ignores logarithmic factors. Unfortunately, you cannot extend Big-O to ignore sqrt(n) without ignoring all polynomials.
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We've had an in-orbit base for over 20 years without any claim of future tax revenue or commercial viability. On Earth, we have a long history of establishing research bases in places where there is no potential for a viable colony (e.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Practically speaking, the bigger issue is going to be that you don't have wires going to where you want them. Cat 5e supports gigabit speed and was became the standard in 2001. Practically speaking, many cat5 cables from before than ha
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Founder in what? Figure out what your core competency is and keep up to date on that. For everything else, stick with the tried and true.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Primality is defined for any ring (although some rings have no primes). If you are asking about prime integers, then negative primes are themselves prime. Most of what you know of primality still holds if you add 'up to unit multiples&
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by gizmo686 3y ago
In a lot of intersections, pedestrians cross a road at the same time that cars going in the same direction do. That means that a right on green is turning directly into a pedestrian lane that has the walk signal. A right on red, in contrast
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Who says you cannot remove the exit strategy? A business model of selling out to the monopolist is not innovation; it is a few investors extracting protection money from the monopolist. To the extent that VC produces genuine innovation, the
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Google is currently defending an antitrust lawsuit.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Public figures need to prove "actual malice" [0]. If you are a private figure, you need only show negligence. [0] Actual malice itself is a term of art. It does not require malice in the normal sense. Just a reckless disregard for
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by gizmo686 3y ago
With regular multiplication, the numbers are the "real" thing you are interested in. In a vector space, the fundemantal object is the vector. Writing it as a sequence of numbers with an assumed basis is a notational convience. If
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by gizmo686 3y ago
That seems plausible. Cognitive dissonance seems to play a significant role as a social lubricant. Even if there is no direct relationship with autism, the reduced social capacity could mean that they simply do not have the opportunity to d
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Years ago, I went through ~3 wireless mice in as many months because the left click button would keep failing. Not completely failing, it would just develop a bounce, where a single click would register as a dozen or so. When the 3rd failed
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by gizmo686 3y ago
> We don’t expect it to replace Xorg as default any time soon
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One of the big constraints on the Pi is thermal. The more heat yout power system puts intobthe board, the less you can afford to have your processor. If you are going to add a heatsink and active cooling, this is probably not an issue. But
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by gizmo686 3y ago
In 2021, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of it, in part because the court found that Congress was activly looking into it. According to the court, in 2020 a congressional commission tasked with lo
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by gizmo686 3y ago
The US also has forced conscription. It hasn't been used since the 70s, but the legal/constitutional ability of the government to do so is pretty much undisputed (although there is some surprisingly recent controversy about the ma
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Its useful for implementing arbitrary precision integers.
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Thats kind of the point. Catering to the intolerant is practically free, and the tolerant barely notice, so naturally the intolerant win. The kosher lemonade example is good because it is at the extreme end where almost no one can take offe
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In some circumstances, the US. When calculating your taxable, you can deduct state and local taxes from your income for federal tax purposes. This is generally not worth it, since you would give up deducting your state income tax. Even then
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Its a talk show. Far from having a monopoly, Apple is a small player in this space.

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