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by gizmo686 10mo ago
How much would it take up if there was less RAM available. A web browser with a bunch of tabs open but not active seems like the type of system that can increase RAM usage by caching, and decrease it by swapping (either logically at the app
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
This depends on industry. Around here, working locally on laptop is a luxury, and most devs are required to treat their laptop like a thin client. Of course, being developer laptops, they all come with 16 gigs of RAM. In contrast, the remot
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
Asbergers is not a thing anymore. It has been folded into autism, which is now a broader diagnosis than it once was. I'm sure the powers that be had a reason to combine them; and I am no where near qualified to have an opinion on if it
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
I was diagnosed with Asperger's. Nowadays, I say I'm autistic. I don't see how this wouldn't skew the perception of people who know me to think that autism is a more mild condition than it used to be.
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
I blame the DSM for this. DSM 5 merged multiple diagnostics into a single "autism spectrum disorder", which means that the average case of autism became more mild overnight. This moved where the boundary for "severe" aut
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
I think you are thinking of the Abel–Ruffini impossibility theorum, which states that there is no general solution to polynomials of degree 5 or greater using only standard operations and radicals. Galois went a step further and proved that
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
The notion of transcendental is not related to how we right numbers. However, in abstract algebra, we generalize the notion of algebraic/transental to arbitrary fields. In such a framework, a number is only transental relative to a par
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
> Essentially, it means the number cannot be constructed using a finite combination of integers and standard algebraic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and integer roots) Slight clarification, but standard ope
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
X86-64 has the REP prefix for string operation. When combined with the MOVS instruction, that is pretty much an instruction for strcpy.
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
There is a map-territory problem here. There is some underlying reality to what autism is, even if we do not have a good understanding of it; and even if turns out to be multiple unrelated things that happen to have similar symptoms. Of the
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
Having discrete jumps on a mechanical analog clock is not a particularly hard problem. Certainly easier that shrinking an accurate mechanical time keeping device down to wrist watch size. For that matter getting a purely digital display out
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
The power thing is a red herring. "Analog" clocks are almost always electric and digital under the hood. And battery technology has been good enough for them to stay powered for longer than actual analog clocks for decades. If you
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
It's not clear to me what optimizations the compiler actually did here. Years ago, I worked on a niche compiler, and was routinely surprised by what the optimizer was able to figure out; despite having personally written most of the op
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
Having an individual account does not mean that money earmarked for you is sitting in a vault. E.g, our banking system gives everyone an individual account, but does not have enough cash to pay everyone back; and occasionally their other as
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
A limited form of formal verification is already mainstream. It is called type systems. The industry in general has been slowly moving to encode more invariants into the type system, because every invariant that is in the type system is som
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
I might not have built my car myself; but have made several after market upgrades to it. My current car features an after-market head unit and tire pressure sensors that I installed myself. Computers are just the most obvious example becaus
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
That can only go so far. Assuming there is no container/VM escape, most software is built to get used. You can protect yourself from malicious dependencies in the build step. But at some point, you are going to do a production build, t
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
There is a theory that primordial black holes formed in the very early universe. I'm not sure when this process would happen relative to the formation of atoms. But, if it actually happened, it would have been long before stars started
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
The IRS sets the reimbursement rate at $0.7 per mile, which would estimate a 5 mile trip as costing a marginal $3.5
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
Most people are not ML researchers. Most of the AI industry is not AI researchers. Most of the AI spending is not going to AI researchers. AI researchers came up with an architectural improvement that made a lot of previously impossible stu
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
The quoted goal is a 1000x increse over 5 years. That works out to an average of 1.9953x increase every 6 months.
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
Ineffective assistance of counsel is a thing (and does not require suing the lawyer). However, failing to properly object to how some emojis were entered into evidence is no where near the standard of being ineffective.
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
In this case, the file fails quickly. A pretest that consists of just attempting to load the file would have caught it. Minutes is more than enough time to perform such a check.
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
As far as I can tell, gotos are essential for maintainable c-code. In particular, having an end label in a function that handles freeing intermediate variables that may or may not have been allocated is vital for functions with multiple (lo
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
> Isn't it Wisconsin law that lets the Governor change any numeric digits in a law while it's on his or her desk? Pretty close. > (b) If the governor approves and signs the bill, the bill shall become law. Appropriation bill
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
The recent immunity decision isn't particularly relevant to civil suits. Presidents have had civil immunity since Mississippi vs Johnson (1867), which was reaffirmed in Nixon vs Fitzgerald (1982). Barr v. Matteo (1959) is probably most
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by gizmo686 11mo ago
> they tried to take off instead of accelerate past the runway at ground level Do runways have some sort of barrier between them and the next "important" thing. It seems like that would be prudent both for cases like this, and
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by gizmo686 1y ago
If eating food sequestered carbon, then Earth would have turned into an ice ball millions (billions?) of years ago.
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by gizmo686 1y ago
There is another model. Burn your reputation, then start over under another name and burn your reputation again.
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by gizmo686 1y ago
Schools are not designed to calculate the actual cost on a per student basis. Big ticket items like a dedicated SPED department, or a professional working 1:1 with a student can be accounted for. But if a special needs child participates in

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