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by groos 1y ago
It wasn't shut down but definitely hobbled after they lost the lawsuit and were forced to pull copyrighted content from their site that they used to allow signed-in users to check out an hour at a time. My visits to the site dropped 10
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by groos 1y ago
Modern medicine is hardly logical where therapies are concerned. There is often not any coherent theory of why a therapy works and yet it may be commonly used in treatments. If you examine the literature supplied with your drugs, it often s
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by groos 1y ago
After reading the Road, I started on Blood Meridian and could not continue, swearing never to read McCarthy again. The man's soul was just too dark.
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by groos 1y ago
What is the point? Who wants to watch these videos?
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by groos 1y ago
No Curta? This is the one I actually own.
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by groos 1y ago
Some statistics from the sentencing page: Median age 27 Male: 98% Female: 2% Youngest: 19 Oldest: 64 Median prison time: 12 months Median probation time: 24 months All of the above were Copilot inferred. Don't know why I need to know t
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by groos 1y ago
Have you not seen any news coming out of Gaza for the past two years? It's a desolate flattened lunarscape. Israel never had any intent of avoiding civilian deaths. Quite the contrary in fact and they still have their eyes on the West
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by groos 1y ago
You don't need repro steps if Apple is serious about quality. Just the description of what's happening should give enough to a senior Apple engineer to intuit where this is possibly happening and create tests that will stress thei
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by groos 1y ago
Many thanks.
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by groos 1y ago
Is there a reference for ODEs that you like?
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by groos 1y ago
I always see RK(Fe) mentioned but almost never Bulirsch-Stoer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulirsch%E2%80%93Stoer_algorit... ). Some years ago, I was looking to do high precision orbital motion (involving several bodi
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by groos 1y ago
Why would I use it, when it has every possibility of getting yanked in the future?
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by groos 1y ago
The two main parts of a typical C++ compiler are the front-end, which handles language syntax and semantic analysis, and the back-end, which handles code generation. C++ makes it difficult to implement the front-end as a multithreaded progr
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by groos 1y ago
Needs a tweak for programming: () looks like []. Otherwise, I like it.
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by groos 1y ago
We, in the tech industry, go all starry-eyed when we imagine utopian futures filled with robots that will do all your tedious chores. But a dark side of this that goes unnoticed is that such automation is often just a way for money to be tr
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by groos 1y ago
What most people don't realize is that Alzheimer's - and its friend FTD - are terminal diseases with life expectancy just as bad as many cancers. Hardly anyone makes it to 5 years after diagnosis. The bodily degeneration that even
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by groos 1y ago
Suicide is quite a stretch without any supporting evidence from the pilots' backgrounds. I would take mental fog, cognitive overload, wrong muscle memory, even a defective fuel cutoff system over suicide.
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by groos 1y ago
One thing I've experienced in trying to use LLMs to code in an existing large code base is that it's _extremely_ hard to accurately describe what you want to do. Oftentimes, you are working on a problem with a web of interactions
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by groos 1y ago
It's the general ellipsoid formula: x*2/a*2 + y*2/b*2 + z*2/c*2 = 1, where a, b and c are all unequal. The interesting part is actually that this shape could be made of a liquid, held by gravitation and maintain this asy
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by groos 1y ago
All Abrahamic faiths ban lending where the returned amount is greater than that borrowed, i.e. charging interest. Judaism "worked around" it by banning it amongs Jews but allowed lending on interest to non-Jews. Christianity origi
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by groos 1y ago
Ignore the naysayers here. Good job!
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by groos 1y ago
What a delight! Thanks for the link.
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by groos 1y ago
I once pulled on a glass pipette too hard and got benzene in my mouth. This was 36 years ago, still doing well :-)
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by groos 1y ago
I had this conversation with a friend: HIM: AI is going to take all entry level jobs soon. ME: So the next level one up will become entry level? HIM: Yes. ME: Inductively, this can continue up to the CEO. What about the CEO? HIM. Wait...
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by groos 1y ago
OP should try Scholax as well. I'm very partial to it.
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by groos 1y ago
I had the same thought - what Matt's examples required was strong typing and that has existed for very long time outside of the C family world.
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by groos 1y ago
What a strange statement. Turkish (the Language) existed before the Ataturk's forced conversion into Romanized script and previously used the extended Arabic script. There are other languages which are written in multiple scripts, even
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by groos 1y ago
Software doesn't write itself. It's the salesmen behind the software.
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by groos 1y ago
I hate getting startled, even when I realize right away that there is nothing to worry about. But the physiological effects, once set in motion, carry on. My heart seems to skip a beat and then rev up to a high rate and it's uncomforta
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by groos 2y ago
This is a little bit of bait and click. Of course, SequenceEquals is not as fast as memcmp in absolute terms. In a C or C++ program memcmp usually translates into a compiler intrinsic under optimization. It's only slower than SequenceE

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