hasmanean

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by hasmanean 3y ago
Well 3rd party libraries that are sloppy may be fixed by a psychological method…if you had an autotest environment that fuzzed the inputs and checked for correctness, you could label each library as “robust” or “weak” and leave it at that.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Well using analog effects in digital logic has its risks…at relativistic speeds the capacitor dimensions will change, altering capacitance. Depending on the direction of travel, it could go up or down. ;)
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Or maybe they’re the least sarcastic. Every other country in the world has people who just say “yeah life sucks” while enjoying themselves fully.
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Ask HN: What shape from nature would make an interesting soapstone carving?
2 points by hasmanean 3y ago|1 comments
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by hasmanean 3y ago
“Ecosystem” means advertisers.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
So with the co2 forcing function, is it possible that Canada be glaciated again And that the Sahara be green? That would fly in the face of conventional thinking which is that Canada will be temperate and the Sahara will be more arid.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Humans have this ability to obfuscate any issue. When there is a simple pattern for things some people always take edge cases and argue that the pattern is really not true. They don’t understand how models of the world work. Of course it’
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by hasmanean 3y ago
I’ve heard monoculture forests are worse for forest fires too. Having dead decaying logs on the forest floor probably helps because fungi are naturally fire resistant.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
I have been thinking about Norse and Native American myths lately, and it seems to me that their purpose was not to be a scientifically accurate description of the world…but they were meant to be memorable inside an oral culture. If the mig
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by hasmanean 3y ago
If you’re shifting right, the behaviour ought to be Unsigned: should produce a zero Signed: should sign extend the leftmost bit, so it will either be 0 or -1 Shifting left should result in a 0.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Where are the concrete ones? I want to build a Lego house I can live in. (Non sarcasm)
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by hasmanean 3y ago
if you didn’t hate it enough, styrofoam is part of a hydrogen bomb…it absorbs gamma rays from the uranium nuke, heats up, and becomes a hot plasma. Then it causes fusion in the lithium deuteride, which is the fusion fuel.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
How hard is it to use AI to generate fonts on demand?
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Yes, 20m and 40m are packed. Activity peaks in the evening and follows the ionospheric conditions. The other bands are mostly empty but may perk up during this solar cycle. VHF and UHF are less popular than HF. Digital modes are active, as
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by hasmanean 3y ago
I’d rather comment here. ;) I hope they don’t plan to use the ham bands. They are jammed with traffic while the much bigger commercial shortwave bands next door are empty! If they do allocate spectrum for fixed commercial use, I hope they a
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by hasmanean 3y ago
A lot of people look at sorting algorithms with the mental model of a 1970s era PDP-8. They analyze scalar instructions as if they are being executed sequentially. Once you admit superscalar execution (multiple loadstore pipes), out of orde
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Usually the hardware makers are the first to profit after a revolution, but then the next biggest thing in the stack (software) makes 10x the money. In the 1990s Cisco and the ISPs were the biggest internet companies, then it quickly moved
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by hasmanean 3y ago
In a different universe we would have been happy with the limitations of html and published everything with a minimal of markup.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Hard for a human.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
As the hype around AI shows, humans can barely reason either. “AI will destroy humanity!” “AI is a blathering idiot!” No proper reasons.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Back then memory latency was faster than a cpu clock cycle so it was not needed.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
So load it with an electrical generator and use power electronics to present a constant load. Problem solved. Many old high efficiency engine designs were discarded because they had poor torque characteristics at the bottom end of their spe
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Where does polonium come from in tobacco fields? If it’s in the topsoil then why wouldn’t it be depleted after 3 or 4 crops? Was it released into some Appalachian watershed by Oak Ridge and is therefore in the rivers/groundwater?
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by hasmanean 3y ago
It’s stuck. Imagine if they put the transmitter right at the base of the antenna. Then you would not need all that coax. You might need impedance matching to make the antenna resonant but that’s all and it could be done continuously.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Imagine the headlines when humans try to immigrate to other inhabited planets: “They’re bringing pollution, they’re bringing Extinction, and some of the I assume might actually enhance the ecosystems they inhabit.” It’s not such a hard skil
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Not over-population. Over consumption. Actually over-production since a lot of food is wasted before consumption.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Isn’t that a dead giveaway? The universe expanded outwards at the speed of light from a central point…the radius is 21.5 billion lightyears and the diameter is 43B.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Of all the cubes in the world, there will always be one, his mothers gift, that is forbidden for him to solve. This is a great mystery. It’s a Rubik’s complex.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
That’s probably what the antediluvian civilization said before they tried it in North Africa! ;)
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Pre drill your screw holes.

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