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by hcs 7y ago
I think Aaronson addresses your objections in Q12, including claiming that there are some who didn't think even this would be possible (see also Q14). If you built a programmable room for creating a large variety of material and lighti
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by hcs 7y ago
For older phones it would, though there were maybe other exploits available as well? From the first page of the interview: > Before Apple introduced the Secure Enclave and Touch ID in 2013, you didn't have advanced security protecti
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by hcs 7y ago
I think oh_sigh means capturing it when it is entered?
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by hcs 7y ago
Of some interest, the diner aesthetic has a lot to do with railroads: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-diners-look-lik...
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by hcs 7y ago
Schrödinger used the term "negentropy". And there's a story that Norbert Wiener used to wander around MIT telling anyone who would listen that information is negative entropy, including Shannon. (I'm having trouble findi
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by hcs 7y ago
The "equipment" needed is a model of how the points came about. You may already get the point but permit me an example: From an information theory perspective, consider 'apple' vs 'aaaaa'. I submit that if you
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by hcs 7y ago
I take your point, it might have been interesting to talk about how a lot of relativity and quantum mechanics can be thought of in terms of propagation and destruction of information. And for many students, talking about codes is a lot more
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by hcs 7y ago
> The little Enterprise thought-experiment and anecdotal impressions of what "looks" and "doesn't look" disordered is nonsense. I think you're misreading it, the author is trying to make the point that you c
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by hcs 7y ago
The author's point is that "chaos" and "disorder" aren't well defined, usually. The entropy content of a situation can't be computed without knowing the physics that would have gotten it there, just as I c
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by hcs 7y ago
The assembly game in question (by Tomorrow Corporation) is Human Resource Machine, and there's a parallel version out recently called 7 Billion Humans.
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by hcs 7y ago
It does take extra space, but ideally you'd store the exceptional error handling code out-of-line, so that they don't need to take up cache in the common case.
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by hcs 7y ago
Integer overflow checks are disabled by default in release builds, the author noted they were explicitly enabled in this project for additional safety. (This is just for the normal operators, if you use e.g. checked_add() or wrapping_add()
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by hcs 7y ago
Time travel isn't necessarily magical. But thanks for posting this so I didn't feel obligated to.
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by hcs 7y ago
I'll have to check this out. I'm reminded of the hidden Ruby interpreter, too bad that wasn't cleared beforehand, I'm sure there would have been a way to make it work: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/
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by hcs 7y ago
Thanks for the article, I agree that these groups are useful to think with, while I also object to the association of specific people with a particular category. Maybe because I align myself with these people too much, but don't consid
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by hcs 7y ago
Those are certs that not-so-recently expired, the heading is "Millions of certs served have expired".
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by hcs 7y ago
Not exactly ... "In consideration of this contribution and in lieu of paying cash, the Company issued to WE Holdings LLC partnership interests in the We Company Partnership with a fair market value of approximately $5.9 million, which
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by hcs 7y ago
They did ask how the players felt, because the GP has a good point, and included it in the analysis: "3.4.3. Enjoyment item After participants in each condition finished their 8 h of gameplay and before the posttest battery of tests wa
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by hcs 7y ago
Good question, I think there was a break between the training and the posttest, but it isn't quite clear from the description in the paper: "Each participant spent 10 h in the study, which spanned four separate sessions in the on-
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by hcs 7y ago
With apologies for linking to TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringTheory
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by hcs 7y ago
It's been a long time since I was in a Fry's, but at least at the Austin location, whenever I talked with a salesperson and decided to buy something (hard drivers, processors) they'd print up something for me to take to the c
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by hcs 7y ago
This reminds me of the "hole in the wall" kiosk, installed in a slum in New Delhi in a way that was supposed to be accessible only to children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_invasive_education
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by hcs 7y ago
"What is this? Some kind of intergalactic hyper-hearse?"
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by hcs 7y ago
"if Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists" - Ian Malcolm
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by hcs 7y ago
https://archive.org/details/1quantumMechanicsByPamDirac I don't know where to start looking, but there's the book (in the original English) for any interested. Edit: a better scan, of the 1st ed: https:&#x2F
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by hcs 7y ago
As danieldk mentioned elsewhere, you could get partway there with std::borrow::Borrow impl<T> Add<T> for &Vector3 where T: Borrow<Vector3>
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by hcs 7y ago
> Namely, how are you going to multiply a struct like d1 by an f32? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_multiplication Here's a Rust Playground with the vector math impls he's probably assuming (dummied):
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by hcs 7y ago
Using references to temporaries is at least slightly less painful with a ref pattern: let ref a = p1 + &(d1*s); let ref b = p2 + &(d2*t); dot_product_by_borrow(&(b - a), &(b - a))
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by hcs 7y ago
Joe base26(md5("null"))
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by hcs 7y ago
Oops, it was an Asian pear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrus_pyrifolia

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