irishsultan

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by irishsultan 4y ago
Your original statement was that carbon dioxide stays for thousands of years, methane goes away after twenty. So the fact that "going away" in this context means "is replaced by carbon dioxide, which stays for thousands of ye
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by irishsultan 4y ago
AMDs server processors are named after italian cities (Bergamo, Turin, ...), their desktop and laptop CPUs and APUs are painters (Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, ...), but that hasn't been entirely been consistent (e.g. the latest threadrip
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by irishsultan 4y ago
`cal -m 4` should work for that as well.
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by irishsultan 4y ago
> The nuance here is that we have to somehow be able to distinguish 0.5 - eps from 0.5 for very small epsilon. If you ignore the problem then the problem indeed goes away. The need for distinguishing very small epsilon exists because of
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by irishsultan 4y ago
> For instance: > let x = 2 > Introduces a new name and binds it to the value 2 while > if let Some(x) = y > Is a shorthand for pattern matching. Both introduce a new name (x) and both pattern match, it's just that the p
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by irishsultan 4y ago
> You _have_ to create a video. That’s a requirement. How is that in any way related to your comment that he shouldn't complain about it? If it wasn't a requirement then there would be no reason to complain in the first place.
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by irishsultan 4y ago
> If I start making pizzas in India and because mozzarella is hard to find here, just use processed cheese instead and may be put more chilis on top to suit Indian tastes, does the dish stop being pizza No, but if you call that pizza so
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by irishsultan 5y ago
But you're making the exact opposite mistake, it was already written in Rust, you're asking them to Rewrite in Swift.
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by irishsultan 5y ago
Explaining the architecture in the abstract and explaining the architecture while changing something to the application are very different things. Both for the explainer and for the person trying to understand and process the explanation.
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by irishsultan 5y ago
I'm using the same strategy and I have to say it mostly is doable. I was afraid for vivid (two repeated letters) but if I remember correctly the next day was quite doable starting from vivid.
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by irishsultan 5y ago
Why wouldn't it? Or rather, why do you think that by labeling a disease as being respiratory it suddenly can only affect the respiratory system?
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> This makes sense for human players, but the Chess Engines aren't human, so their matches can proceed in parallel. And if they wanted to they could show multiple matches in parallel. After all that's what happens in the case o
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> As in, real time to the computation? Why though. Why not? What have SC2 bots (or their abilities) to do with chess bots? > Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "really" took to calculate, with a (
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by irishsultan 5y ago
Except that the table name isn't necessarily going to be that x. If you are matching employees with their managers then you have two employees tables in that expression so you have to work with aliases. At which point autocompletion br
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by irishsultan 5y ago
You can't possibly get autocompletion on x. and y. for that first select if you didn't write that from clause yet (or at least the autocompletion you'd get would not be tailored to those tables).
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> This is remarkable and indicates white drivers are 4x more likely to be carrying contraband than black ones. Not really. If white drivers are only searched if there are real indicators that something is off and black drivers are sought
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> In general if someone has enough access to get your ssh private keys, they have enough access to log the next time you type the password. Isn't this only true assuming the private key isn't backed up somewhere?
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by irishsultan 5y ago
I don't entirely disagree on whether the German in the books is bad, I definitely notice issues when they have someone speaking in Dutch. It's just that I don't see how you could compare amideutsch (1632) with amideutsch (rea
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> In the real world, "Amideutsch" wasn't nearly as bad In the real world Germans already were on a technological comparable level to the Americans. Not to mention that by the 1940s the German language had already been much
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by irishsultan 5y ago
If you click on the link and read the header (not the actual article or it's title) you will see that it's posted on Julia Evans blog. That should answer your question.
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by irishsultan 5y ago
That post very explicitly states that it does not in fact include the data for privacy reasons. Privacy seems like a good justification to not release the raw data, but claiming that data is available is wrong based on that post. In particu
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by irishsultan 5y ago
Note that I'm not the person who originally brought this up. I'm posting that because (a) I believe that is the issue referred to, (b) if you look at the reactions there is definitely a lot of "why would you even want this&qu
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by irishsultan 5y ago
Something like this presumably: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684210#c3
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> Or is there some voodoo by which the ANSI sequences get stripped from the output when redirected to a file? Not quite, but programs in general use some voodoo to detect when they are being redirected and won't output ANSI codes wh
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by irishsultan 5y ago
It's in Belgium actually.
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> (e.g. if you have multiple applications writing to your database in transactions then you're virtually guaranteed to get deadlocks). That assumption is only true if the DB is continually used by different applications. The reality
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by irishsultan 5y ago
Expecting that we would be aware of vaccines that provide a decade long protection against a disease that has been around for less than 3 years. I mean we could have those vaccines already, but we couldn't possibly know that we have th
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by irishsultan 5y ago
> But a fixed term for the entire length of the mortgage, whereby mortgage terms are commonly 30 years long, are only seen in the US and Denmark. Strange, because I have a fixed term for the entire length of my mortgage and I'm not
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by irishsultan 5y ago
It's not using clone but memset. Of course memsetting memory to 0 when the operating system already set it to 0 is still silly and something that could be further optimized, but it's not cloning things.
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by irishsultan 5y ago
I agree that's what he meant, but it's just interesting to me that for the known hard task he took something that also comes with danger. Exactly the feeling that I get when I think about restoring backups.

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