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by itp 8y ago
That's not how a sonic boom works. A sonic boom doesn't occur just at the moment that an object exceeds the speed of sound; it's a continuous phenomenon that is experienced by a stationary observer as a momentary event. http
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by itp 8y ago
This point was obvious once pointed out, and is definitely the reason this link clicked for me and the Wikipedia explanation did nothing.
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by itp 8y ago
I'm sure you're right about the why, but I don't believe this was a judgement call, I believe it was wrong. The current headline is misleading (if the purpose of a headline is to provide information about the contents of th
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by itp 8y ago
Exactly this. I've been uncomfortable with this trend for a while now, where everything gets labeled "clickbait" and there's a thread of resentment if an article does anything other than lay out dry facts as efficiently
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by itp 8y ago
What is the point of changing the headline of an article like this? The headline was an accurate summary of the contents ("THE FRAUDULENT CLAIMS MADE BY IBM ABOUT WATSON AND AI"). Maybe you agree, maybe you don't. But the cur
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by itp 8y ago
Of course. FDB thinks about read and write conflict ranges, which are functions of the keys, not the values (or lack thereof). A read of a non-existent key conflicts with a write to that key. A read of a range of keys conflicts with a write
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by itp 8y ago
> That API is gnarly. The Will Wilson I remember was not prone to such understatement. That API (and the corresponding semantics) was a nightmare.
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by itp 8y ago
As an end user it's absolutely better. I'm just torn between pride and embarrassment thinking about how it was implemented.
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by itp 8y ago
Speaking as the original author of this monstrosity of a build system, please be careful before offering praise here. To be clear, there is a top-level, non-recursive Makefile that uses the second expansion feature of GNU make, translating
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by itp 8y ago
I have nothing specific to add to this either other than I also spent years working there, and I'm unbelievably happy about this.
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by itp 8y ago
(worked at FoundationDB) Me too. Back on topic, I really enjoyed Zulip as well. It wasn't perfect, but it very much did feel like they were actually getting the marriage of email and chat closer to right. Slack just feels like a shitty
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by itp 8y ago
I'm curious where this narrative that Google dropped "don't be evil" comes from. At the time of the Alphabetization, there was some shuffling of the code of conduct document, but everything lives on. The Google code of c
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by itp 9y ago
A problem I foresee is that even if we could determine them to be as good as a human, they will still be different from a human. People will live that would otherwise have died; people will die that would otherwise have lived. Members of
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by itp 9y ago
Without necessarily (or completely) disagreeing, I'm curious if you can further justify your assertion of the strong path-dependency. I am personally amazed when I contemplate the Apollo program or the Manhattan Project, and specifical
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by itp 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something, (s)he didn't switch any units. The original article as I am reading it clearly just says "millimeters" without any associated area or timeframe.
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Oculus Go world premiere: Acceptable compromises, amazing quality for $199(arstechnica.com)
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by itp 9y ago
This feels strange to those of us from technical spheres, but much of the world works without formal verification of facts. There are in theory severe penalties, both implicit and explicit, that ostensibly act as deterrent to bad actors. Th
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by itp 9y ago
I'm torn about this. Every time an app has used this API, it's been a delight. And yet I hesitate to encourage more people to use SMS as auth!
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by itp 9y ago
I suspect you're wrong, and that the connection between video and parent was that they were both Numberphile videos. An expanded comment might have read something like: "Not only is today's Numberphile video potentially relev
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by itp 9y ago
Note that that's $1000/person-year for 1300 calories per day, vs. 3000 calories on the Stigler Diet!
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by itp 9y ago
Nokia 6 will be available in May, according to CNET. https://www.cnet.com/news/nokia-6-your-mission-is-to-get-the...
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by itp 9y ago
Fascinating to me that you picked Thriller as an example, as MJ even demonstrates a 2&4 clap during the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA&t=5m0s Curious what you mean by half the claps? Would this in
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by itp 9y ago
It would be interesting to look at the impact of this on, e.g. cancer rates among people living at sea level versus cities with high elevation, e.g. Quito in Ecuador. It is interesting, and there are some studies exploring this and relate
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by itp 9y ago
One of my favorite Harry Connick Jr. moments is when his audience is clapping along on 1&3 (frustrating) and he smoothly transitions them to 2&4. Extra fun to see how happy his drummer is with the change (visible cheering arms behin
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by itp 9y ago
There's a Nature documentary about the Eastern Coyote/Coywolf called, appropriately enough, "Meet the Coywolf," available on pbs.org[1]. It was surprisingly non-fluffy for a Nature documentary and if you're interest
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by itp 9y ago
Elon bought x.com back from PayPal in July 2017. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/884580654117076992
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by itp 9y ago
You wrote: you know Allstate isn't going to be looking for social media information that HELPS your claim. But from the article: As for use cases for social media during the insurance claims process, Carpe Data cited two examples. T
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by itp 9y ago
Everything about this writeup resonated with me until the last sentence, which made me think I deeply misunderstood the geometry of the spherical earth. 5 hours from the east coast of the US sounds right, but Seattle to Reykjavic is over 7
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by itp 9y ago
It's not sent anywhere or even stored locally on the device. Some people view that as a missing feature, actually, so there are apps that add this functionality[0], so you can review the songs you heard and find it later. [0] http:&#x
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by itp 9y ago
I've just recently set up a Pixel 2 XL straight from factory a few times over the last couple weeks, all in the US. Every time I had to opt in to the background music detection feature, even in the US.

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