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by iwwr 11y ago
Except a lot of natural language grammar is contextual, so there is no way to have a conversation that makes sense without an understanding (internal model) of the meanings of words and really together with the cultural context: literature,
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MongoDB's random exception handling(github.com)
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by iwwr 11y ago
One of the crimes being committed on the Greek populace is the financial system blockade, with blocked access to basic banking services and electronic transactions. The ECB has decided that Euros in a Greek bank account are worthless (apart
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by iwwr 11y ago
This is not a unique thing for that country and current government. It's illegal to challenge the validity of government-provided statistics and even the "Big Mac Index" is manipulated by forcing McD to sell something called
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by iwwr 11y ago
Is it a worthy goal to also detect outlier good performing servers? Sometimes mutations are beneficial.
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by iwwr 11y ago
What's the advantage of that as opposed to the 'standard' java way of doing immutable via 'final'?
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by iwwr 11y ago
I would disagree. The sequels, especially 5-6 open up the wider universe and explore a variety of human cultures and social interaction. It's a fantasy-scify with deep and complex characters and complex interactions. Normally you'
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by iwwr 11y ago
Dune is a fine work and stands on its own pretty well, but Kunzru gets fixated on the first one and misses out on the depth of the latter books. The first 3 (including Dune) explore the Muad'Dib's rise to power and his new imperia
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by iwwr 11y ago
Do you have a mirror? It appears to be down for now.
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by iwwr 11y ago
Instead of storing the coordinates for the object mesh, store the "address" in 4d space of the Julia representation?
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by iwwr 11y ago
Lenat himself was talking about using some of that tech for the US Intelligence community and policy prediction of other states. Not sure if anything came of it, but it's not far-fetched for these organizations to have shoveled some mo
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How Government Stifled Reason's Free Speech(reason.com)
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by iwwr 11y ago
That's why Stallman prefers distributed code copyright: if contributors own their contributions, then dual-licensing won't work. On the other hand, this prevented a project like the linux kernel from moving to gplv3 since the dist
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by iwwr 11y ago
Schemes to bring water from the Columbia river are floated periodically but it would require political will across California, Oregon and Washington state, as well as approval from Canada, since Canada shares the river waters by treaty with
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by iwwr 11y ago
Homeowner's Association rules or even town planning/zoning may actually prohibit someone from using arid-friendly grasses or perhaps replacements like artificial turf or pavement.
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by iwwr 11y ago
I don't know why the title was changed. The talk is by Adam Lichtl and Stephen Jones. It features computer fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations of combustion in an accessible manner, though naturally the details are quite complex under the
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Full Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine [video](on-demand.gputechconf.com)
153 points by iwwr 11y ago|22 comments
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by iwwr 11y ago
The windows weren't quite square panes, they were slightly rounded, but not enough. Another issue the Comet had were the engines buried in the wings, which makes them less accessible for servicing and more dangerous to the aircraft in
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by iwwr 11y ago
Impressively done logistically and came up as a complete surprise to the Argentinians, but had no effect militarily. The mission also exemplified the rocket equation with aircraft. The under-construction airport in St. Helena is probably a
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by iwwr 11y ago
In a normal world, this wouldn't even be a question. If there's a duty of the state that is to safeguard its people. In fact, it would lend some legitimacy to some of these programs.
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by iwwr 11y ago
The North-American slave trade was less than 10% of the American slave trade. Abut 40% went to the Caribbean and the remainder 50% to South America (mostly Brazil).
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by iwwr 11y ago
Apparently, hosting a World Cup has become a net negative to a country. The costs (significant and increasing) go to the government and the profits go to FIFA and the sponsors.
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by iwwr 11y ago
Android started back when Sun was still independent and they failed to formalize the IP relationship with Sun. Google could have nabbed Sun if they wanted, but it was of no value to them when Oracle swooped in.
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by iwwr 11y ago
I think they value power and control above safety.
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by iwwr 11y ago
It's bad from that PoV because slaves can't reach their productive potential as if they were free. Literacy is forbidden, they can't switch jobs and can't advance their skills beyond manual labor, their families are freq
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by iwwr 11y ago
Is there a culture of civic disobedience in Australia? You could have some people teaching number theory to people in public places as a form of protest.
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by iwwr 11y ago
The Japanese IKAROS satellie has done extensive tests of solar sailing, gaining about 400m/s from solar pressure over a few years. It also did a flyby of Venus. https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/sate
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by iwwr 11y ago
When a government has to chose between a strong political constituency or the people having access to food, be it a rich or poor society, the choice is hard.
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by iwwr 11y ago
Do you have a video of the presentation?
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by iwwr 11y ago
Government contracting is a very large and lucrative business. The surveillance programs are large data pipelines that require datacenters, computing, storage and state-of-the-art analysis. Then, given the secret nature of the program, the

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