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by jcranmer 1y ago
That's not covered by the license; that's covered by the CLA (Contributor License Agreement), and in the absence of one (I don't know if there is one or not for this repository), the author retains copyright to their code as
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The MIT license scrunches the first two clauses of the 3-clause BSD license into a single clause, and omits the third clause (the nonendorsement clause, which is already generally implied). As a practical matter, most of the basic "sim
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Since you're trying to use IANA time zone names, I don't think any of those are correct time zones for Indiana. The IANA time zones use the definition of "has shared the same clocks since January 1, 1970," which means
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> No, I don't think they were intending to speak from the perspective of Arizona or Hawaii, the only parts of the US that use PST but do not observe DST. Arizona is on year-round MST, Hawaii on year-round HST. Also, American Samoa i
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> Middle ages wars stopped when gunpowder supplies ran out. The arquebus is the first mass gunpowder weapon, and doesn't see large scale use until around the 1480s at the very, very tail end of the Middle Ages (the exact end date pe
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Self-driving cars are the magic pixie dust of transportation planning, brought out to justify noninvestment in public transit. As a mode of transportation, self-driving cars already exist--they're basically a taxicab service, the main
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I have seen as many car drivers punished for running a red light as I have seen cyclists running one--zero in both cases. Enforcement of traffic laws is painfully lax.
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Were that delivery driver using a car instead of a bike, then your wife would likely be dead instead of in the ER. (At least in the US, having a driver's license is in no way, shape, or form an indication that the driver is capable of
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> He derided my attempt to use an AI summary to bridge a communication gap (I explicitly stated I'm not a programmer) LLVM has already found that AI summaries tend to provide negative utility when it comes to bug reports, and it h
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The fraud in Theranos for which Holmes et al were ultimately convicted was running regular blood tests (i.e., those any certified lab would run) on samples which were too small so that the blood tests gave essentially random data. Yes, they
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The spam folder (or the inbox, in what you consider outlook) isn't for messages known to be spam; it's for messages that the filter thinks might have a chance of not being spam. Most spam is so low-effort that the spam rules route
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Just so you're aware, an actual implied threat like that is considered an unconstitutional act by the government. It's just that a politician complaining about social media on the campaign trail isn't anywhere near the level
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From the title, I thought this was a factorization of the RSA-2048 integer (i.e., the one you get the prize for factoring). So I quickly skimmed to the results section to see what the factors where. It's not. It's a factorization
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The way glibc's source works (for something like math functions) is that essentially every function is implemented in its own file, and various config knobs can provide extra directories to compile and provide function definitions. Thi
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> But Pluto was cooked when we figured out it’s not really heavier than Ceres. You mean Eris? Pluto is ~10 times the mass of Ceres.
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There's no evidence of it in contexts where we would expect something like this to be mentioned. So the absence is a strong indication that it didn't happen. > You wait until the enemy starts charging with infantry and cavalry
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> Additionally, if you want to get super technical (as if there were ever a real delineation between RISC/CISC), both AMD and Intel decode x86 into internal micro-ops which are essentially RISC. Given that most CISC chips also relie
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No one has been convicted of treason since WWII. One person has been charged with treason, but they were remote-murdered by the US government before they were tried, and it's not at all clear that a conviction would have withstood appe
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by jcranmer 2y ago
The volume of the Great Lakes, per Wolfram Alpha [1], makes a sphere ~22 miles in diameter. The Great Lakes is ~20% of the world's surface fresh water. Your number of 35 million cubic kilometers includes the Antarctic ice sheet, but th
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I think the interpretation is "take the volume of fresh surface water on Earth", then "make that volume into a perfect sphere", and the diameter of that sphere is smaller than NYC.
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> Codecs. VP8/9 and AV1 broke the mpeg alliance monopoly and made non patented state of the art video compression possible. Not really. That was done more by the greed of the MPEG alliance. Back in the days when <video> was fi
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> There isn’t a bridge or tunnel to accommodate a train to Queens, although a long-planned freight tunnel is under construction. I assume this is referring to the proposed Cross Harbor Tunnel, which the furthest it's gotten is annou
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The same infrastructure that people often complain is inadequate to the task? Self-driving vehicles are also going to come with the innovation of having zero occupants as they navigate somewhere to park. And if people want to replace existi
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Moving self-driving vehicles requires billions of dollars of new roads to be built. The statistic I like to use is that the train tunnels underneath the Hudson River into Manhattan move more people than all of the road crossings into Manhat
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The goods are not there. Shipping volumes from China to the US are down I think by 40% right now, and shipping companies are outright canceling berthing in US ports right now due to the low shipping flows. We're about 1 or 2 months r
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This bill is likely based on the same sort of scientific knowledge that leads people to recommend drinking raw milk. The litmus test to use is if it is banning fluoridation, or if it is reducing the maximum allowable amount of fluoride in t
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The chief chemical added to tap water is chlorine, to kill off all of the organisms that live in the water. Clostridium difficile isn't exactly something you want to get with your drinking water, unless you really, really love your dia
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Maybe we should build more commuter trains so that more people can live near them, then.
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> If every car on the road was synced then they could drive more closely to each other and at much faster speeds. This would optimize road space, decrease congestion, and reduce transit times. That's not going to happen, not in our
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There are three main models to numerically model a color space. There is an additive color mixing model, which is basically your standard RGB model, where you basically control how bright each of the red, green, and blue lamps shining at a

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