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by jltsiren 2y ago
There has been plenty of movement between the EU parliament and the national parliament in Finland. As an institution, the EU parliament has real power. It's just that citizens are not particularly interested in what it does, and the m
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Tariffs on products and services with no realistic alternatives in the short term would simply be a tax on your own businesses and citizens. You don't want to do that. It's better to impose tariffs on something inconsequential. So
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by jltsiren 2y ago
5% is common enough that you'll encounter it almost every time you read code. And fixing it is not easy, because you first need to understand the code before you can add useful variable names. Besides, programming language evolution is
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The problem is that it's easy to overdo it. When you are writing the code, you already know what it's supposed to do, and adding a few more things to the chain is convenient and attractive. But when you are reading unfamiliar code
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The problem with that is that it's all implicit. If the steps are sufficiently complex and if you don't already know what the code is doing, you don't always have a clear mental image of what the intermediate state after each
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by jltsiren 2y ago
In the example above, you first have a list of books. Then you filter it down to books with >1000 pages. Then you map it to authors of books with >1000 pages. Then you collapse it to distinct authors of books with >1000 pages. Ever
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Your example is a conceptually simple filter on a single list of items. But once the chain grows too long, the conditions become too complex, and there are too many lists/variables involved, it becomes impossible understand everything
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The actual number for Finland is ~33%, or ~40% if you consider only research universities. Roughly speaking, women outnumber men in science, while men outnumber women in technology.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Incidentally, credit card marketing focused on international usage in my childhood (Europe in the 80s and 90s). There was little need for a credit card in your daily life, as cash and debit cards were cheaper and/or more convenient. Bu
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I would classify occupying buildings and shared areas as a technically illegal but often legitimate form of protest. Many spaces, which are in principle owned or controlled by a specific entity, are functionally indistinguishable from publi
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The problem with LLMs is that they do what you tell them to do. If you ask the LLM to translate something without context, it will translate without context, and the result will quite likely be incorrect. If you provide some context, the re
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That's a simplification. Succinct data structures are usually parameterized data structures. They have a number of parameters, such as block sizes and sampling rates, that govern the space overhead and query performance. The published
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by jltsiren 2y ago
You should be careful when using asymptotic bounds with more precision than about O(sqrt(n)). The bounds ignore constant factors, and the constant factors could be more significant than slowly growing non-constant factors for reasonable val
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Most European countries have proportional elections, at least for some levels of the government. Such elections give a pretty good idea of the popular support for various ideologies. On the average, parties that are broadly aligned with US
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Jordan has taken far more refugees relative to is size than Turkey and Germany. Its population of 11.5 million includes 1.4 million Syrian refugees, 300-400k Palestinian refugees still living in refugee camps (and at least 1.5 million who h
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by jltsiren 2y ago
There are some other common types: * People who think a phone is a boring generic device, and it doesn't make sense to prefer any particular brand or pay more than $X. * People who are used to Android and have better things to do than
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It depends. If you want to hire a mid-career PhD in a field that has a real job market outside the academia, and the person already has a stable job they are content with, $240k might not be enough. At least unless the job is particularly i
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Consumer hardware is cheap, if 192 GB of RAM is enough for you. But if you want to go beyond that, the Mac Studio is very competitively priced. A minimal Threadripper workstation with 256 GB is ~$7400 from Puget Systems. If you increase the
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It's more complicated than that. Data storage sizes are not connected to fundamental physical units, but data transfer rates are. Things get annoying when a 1 MB/s connection cannot transfer a megabyte in a second.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It's not that much cheaper that with earlier comparable models. Apple memory prices have been $25/GB for the base and Pro chips and $12.5/GB for the Max and Ultra chips. With the new Studios, we get $12.5/GB until 128 GB
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The underlying assumption is that the US intends to escalate to a full-scale war if China does not back off. If China does not believe in that, the US Navy is just a bunch of expensive but inconsequential toys that can be safely ignored. If
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The honest one would not be a businessman. But this is probably culture-specific. When Finnish media describes someone as (the Finnish equivalent of) a businessman, he is almost certainly doing some shady stuff and has often also committed
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I don't think this is a real issue. Online services are temporary. Eventually they will evolve in a direction that makes them unsuitable for your purposes, if the developers don't abandon them first. But meanwhile, we may get a fe
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by jltsiren 2y ago
You are approaching this from the wrong direction. Air forces, navies, and drones cannot conquer a country. For that, you need ground forces with plenty of heavy equipment. Which can only cross the sea in slow and vulnerable ships. To stop
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by jltsiren 2y ago
You seem to be assuming that the invasion would happen by surprise. That's effectively impossible due to the scale of the operation. Especially because China is full of foreigners and the logistical effort would be impossible to hide.
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It's one thing to stop all aid to Ukraine. That makes you an asshole in a world full of assholes. But it's another thing to do that while simultaneously working to restore relations with Russia. There is only one word for that: ev
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Naval warfare is more about hardware than manpower. American casualties in the Pacific Theater of WW2 were only ~100k dead and ~200k wounded. The US alone would lose in that as well, because its shipbuilding capacity is minimal. But togethe
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Those numbers exclude airfare and other transportation costs. And you need both time and money for a vacation. The average American family probably can't take 2-3 weeks off to travel every year, which makes their vacations shorter and
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Heuristics implemented within a formal system are still bound by the limitations of the system. Physicists like to use mathematics for modeling the reality. If our current understanding of physics is fundamentally correct, everything that c
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You get 100% of the grant in both cases, as the total sum paid is 100% + overhead. You are not allowed to use that money on major expenses you didn't mention in the grant application. If the university gets less overhead and can't

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