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by kortex 4y ago
I'm sure you can find a naughty word or phrase, or some other semantic collision, out of almost any 3-letter combination, in some language somewhere. Sure it's one of the more well known ones in a very common lingua franca, but we
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by kortex 4y ago
Smart contracts are still contracts, just a different kind than the typical legal contracts. "Contract" has been used to describe API interfaces. Words can have more than one meaning. "Contract" is also a verb, with mult
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by kortex 4y ago
Language isn't static, it never has been, yet as soon as the notion of spell checking came about, written forms of words started to be frozen in time. If "tomorrow" is a valid rendering of "(on) t(he) morrow", I don
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by kortex 4y ago
It would be amazing if Github/lab provided a backing store for www.dvc.org . I've been using to great effect, but I have to rely on separate AWS integration for storing the large objects in s3.
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by kortex 4y ago
An api can still do that. I do this all the time with json/http apis: a bulk_upsert endpoint and you just feed/stream a batch of objects. Never did a bulk_patch but the implementation is nearly the same. If I cat all those patch o
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by kortex 4y ago
I'm not big but I've had injuries which have hindered my mobility. Ever tried to get into a low subcompact when you can't bend as easily? The height of the seat, the height of the A-pillar/roof, the width of the door, an
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by kortex 4y ago
We have some ideas, of course. The rough idea is: surround the reactor with a lithium blanket. This gets bombarded with neutrons, breeding fuel and heating the lithium, which transfers its heat to coolant to spin turbines. The devil is in a
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by kortex 4y ago
None. Lithium only starts being psychotropic above a few mg per day (typically hundreds of mg per day for therapeutic, but it is suspected by some to be active well below that). The intake from the environment would be micrograms/day,
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by kortex 4y ago
> In colloquial usage, the terms "Turing-complete" and "Turing-equivalent" are used to mean that any real-world general-purpose computer or computer language can approximately simulate the computational aspects of any
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by kortex 4y ago
Wait, so like this? def add(x: int, y: int) -> int: """ // c code int x, y return x + y """ And it compiles it and turns it into a C extension? That
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by kortex 4y ago
Dependency-injector uses it for exactly this purpose @inject def main(service: Service = Provide[Container.service]) -> None: ... FastAPI also does a similar sort of trick, for DI and also request parsing. https:&#
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by kortex 4y ago
Yeah well we kinda tried that, didn't end well :p. Banning cannabis was much easier due to its much smaller appeal at the time. The three first principle components of a drug's harm are the therapeutic window (log ratio of LD50 to
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by kortex 4y ago
Alcohol, especially in conjunction with acetaminophen or other OTC pain meds, can cause liver damage. As long as alcohol is a legal substance to consume, it makes no sense to criminalize substances widely shown to have lower harm coefficien
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by kortex 4y ago
Brains are quite nonlinear. I wonder how many people already had visual artifacts and assorted weirdness, but never paid attention to them because the brain just paves over it, until an experience highlights those artifacts, and now they ca
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by kortex 4y ago
How is the can of worms not already open? The War on Drugs has failed to put a dent in drug consumption habits. My suspicion why there was an uptick of incidents in NL/Amsterdam was the influx of people specifically seeking those subst
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by kortex 4y ago
She reigned for about 1/3rd of the time America has existed. Incredible.
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by kortex 4y ago
> We're running sentiment analysis to identify the emotional tone behind the mentions. Handling multiple mentions in a single sentence and filtering out things like questions that shouldn't count as an opinion requires some
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by kortex 4y ago
> She is an emergent island in the latent space that we don't know how to locate with text queries That is definitely a tall statement short on evidence. We expect there to be countless islands in latent space - this is basically a
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by kortex 4y ago
I get squicked-out pretty easily, and I didn't find this too aversive. Art-wise, it's absolutely mesmerizing. I could definitely see this technique becoming a stable of the black metal / witch house / etc genres.
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by kortex 4y ago
Why? Even once you figure out ignition, you still have a bunch of engineering issues to tackle. Energy extraction, tritium breeding, reactor longevity, reducing the build time and cost. Hopefully most of that can be figured out in parallel
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by kortex 4y ago
SimCity says humanity unlocks fusion power plants by 2050, and I always thought that was as reasonable an estimate as any. Based on page 5, it looks like we should have reliable fusion in the lab by 2040, and give that 5-10 years to scale u
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by kortex 4y ago
Yeah, this is essentially a form of greylisting. The difference is (as I understand it, this is fairly outside my domain), with the current setup, MTAs can accept an email, and it ends up getting blackhole'd or spam-folder'd anywa
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by kortex 4y ago
That is a clever idea but I think it'll still fail so long as email (SMTP) is a fire-and-forget architecture. As long as you have that asymmetry, your SNR is going to suck. If it were a back-and-forth protocol, more like TCP, then you
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by kortex 4y ago
How much extra time does it take to dump out some powder? I don't actually measure precisely and just eyeball it. The advantage is I can dump some extra in the bay to act as pre-wash. The cost is 4-10x more for the self-dissolving pack
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by kortex 4y ago
What kind of powder are you using? Some really cheap powders are basically just sodium carbonate and silicate, with some enzymes, and no actual detergents. These won't work well if your load is "too clean", as it needs some g
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by kortex 4y ago
Anyone who is interested in going down the beyond-12-equal-temperment rabbit hole: - xeharmonic wiki: https://en.xen.wiki/w/Main_Page - xenharmonic playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1OcPP
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by kortex 4y ago
Is this phenomenon related to why websockets use masking? I believe it's something to do with shitty proxies being vulnerable to being cache-poisoned when an attacker sends data down the websocket (packet in packet) which looks like HT
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by kortex 4y ago
There are apps which can disable/nerf specific apps or the internet wholesale for N mintues, and lock you out until the timer lapses.
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by kortex 4y ago
Fresnel zones are weird. Radio waves don't always behave like line-of-sight would suggest. So out on the water, you might be farther from the tower as the crow flies, but there may be less interference, obstruction, multipath error, et
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by kortex 4y ago
The latest subaru forester is absolutely insane when it comes to how much control you have over acceleration. I can creep forward at agonizingly slow speeds without riding the brake, stomp it for mostly instant torque, and everything in bet

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