krisoft

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by krisoft 2y ago
> that reduces the payouts at the intermediate levels Which has nothing to do with your chance of winning.
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by krisoft 2y ago
They do. But all of the above bend over backwards to help law enforcement. > post office help people communicate coded messages about nefarious thing The US postal service scans and stores the outside of every envelope and package they h
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by krisoft 2y ago
That is neat, but Scott Chacon is not a journalist, does not act like a journalist and what you are reading is not tech journalism. You are reading the personal diary of someone with personal connection to a topic and complaining that it i
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I want my doctor to know each time I take an Aspirin or put on a bandage. What do you think your doctor will do based on this data? How do you think your doctor will filter out the signal from all the noise? (Is there even a signal?) &
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don't think people have a problem with someone picking up a plant cutting from the ground. Most likely their problem is with someone who cuts of a piece from a plant for themselves.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I'm surprised that no billionaire has an airship yacht yet. When people ask me what would I do if i won the lottery i tell them that I would build a liveaboard airship. Would need to win multiple lotteries probably, and also the l
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by krisoft 2y ago
> one crash killed public interest It was not really one crash, but a series of crashes. R38 broke up in the air over the UK. Roma crashed and burned in Virginia. Dixmude exploded mid-air over Sicily. R101 crashed and burnt in France. R1
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I literally want to know when When the curious engineer is reading a book about their choosen programing language. Most likely in the part which describes operators. Or when they parse something stored in binary.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> not really practical to get meaningful quantities out of it. It is quite practical. You just pour a big pile of hydrogen out, let gravity compress it until it starts fusing. Initially it will only create helium but near the end of the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Obscure part of a washing mashine, random geometric shape, etc. Oh i see what you mean. I took the theory to be that it is looking like a nuclear warhead but it doesn't have the right dimensions, or even the right arrangement of t
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by krisoft 2y ago
They build/test/design weapons of mass destruction. What would you advertise a can of mustard gas if not with a can of mustard gas?
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don't understand that conclusion. That sentence, in my mind, makes that conclusion more likely. They say it is an intentionally simplified mesh. Which to me means it is not the real deal. So why does this sentence makes you think the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Renderers love triangles, FE solvers love boring quads. Btw even in Blender (which is pure visual rendering) people prefer quads. The common wisdom is that you should keep your topology quads with nice rectangle-ish aspect ratios if yo
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by krisoft 2y ago
They would be in possession of an image. It is hard to understand what the author is hand-wringing about. It is not that nobody knows how these weapons are supposed to work. The real barrier is that to obtain the materials necessary you nee
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by krisoft 2y ago
> It's not testing if you can pattern match to plausible CS concepts. But thats a problem then, isn’t it? Because if you abandon that framework there are many other possible frameworks to think in. You say the question is about the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Buyers might want an asset like that because they could afford it Sure! As a buyer i’m happy to buy your house for tenth or twentieth of its value. I can afford that! You can add any silly stipulations to the contract for that price. W
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by krisoft 2y ago
> that anyone selling a home can attach to the sale Why would anyone attach that to a sale? I bet that such terms would reduce the money you can get for the house to at least a tenth of the unencumbered value. Simply because it will make
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by krisoft 2y ago
I'm not sure if you are joking. Assuming you are not. What kind of "streak" you are thinking about? Are you thinking about comets with their tails? Or motion blur? Because if motion blur I would expect an asteroid on a collis
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by krisoft 2y ago
Curious use of the double questions marks when the following sentence reveals that seemingly you did understand the point the commenter was making.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Bigger object should reflect more light, making detection more likely. That assumes that the detection is photon constrained and not "nobody is looking in most directions" constrained. It doesn't matter even if the aster
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by krisoft 2y ago
> But you never know if by asking the "right" question you'll jeopardize the entire interview problem. Yeah. That can happen. As an interviewer i would tell the interviewee that they are right and it is because the example
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by krisoft 2y ago
> As in interviewer you can just say "the specifications aren't clear, what questions would you might want to ask to clarify them?". I do say that, yes. Not necessarily with those words, but I tell interviewees that they a
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by krisoft 2y ago
Not really. The question was "Should you accept to play this game?" That is not a question where a number is an expected answer.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> but not when asked a direct technical question. This is anything but a direct technical question though. > It's perfectly fine to ask followup questions with added constraints, but having the guessing game to figure out those
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Was I dumb? Doesn't sounds like it. I mean in general it is bad form to blame users for safety problems. Even more so in an unfamiliar environment. If the oven had a safety thermocouple and it was working correctly there should ha
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by krisoft 2y ago
It is also unclear if one has to keep playing. The expected value is very different if after the fifth guess one can thank Balmer for the opportunity and walk away.
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by krisoft 2y ago
Could you be more concrete please? What did you do? What did you experience? Basically I'm asking this because I'm trying to understand. I see two options: option 1: the oven is lacking several expected safety features and it is a
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I await the inevitable news story about a family getting blown-up when their 18 month old accidentally turned on the gas oven... What do you mean "accidentally turned on the gas oven"? Do they not have flame failure devices?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Finishing is super important. Why? > You end up spreading your efforts too thin and never see the results of your hard work. What if the result of my hard work is the lessons I have learned along the way? Or the skills I picked up?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Yubikey will never prevent your data from being leaked. That depends on how your data is being leaked. Of course it does not stop the service provider from leaking your data (intentionally or unintentionally). It protects you from phis

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