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by mabbo 3y ago
`Θ^i = 1` does make this really slick, imho. I often wonder if someday when we meet alien intelligences, they'll have a completely different set of constants, derivable from our own but different. Θ=535.491... may be such an example.
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by mabbo 3y ago
These are exactly the kind of immigrants any country should be desperate to have. The majority of costs a person will typically have on a country are their initial K-12 education, and their health care costs later in life. Immigrants like t
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by mabbo 3y ago
I think it's important to point out that wetlands and floodplains are a major part of what protects your home from flooding, and aren't just a simple nature reserve. A wetland acts like a big sponge. A massive rainstorm drops a pi
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by mabbo 3y ago
But do they know that? I suspect most people believe themselves quite logical as to how they've arrived at their beliefs.
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by mabbo 3y ago
Reading you're description, all I can think is "I want to live in Ireland". That sounds like a cultural trait that should be treasured. In Canada, the only time you might talk to a stranger at a bar is if you're trying t
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by mabbo 3y ago
All I can think is "why would you replace every odometer if you weren't committing fraud?". Like that costs money and time to do. Were they all broken and needed replacing? And if you aren't committing fraud and there&
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by mabbo 3y ago
To those who wonder why this would even matter, it's worth considering how narrow the margins are in any racing sport. You're talking about a 80-100km race where winner is ahead by typically only a few seconds. If you can squeeze
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by mabbo 3y ago
Thank you, that's exactly what I was confused by as well.
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by mabbo 3y ago
There are videos online of a cyclist pedaling a craft with enough energy to lift off the ground. Mind you, it was a purpose built craft in a very staged environment with an Olympic level cyclist, but you can still use that as a baseline for
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by mabbo 3y ago
This is the ultimate form of the "tyranny of rocketry" equation. Imagine the smallest possible rocket that can take off from Mars with samples aboard. How much does it and it's fuel weigh? Now imagine how big of a craft you&#
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by mabbo 3y ago
That's a fantastic definition. Now does the article explain what those maximums are, or how often they meet them?
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by mabbo 3y ago
When one answers these questions, one must consider the reason behind the rule, the spirit of why vehicles are not allowed in the park: because this disturbs the park for many others in the park. It makes the park less enjoyable. People w
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by mabbo 3y ago
A dumb pet peeve I have is the use of the term "real time". What on earth do you even mean by that? Talk to a controls engineer about real time operating systems and PLC programming, and you get a very solid definition. Talk to a
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by mabbo 3y ago
If you've ever played eve you realize that the most critical skill in the game is spreadsheet usage. I'll bet Martin Shkreli would dominate at that game. (Yes, that Shkreli: search him on YouTube and marvel at his excel skills.)
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by mabbo 3y ago
I doubt it's allowed under gdpr, but it's also hard to prove it's being done. Much of it can be done server side based purely on IP address.
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by mabbo 3y ago
Fingerprinting. Everything about you that isn't identical to everyone else can be combined to guess who you likely are. Your exact browser version, OS, supported APIs, your IP address, your latency to Google servers... Anything that is
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by mabbo 3y ago
It's interesting to compare Google's strategy with AWS's. AWS SimpleDB has been a dead product for years now. Afaik, nobody is developing it, nobody is advertising it, and I believe it's not been launched in any new regi
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by mabbo 3y ago
> One survey suggests that U.S. workers were logged into their employers’ networks 11 hours a day in 2021, as opposed to 8 hours a day before the pandemic. A mentor of mine many years ago gave me the best advice: work sane hours, and liv
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by mabbo 3y ago
> "Get on the plane. Get on the plane." I say, "$&#@ you, I'm getting IN the plane! IN the plane! Let Evil Knievel get ON the plane! -George Carlin
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by mabbo 3y ago
My sister, a Canadian, has lived in England a decade now. The locals can't hear it, but I can hear her accent and how she generally speaks has changed quite a bit. She can hear it and knows it but can't help it at all.
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by mabbo 3y ago
> But even us as humans (or anything with biological intelligence) infers the rules from data. No, I don't agree with this. My point is that we can learn from higher level information than raw data. I can give you the formula of a c
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by mabbo 3y ago
What's weird about this to me is the flow of information, knowledge from one place to another. We're using software that has encoded the rules we want to use to generate data. The ML is using the data to infer the rules. It seems
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by mabbo 3y ago
I spent a decade at Amazon (SOA all the things!) and then a year and a half at Shopify (single Rails monolith for all the things!). I think both strategies have pros and cons. But critically, you need a company culture that supports whichev
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by mabbo 3y ago
Well, I look silly then. I jumped around a bit and must have overlooked that part.
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by mabbo 3y ago
The author mentions the n^2 nature of token size to memory and run time. Do we see any interesting work towards improving on that? Will we need a whole different paradigm to achieve that? Or is it simply the nature of the problem - we need
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by mabbo 3y ago
Because Tesla is the dominant player in the market by a very large amount. Yes a few other companies will benefit, but none that Tesla is worried about.
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by mabbo 3y ago
What a fascinating example of what we can expect from DeSantis should he become president. You do him favors, like give him a platform to announce his presidency run, and you get laws passed that are clearly designed to help your company be
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by mabbo 3y ago
I agree with you and think this backwards model leads to developers having a poor mental model of what they are doing. Step 1: build the dataset you want (FROM and JOIN) with all columns. Step 2: filter out the rows you don't want (WHE
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by mabbo 3y ago
I think they chose a terrible means to stop the earth, but the plan itself may still be salvageable (no, I'm not seriously suggesting it would be a good idea). Consider angular momentum. It must be conserved. And a cool fact about th
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by mabbo 3y ago
> The solution is to use an A/B test running time calculator to determine if you have the required statistical power to run your experiment and for how long you should run your experiment. Wouldn't it be better to have an A&#x2

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