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by messe 2y ago
Reality, as best we understand it, is very much not discrete, and space is not split into chunks at the Planck length. A discrete space-time would likely mean observable Lorentz-violations.
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by messe 2y ago
> Do people really dual boot a lot in 2024? Yes, there are still use cases for it. The state of GPU virtualisation, for example, is a spectrum from doesn't exist/sucks to only affordable for enterprise customers. So unless you
423.
by messe 2y ago
Would you also ask "what could we do to entice artists away from art to instead use their powers for the betterment of society?"
424.
by messe 2y ago
Tell me you don't understand differential forms.
425.
by messe 2y ago
> The fact that you can't even get refunds Maybe not in the US, but in the EU that's possible. Maybe all that outright opposition to regulation isn't necessarily a good thing...?
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by messe 2y ago
And it's use in English only comes from the mid 16th and 17th centuries, right around the time that much of Ireland was being colonized by the British. Frankly, I find the term offensive, and think it should be discouraged in much the
427.
by messe 2y ago
It's not a popular term in Ireland. Britain and Ireland is often preferred, and has less colonial implications.
428.
by messe 2y ago
The British Isles is also a somewhat controversial term with colonial implications, and it's not used by the government of Ireland[1]. "Britain and Ireland" would be a safer bet, as the map doesn't include any other isla
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by messe 2y ago
As the linked article states, it's not released yet. Only the text and image input modalities are available at present as GPT-4o on the app, with the rest of them set to be released in the coming weeks/months.
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by messe 2y ago
You're pretty sure? Well, that's convinced me. (/s) I'm not going to debate this topic here, but for what it's worth you're coming across as somebody who has chosen their stance and is cherry-picking their evid
431.
by messe 2y ago
It's called the Oberth Effect. In short, in Orbital mechanics, burning your thrusters deeper within a gravity well, results in a greater increase in kinetic energy than burning them further out. This is because momentum ~ v, while kine
432.
by messe 2y ago
The difference being that cooking is something people in developed nations still do, more often than eating out/getting delivery.
433.
by messe 3y ago
It's not an analogy. It's literally just another basis. > In particular, for multidimensional spaces, the usual multidimensional Fourier transform only really works if you have a flat metric on that space What the hell does the
434.
by messe 3y ago
None. But neither did the GP when they were living car-free in their twenties.
435.
by messe 3y ago
Ah. Yeah, a mile in that kind of heat and humidity would have me rethinking my shopping habits and choice of lifestyle as well.
436.
by messe 3y ago
Just for contrast. I'm living a car free life in my mid-late 20s at the moment in Denmark, and I rarely ever order delivery. Supermarkets are close enough (I actually live above one, but were that not there, there are still three other
437.
by messe 3y ago
> Seriously, get rid of YAML, TOML, JSON. We already had INI, XML/XPATH/XSD I agree with you on YAML/JSON, but isn't TOML more or less INI with more data types and an actual specification?
438.
by messe 3y ago
For those who don't get it, it's a reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island which features a parrot that repeats "Pieces of Eight" (also known as a bit).
439.
by messe 3y ago
For my personal stuff, when it comes to SSH key rotation and secure networks, I like to let Tailscale deal with both. It handles SSH authentication for you via your SSO provider, so there's no need to rotate keys. (Aside: you shouldn&
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by messe 3y ago
But you're not passing the hash to the service. You're passing the key. The hashing is done on a system not controlled by you, so you need to guess a plaintext that has the prefix you need. This is not an easy problem, and in fact
441.
by messe 3y ago
In what way?
442.
by messe 3y ago
Thanks, it should be 10^361. I've fixed it.
443.
by messe 3y ago
I do like to joke that I studied maths because I don't like numbers.
444.
by messe 3y ago
That's just the first counterexample that was proven to exist. The smallest counter example is less than 10^10 (in fact smaller than 10^9). > The Pólya conjecture was disproved by C. Brian Haselgrove in 1958. He showed that the conj
445.
by messe 3y ago
Any relation to a Mike Dexter?
446.
by messe 3y ago
This is a certainly a nitpick, and pet peeve, but the Irish Republic was a revolutionary state between roughly 1919-1922. The modern state is just known as Ireland, or referred to as the Republic of Ireland.
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by messe 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248326
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by messe 3y ago
Card fees here in Europe are capped on consumer cards at 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit.
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by messe 3y ago
> Of course, 'y' is right next to 'h' on a qwerty keyboard, so it could just be a typo if they're going for hatchet. I could also potentially see somebody, not entirely comfortable with reading/writing latin
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by messe 3y ago
My thinking is that somebody who is not a native reader/writer of the latin alphabet, or English, confused h/y and the picture denotes a hatchet.

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