moefh

7 ms·

31.
by moefh 1y ago
It's not 2 million, it's a little over 1 million. The exact number is 1112064 = 2^16 - 2048 + 16*2^16: in UTF-16, 2 bytes can encode 2^16 - 2048 code points, and 4 bytes can encode 16*2^16 (the 2048 surrogates are not counted beca
32.
by moefh 1y ago
UTF-16 is an abomination. It's only easy to parse because it's artificially limited to 1 or 2 code units. It's an ugly hack that requires reserving 2048 code points ("surrogates") from the Unicode table just for the
33.
by moefh 1y ago
> Only difference being that you need to do a bit more work to determine negativeness (work which in hardware you'd already likely have the bulk of for determining is-zero). The work needed to calculate the overflow flag (done in ev
34.
by moefh 1y ago
That's insane. Here's the same-ish frame from the original: https://imgur.com/a/dWS20oP The extreme blur here was obviously a creative choice by the director/editor, the rest of the video has lower resol
35.
by moefh 1y ago
The amount of energy in a wave depends on both its wavelength and amplitude. So a "blue wave" has more energy than a "red wave" if both have the same amplitude (blue has a shorter wavelength, and energy is inversely prop
36.
by moefh 1y ago
Right, what I meant is that private copying is allowed because these levies exist -- but the fact that they exist only allows you to make private copies, not (as was stated) download anything.
37.
by moefh 1y ago
No, it doesn't. From that Wikipedia entry: > A common misconception is that levies are compensation for illegal copying such as file sharing. This is incorrect, however, levies are only intended to compensate for private copying tha
38.
by moefh 1y ago
> On physical typewriters, suffix was more customary I think Why would anyone type like that? Instead of pressing two keys (the accent key followed by the letter key), you'd need to press four (letter, backspace, accent, space bar)
39.
by moefh 1y ago
I'm not GP, but I think you're completely missing their point. The problem they're describing happens because file names (in Linux and Windows) are not text: in Linux (so Android) they're arbitrary sequences of bytes, an
40.
by moefh 1y ago
> At the very least its an indicator that atheist and superstition are a common combination. The very least is even less than what I wrote: it's the smallest possible overlap between convinced atheists and fengshui believers: (47-(1
41.
by moefh 1y ago
I don't see anything in your links that remotely supports your original claim that "The majority of atheists globally believe in astrology". Even if you expand your claim to add fengshui, it's entirely plausible that onl
42.
by moefh 1y ago
I agree that there are two groups here talking past each other. I think it would help a lot to clarify this: > the issue here is that the "Rust and Java sense" of memory safety is not the actual meaning of the term So what is
43.
by moefh 1y ago
> I will post it if I remember/find it If you remember and have the time, please do! (And thank you for the links you already posted). I see now that everything I read about this was way too focused on keyboard and violin, since I h
44.
by moefh 1y ago
> The western 12TET scale is not actually 12TET or 12EDO, we temper the scale itself and tweak some notes [...] I think you and I must be using words differently. To me (and to Wikipedia, and everything else I've ever read, includin
45.
by moefh 1y ago
I don't see how you can divide the octave equally and not end up with equal temperament: that's exactly what equal temperament is! > Tempered scales are generally EDO with tempering. That's not historically accurate. EDO w
46.
by moefh 1y ago
Do you mean equal-tempered? I never heard someone describe a tuning system as "untempered", but I guess it would mean something like just intonation -- which sounds really great for playing anything in a specific key but falls hor
47.
by moefh 1y ago
I always thought the canonical way to place the black keys was to divide the octave in the two parts that have the sequential black keys (C-D-E and F-G-A-B), and then simply place the black keys so they're the same distance away from e
48.
by moefh 1y ago
> This game is available for free to the general public, so this situation (and the text from the FAQ) do not apply -- they need to provide the source code to everyone that they distribute the binaries to. They don't need to do anyt
49.
by moefh 1y ago
> It therefore follows that robots should be able to learn with just RGB images too! I don't see how that follows. Humans have trained by experimenting with actually manipulating things, not just by vision. It's not clear at al
50.
by moefh 1y ago
I'm curious to know why you see it that way, as I don't interpret it like that at all. Quite the opposite in fact: if anything it's a reaction to people who do try to understand a system by looking at its original plan: it sa
51.
by moefh 1y ago
I agree that when taken literally, it's a dumb thing to say: literally (i.e., the dictionary definition), the purpose of a system is the reason why it was built, not what it does. But it's a slogan, and slogans don't always m
52.
by moefh 1y ago
There's an old saying: The purpose of a system is what it does[1]. You can't (well, shouldn't) judge something by its intended purpose if what it ends up doing goes against it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
53.
by moefh 1y ago
Where am I assuming that we have perfect knowledge of physics? To make it plain, I'll break the argument in two parts: (a) if AGI is impossible but humans are intelligent, then it must be the case that human behavior can't be expl
54.
by moefh 1y ago
That's true, but we should acknowledge that this question is generally regarded as unsettled. If you accept the conclusion that AGI (as defined in the paper, that is, "solving [...] problems at a level of quality that is at least
55.
by moefh 1y ago
I remember that one: the two blacks were not slightly different, they were both exactly black but written in different ways. The image was in PPM format, which stores the color components of the pixels as ASCII text (so a white pixel is sto
56.
by moefh 1y ago
That's not it, the lower case 'a' is very different.
57.
by moefh 1y ago
Not sure if you're being snarky, but the manual has a list of all options accepted by make: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Options-S... (`make --help` will only print the most co
58.
by moefh 1y ago
> A human cannot describe said element, by definition. That example doesn't work. Some numbers are describable but not computable, Chaitin's constant being the famous example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
59.
by moefh 1y ago
Another way of looking at it is that they lost that case over 20 years ago, and have been building their business model for 20 years accordingly. In other words, they want everyone to be forced to follow the same rules they were forced to f
60.
by moefh 1y ago
I still remember when Pakistan accidentally shut down YouTube in the entire world for about 2 hours in 2008: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-of...

More ›