mr_toad

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by mr_toad 1y ago
Linear programming gets confused with programming, but also with linear algebra and linear modelling.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I imagine some of the Roman stuff was built on even older roads and channels. Watling street was paved by Romans, but at least part of the route was a road used by local Britons long before the Romans invaded.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Programming encompasses things other than production environments and software engineering. Notebooks are fine programming environments for prototyping, exploration and training.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Copyright predates mechanical copying. However, people used to have to petition a King or similar to be granted a monopoly on a work, and the monopoly was specific to that work.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
teetotal.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Containers were invented because VMs were too slow to cold start and used too much memory. Their whole raison d'être is performance.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
It’s a bit more work, usually you’re going to have to install Node, Babel and some other tooling, and spend some time learning to use them if you’re not already familiar with them.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Server side rendering would cut out the 277kb library. The additional MathML being sent to the client is probably going to be a fraction of that.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
They also used vellum/parchment.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
https://superuser.com/questions/1108151/windows-license-stor...
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by mr_toad 1y ago
OEM licenses are legally (and practically) tied to the machine. There’s no way to transfer it.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
It’s in the ACPI tables, in ACPI Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM), not the BIOS. An home user might be able to active it, but the repair shop probably can’t legally.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
If they were doing that, they wouldn’t need CUDA support. More likely they have internal developers who want to do development on Apple hardware and deploy to Nvidia hardware in production.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Kind of. Because the black hole drags space around with it you need to go faster near the ‘equator’ than the poles just to stand still. So the event horizon is fatter at the equator.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Because having some observational knowledge of the inside is impossible, in a sense it doesn’t matter.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Need a bit of oomph to move the very fabric of this universe a bit. It’s enough “oomph” that we can detect it more than half way across the universe.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
For certain values of safe. It’s close enough to strip the ozone layer, significantly increase the risk of cancer, alter the climate, and possibly cause extinctions.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
My reading of the Culture novels is that few people produce anything at all, or do any work or labour, and nearly every is produced by the ships, orbitals, and the Minds that control them. It’s not clear who exactly decides what gets produ
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by mr_toad 1y ago
In New Zealand the central government tried to weaken the building height restrictions, but some of the local governments have blatantly and illegally stuck to the old rules.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
His explanation of time dilation and different types of space-time geometry is far more accessible than any other I’ve seen. https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/00/PM.html
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> And communism By a literal definition communism means the collective ownership of the means of production. In the Culture the means of production own themselves, and they don’t seem to answer to anyone unless it suits them.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Greg Eagan’s SF is so hard it makes ‘hard’ SF feel like soap bubbles.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The rapidly expanding supply of electronics and computing equipment drove prices down. Housing supply has not kept up with demand. It’s Econ 101.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> If this continues, expect to see more and more radical policy proposals by young people. The inability of people (specifically ex-soldiers) to acquire land and make a living provided a platform for Julius Caesar to take control of Rome
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> the maximum allowable passenger/baggage/fuel load would have been uneconomical without the margin provided by the emergency rockets. Your momma so fat… But seriously, is there a commercial aircraft that can’t climb on only en
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Do your lights control your switches?
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by mr_toad 1y ago
One time I almost drove to work instead of the shopping mall, because driving to work was basically subconscious. But my car doesn’t have safety features designed to stop me doing that. And I never did it twice in a row.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> If hearing those guesses annoys you, nobody is forcing you to read through comments on a thread of people making them! It’d be nice if we could only read insightful comments, and unread the wacko comments, but we can’t. This discussio
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by mr_toad 1y ago
If your wipers had the equivalent of a child safety cap it would be hard to do it accidentally, especially twice in a row.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The rendering differences were at least as much IE’s fault as Netscapes. It took several versions before IE was (mostly) standards compliant.

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