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by nick__m 1y ago
That BufferedReader constructors is not supposed to throw, unless the reader is null or you're out of memory. If your out of memory you should probably abort the program execution because the difficulty of correctly recovering from an
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by nick__m 1y ago
I happy to know that I am not the only one that know about continue.
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by nick__m 1y ago
The species is not supposed to even want meat, but he will steal it when he can. Most "seed eating" bird are opportunistic carnivore. Even the hummingbird with it's extra specialized beak supplements his diets with sm
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by nick__m 1y ago
Fabrice Bellard as earned that right but somehow I don't think he is !
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by nick__m 1y ago
I am loyal to my employer because I have almost absolute job security, work for my almamater and agree with our mission : 1- research 2- teaching 3- service to the community But if I had a corporate job I would be loyal as much
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by nick__m 2y ago
At some point on the spectrum it is a seriously crippling disability. Where I live there are supervised residances for severly Autistic people and the people living there cannot function on their own without supervision. The "monchénou
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by nick__m 2y ago
The original word2vec example might be easier to understand: vec(King) - vec(Man) + vec(Woman) = vec(Queen)
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by nick__m 2y ago
Islam specifically rejects hoarding wealth, so I think that pretty much takes out most of the middle east I don't know much about religions but I don't believe it is that clearly delineated. How would you explain Saudi Ara
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by nick__m 2y ago
thanks, I learned something simple and useful ! I did not know about the null_resource.
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Alkanes on Mars(science.org)
71 points by nick__m 2y ago|15 comments
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by nick__m 2y ago
The problem is that the road design doesn't fit its usage. In an ideal world the street would be redesign so the driver naturally adopt the desired speed limit.
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by nick__m 2y ago
This 30 picowatt led take energy from ambiant heat. At 30 picowatts per exotic led, with a billion leds, it could extract around 30 milliwatt from the environment.
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by nick__m 2y ago
For the wifi smartlife stuff, you can use the official cloud based integration or if you want local control, the unofficial tuyalocal. The official integration is really easy to use but if your internet connection drops, you can't cont
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by nick__m 2y ago
According to the article the name is ESHYFT. It sounds like a brand of electronic found on aliexpress but with less quality!
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by nick__m 2y ago
I think you want that paper "An Evolved Circuit, Intrinsic in Silicon, Entwined with Physics" available there https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4601/refs/papers/es97thompson...
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by nick__m 2y ago
In the article they talk about the Add-Aspirin trial. See https://www.addaspirintrial.org/
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by nick__m 2y ago
HN is not rationalist community, there is a plurality of opinions and it is part of what make this site great. Another important part is the excellent moderation that try to insure civil discussions.
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by nick__m 2y ago
Canada did not support the 2003 Iraq invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War
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by nick__m 2y ago
I agree ! For browsing/reading code, I don't see how vim can be much more efficient than a properly configure IDE that support crtl+click, the back and forward mouse buttons and a command of the keyboard shortcut.
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by nick__m 2y ago
I am pretty sure that the central limit theorem applies to a sample size as big as all living humans.
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by nick__m 2y ago
Some system protect against that. The philosophy behind IBM RACF is :《 A key security principle is the separation of duties between different users so that no one person has sufficient access privilege to perpetrate damaging fraud.》
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by nick__m 2y ago
> The president is not king, just chief executive. Well someone should tell him: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698/photo/1 !
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by nick__m 2y ago
》 In many ways, those who do not understand and simply place their faith in doctors are less burdened. This is so true. I wish I could write a better response but my wife has her periodic pet-scan in 1hr. Those scan always leave me paralyze
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by nick__m 2y ago
If you had a real super-AGI it could directly interact with any computer program by injecting itself into the process. It is possible for an human to inject features into notepad.exe without having access to the source code (I learn that in
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by nick__m 2y ago
Is Azure Linux 3.0 a rebranding of CBL-mariner
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by nick__m 2y ago
Water has no memory, this is pseudoscience that leads to directly homeopathy. Homeopathy is not a medecine it's a religion!
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by nick__m 2y ago
According to what i remember reading in 2010 (maybe the science has changed in the last fifteen years but I doubt it) People with the Val158Met COMT polymorphism are more susceptible to develop schizophrenia sooner if they are exposed to ca
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by nick__m 2y ago
I am sure that the M.I.C. have a ton of classified data that could be used to train a military AI.
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by nick__m 2y ago
As a Canadian in a low COL area working somewhere with almost absolute job security, a pension plan and plenty of opportunities for learning (I have a few 3 hours sessions on quantum computer starting next week :D ) I don't care much f
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by nick__m 2y ago
A temperature so hot that the atoms of the potato would violently collide into each other, probably at least tens of millions of degrees and you would need something to confine the potato plasma!

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