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by nilstycho 4y ago
"M" is the 8th congressional district of New York, and the speckles are islands. Some states require congressional districts to be contiguous and some do not, but in practice every or nearly every district is contiguous, up to a r
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by nilstycho 4y ago
I'm not familiar with this. Can you share a source that explains more?
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by nilstycho 4y ago
As of right now, @bezosjets and @ZuccJet, operated by the same person as @ElonJet, are both active.
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by nilstycho 4y ago
I have a pet project I'd like to make with this, but one piece of data I'd be missing is a measure/identifier for "important"/"newsworthy" bills. Clearly this is subjective, but I'd be open to mo
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by nilstycho 4y ago
That would usually be considered an invalid cryptic clue.
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by nilstycho 4y ago
The ARRW boost-glide vehicle is unpowered, but maneuverable. This test used a dummy boost-glide vehicle, though. They haven't disclosed if releasing the dummy vehicle was part of this test, and if so whether it succeeded. This test was
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by nilstycho 5y ago
There's a misalignment between the sequential numbers (begin at 1:00; end at 12:59) and AM/PM (begin at 12:00; end at 11:59). A 24-hour clock fixes this, but if we insist on a 12-hour clock we could still align these two spans by
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Boooo
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by nilstycho 5y ago
That is not correct. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30687077
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Your explanation of how slat armor works is incorrect; the article's explanation is correct. It is not intended to detonate charges at a suboptimal distance. Indeed, when it does detonate charges, the distance can make the charge even
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Vinkensport(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nilstycho 5y ago|0 comments
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Where can I read about what what WinNT/XP code leaks did to the Wine project?
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by nilstycho 5y ago
It appears you need to have Beta 8.6 to use this. I was on Beta 8.5 on macOS, and autoupdate did not find Beta 8.6. After installing 8.6 manually, the instructions worked.
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by nilstycho 5y ago
You say the idea presented is “that we MUST live for as long as possible…” But the author claims that isn't his idea: > The argument is not in favor or life-span extension per se. Adding extra years of sickness and debility at the e
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Thank you for making Lunar. I installed it right away and it's great.
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by nilstycho 5y ago
I don't know enough about each of the four instruments to know that they each produce something "better than what is currently available". How about substituting the text "one scientific observation (i.e. photograph) tha
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by nilstycho 5y ago
I will make my offer concrete. You will pay me $250 if NIRCam returns one scientifically useful observation (i.e. photograph). I will pay you $25 if it does not. If the only observations are of debatable scientific value (e.g. somewhat blur
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by nilstycho 5y ago
I would probably take this wager, but I'd need a clearer definition of "working". What do you propose?
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Waymo has driven 20 million miles. Autopilot has driven (about) 4 billion miles.
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Yes, in principle there are systems that could detect stationary hazards. But as far as I'm aware the best lidar and radar approaches are currently no better than Tesla's RGB approach. It seems that the AI is much more important
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by nilstycho 5y ago
This was definitely a poor name in retrospect, but I can see why they chose the name. The current functionality of autopilot is in fact pretty similar to aviation autopilots. Unfortunately most of the public thinks that an autopilot can fly
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by nilstycho 5y ago
> There are systems that can detect stationary objects, Tesla does not want to use those more reliable systems What systems are you referring to? Lidar and radar systems can't reliably detect stationary objects as hazards, because m
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Why? Do you not trust that your data on the cloud is encrypted?
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by nilstycho 5y ago
It’s very surprising to me that 91 isn’t in the top 20. It’s beaten by 77 and 21?
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by nilstycho 5y ago
This is a great "theorem", thank you! It's easy to determine divisibility by 2, 3, 5, and 11. 7² is also easy because it's a square. 7×13=91 is the only composite number under 100 that isn't caught by these rules.
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by nilstycho 5y ago
What were the serious issues you observed?
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by nilstycho 5y ago
Not always! When the Library of Ashurbanipal burned in 612 BC, it fired and consequently preserved all the clay tablets inside. Ironically, we might not be able to read the tablets today if the library hadn't burned.
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Static Analysis and Constant Time Comparisons(blog.1password.com)
2 points by nilstycho 5y ago|0 comments
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by nilstycho 10y ago
This personal connection did not occur by chance, but the causality you assign is reversed. Holden did not support OpenAI because his housemates work there. Rather, it is because of their similar worldviews that they live together in the fi
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by nilstycho 10y ago
I am from MIT. I don't think it's worthless. I don't read it often, but I've liked some of the articles I have read. I found A Tale of Two Drugs ( https://www.technologyreview.com/s/520441/a-tale

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