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721.
by not2b 4y ago
Ars Technica is pretty good, partly because so many of their writers are experts with advanced degrees.
722.
by not2b 4y ago
Euclid’s proof is famously not constructive, so it doesn’t directly give us a method for constructing a new prime. But it is. He says that given a list of primes P1, P2, ..., PN, construct (P1 * P2 * ... * PN) + 1, which is a new prime no
723.
by not2b 4y ago
And even today the largest private landowner in California is Catellus Development Corporation, which was one of the companies spun off from the railroads. They were given way more land than necessary to build the tracks.
724.
by not2b 4y ago
In Spanish, dropping one diacritic (~) changes "How old are you?" to "How many anuses do you have?".
725.
by not2b 4y ago
For Californians: miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata). Good stuff, similar taste to spinach. It grows all over in late winter and early spring.
726.
by not2b 4y ago
The translation can always be done, but for dense spaghetti control structures duplication of code may be required. One can construct artificial cases where the size increase is exponential, but that's unlikely to be an issue in even t
727.
by not2b 4y ago
I first started seeing the "dihydrogen monoxide" or "DHMO" memes a couple of decades ago when there were serious concerns about DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide), a solvent that can carry drugs through the skin, which apparently
728.
by not2b 4y ago
Ah, but we are still "during covid", though people are traveling again, meaning that the number of pilots and staff who are out sick is significantly higher than pre-covid times. That's a major factor causing flight cancellat
729.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, understood. But in Rust (without going through unsafe code), you can't write a program that will produce a reference to a u16 that overlaps with half of a global u32. In C/C++ you could cast a pointer that way and turn it int
730.
by not2b 4y ago
You are incorrect. The C++ standard says a whole lot about it, and has detailed aliasing rules and rules about which pointers are valid. Your "magic trick", depending on details, isn't a standard conforming program; the stand
731.
by not2b 4y ago
GCC also has front ends (compile many languages into a a common form, GIMPLE), a "middle end" (optimization), and many back ends (for different processor architectures).
732.
by not2b 4y ago
This is incorrect. C and C++ have aliasing rules; the compiler is allowed to assume that your magic pointer does not alias an object that otherwise you had no reason to believe could be aliased. Google "strict aliasing rule" to
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by not2b 4y ago
The reason it isn't circular is that if there is one implementation, even with good documentation, there will inevitably be lots of corner cases where the implementation does something, but it isn't written down anywhere. Independ
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by not2b 4y ago
We get it, but many think that this is an attempt to appear to decouple the search engine and the Adwords projects. People on both sides of the divide will be partly compensated with stock in the parent company, so everyone's financi
735.
by not2b 4y ago
Can't the ripped off authors and publishers sue Amazon for big money for this? Or maybe band together and bring a class action suit?
736.
by not2b 4y ago
Right, but Twitter's method of counting the number of daily active users, meaning the number who are seeing ads, which is what the SEC report refers to, was allegedly designed to exclude most bots. Perhaps it's wrong, but they nev
737.
by not2b 4y ago
The WSJ maintains very solid separation between their news division (almost always solid and rigorous, with decent fact checking, their audience of investors wants good info) and their editorial division (intensely ideological and willing t
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by not2b 4y ago
Ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ? The WW2 part shows a team going through elaborate measures to create a plausible way that the allies can find out what the Germans are up to without revealing that they can read all of their
739.
by not2b 4y ago
Evidently he also didn't know anything about rich people. If they manage to damage their reputations then they figure a good PR firm and some contributions to the right places will take care of that for them.
740.
by not2b 4y ago
You are cherry-picking an endpoint. June 2020 was close to the height of Covid restrictions. Climate change deniers pulled a similar trick, choosing 1998 as an endpoint because it was an unusually hot year.
741.
by not2b 4y ago
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) might be able to help. They regularly take on and challenge bad patents.
742.
by not2b 4y ago
If so, you will be labeled incorrectly.
743.
by not2b 4y ago
I don't appreciate it when the whole comment section of a substantive article is complaints about the headline. Maybe we should just have a way for people to privately message the moderators proposing a headline change to correct a mis
744.
by not2b 4y ago
Too many HN threads just seem to be people arguing about the appropriateness of the title. The article addresses a significant and interesting issue that's going to have major negative effects on business models, as well as some positi
745.
by not2b 4y ago
The web is much too big for that to be practical.
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by not2b 4y ago
Alternatively, Google can modify their copy of whatever they take from Wikipedia and display to their users. The license permits this. They don't need Wikipedia to change anything.
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by not2b 4y ago
It depends on how it is used. As a bug tracker it is perfectly adequate, and I prefer having all of the information connected to a given issue in one place. It took us some time to get the flows right, but what we have now seems to work wel
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by not2b 4y ago
Just shows that Musk has no actual interest in free speech. But SpaceX is a private company and is free to fire employees for their speech, you say. That's true, they can legally do that, since there's no union contract, but Twitt
749.
by not2b 4y ago
Walked. Read the article. At the time there was no channel to cross.
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by not2b 4y ago
It is most likely to be Covid. Many jurisdictions have undercounted Covid deaths especially for older people who die at home.

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