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by not2b 2y ago
No, his use is intentional. It's a portmanteau for "physics fib".
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by not2b 2y ago
I saw a version of that sign a very long time ago in a government lab at my high school summer intern job, attached to a PDP-11 that came with blinkenlights.
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by not2b 2y ago
He is attacking a straw man, by defining "woke" in a far narrower sense than it is actually used. Any objection to any form of prejudice, or any indication that the speaker is aware that members of some groups are better off than
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by not2b 2y ago
Is GOMS even the appropriate model for a consumer product? From the Wikipedia page: GOMS only applies to skilled users. It does not work for beginners or intermediates for errors may occur which can alter the data. Also the model doesn&#x27
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by not2b 2y ago
“As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing, and I take responsibility for that.” I wish CEOs would avoid such phrasing unless "take responsibility for
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by not2b 2y ago
Yes, it usually can't be done with one massive checkin. First get buy-in that the old pattern will be changed to the new pattern (hopefully you won't have some senior developer who likes it the old way and fights you), then as you
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by not2b 2y ago
More like, they think that deceiving people for profit is genius.
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by not2b 2y ago
Using it as a noun or in name-calling is offensive, as a verb it isn't.
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by not2b 2y ago
It's not wrong to code on nights and weekends if you like it. But there's also something to be said for developing other interests, that put your brain in a different space. You might even find that it can help with the coding. In
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by not2b 2y ago
I was writing a comment saying the same thing when your comment appeared. Yest, Meta, Google, and Amazon all have custom silicon, and it seems Microsoft's similar efforts came later. None of these companies want to give Nvidia all of t
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by not2b 2y ago
How could that be? The only genetic difference is the presence of the Y chromosome. If it were the same size as all the others, it would be a 1/46 difference, so about 2%. But it is smaller than all the others, so maybe 1% or even less
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by not2b 2y ago
But you never got that; the successful OnlyFans people have always had teams pretending to be them. Anyone who ever believed otherwise is like a kid who thinks that the mall Santa Claus is the real guy.
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by not2b 2y ago
Instead of using a timeout, an optimization that can must be cut off if the cost is excessive can keep some kind of operation or size count, where the count is strictly a function of the input. For example, an optimization based on binary d
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by not2b 2y ago
Sure, a made-up name is better than no name, but a mnemonic, logical, understandable name is far preferable. Perhaps just more thought is needed.
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by not2b 2y ago
I think that's because the Internet sucks, and LLMs are trained on that crap. For example, I notice that almost every time a professional female comedian posts anything on social media, the comments are filled with guys saying "th
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by not2b 2y ago
Less than one percent of farm estates owed any estate tax in 2020. It's probably about the same in more recent years. https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2021/april/less-than-1-...
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by not2b 2y ago
That's a big one. I need to deal with perforce which has plenty not to like, but I frequently attach comments on unchanged lines in code reviews saying something like "you'll need to change this too", and their code revi
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by not2b 2y ago
They are learning a grammar, finding structure in the text. In the case of Othello, the rules for what moves are valid are quite simple, and can be represented in a very small model. The slogan is "a minute to learn, a lifetime to mast
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by not2b 2y ago
The most important part of "podcast" is that phrase you hear so often, "wherever you get your podcasts". It's an open standard, you can pick your app, they can be hosted anywhere. If an audio program is exclusively
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by not2b 2y ago
He's not "policing", rather giving good advice. Substack is only one provider for newsletter producers. Calling your newsletter "a Substack" is akin to calling your blog "a Wordpress", and a number of succ
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by not2b 2y ago
The ternary tree contains all primitive triples (where the GCD of the terms is 1), where a<b<c. So it contains (3,4,5) but not (6,8,10) or (4,3,5).
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by not2b 2y ago
You changed the article's title to an incorrect one. The tree of primitive Pythagorean triples is ternary, not binary. Each node has three children.
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by not2b 2y ago
My guess is that it would be much more effective to capture and remove CO2 directly at the source, for example at a cement plant. While this could be done at a fossil fuel plant as well, it seems a lot less attractive: you give back most of
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by not2b 2y ago
Note, though, that "the government" (NIST to be specific) says that requiring passwords to be changed every 90 days is counterproductive and shouldn't be done, yet many corporations (including my employer) still mandate it. C
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by not2b 2y ago
The following argument from the blog post is wrong: "First, write a bash script P1 that runs a SAT solver on every possible SAT problem and halts if any of them take exponential time. You don't actually have to run P1, just call H
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by not2b 2y ago
No. Canada passed a law requiring Facebook to pay news media for links. Meta said no, we aren't going to do that and banned news instead. You can argue that this was a predictable response by Meta or that it was a stupid law, but it wa
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by not2b 2y ago
That can be a threat, but a billionaire American or South African with similar power and motivation is also a threat.
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by not2b 2y ago
Instead of the laser focus on TikTok as a threat, it would be better for the US and Canada to have real data protection laws that would apply equally to TikTok, Meta, Google, Apple, and X. What the EU has done is far from perfect but it ban
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by not2b 2y ago
Verilog has a sliding-window part select, which produces a slice that has a fixed width. It's an lvalue expression (it can be assigned to). It's ternary. array[addr +: W] or array[addr -: W] The former chooses W elements beginning
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by not2b 2y ago
That discussion and similar discussions that seems to come up regularly was probably the reason they don't want HN traffic, and it's unfortunate the the moderators here haven't worked harder to shut that stuff down. The gende

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