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by nwallin 6y ago
> (b) You have to either learn what a DLL is and learn how to update it ... That's not at all what the process is for the ordinary person. The ordinary person sees a notification pop-up from "Ubuntu Software Center" that s
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by nwallin 6y ago
Huh, I guess so. Looking over the study it looks like they had issues by looking at dirt in scoops and being unable to tell whether it's Martian dirt or a shadow. I have a feeling I'd be the angry guy in the meeting who wouldn&#x2
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by nwallin 6y ago
...it's complicated. Very complicated. However complicated you think it is, it's more complicated than that. Please note that I'm not an expert in human eyeball physiology, I'm just a computer programmer who's tried
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by nwallin 6y ago
> That's simply an issue with winterization. Wait I'm not sure I'm following the plot. This entire disaster was caused by the fact that none of the power generation in Texas is winterized. Then natural gas turbine power wa
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by nwallin 6y ago
Other posters have pointed out that it's the hazard avoidance camera, but they haven't said why the hazard avoidance camera is black and white. When you do computer vision, the first step you do is convert your color image into a
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by nwallin 6y ago
Players A and B are friends in real life and play a game together. Player A has a rating of 900 and Player B has a rating of 1100. They queue up as a team for a 2v2 match. Players C and D and randos on the internet and solo queue for whatev
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by nwallin 6y ago
Elo is not a matchmaking system, Elo is a rating system. Elo tells you how skilled a player is, how surprising a result (win, loss, draw if applicable) is, and how a player's rating should change based on a result and how surprising th
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by nwallin 6y ago
It's known that Grover's Algorithm quadratically reduces the difficulty of breaking AES and nearly all other symmetric encryption systems, as well as nearly all hash functions. So it reduces AES 128 to O(sqrt(2^128)) = O(2^64) dif
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by nwallin 6y ago
It didn't used to be that way. A major reason why that shift happened was because if there was a pro-gun Democrat and a pro-gun Republican facing off against each other in a tight race, the NRA would back the pro-gun Republican and cla
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by nwallin 6y ago
https://godbolt.org/z/61xGW7 Basically, the compiler isn't smart enough to realize that the loop in the factorial function couldn't possibly execute more than a few iterations before returning. Basically, it
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by nwallin 6y ago
I can't say I agree. They're developing this thing in stages; they've developed and tested the engines, they've developed and are testing launching the thing, they've developed and are testing the re-entry flop. The
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by nwallin 6y ago
IANAL. I'm not touching GME with my money, but I'm happy to stand on the sidelines and cheer the memers on. You need to define your terms. You don't get charged and go to prison for "pump and dump", you get charged
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by nwallin 6y ago
Experience with the problem of "version X of software package Y is deprecated, we need to upgrade to version Z instead" is a skill that will always be relevant. For everyone who uses computers, not just computer scientists. The fa
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by nwallin 6y ago
I work for Esri, but I specifically work on ArcGIS Pro which has shipped with python 3.x for quite a while. (since before I joined the company anyway) ArcGIS 10.2.1 comes with 2.7.5, [1] and is very, very old. It was released in Jan 2014
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by nwallin 6y ago
> Your allowed to sell Apple Macs and advertise them as "Bob's Apple Mac store" without paying any royalties to Apple. I don't think you can name your store "Bob Apple Mac Store". You can advertise that you
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by nwallin 6y ago
Neutrons bonk into stuff. If you're at a rave in a 100ft by 100ft warehouse, you look around and see four other people, but you keep bonking into ... something ... that you can't see every inch you move, you would surmise somethin
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by nwallin 6y ago
The evidence that dark matter is particulate in nature that obeys the gravitational force, but not the strong nuclear force or electromagnetic force does have actual direct evidence for it. The other poster has alluded to the bullet cluster
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by nwallin 6y ago
They have different player populations. A pool of Elo ratings only rates players relative to the other players in the population. If you take everyone whose FIDE rating is between 2400-2600, and you create a new pool of Elo ratings for them
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by nwallin 6y ago
What, in your opinion, is the correct way to parse an email address?
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by nwallin 6y ago
I use it. Works pretty nice.
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It's not the message, it's the tone. There's a big difference between offering constructive criticism and being a condescending prick. > You can disagree with that reasoning (although you'd be wrong). What you can&#x2
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by nwallin 6y ago
I want a faster computer so that Visual Studio/MSVC compiles the code I write faster. I don't need a faster computer so that the application I develop runs faster. I'm already running an unoptomized debug build of our applica
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by nwallin 6y ago
It always bugged me that secant is 1/cosine, cosecant is 1/sine, and cotangent is 1/tangent. Like what does co- mean? Trigonometry never really clicked for me. I can remember the formulas and such, but I never really understo
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by nwallin 6y ago
Hey it's thanksgiving and I'm a little drunk. Apologies for any errors. Keep in mind that "encryption" bundles together four different concepts: confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. To su
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by nwallin 6y ago
The original estimates put COVID-19 at approximately 3-4%. At the time I'm writing this post, the United States has had 253,309 deaths from 11,789,304 cases, or 2.14%. Without the lockdowns, without the mask mandates, without social di
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by nwallin 6y ago
It drives me bananas that the ads are always so much louder than the content. There's a law against that for broadcast television, but it doesn't apply to internet content. (It may not apply to cable/netflix either? I dunno.)
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by nwallin 6y ago
In your opinion, has COVID-19 had any effect on interstate commerce? Or is interstate commerce the same as it was this time last year?
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Who cares? The cost of getting a booster every year is minuscule compared to the number of lives lost, not to mention the hit to the world economy. A working vaccine is a huge W. If immunity only lasts 12 months instead of 10 years that j
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by nwallin 6y ago
ARM Chromebooks have been a thing for almost a decade now. They ship with Chrome OS but it's usually fairly easy to install a more standard linux distro on them. https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2019/08/all-ch
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by nwallin 6y ago
There's a little button that looks like a globe in the lower right corner. When it was introduced, it used to be the default, but apparently isn't anymore. If you toggle it once, Google will remember your preference, so for a lot

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