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by nwallin 7y ago
re: blue zones. They also don't smoke, drink, and do regularly exercise. And these things are usually prescribed by their religion. As soon as you start accounting for confounding variables, correlations between eating meat and bad hea
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by nwallin 7y ago
I have a 2016 XPS 13 9360 DE. It's been nothing but excellent. But the warrantee will be ending soon, and I've started thinking about a replacement. I'm really hoping for the next DE offering to have first class Zen 4xxx supp
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm shocked. Shocked! The question is, will the government do anything about it. It's a pretty clear antitrust violation, although I'm not sure there's room for prosecution for lying to Congress.
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by nwallin 7y ago
ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act. Not Ada the programming language. I was expecting some bizarre coffee/Java riff with I dunno, TLD Systems or something.
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by nwallin 7y ago
There's a regular drive I make. I can either hop on the freeway and it takes 1hr 4min, or I can take backroads and it takes 1hr 2min. The backroads also has a 25% or so chance of getting stopped by a train. Big massive transcontinental
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Find out how many fl oz of milk are in a measuring cup graduated in units of cups? Ask mrb. 8. Volume is base 2. Two tablespoons in an ounce, 8 ounces in a cup, (there used to be other units in between, but nobody used them, like deci
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by nwallin 7y ago
The agreement doesn't need to be unanimous. And it's fine for the agreement to be "just use whatever the latest small form factor USB collector is" which has been the de facto Android standard since the beginning. It sou
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by nwallin 7y ago
What's wrong with the Apache event worker? https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
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by nwallin 7y ago
I think the problem is that even the best tablet is worse than a cheap shitty netbook. Shitty netbooks can be had for $200. The fancy shmancy backwards folding ones, (into a tablet form factor) aren't that much more. You know what&#x27
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by nwallin 7y ago
It's the how, not the why. I want a million dollars. Wanting a million dollars is perfectly reasonable, lots of people want a million dollars. It's not reasonable to walk into a bank and cash a check with Bill Gates' forged s
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by nwallin 7y ago
Too bad they can't unify their consumer messaging apps. They had a great opportunity to do that with Hangouts, but then they torpedoed it with Allo, Duo, RCS, etc.
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by nwallin 7y ago
I use an old shitty netbook for this. I prefer that to my Nexus ... 7? tablet for three primary reasons. The screen naturally holds itself at whatever angle I set it. If I'm just casually watching a video in bed, I can put my hands bac
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by nwallin 7y ago
Target the steam runtime. All popular distros will either support it out of the box or have an overlay to do it. And it doesn't change very often. Open source is a million times easier. Your source is available. It's up to the dis
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by nwallin 7y ago
Joe Rogan is an incredible interviewer. The best in a generation. Thousands of people, ranging the spectrum from Bernie Sanders to Alan Jones to Tulsi Gabbard to Ben Shapiro to Andrew Yang have sat down in that booth and have had all the ti
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by nwallin 7y ago
Nonsense. Steam as a platform is head and shoulders above where it was a year ago. All my Windows exclusive games appear side by side with my native Linux games. I no longer have to have wine installed and maintain a separate Windows (in wi
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by nwallin 7y ago
There was a spy in the USSR during the cold war who had to have some procedure done. He refused anesthesia. His pretense was that he might reveal state secrets or something. He was given an award for his bravery or something. Interesting st
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by nwallin 7y ago
Notably, 32 bit floats are insufficiently precise for representing latitudes and longitudes. I seem to recall doing the math on it, and in California the next line of longitude representable by 32 bit floats was like half a mile away. Don&#
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by nwallin 7y ago
In my work life, I have a problem where I have to interface with a stringly typed API. For instance, characters 20-25 in a 400 byte string are a floating point number. No it's not a good API but I don't make decisions. So you need
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by nwallin 7y ago
That's what I do in C++ with Eigen or boost::ublas or any other library. Operator overloading is not a feature limited to Fortran. Fortran gets its performance from prohibition of aliasing, which is something that C++ admits as per the
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by nwallin 7y ago
> The only reason I'm not on Linux full time is video game compatibility. Have you tried Steam within the past 6-9 months with Proton? Steam is bundling a version of wine that Just Works(tm) in the Linux Steam client. Valve is claim
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by nwallin 7y ago
You can't really just up and retool a production line for a one year delay. Even switching to 737NG isn't really possible. And the triple 7 isn't a replacement for the MAX. It has double the passenger capacity. It's like
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by nwallin 7y ago
This isn't actually true. The kernel has two giant tricks up its sleeve when it comes to serving zero pages: the kernel gets to decide what happens when a page fault happens, and it gets to decide what to tell the mmu. At boot, the ker
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by nwallin 7y ago
That's not actually what's happening. When you allocate memory that needs to be initialized to zeroes, it doesn't actually allocate memory and zero it. Nor does it allocate memory without mapping the pages, and when a page fa
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by nwallin 7y ago
Yes, exactly. One thing to keep in mind is that it's surprisingly common for a sorted array to outperform a binary search tree because of cache locality and pointer indirection being slow, even though random inserts into arrays are slo
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by nwallin 7y ago
It's 100% due to war time censorship. Unusually, it hit young able bodies people the hardest. ie, young men who were being conscripted into the war. There were huge problems with swaths of people in barracks all getting sick and messin
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by nwallin 7y ago
Or if I am actually sorting stuff, I'm using the sort provided by the standard library. I don't think I've ever implemented a sort outside of an academic context. Used them plenty of times, but I couldn't imagine not usi
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by nwallin 7y ago
It kinda is. Use your operating system to get 128 random bits, use that as a key to AES, use AES-NI instructions to generate boat loads of more bits. These instructions can generate random bits faster than RAM can store them. Honestly, most
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by nwallin 7y ago
I think the poster means you aren't given the completed set. Elements come dribbling in a few at a time. With insertion sort, you're able to say, "this is the sorted list at the time we know it right now." Obviously when
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by nwallin 7y ago
I actually doubt that. Lead is a shitty abrasive.
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by nwallin 7y ago
If the universe is truly infinite, I would be incredibly surprised if any given thing happened a non-zero finite number of times. Every NxNxN cube of space has a finite state space. Assuming an infinite universe, there are an infinite numbe

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