orlp

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by orlp 4y ago
Move out to where?
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by orlp 4y ago
Well the problem is that academia has been co-opted into being a vocational school (especially for STEM), when its purpose is scientific research. People looking for vocational schooling (e.g. "computer programmer") are frustrated
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by orlp 4y ago
One of my favorite little features of the M1 MacBook is that the charging cable is only connected by contact enforced by magnets so that there isn't even a jack that can be damaged. Pulling on the charging cable simply breaks the conne
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by orlp 4y ago
It's literally racketeering.
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by orlp 4y ago
> .ONESHELL ensures each Make recipe is ran as one single shell session, rather than one new shell per line. This both - in my opinion - is more intuitive, and it lets you do things like loops, variable assignments and so on in bash. Thi
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by orlp 4y ago
If you're in the middle of the ocean no amount of gliding is going to get you off the ocean.
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by orlp 4y ago
A disgust of eating insects is not universal in all cultures.
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by orlp 4y ago
> Also you don't get to automatically ignore all the children that were saved from inattentive drivers by this system. You are right about this of course, I just found the wording quite strange.
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by orlp 4y ago
I don't think that "it doesn't always kill or seriously maim a child - there are numerous examples where it didn't" is as powerful an argument as you think it is.
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by orlp 4y ago
I'm curious what you think the hydrogen in a hydrogen bomb would split into.
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by orlp 4y ago
In a past codegolf contest you had to parse some input consisting of L, S, R for left, straight, right to follow a path. I used complex numbers and the fact that L, S, R respectively have ASCII codes 82, 83, 76 in the identities i^(82
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by orlp 4y ago
In this case the "bare numbers" do get inferred to be usize due to the signature of from_fn.
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by orlp 4y ago
Sorry but the typing part is incorrect. Look at the signature of from_fn: pub fn from_fn<T, const N: usize, F>(cb: F) -> [T; N] where F: FnMut(usize) -> T, It takes a function with signature f(usize) ->
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by orlp 4y ago
We couldn't access anything but the browser window in fullscreen, only using the mouse. No start menu, tray icons, keyboard shortcuts, etc. I'm sure there's like 100 different ways to break these bad Windows kiosks so that yo
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by orlp 4y ago
As a kid I loved doing this in every museum/library/other place that always had 'locked down' interactive Windows systems back in my youth. One of my favorite ones was in a museum where I was with a friend, and there was
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by orlp 4y ago
Why would Twitter settle?
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by orlp 4y ago
Oh I agree, it's bad.
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by orlp 4y ago
To the first problem you can use a classic mod 10 divide by 10 loop to convert into a string digit by digit. Similarly for the second problem you can read digit by digit in reverse order and create the number using x = 10x + d while detecti
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by orlp 4y ago
Now ask DALL-E "giraffe feeding young", "giraffe organs", "giraffe eating", etc, I think you'd find most knowledge is there.
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by orlp 4y ago
The most important thing I think DALL-E shows is that it has a model of our world and culture. It's not intelligence, but it is knowledge. Google can give you endless pictures of giraffes if you search for it. But it can only connect y
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by orlp 4y ago
I can't read apparently...
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by orlp 4y ago
He doesn't have an email address. He accepts letters though: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
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by orlp 4y ago
How do you justify prison sentences for crimes in the past in this framework mental framework?
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by orlp 4y ago
It's absolutely jumping to conclusions, but so is blindly believing the people saying that the impact of it is low, when those very people are the authors which would be impacted. I'd say we'll have to wait and see.
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by orlp 4y ago
That's just not true, at least theoretically speaking (I have no idea about ZIP's actual internals). One could do a two-pass algorithm to find common substrings to build a dictionary, store this shared dictionary once, and then co
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by orlp 4y ago
> Are there mitigations they could provide that I’m missing? Apple could start by stopping their constant tracking and uploading of MAC addresses around Apple devices. That's right, even if your device has no telemetry whatsoever bu
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by orlp 4y ago
> Just a little app to model the arbitrage (gamble) opportunity. This isn't arbitrage at all. That is taking advantage of a price difference of an asset between two markets by buying and reselling it (nearly) simultaneously. If you
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by orlp 4y ago
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/third-party-ideas.en.html "The Free Software Movement does not endorse Libertarianism".
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by orlp 4y ago
> By default, in GNU mode, gcc will happily emit FMA at -O3. I had no idea that gcc was in 'GNU mode' by default, and that specifying -std would turn that off. I always assumed it just had a default standard version that is (ve
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by orlp 4y ago
Unfortunately compilers can't emit FMA instructions from regular floating point math without specifying (an equivalent of) `-ffast-math` as its results aren't identical to a*b + c done with two instructions.

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