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by petters 5y ago
But people reading a long-form text faster than normal speech should be common and uncontroversial, I think.
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by petters 5y ago
It is very clear to me that listening at 3x works after some training. (Not surprising, since almost everyone already reads way faster than normal speech) The proof for this is e.g. blind people. Listen to what their screen readers sound li
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by petters 5y ago
It solves some problems, not all.
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by petters 5y ago
There could be much more and the case only covered what could be proved.
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by petters 5y ago
Normally you'd open a transaction, run the unit test, then roll back the transaction. That makes each test start at the same, clean state.
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by petters 5y ago
Since the buffer overflow was in xpdf, perhaps image previews in Ubuntu are affected as well?
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by petters 5y ago
It's hard to get even 100Mbit in Paulo Alto? Must be hard for everyone working remotely these days....
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by petters 5y ago
No, that plot point was likely written because of this.
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by petters 5y ago
As far as I understood, the entire Google account was not suspended. Was that the case?
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by petters 5y ago
They are not wrong
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by petters 5y ago
Alright. To be fair, I've reached the front page on HN by just compiling a C linear programming solver with Emscripten.
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by petters 5y ago
What is the novelty here? E.g. we have https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide and other examples. The cool part here is Emscripten, which has been around for a long time.
283.
by petters 5y ago
There is a big banner on mobile, asking to download the app.
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by petters 5y ago
I haven't used Facebook in years, but when I did the ads were fantastic. The only platform were the ads seemed like a net positive for me.
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by petters 5y ago
It is not clear to me how to play following your strategy. There are things missing. You need to describe what the second move should look like.
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by petters 5y ago
Sure that is annoying, but I'm not sure it has anything to do with duck typing?
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by petters 5y ago
How do you then explain Facebook's revenue being 86B in 2020?
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by petters 5y ago
Why do you say that? The revenue of Facebook is public (86B in 2020). Is a lot of it not from users, or is the figure incorrect, or do they have many more users than they say they have?
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by petters 5y ago
Wikipedia is incredibly valuable, but the Wikimedia foundation is not known to spend money wisely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12... A very small fraction of the money is go
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by petters 5y ago
> Any meaningful result is equally hard to verify. This is very much not true. A central class in complexity is NP whose problems are hard to answer but easy to verify if the answer is yes. E.g. is there a path visiting all nodes in this
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by petters 5y ago
American companies pay you to join the military?
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by petters 5y ago
OK, in my native language the translation of "herb" is less used in common language. The definition was from English Wikipedia though
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by petters 5y ago
A video by someone named Taliver: Answer to What’s an inside joke among Google employees? by David Seidman https://www.quora.com/What-s-an-inside-joke-among-Google-emp... Pretty old by now, don't know when you started
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by petters 5y ago
My favorite weird theory is the "Siluran hypothesis," which states that our industrial revolution was not the first. There are some events in sediment that look like what our industrial revolution will look like. (many millions of
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by petters 5y ago
Tea (Camellia sinensis) is not an herb, i.e. not "a plant whose stem does not become woody and persistent (as in a tree or shrub)"
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by petters 5y ago
There has to be a proper blind test for this somewhere. I can only find those for coffee, where it's does not seem to matter much.
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by petters 5y ago
Could you possibly be misremembering? I think creating e.g. template<F> F MyComputation(const F& x) would be allowed e.g. for supporting both float and double. It would also be required when using the Ceres optimization library.
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by petters 5y ago
"constexpr" does not do what you think it does. For example, "if constexpr(is_constant_evaluated())" is always true, I think. See also the new C++ keyword "consteval" (yes, really!)
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by petters 5y ago
How is this puzzle NP-hard? Genuine question, because of the number of pieces is bounded, it's solvable with a shortest path in a graph with a polynomial number of nodes.
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by petters 5y ago
Let's not forget that for a while it was almost impossible to install Windows XP while connected to the internet. You'd get infected with Code Red. The security was an existential threat to Windows back then. Windows 2000 came bef

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