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by petters 2y ago
That is a pretty good journal. Endre Boros is chief editor. Also I think "Annals of Operations Research" is a quite straight forward title if you have studied mathematical optimization at all. The issue title I have no idea about
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by petters 2y ago
Really? I think this is on a completely different level of intuition. There are five pieces here that are only rotated and translated.
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by petters 2y ago
The app is not available in my region (EU). But I visit SF from time to time. What should I do?
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by petters 2y ago
The page links to https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html which is a game embedded into a font. Playable in the browser.
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by petters 2y ago
> They’re commercially available. Anyone can download the app and hail one Alas, not if you're from Europe it seems. I'd love to try one when I'm in the Bay area
126.
by petters 2y ago
It’s an obvious error if you know Python but it’s still a mistake in the design of the Python language imo
127.
by petters 2y ago
When the economy grows, the amount of currency needs to grow as well. Otherwise prices will fall (deflation). That hurts the economy as a whole because e.g. real wages might increase too much
128.
by petters 2y ago
> Dyson Swarm doesn't require new technology. It’s still a pipe dream though
129.
by petters 2y ago
> and fusion is still a pipe dream Well, so is building Dyson swarms and spheres. I'd bet that we will figure out fusion first. > much more IR radiation and there's really no way to hide that. Maybe you can create a black ho
130.
by petters 2y ago
It takes a while for a solar storm to reach earth. It travels slower than light. But I don't know what caused the flickering in Stockholm.
131.
by petters 2y ago
With all the things the C standard lacks... I would not have expected this to be included!
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by petters 2y ago
> Make a showcase site that looks good. The website as-is looks like a website from the 90s I liked it! But then again, I used the internet in the 90s so it’s nostalgia. You’re probably right
133.
by petters 2y ago
Yes, there has been progress. But the featured article is meant to be fun!
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by petters 3y ago
Their stock is delisted with a non-existing market cap. Of course no one wants to buy that car right now
135.
by petters 3y ago
I use Capslock+{ijkl} in a custom keyboard layout. Works fine in every application!
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by petters 3y ago
Should be possible to implement cout more effectively since there is no string parsing. I say “should” because in practice it seems to be the other way around. I don’t know why.
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by petters 3y ago
Motorcycles are much more immersive and ironically I think that they feel safer for that reason.
138.
by petters 3y ago
More like an application of Canny edge detectors
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by petters 3y ago
I agree that the article is not very good
140.
by petters 3y ago
DuckDB is a columnar database so computing the sum of one column should be really fast. Yet it requires more than a minute for 280k rows? That seems way too slow so probably just a limitation of the shared file system.
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by petters 3y ago
Storing heat in huge water tanks has been done for a long time in Sweden
142.
by petters 3y ago
You also need to compile Python with a special flag activated. It’s not only an environment variable or a command line option.
143.
by petters 3y ago
Yes, this is very good advice and will likely solve their problem
144.
by petters 3y ago
This is nothing new in Claude 3, either. But the model seems quite impressive in other ways
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by petters 3y ago
The first toggle button on the page is the nicest to use IMO.
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by petters 3y ago
Ok, now I see what you are saying. Thanks!
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by petters 3y ago
> For matrices, you can show these end up as finite series (i.e., it can be written with the highest n being the dimension of the matrix) Can you clarify what you mean here? Don't we want the function to e.g. agree with the real-val
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by petters 3y ago
> here is how I do my backups. It takes me about ten seconds per day and five minutes per month to maintain > rsync everything to each of them, bringing one down to a safe deposit box downtown, and taking out the one that was there fr
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by petters 3y ago
Except that LLMs are notoriously bad at counting characters.
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by petters 3y ago
I wonder why Truecaller is allowed then? It builds a database of users’ contacts. Probably in violation of GDPR but they have a constitutional exception for that in Sweden (“utgivningsbevis”).

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