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by powera 10y ago
> Right now what we have is an unexpected and unexplained effect. It's expected that the people working on this for 15 years would claim to find an effect, since they clearly have an agenda that they want to be seen as right. It&#x
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by powera 10y ago
If I had to summarize it from one sentence from the article, I'd go with: "The one prediction I feel confident in making is that the idea of “ironic complexity theory”—i.e., of a profound duality between upper and lower bounds, wh
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by powera 10y ago
Article summary - the science and the experiment behind the EmDrive claims are flawed. My take - the people pushing this are charlatans and should be ignored completely.
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by powera 10y ago
Being pedantic, what does he mean by "learn"? I'm sure I could look at Go code and roughly explain what it does, or take a problem and roughly explain how to do it in Go. I'm sure it would take 3 months of misery or 3 mo
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by powera 10y ago
If you're considering doing this, it's important to consider what you will do when you inevitably add additional values to the enum. If you have persistence or partial rollouts (and networked services always have partial rollout
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by powera 10y ago
It's Bitcoin.
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by powera 10y ago
IMO the "rational" approach is to treat the claims as a bunch of pointless lies until there's a repeatable demonstration. Remarkable claims demand at least some evidence before wild speculation commences. As it is, Harry Pot
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by powera 10y ago
Of course, these all reveal the location of your phone, not of you. It is possible to do things without a cell phone.
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by powera 10y ago
Everything is awesome!
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by powera 10y ago
Just because everything in the past was horrible doesn't mean we need to burn it all down. We definitely don't need a culture of victimhood where anyone with documented ties to the past gets vilified.
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by powera 10y ago
Here's the worst part: "Venezuela has maintained strict currency controls since 2003 and currently has two legal exchange rates -- known as the Dipro and Dicom rates -- of 10 and 661 bolivars per dollar used for priority imports.
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by powera 10y ago
It's not news. It's algorithmically generated spam.
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by powera 10y ago
"The authors are planning to work closely with a team of experimentalists to design a proof-of-concept system, they said." - Pardon if I'm mistaken, but this seems like a fancy way of saying they have no evidence at all so fa
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by powera 10y ago
Some laws are bad, ergo all laws are bad? ... I'd get down voted further if I gave my honest opinion.
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by powera 10y ago
Draws very little power from what ?
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by powera 10y ago
Is this an ultra-low-current battery, or an energy generation technique?
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by powera 10y ago
I don't have enough time to write a thorough post, but the most obvious flaw in their logic is that utilities and auto-makers are unlikely to be disrupted completely by switching from fossil-fuel technologies to renewable+battery techn
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by powera 10y ago
Here's the Fitch release about their report: https://www.fitchratings.com/site/pr/1013282 Most egregiously, Bloomberg is cherry-picking the words "death spiral" out of somewhere in the middle of the
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by powera 10y ago
No. [EDIT: headline here fixed to not include the words "death spiral"] The article is a (lousy) summary of a report from Fitch. It has no new content, and its regurgitation of the report confuses most of the fundamentals of the e
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by powera 10y ago
To paraphrase Tyrion Lannister, we're not questioning the credibility of the source, we're denying its existence. "Toddandclare" is, rather blatantly, a front company for some organization. There is no doubt of this fac
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by powera 10y ago
Was this "Todd and Clare" site created by Assange himself? Seriously, what the hell dating site claims to be "the first dating site ever to be integrated in a United Nations program."?
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An Open Letter to Jack Dorsey(medium.com)
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by powera 10y ago
The question was "how do you do bit-counting of a bunch of numbers". The two canonical answers are "lookup table" and "using bit shifts and multiplying by magic numbers". The fact that there's a machine i
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by powera 10y ago
You're correct, I misread what he said the recruiter's answer was.
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by powera 10y ago
Also, his answer on #9 is wrong, or at least <EDIT> his explanation of the conversation is terribly confusing </edit> With 10000 numbers, it's only efficient to create a lookup table with 8-bit integers, not with 16-b
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by powera 10y ago
This is the SRE prescreen. At least it's the one I was asked in 2007, almost verbatim. Possibly too verbatim.
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by powera 10y ago
As a person who's taken this exact same test: 1) it's a pre-screen from an in-house recruiter. If you have 37 years of experience with computers and 24 years professional experience and any references/reputation, they should
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by powera 10y ago
First of all, the internet has changed in the past 10 years. Second, it's best practice here to put the date in the title for old articles.
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by powera 10y ago
Article is from 2006.
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by powera 10y ago
Could be to block credit card fraud.

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