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by repiret 6y ago
Airworthy means “can legally fly”. There are many airframes sitting in the desert that are far from airworthy, but would look just fine with a wash and wax.
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by repiret 6y ago
Off the shelf techniques for zero sum games of perfect knowledge would work though. Minimax and Monte Carlo Tree Search and reinforcement learning from self-play. Leela has been adopted to play both go and chess, I suspect it would be pra
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by repiret 6y ago
His opponent, Ding Liren, is from China, and has been especially plagued by unreliable internet since all the high level chess tournaments have moved online. He is currently ranked #3, behind Magnus Carlson and Fabiano Caruana.
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by repiret 6y ago
The average person might not know about transformers, but the set of people who know about transformers isn’t exactly small. It’s plenty large enough for there to be miscreants who know about transformers but aren’t power company insiders.
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by repiret 6y ago
How large of a boat would you need to really do damage though? I suspect that most undersea cables are tough enough to withstand your average sub-1000HP fishing/water skiing boat, and would need something a bit harder to come by to be
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by repiret 6y ago
One of the great things about the US legal system (although it's not uniquely American whatsoever) is that it's perfectly possible to prevail against the government in court, and happens on a regular basis. It is especially notew
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by repiret 6y ago
There is no case where it’s economic to mine a landfill where it’s not more economic for the landfill operator to sort recyclable materials from the incoming trash. Given that private landfill operators don’t generally do that, we can concl
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by repiret 6y ago
In what ways are compressed air safer and simpler for transmission? Off the top of my head I can only think of advantages for electricity: * Electrical transmission lines are lighter and smaller per watt than compressed air transmission li
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by repiret 6y ago
> Hope no one thinks I'm the FBI in a ratty old C172 C172 and C182 both make fine planes for running surveillance. They're inexpensive (to buy and operate), reliable, inconspicuous, and have enough space and useful load to tac
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by repiret 6y ago
In general aviation aircraft it’s quite common for there to be time limits on the highest power setting.
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by repiret 6y ago
It looks like they did, but having an implementation in a memory-safe language was one of their requirements. Learning that was for me the most fascinating part of the article.
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by repiret 6y ago
It’s not nonsense - Arm gets paid per device, TikTok get paid per ad impression (and views are a good proxy for that)
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by repiret 6y ago
I have more Arm CPUs in consumer devices within arms reach at this moment than the number of Tiktok videos I’ve seen in my entire life.
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by repiret 6y ago
Taxation is not necessarily regressive. Where I live, income tax accounts for almost all of the tax I pay, and income tax is very much progressive. But also where I live, the garbage man is not a public employee, but an employee of a priva
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by repiret 6y ago
You see that in, say, Cortex-A76, which only supports AArch32 at EL0. Supporting AArch32 at EL0 is quite cheap compared to also supporting it at the higher exception levels - EL0 can be done entirely in the instruction decoder.
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by repiret 6y ago
Apple didn't design its own cores when they started using Arm for iPhone, and RISC-V wasn't especially mature then either. There's a cost to switching, and you can bet that Arm designs its business relationship with Apple to
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by repiret 6y ago
Have you ever noticed that ARMv8-A architecture extensions are published faster than Arm-designed cores make use of them? I'm pretty sure thats because architecture licensees are a major driver of those extensions. If Apple needs a C
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by repiret 6y ago
So the reason Apple would buy Arm is to save itself money on the architecture license in the long run, right? But it could also save money on the architecture license if it switched to RISC-V. And you can be sure there's a tightly gu
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by repiret 6y ago
That’s not part of the doctorate though - you get your MD/DO before your first day of residency.
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by repiret 6y ago
Unlike PhDs, professional doctorates don’t generally require research. I know several medical doctors none of whom did research as part of their doctorate degree program (although some did research as part of a masters).
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by repiret 6y ago
Frankly I’m not especially familiar with politics outside of the US, but I think the US has two distinct disadvantages compared to a lot of other countries: 1. Being one of the first lintel democracies implemented, it got some things wrong.
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by repiret 6y ago
I don’t think it’s a moral or cultural failure but a political one. A high level politician is successful by being able to convince large donors that they should govern, not by being able to convince the populace that they’re good an analy
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by repiret 6y ago
Given that its ceramic beads embedded in aluminum foam, I would guess any heat-based cutter would make short work of it. But then again, I would also guess a diamond blade meant for ceramics would go farther than the standard abrasive cut-
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by repiret 6y ago
It took my fat fingers a while to be able to successfully copy-n-paste the link on mobile. Here’s a proper link to save others the hassle: https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-...
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by repiret 6y ago
There’s lots of ARMv7-A/R and v8-A and similar CPUs of other architectures in the embedded world. There’s a lot more to embedded than Cortex-M style microcontrollers.
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by repiret 6y ago
And LSI => Avago before that. And PLX => Broadcom.
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by repiret 6y ago
VLIW stands for Very Long Instruction Word, not variable length.
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by repiret 6y ago
My first programming job was for a media processing company, and we used the Lena image, and it’s origin was well known, and we were mostly young men so we all found copies of the entire shoot, and they were occasionally involved in office
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by repiret 6y ago
There is a common misconception that the boom happens once while accelerating through the speed of sound. In fact it happens continuously while traveling supersonic. The Concord mostly (only?) flew transatlantic mostly for that reason. The
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by repiret 6y ago
Nautical miles

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