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901.
by repsilat 11y ago
> by parachute ... > wind or rain Obviously parachute delivery is more sensitive to weather conditions. Parachutes would need active guidance to be at all practical. If the parachutes and guidance systems aren't recoverable (coll
902.
by repsilat 11y ago
> If P=NP is independent, then we already know that a complete search for a polynomial algorithm for 3SAT will fail A search for a provably polynomial algorithm will fail, but that doesn't mean that an unprovably polynomial time
903.
by repsilat 11y ago
>> It is that spacetime which is curved rather than just space. > This is the crucial point that many discussions overlook I agree completely with this (and have said as much in the past -- https://www.reddit.com/r&#
904.
by repsilat 11y ago
> ... worst of both worlds ... timeboxed approach Just to provide the other side of the story, I've done about a dozen MOOCs (mostly through Coursera) and I'm most of the way through Georgia Tech's online masters program.
905.
by repsilat 11y ago
For most websites, users should just be warned that their password is insecure, not forced to use a stronger one. Your website probably isn't important enough to me to get its own strong password.
906.
by repsilat 11y ago
> infinite parallel universes That's a pretty uncharitable interpretation of it. If you look at the actual physics, MWI is incredibly simple: the wavefunction just evolves as the wavefunction evolves. That's it. There's so
907.
by repsilat 11y ago
> at larger vector sizes, you spend more time in the embarrassingly-parallelizable kernel Vectors are only fixed-width, so even though it is an "embarrassingly parallel" problem, you still only expect it to asymptote towards a
908.
by repsilat 11y ago
The fact that it's net income is very important here -- Tesla are rapidly scaling up production, which means lots of capital investment with a view to increasing future revenues (and profits.)
909.
by repsilat 11y ago
It's easy enough to change over -- just 1. Mandate that everyone in the country install universal (or dual-interface) plugs. Fairly low-cost, and pretty safe. 2. After 50 years, when all plug sockets will probably have been replaced, p
910.
by repsilat 11y ago
> a bound on the information content of your CPU Sure, though I'd have said "RAM". When you have a bound on information density, you naturally get a bound on worst-case memory latency provided you obey a fixed speed of l
911.
by repsilat 11y ago
The newest physics is even more pessimistic, putting it at O(m^½) because of the holographic principle. Essentially, the theory goes that the amount of data you can cram into a spherical volume of space scales in proportion to its surface a
912.
by repsilat 11y ago
> That physical quantities such as mass are forever increasing I think that's a little uncharitable. In classical terms you could say that each "universe" is associated with some weight or probability, and those probabilit
913.
by repsilat 11y ago
Maybe if the machine running the code is the machine that compiles it, or if you have a good way to send processor-specific binaries to the right places. More useful, I think, would be a runtime check far enough up the stack (i.e., away fro
914.
by repsilat 11y ago
> they are rife with corporate subsidies and targeted protectionism At least in spirit, this agreement largely exists to remove subsidies, tariffs and import restrictions. I suppose you're referring to the (expected) "harmoni
915.
by repsilat 11y ago
It's becoming pretty common. Every time I go to the cinema I see an advertisement for VWs touting their automatic braking. I imagine the avoided rear-end collisions caused by inattentive drivers will outweigh the contrived "emerge
916.
by repsilat 11y ago
I don't know how widespread this is, but in some places if you get sick while on your vacation you can use your sick leave and get some vacation days returned to you.
917.
by repsilat 11y ago
Something I've wondered about reference counting and optimising compilers: I assume at a lowish level an inlined function call might look something like, pointer->ref_count += 1 obj = pointer->ptr //...do
918.
by repsilat 11y ago
How much of the difference between those two pages is enshrined in web standards? Are Firefox or Chrome still standards-compliant if they set the default line-height to 1.4? If they bump up the default font-size and change the background co
919.
by repsilat 11y ago
I couldn't read the article at all -- there was a big blue "title page" that I couldn't get to go away by scrolling down or clicking anywhere. It got better when I resized the page, though only somewhat -- some page widt
920.
by repsilat 11y ago
The article seemed to try to indicate that Parker's (outragrous) treatment was indicative of a more systemic problem, but I didn't think the argument held up very well. So Woodworth collects a lot of revenue by enforcing the speed
921.
by repsilat 11y ago
If there is no sensible, enforceable limit between "none" and "as much as you want" (arguable), and if the latter is worse than the former (also arguable) then we'd naturally conclude that we should ban all of it. P
922.
by repsilat 11y ago
If you mean "UNIX time", you'll be disappointed -- UNIX time is not the number of seconds since the epoch, it is also leap-second adjusted. It stops when a leap second happens to make sure there are exactly 86400 UNIX secon
923.
by repsilat 11y ago
If anyone needs to know about the Earth's rotation that precisely they probably - don't rely on their laptop's system clock, - don't use UTC either because of minor rotational noise/drift and the discontinuity arou
924.
by repsilat 11y ago
To first order, current shares should be worth a smaller fraction of the company, but should be worth the same dollar amount as they currently are. This process is meant to increase the size of Tesla by $500M, by simply putting $500M into i
925.
by repsilat 11y ago
I think so. I figure C++ has a static type system in most places because it helps the language be fast -- resolving the target of a method call at compile time turns it into a straight function call, and straight function calls can be inlin
926.
by repsilat 11y ago
Still, these people will want to keep these high-paying jobs, and they know there are people lined up around the block to replace them, so to imply that the company is going to be saddled with unperforming employees is ridiculous. Conversel
927.
by repsilat 11y ago
Out of curiosity, with a regular normal distribution I wonder what the probability is that the most recent point finds a problem. I guess you could calculate these things separately for an approximation, but I'd probably just want to s
928.
by repsilat 11y ago
Conservation of momentum is a much bigger deal than conservation of energy. We already know of situations in which energy isn't conserved (like the energy of a photon decreasing when there is metric expansion where it is.) Conservation
929.
by repsilat 11y ago
There's no reason you have to scatter a trre all over the place. Dictionaries almost never change, so you can flatten the pointer data (and maybe even inline the words if you're a masochist) without worrying.
930.
by repsilat 11y ago
It isn't terribly clear what the criteria are meant to correlate with -- the Wikipedia page explicitly says that it's not about habitability, but doesn't really say what it is about. Maybe the criteria and exponents have be

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