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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> We do not provide any implementations of state-of-the-art stereo algorithms Aww, I had my hopes up.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
That presumes people learn at equal rates. People don't learn at equal rates though.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> data is extractable That's true for plain text (in the best case), but try extracting an equation, table or a diagram. Stepping away from best case, PDFs in theory look the same everywhere, but turn into a mess on buggy implementa
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Redirector rule: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ Example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06709 Include pattern: https://arxiv.org/abs/\ *
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> people engage with many more devices on a day to day basis Do they actually? I'm guessing most people in the world have one smartphone, followed by those who have a laptop to match it. I would be careful to say that most people ha
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
In my defense, I had only 1/n chance to correctly guess which statistic he meant ;)
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
This is a scourge of all applications these days. The user's need for consistency is demoted to favor the developer's need for brand awareness.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
That's wrong though, as average will be different from median in skewed distributions.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
This is one of the rare situations where "fake it until you make it" applies.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Or the inverse: turning the brain dead into animal feed or fertilizer. Closer to home: donating them to research/organ donation before they formally die.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Judging by the reaction of the kids at work, what you did is already unmaintainable. Plus, if you are running shell out of necessity on a constrained system, that doesn't mean shell deserves to be a programming language where there&#x2
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
umbers.
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The Big One (2015)(newyorker.com)
2 points by rhn_mk1 5y ago|2 comments
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> the attack surface it is exposed to is every USB driver in the Linux kernel, which is much worse than systems with embedded basebands and proper memory firewalling where the baseband has no more inherent access, but is exposed to a sma
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Well I don't like the law. Should we keep it just because it's the law? That'd be committing the is-ought fallacy: https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definit...
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
They are smart, if you consider "smarts" to mean making lots of complex decisions. And they make good decisions a lot of the time too. But you can't encode a set of heuristics that works every time into a physical device -
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Ah, I can point out some along those lines, too. Acupressure. Chiropractors. Horoscopes. Less fringe, but also less magical: the notion that a wild animal will abandon their young if a human touches them. It doesn't really make a lot o
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> It's that they're making choices for us I think that's the definition of a "smart" appliance, and you just described what my problem with "smart" appliances is: they are too smart by a half, and end u
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
That getting a cold does/does not come from exposure to low temperatures is a strong conviction I've encountered in both versions.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
With the switch to GTK3, it no longer fits on my screen (and headerbars stand out like a sore thumb too). Kdiff3 was confusing for a moment, but does a good job too.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
I've just noticed that the patterns are suspiciusly regular on this picture. Nice catch!
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Ask HN: What makes some metals shine?
16 points by rhn_mk1 5y ago|8 comments
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Who is a programmer to prevent others from being rebels because they enjoy it? There's freedom and creativity in nonsense, and that might be worth preserving, especially when not crucial to fulfilling the task at hand (which gender rar
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
UTC does not impose formatting on its own.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Going carbon-neutral might have been the right answer 20 years ago. To avoid 1.5 degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels, we need to go carbon-negative today. Even if we reach 0 in 13 years, the road to flipping the magnitude will be
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
If you think the near-certainty of getting wiped out entirely at some point is the right price for avoiding wars, then sure. I'm not sure most people share that preference.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
It's not just that. To make something colder using a heat pump, you must heat up something else by the equivalent amount. Actually more, because of losses. Whereas making something warmer can be done without a heat pump, by releasing s
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> Everyone having nuclear weapons would make world much more peaceful and safer place. That's the happy path. The failure path with an unhinged dictator causing global destruction also gets much more likely.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Nothing will solve the climate crisis in the time frame it takes to build a nuclear reactor. If you start building now, you get part of the solution in the future.
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by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Isn't it the other way round?

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