rjmunro

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by rjmunro 3y ago
They have a twitter account for status updates, and that's not been updated since September: https://twitter.com/stackstatus
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I wonder if bisect is the optimal algorithm for this kind of case. Checking for the error still existing still takes an average of ≈500 iterations before a fail, checking for the error not existing takes 10,000 iterations, 20 times longer,
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I thought it was going to turn out to be a sophisticated phishing attack.
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If it helps e.g. local rainfall and other whether conditions it might be in the interests of coastal governments to invest in things like this, but if it only helps on a global scale, it's an issue. You could maybe equate it to an equi
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by rjmunro 3y ago
"Doesn't happen in practise" probably didn't fully describe what I meant - i.e. on average across populations if you tell people to "just" change their drinks for diet drinks, it seems other parts of the diet c
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Just spraying seawater upwards to make clouds might do the trick: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-conceptual-Flettner-sp...
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by rjmunro 3y ago
"All else being equal" doesn't seem to really happen in practise. Some mechanism means this doesn't work. Maybe Swapping 2 sodas (diet or not) for e.g. 2 glasses of water means you will have less sugar dependence over ti
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by rjmunro 3y ago
When the 100th attorney does this and doesn't get mentioned in the New York times, they won't be able to use the argument of "professional embarrassment" to reduce their sanction.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Of course you're allowed to ask others to help you. He's probably got a team of people to help him. This isn't a kid faking his school homework. The purpose of this writing is not to assess the skill of the lawyer.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I think the sanction in the court of public opinion is probably much worse.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
What is the purpose of sanction? As far as I know it's to stop him doing something similar again, and deter others from trying it. He's not going to do the same thing again unless he is literally mad. That would be total career su
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Or maybe it's a recover password link that you've been emailed, with an auth token.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
From me one got an "upvote" and one got a "downvote", but from all customers on average they would get a similar number of "upvotes" and "downvotes". (You can't "upvote" your first driv
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by rjmunro 3y ago
> Hydrogen may be generated by renewable sources such as solar energy, making it overall a cleaner alternative than batteries on a well to wheel basis Err, what? I guess you could contrive a scenario in which the extra solar panels and e
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by rjmunro 3y ago
The keys on the magic keyboard (and therefore hand positions) are no closer together than on other keyboards. It just doesn't have the numeric keypad part. If you want an ergonomic keyboard with a gap in the middle, any bluetooth keybo
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Assuming you mostly get a different driver each time, in a fairly random order, drivers who give better experiences would rise to the top. Drivers who give worse experiences would fall to the bottom.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Maybe we need a ranking system based on asking "Compared to your previous transaction, which was a better experience?" Answers "This was better" or "My last experience was better".
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Can you get some better accuracy by noting that cos(x) === sin(π/2 - x) and using e.g. the taylor expansion for sin when π/4 < x < 3π/4?
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Why just signal processing? Surely this is good for storing e.g. rotations of characters in games, longitude, in fact almost anywhere where you want an angle where a full rotation is the same as no rotation at all, and more precision as you
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by rjmunro 3y ago
London's Gherkin building uses twisting tunnels through the floors that channel air up and mean AC isn't needed most of the year. The tunnels correspond to the dark stripes on the outside.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Are there statistics anywhere on which cars are most likely to be run into the back of? I'm sure insurance companies would be able to collate the data. It would be interesting to see how much of an effect this has.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
There's an interesting scheme described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJc1p6RE78 Essentially by biasing the LLM's token choices slightly you can infer with high probability later that the text was generat
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by rjmunro 3y ago
In France, people take fully electric high speed (150-200mph trains.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
So why did Amazon threaten to stop taking Visa cards? Do they not have a UK bank account?
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> We can all agree that the current traditional and digital finance systems are broken No we can't. I think the traditional and digital finance systems fundamentally work quite well. It's not all perfect, but it mostly works.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
That's one of the ways merchant's banks mitigate the risk, yes. But you have 120 days to make a chargeback, and I think most banks don't delay the payment that long. I believe bigger merchants with better credit ratings can n
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by rjmunro 3y ago
No it doesn't. It was one of the first "Brexit freedoms" the government took advantage of. That's why Amazon had a spat with Visa: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/visa-mastercard-agree-lower-averag... The arti
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Amex doesn't count - they run their own system end to end and charge retailers stupidly high fees. That's why most retailers don't take them. As for rewards on MC and Visa, which card are you on? In my experience, either the
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by rjmunro 3y ago
This is a bank to bank fee. The merchant's bank will charge the merchant a higher fee than this. The banks take no risk here because normally they any fraud get's paid by the merchant through charge back. The only risk is that the
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Any word from ASUS on this? If not, I know to avoid ASUS products in future.

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