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by saulrh 8y ago
Notice that, when they say they only hire the top 1%, there's a vicious sampling bias at work: even in a worst case where they're being literal they're actually hiring the top 1% of their applicants , not the top 1% of engi
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by saulrh 8y ago
I disagree. So does the TCSEC ("Orange Book"), which argues that covert channels may be effectively impossible to eliminate but that they should still be reduced , then lays out guidelines on how far they should be reduced for
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by saulrh 8y ago
Classified in IARC 2B, which also includes things like pickled vegetables, magnets, coffee, sassafras, styrene, and ginkgo extract. Also aflatoxin M1 (LD50 ~300 ug/kg), vanadium(V) oxide (LD50 ~10 mg/kg inhaled), HIV, and nitrogen
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by saulrh 8y ago
To make sure I understand the energy levels right: 6 watts per kilogram would be roughly like sleeping with a multi-kilowatt radio transmitter running in your bedroom?
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by saulrh 8y ago
Voted more often than they used to, which was once every fifteen years.
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There's a difference between "numerical stability issues introduce small chaotic perturbations" and "the game is literally unbeatable if you play on platform X because the physics step doesn't properly scale Y to fr
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by saulrh 8y ago
Another Tridactyl contributor here! :wave: I'm on a phone and it looks like bovine3dom is fielding questions so I'll just chime in with my pitch. If you're willing to get your hands dirty in the name of power, please do give
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by saulrh 8y ago
Slap a tiny solar-powered GPS unit and transmitter on each block. ~$10 of electronics is marginal compared to the $2000 of concrete for each block. If any break, you already have a crane that you can use to move the block out of the way for
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by saulrh 8y ago
No need for a reference; now that you mention it it's obvious that the duty cycle will be totally different. In fact, I'd bet that cycle time is the limiting factor - the graphic [1] shows about 100 cylindrers per layer, 18 layers
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by saulrh 8y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a fair question. Maybe your post reads a bit abrasively? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, I really didn't intend the pun! My reaction to the article was to try to get a rough estimate of how re
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by saulrh 8y ago
Better than 10% of the US being truck drivers. Maintenance on heavy equipment like that can be remarkably complex, and the necessary skills are transferable to all sorts of industrial and fabrication jobs - not too hard to switch from fixin
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by saulrh 8y ago
Huh, I'm less doubtful of this than I thought I'd be. Tower cranes are apparently surprisingly low-maintenance. I assume this is because they have to actively participate in their own disassembly [1] and major breakages are super
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by saulrh 8y ago
http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/
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by saulrh 8y ago
Tell that to my knees. I'm mostly fine walking around. I can even do short flights of stairs. In fact, up until a few years ago they only bothered me when I sat in a really unergonomic chair for a while. Then someone convinced me to tr
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by saulrh 8y ago
I don't think you get to claim cultural relativism on not putting up hazard signs. I'd also recommend against claiming cultural relativism on things like wheelchair accessibility, hard hats, fire and earthquake codes, or really 95
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by saulrh 8y ago
That's a fantastic misinterpretation of what I said. Putting things in your mouth is necessary for survival. Unfortunately, there are some things you can put in your mouth that will kill you. Consuming information is necessary for surv
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by saulrh 8y ago
Fun fact: Most people also simply cannot defend themselves against guys in tanks with machine guns and infrared cameras. I do see where you're going with the bit about justifying crimes. But at the same time, if you shout "fire&qu
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by saulrh 8y ago
> The logical consequence of the belief in people being unable to defend their minds against elaborate ads is that we should abolish democracy. How can you trust those stupid voters to make any choice if this choice is predetermined by
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by saulrh 8y ago
It is! It's good for their health, but at a much finer grain and for different purposes than protecting them from, for example, buying beef that's full of arsenic or a bottle of tylenol 500mg +/- 2000mg. Being able to read cr
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by saulrh 8y ago
Is anyone else disheartened by the fact that the discussion on "snake oil" has focused around e.g. regulating clinical trials and pharmaceutical manufacturing, rather than just teaching people basic critical thinking skills and la
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by saulrh 8y ago
I use example.org for that. I wouldn't be surprised if it has to stay available on http for hysterical raisins, such as everyone using it in their tests and outage detectors.
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by saulrh 8y ago
I'm still impressed that SpaceX, with <20 years of experience, is even in the same ballpark as Boeing and its 101 years.
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by saulrh 8y ago
> And books are by nature serial, yet they can express enormously complex ideas -- think of a compilers textbook. I'd argue that, in many cases, well-organized books have split their material up into chunks with formal interfaces be
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by saulrh 8y ago
Not sure if it'll help, since I don't have any teaching experience, but coming at this from the perspective of a student, thinking of what your students might be thinking given what they're saying: First, "not dry"
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by saulrh 8y ago
Not a C programmer, so I'm sure I'm missing a ton of more subtle issues, but some of the immediate questions to ask: * What happens if s or t are longer than 100 characters? * What happens if s and t are both longer than 50 charac
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by saulrh 8y ago
Tylenol aka paracetamol. Take one every six hours, as directed, and you'll be fine. Take two every six hours and you die painfully over the course of the next month. 500 deaths a year in the US alone... despite basically every house in
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by saulrh 8y ago
emacs has a couple of packages working to implement the editor side of the language server protocol, so it's probably not long until it's at rough feature parity for structured editing of languages with rich semantics.
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by saulrh 8y ago
I feel you're on the right track with that hunch - Zooko's triangle should apply in some way.
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I don't know if I'd call it a "deficiency" - if we interpret "disfluency" in a literal sense as "not flowing" without negative connotation, then the interruptions (hmm, uh, okay) are actually communic
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'm surprised that nobody's pointed out how... breathlessly far-fetched both of those scenarios are? You'd find out the "unimaginable pain and fear" thing the first time you woke someone up, and standard anesthesia

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