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541.
by sfink 2y ago
Yeah, that's fair. I guess you have to make the ice pick out of tofu.
542.
by sfink 2y ago
Surely this is easily solved with time-reversed acoustics. Just stab a transmitter into the brain with an ice pick to the point you want to measure, and pick up the signal at lots of locations around the skull. Now you have both a mapping f
543.
by sfink 2y ago
Short answer: raw video is big. With my mindset, you have a gigantic chunk of data. Especially if you're recording multiple streams per machine. The immediate thought is that you want to avoid copying as much as possible. If you really
544.
by sfink 2y ago
...and this is why I will never start a successful business. The initial approach was shipping raw video over a WebSocket . I could not imagine putting something like that together and selling it. When your first computer came with 64KB
545.
by sfink 2y ago
I'm surprised that they chose 3 pretty complex plants. The duckweed seems like the best idea, but wouldn't it be more useful at this point to be experimenting with more primitive components of an ecosystem rather than full-fledged
546.
by sfink 2y ago
Visa sells money for money, skimming off a percentage. CPUs spends cycles for features (doing useful work). Enabling frame pointers skims off a percentage of the cycles. But it's the impact on useful work that matters, not how many cyc
547.
by sfink 2y ago
That's not the scenario here. An ensemble average requires those 1 second periods to be randomly sampled from the overall runtime. You can't just measure the first second after starting for all samples, or even the 7th second afte
548.
by sfink 2y ago
I find the boast about ending the war to be reasonably likely -- if it is clear the US is switching sides in the conflict, a negotiated capitulation could happen pretty quickly. In a similar vein, solving world hunger is closer today than i
549.
by sfink 2y ago
Why is the question about clothes? Why not ask why ghosts usually appear wearing skin? Or flesh? I guess these days in common depictions, clothes > skeleton > peeled > nude in terms of frequency. And what about age, or state of inj
550.
by sfink 2y ago
I doubt it's anywhere near that clearcut. "Weight" by itself is neither a disease nor a symptom. I have read numerous reports saying that weight loss often does not improve outcomes for various specific problems. Or that weig
551.
by sfink 2y ago
When I take a dump, I do it exactly like a violin virtuoso does. I am not a violin virtuoso. Trust me, I'm really not.
552.
by sfink 2y ago
> "...would humans be able to do anything in the same order of magnitude?" Good question. Answering questions is called 'research'. ;-) I'm skeptical for the same reasons as you, too. Let's see... the ocean
553.
by sfink 2y ago
> Structured data can also be stored as just structured data. Fair point. I probably overstated the weaknesses of the JSON model; it's fine for many uses. But I like Map, and Set, and occasionally even WeakMap. I especially like JS
554.
by sfink 2y ago
To the substantive comment: if your JSON is in a DB, then the DB can do whatever fancy thing it can come up with in order to replicate changes. Databases are good at that, and a place where the engineering effort is well-spent. Both sides o
555.
by sfink 2y ago
As I understand it, JSON works well as an interchange format, for ephemeral messages to communicate between two entities. For JSON Patch to be useful and efficient, it requires both sides to use JSON for representation . As in, if you have
556.
by sfink 2y ago
That makes sense. With (strong) steel maxxing out at around 1Gpa, that's 4 orders of magnitude less. The rotation frequency gets squared, so... 10Khz? Huh: "The fastest rotation achievable by standard motors is of the order of 10
557.
by sfink 2y ago
Dumb question: why is it hard to make something spin really fast? Simple example: put your frictionless spherical cow on a spinny plate. Make it a very small cow; it's only there to have a point of rotation. Why frictionless? You don&#
558.
by sfink 2y ago
Putting your trash in a trash can is unethical. Leaving it on the street provides employment to trash collectors who need a job. Obeying the law is unethical. Think of the poor laid off police officers. The fact that information can be dupl
559.
by sfink 2y ago
My "I'm gonna learn Rust!" initial project was porting a callgraph traversal tool from Python to Rust. For loading in my input file, the speedup was very disappointing: 1x. (As in, no speedup at all.) Then I learned about the
560.
by sfink 2y ago
It's not just the size of content filters. V2 had the ability to run code to block a web request before it was downloaded. V3 only gives you a (size-limited) set of declarative filters. If you want to block anything else, you'll h
561.
by sfink 2y ago
That's a fair complaint, and I definitely agree that using reputation as a factor in the decision for an individual addon is a very bad idea. But why is that? (1) Because reputation does not imply trustworthiness. Someone could build u
562.
by sfink 2y ago
That sucks. I work for Mozilla, but nowhere near Addons so I don't know what pressures they're under or whatever. But if I ran the zoo... this is gorhill we're talking about. We ought to just make him an add-on reviewer wit
563.
by sfink 2y ago
It did! How many R's do you think are in "strawberry"? I get 3, and it got 3. I'm with the LLM. ...oh, you disagree with its intermediate reasoning? You think it should follow a series of logical steps that are each in
564.
by sfink 2y ago
Fair! Upvoted. I guess I'm not likely to type that into the shell, or if I do, I then tab-complete to expand it. I could definitely see myself using that in a shell script, though. I tend to do validity checks there: if ! [ -d &q
565.
by sfink 2y ago
> VHS was not driven by porn, and neither was video compression. I think you're quibbling over what "driven by" means. Porn was not the origin of any of these, but there's pretty good evidence that its popularity play
566.
by sfink 2y ago
My main safety habit is to avoid slashless paths. Bad: rm * Okay: rm ./* rm /tmp/d/* rm */deadmeat rm d/* Then again, I commonly use dangerous things like `mv somefile{,.away}` tha
567.
by sfink 2y ago
VHS, the early internet, video compression, and other advances were driven by porn. Now it seems like ads are driving everything. (Sure, including ads on porn, but I highly doubt porn dominates the ad market overall.) It seems like the wide
568.
by sfink 2y ago
> Especially as, being a non-US citizen I have no right to privacy afforded to me in the constitution Say what? Ok, there is no explicit "right to privacy" anywhere in the US Constitution, but that applies equally to citizens a
569.
by sfink 2y ago
Yeah, I don't get that, because it seems to me that the friends you make along the way are mathematically indistinguishable from particles being real and having properties. It's a distinction without a difference. Or at least, I&#
570.
by sfink 2y ago
Because my Rust, Python, bash, Perl, etc. projects aren't impressed with the `package.json` file I wave at them. Especially before I've installed npm or any other JS runtime on my system (let alone Gulp). As the article said, it&#

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