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by shiandow 3y ago
When it comes to CF bonds I'm more concerned with bioaccumulation than direct skin contact. Besides, polonium-210 is also harmless upon direct skin contact, it's not as if skin-contact is the most dangerous form of exposure.
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by shiandow 3y ago
That does raise the question how irreversibly you have to process something before it is no longer protected by copyright. Obviously zipping something is not enough, even lossy compression is (obviously) not enough. But then how does a lang
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by shiandow 3y ago
Erroneously in my opinion. Verifying someone's identity does not require making a copy. Nor is a copy sufficient. The one thing making a copy is supposed to achieve is prove that someone saw the original. But what's important is n
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by shiandow 3y ago
That doesn't do much to protect you against a website storing government mandated passport information. The only protection there would be if authorities stop demanding that everyone takes copies of personal IDs.
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by shiandow 3y ago
So far I think I've had one false positive for the word 'but', and tens of true positives. My theory is that the one thing clickbait video makers are not is creative. To allow for false positives I've stolen an idea from
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by shiandow 3y ago
I've taken to removing videos that are obvious clickbait based on the title using uBlock Origin. Turns out that some words like 'but' pretty much only shows up in clickbait.
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by shiandow 3y ago
The techniques in this article would be considered common knowledge for any of the prerequisite classes you'd need to take to be able to follow a course on Higher order Fourier analysis. I wouldn't say they're unrelated, but
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by shiandow 3y ago
Don't think I'll ever get used to stars in LaTeX when someone means simple multiplication. The preceding blog post[1] seems to contain the more interesting parts though. This is just (d/dt)^n e^At x = A^n e^At x, which is kin
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by shiandow 3y ago
Even that might be a bit overcomplicated, you could probably get quite far with a bowl shaped treadmill (I mean, anecdotally the simple wheel shaped ones do feel like running, their inertia notwithstanding). If you start pitching the treadm
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by shiandow 3y ago
In my mind this scene ends with the mechanic saying "-Just give me a lift!" over the sound of a rapidly leaving ferrari.
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by shiandow 3y ago
> The police can access cellphone records but the process is cumbersome and privacy laws require a subpoena. So in short, the phone company keeps records as does the phone and an increasing number of cars. However the author apparently f
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by shiandow 3y ago
I wonder if the cultivars of brassica oleracea have greater genetic variation.
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by shiandow 3y ago
I've seen one that had a glass lid that allowed you to view inside the top. You knew it was working when the glass fogged up.
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by shiandow 3y ago
Not really, I mean more CPU only beats better algorithms up to a point. With caching you can guarantee 90% of the performance of the best possible algorithm by increasing the RAM tenfold. This is not the case with CPU, you can increase it h
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by shiandow 3y ago
Depends how you look at it, the Carnot engine is in principle reversible. You can either let heat move from hot to cold and get work as an output at efficiency (T_hot - T_cold)/T_hot, or input work and move heat from cold to hot at eff
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by shiandow 3y ago
Even just as a cheap way of approximating LRU the k-random algorithm is quite nice. Honestly I think LRU doesn't get enough recognition for being provably only a fixed factor away from what an optimal algorithm could do with less memor
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by shiandow 3y ago
You mean like the tor-browser? It's not that they don't exist it's more that they're pointless if they're not used by lots of people. Personally I'm more in favour of randomizing some of the properties. That wa
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by shiandow 3y ago
The reason why this misunderstanding is so pervasive is probably because joins are effectively function application (or function composition, bit of the same thing really). I also wrote about this ;-) https://pragmathics.nl/
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by shiandow 3y ago
I know hasty optimisation is the root of all evil, but even so this has got to be a bit too far in the other direction. A 2x speed improvement is very significant if it happens to be in the critical loop of your code. You want a 5000% dif