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by spenczar5 2y ago
iPads are actually much higher volume than Macs. Apple sells about 2x to 3x as many tablets as laptops. Of course, phones dwarf both.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
But it seems consequential. If the time were sampled every kilobyte, the code would be 1,000 times faster - which is better than the proposed use of other time functions. At that point, even these slow methods are using about 0.5ms per mill
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by spenczar5 2y ago
It gets worse. “Metal chain” is more complex (1.47) than “nuclear reactors” (1.41). “Stainless steel wire” is more complex (1.21) than “aircraft launching gear” (0.5), and so on. It’s just a poorly defined metric. “Product complexity” is co
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by spenczar5 2y ago
A neat idea, but peeling back into the computations, one has to worry. The details of calculations are suspiciously “mathy” - they are embarrassingly simple, but dressed up in fancier language that seems intended to impress and confuse. For
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Its all relative, right? The cost is about a millionth of the JWST image. A millionth!
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by spenczar5 3y ago
> Because the original discovery of La Marmotta had only ever been published in the Italian language, widespread study of the canoes and their place in history remained limited. But now that a team of international researchers revisited
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing the research!
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by spenczar5 3y ago
I would to read more about this “crime saturated” period in Venice’s history. I don’t even know when it is! Any pointers?
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by spenczar5 3y ago
I am curious about what you mean by “classically educated.” In my undergrad physics education, computing Hamiltonians was pretty much an entire semester of classical mechanics in my junior year. We didn’t really touch fluids though. Does “c
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by spenczar5 3y ago
I liked this article, and the discussion in these comments. I don’t understand why it was flagged. Is there a way to find out? Perhaps @dang summons an explanation?
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Oh, I see, yes. The F# style is more powerful than the Go style, and can express the Go style if you choose. That’s a pretty good argument that it is superior, but Go might not be able to grow to adopt it
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by spenczar5 3y ago
To me, the advantage isn’t so much that you have to handle every error. It’s that you can see, with certainty, which functions and methods are error-free . I even find myself encouraged to write functions that cannot return errors. You don
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Sadly, I think that is indeed radically different from Go’s design. Go lacks anything like sum types, and proposals to add them to the language have revealed deep issues that have stalled any development. See https://github.com&#
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Rust does.
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Part of the issue is that when people evaluate a language, they do it in a safe setting: a toy problem, a coding challenge, whatever. In those cases, handling error scenarios is annoying and just slows you down. But when the rubber meets th
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by spenczar5 3y ago
You’re missing density of storage. Gasoline and natural gas are in the region of 50 MJ/kg, while batteries are more like 10MJ/kg or lower. That 5x factor is what stops us from having electric airplanes.
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by spenczar5 3y ago
I think it is fair to find dark energy disturbing! It disturbs many cosmologists. It is very established empirically but we lack a good explanation.
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Okay. I am a professional astronomer at the University of Washington, and I don’t see that phrase as holding very much meaning. In particular, “flow” is a messy word to use. A generous reading of the OP might be that it is a restatement of
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by spenczar5 3y ago
We don’t really know - you are right to ask this question. There are two methods and they disagree with each other. JWST is precise enough to rule out a simple reason like instrument imprecision. So remaining possibilities are new physics,
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by spenczar5 3y ago
I don’t understand what “time does not flow the same everywhere” means. Can you elaborate?
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Captain, or pilot? In Baltimore, as in most harbors, a local pilot comes on board to guide the ship. Is this their responsibility?
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Where did that $70T come from? The most obvious objection is that most labor is not desk jobs, so 1% from autocomplete seems very unreasonable to me, but I don’t know how it breaks out in dollars. Maybe your source says that?
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The Grocery List Collection(grocerylists.org)
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Oh boy, this gives me a chance to talk about one of the gems of astronomy software which deserves to be better known: HEALPixel tesselation! HEALPixels stand for 'Hierarchical Equal-Area Iso-latitudinal Pixels'. It is a scheme tha
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by spenczar5 3y ago
I think the burden could be on the chemical producer: do “good science” to show this material is safe, or don’t use it at all. That conservative mindset seems very reasonable to me. The question remains - what is “good science?”
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Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA (2021)(wordsandbuttons.online)
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Damn, I want one of these 100GHz CPUs you have, that sounds great. I think you mean million :)
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by spenczar5 3y ago
Right, I meant inactive duration, of course. Cancellation signals are tricky. You of course cannot be sure that the remote end receives it. This turns into the two generals problem. Yes, you need monitoring for this case. I work on scientif
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by spenczar5 3y ago
What happens if a worker goes silent for longer than the heartbeat duration, then a new worker is spawned, then the original worker “comes back to life”? For example, because there was a network partition, or because the first worker’s host
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by spenczar5 3y ago
> [A high school student] says she's still nervous and anxious for the test, because she feels a lot of pressure to do well. "It's a very important test," she says. "It dictates what's going to happen for yo

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