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by staplung 2y ago
The joke about The Geysers is that it's California's "Brown Energy" because of the use of sewage for the steam generation.
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by staplung 2y ago
I don't want to knock anyone's project but I fail to see the way in which this resembles back-of-the-envelope calculations (which I take to mean, roughly, estimates RE order of magnitude). This seems more like plain old arithmetic
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by staplung 2y ago
It's tempting to interpret this as a proxy for over-all damage but it's perhaps a bit unwise to do so. Alternative possibilities are that internet related infra (power lines, cell towers, roof-mounted dishes, etc.) was disproporti
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by staplung 2y ago
One of those videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=247JT7ctQ_I
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by staplung 2y ago
I think this is the incident referenced in WhatIf's exploration of how long you could swim in a nuclear reactor's spent fuel pool. https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
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by staplung 2y ago
The octopuses I spoke to strenuously deny the fish abuse accusations. "It's true that our innovative management technique - Continuous Tactile Feedback - can look a little rough to the untrained eye, but our Food Collection Engine
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by staplung 2y ago
Anyone know how it handles ligatures? Depending on font and tooling the word "fish" may end up in various docs as the glyphs [ﬁ, s, h] or [f, i, s, h]. According to a quick check against /usr/share/dict/words &
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by staplung 2y ago
I wonder if some of the confusion stems from a seemingly common conflation of heats pumps and mini-splits. Mini-splits are not heat pumps per se though most of the former tend to be powered by the latter. And all other things being equal, m
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by staplung 2y ago
Sadly, it appears that repo hasn’t been touched in a couple years.
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by staplung 2y ago
I know essentially nothing about Z3 but it seems like there's a potential problem in the code. There's a section headed by the comment "All hits and miss counts must be positive" followed by a bunch of assertions that th
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by staplung 2y ago
Simpson's Paradox keeps experimenters up at night because it embodies the idea that although your data might say one thing, it's always possible that slicing the data via some unknown axis of finer granularity might paint a very d
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by staplung 2y ago
From the paper: "Specifically, we first conduct keyword searches, such as “generated by ChatGPT” and “generated by Copilot”, to locate GitHub code files that include such keywords, retaining only those files that contain GPT-generated
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by staplung 2y ago
A basket of specified (closing) stock prices on day X.
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by staplung 2y ago
It's not just for falling objects. In ship navigation this is known as Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bearing,_decreasing_r...
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by staplung 2y ago
Here's a video which goes through the entire process of making some. She goes pretty far into the historical accuracy by e.g. using rain water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9rbRRCBv8 It's on the long side but
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by staplung 2y ago
I'm not sure you disagree as strongly as you think. I don't feel like the OP was suggesting that all decluttering is intrinsically bad. In the case that you describe it's pretty easy to argue that it's good because it ma
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by staplung 2y ago
Well, Julia also has a pipeline operator built in so: array |> mean |> x->round(x; digits=2) will do what you want and is arguably more readable than dot notation. Not supporting OOP is very much intentional. It has struct
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by staplung 2y ago
Julia has a bunch of little niceties for mathematics: * Prefixing a variable with a scaler will implicitly multiply, as in standard math notation (e.g. 3x would evaluate to 6 if x is 2) * Lots of unicode support. Some feel almost gratuitous
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by staplung 2y ago
Maybe they could get a city council to go the Bobby Tables route and name a street something like: Main');DROP TABLE roads;
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by staplung 2y ago
Having not read the book I don't know if it delves into the speedups that can come from the fact that pipelines have processes running in parallel. A nice article about how much faster it can be to process data on the command line vs s
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by staplung 3y ago
I always thought that shear waves don't propagate in liquid/gases and so to the extent that I thought about it, I would have said that sound can't travel as shear wave but I suppose it can in a solid. https://www.e
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by staplung 3y ago
The Vermin only teaze and pinch Their Foes superior by an Inch. So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum: Thus ev&#x2
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by staplung 3y ago
git clone https://github.com/ghurley/encodingtest Cloning into 'encodingtest'... remote: Enumerating objects: 9, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done. remote: Compressing objects:
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by staplung 3y ago
I had a colleague at Google who used to say: "The best thing about R is that is was created by statisticians. The worst thing about R was that it was created by statisticians."
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by staplung 3y ago
Ha, that's nothin'. The ancient Egyptians used a 365 day calendar (with no leap years) so it drifted by .25 days every year. So after 730 years it's essentially backwards (summer solstice is when winter solstice used to be et
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by staplung 3y ago
Fun fact: in Roman numerals there is no standard way to write numbers above 3999. There are basically two competing camps for how to write them. One with C's and backwards C's acting kinda like parens and one with lines over the
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by staplung 3y ago
Scientific computing. Of the languages you cited, none (other than Julia) have dynamic dispatch, a feature that turns out to be unexpectedly powerful and allows lots of packages to hang together much more effectively than you would expect.
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The biggest hand calculation in a century (π Day 2024) [video](youtube.com)
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by staplung 3y ago
I recently learned how Doom was ported to the SNES. It's quite impressive. The SNES hardware was nowhere near fast enough to do all the trig calculations needed for the game but cartridge based games had a trick up their sleeve: they c
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by staplung 3y ago
Maybe instead they'll be like Feigenbaum constants: apparently universal constants that we don't really understand. For instance, we don't even know for sure that Feigenbaum constants are irrational, though mathematicians who

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