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by tagrun 11y ago
Yes, but that's not relevant in this context, which is about OpenBSD trusting binary blobs ("a provably trusted system using untrusted base hardware").
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by tagrun 11y ago
They seem OK with BIOS, Intel microcode and other firmware on amd64 though.
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by tagrun 11y ago
> Valve supports Ubuntu Actually they're advertising Linux as SteamOS these days which is essentially Debian.
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by tagrun 11y ago
Indeed. And if they're able to support only a single distro, I wish it was Debian rather than a Canonical product. On a related note, it's currently not working on Arch/Manjaro/Void Linux http://forum.unity3d.
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by tagrun 11y ago
While your post borders on trolling and doesn't change my point, I'll bite this time. > Does this integral diverge? What does "measurement" used in the Born rule mean? Is this algorithm used in quantum theory internal
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by tagrun 11y ago
It sounds like you're confused by quantum mechanics and entanglement. We never really know "why" in that sense, that's a question best left to philosophers, and that's what doesn't matter for us --perpetually a
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by tagrun 11y ago
"Go1 2.0" is meaningless, Go X refers to Go X.Y.Z. Many FOSS programs treat X, Y and Z as numbers rather than digits, and increment X when there is a breaking change in the API or some serious restructuring/change (this is st
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by tagrun 11y ago
Well, educating random people on the internet in physics is not my job. I was just pointing out to a piece of misinformation before someone takes it to be true. And again, it wasn't meant to be an insult, I literally meant it and it i
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by tagrun 11y ago
> "Spatial translation symmetry" is what I usually think people mean when they say "physical laws are same everywhere" -- nor is that foolish of me, that's exactly what it sounds like. The thing is, it's not
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by tagrun 11y ago
>>the principle states that the laws of physics don't vary across time or space. > This is a special case of a Noetherian invariant: all global conservation laws follow from a symmetry. No, it isn't. I'm afraid you d
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by tagrun 11y ago
Or NAND gate since it's universal? But that's not the point. There are myriad branches of mathematics; he's emphasizing these these four as fundamental.
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by tagrun 11y ago
Also, even though I am a theoretical physicist myself, and I don't properly understand what people in other fields of physics are doing most of the time unless I spend non-trivial amount of time on it. That's not because they&#x27
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by tagrun 11y ago
Why do you think they can't explain what they're doing to layman? There are books and talks for layman on technical matters in physics. Apparently, that's not what Wikipedia is aiming for. Physics and mathematics have a lon
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by tagrun 11y ago
A few features from Go that can make things better and help preventing certain class of bugs: * no parentheses for if/switch/for, and mandatory {}, no semicolons * fallthrough in switch Also some sweet features like * replace whil
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by tagrun 11y ago
Go's len() sounds nicer to me.
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by tagrun 11y ago
https://talks.golang.org/2015/gogo.slide#4
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by tagrun 11y ago
OK, so even with terrible delivery cost, CHIP makes sense for the general public in Brazil: 24USD for lots of systems & games.
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by tagrun 11y ago
> A Raspberry Pi costs about R$200 in Brazil, or US$60. Even if you order it online? It's hard to believe that shipping to Brazil costs 35USD, more than the device itself (25USD). There is also C.H.I.P., a 9 USD computer, which is c
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by tagrun 11y ago
Wuldn't a Raspberry Pi 1 (with emulators) work much better? It's just $25, runs 1-4th generation console games as well as MAME games. Raspberry Pi 2 can do even more for $35 http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie&#x
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by tagrun 11y ago
Did you know that upper <-> lower conversion (which a case-insensitive FS must perform) isn't universal and depends on locale?
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by tagrun 11y ago
On another perspective, life itself is a fight.
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by tagrun 11y ago
> Modeling, gaming, watching dumb videos on the internet, enjoying Netflix? You can do every single one of those under with GNU/Linux too. Blender, steam, emulators, firefox/flash/chromium+chromium-widevine (or simply inst
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by tagrun 11y ago
> Chinese people are fully aware of what's right and wrong and we choose to deliberately cheat. I personally got bit by this in my work. This is exactly why I'm never ever going to work with a Chinese again in my life time. I
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by tagrun 11y ago
> Quantum computation is the same. You figure out how to build gates (there are dozens of competing ideas), and then it's just plugging them together in the right way. Not exactly. Quantum computers are a kind of analog computers ba
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by tagrun 11y ago
> If you take Mathematica's/your polynomial and do that with it, you get an infinitely large relative error at 1 because log(1)=0 but your approx_log(1) is not 0. So what? Instead of accepting that his polynomial is more errone
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by tagrun 11y ago
And sorry for spelling this out for you, but maybe it is you who is "accusing of making elementary mistakes without actually understanding what he's doing." Here is why: 1) > Your polynomial, since it doesn't get it e
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by tagrun 11y ago
That is the general procedure for any function of course. The problem usually lies in implementing these steps, which requires an expert.
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by tagrun 11y ago
I realized that I missed the part that he's talking about log2(x) rather than log(x+1), which changes the interval. Since MiniMaxApproximation gets quirky when the function is 0 in the given interval (it minimizes the relative error, s
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by tagrun 11y ago
From a practical point of view, in case you have Mathematica (which is a proprietary software unfortunately), you can do this easily for any function in a general way: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/FunctionAppro
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by tagrun 12y ago
It is quite suspicious though. A Korean company makes a messaging app used by Japanese people. Line may well be a spying tool. I'm pretty sure Korean would like to keep tabs and eavesdrop on Japanese.

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