ted_dunning

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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
That is certainly the myth that drives this. There is also a fair bit of demographics at play. Many of the people writing these little applications grew up and imprinted before open source was much of a thing.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
Sorta kinda. TLDR: historical brine production and modern wetlands restoration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Salt_Ponds
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
That is merely medieval times. In ancient times, floats were all 60 bits and there was no single precision. See page 3-15 of this https://caltss.computerhistory.org/archive/6400-cdc.pdf
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
Julia supports full IEEE 754 rounding mode support.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
And none of that doesn't improve the throughput of the clinical trials. It just decrease the cost of coming up with things to put into trial.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
Actually, this AI Compute is not very useful for physics, protein folding or many other high performance computing. The problem is that the connectivity required for much of AI is very different than that required for classic HPC (more emph
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
You should mark sarcasm as subtle as this.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
This is a very good point. Oxygen, nitrogen, CO2 and argon make up 99.94% of the atmosphere. The remaining 0.06% has 5ppm is nearly 1% helium. That's up 200x from the original concentration and is well above the 0.3% that is sometimes
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
The article seems to be saying that is true unless you implicitly and somewhat invisibly grant access via the file picker.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
Wow... that would be great. All that remains is an algorithm to reliably determine which programs do "shady shit". How is it that you determine that Microsoft updates have not been tampered? (insincere) apologies for the snarky to
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
Why should the permission even persist that long? You might leave that app running for the next two years. Shouldn't a temporary access be temporary? Possibly scoped by time? Possibly scoped to a single access?
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
That URL should expire after a relatively short time.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
I think that this was a great intro into Kalman filtering. The one important point that I think warrants a small paragraph near the end is that the example you gave is a way of doing forecasting (estimating the future state) and nowcasting
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
They have been very responsive in my experience.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
In tinygo, the idiom is to catch an interrupt and put the info into a channel so that you can think about what is happening in go style. I use that capability, for instance, in go-wspr [1] to get very nice low-jitter timing for frequency co
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
If you are in an embedded world, the tradeoffs are quite mild. Mostly these center around library availability and that is often gated by use of reflection. If you are thinking that this is a way to support mainstream go programming, you wi
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
To be fair, "Few years ago" is a LONG time for tinygo. The essence of your first comment is still correct. Lots of libraries aren't there. Enough are there, however, for some pretty substantial projects.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
Sure. He says that they commonly use steroids. It's no wonder they have degenerative joint disease.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
It's called a book cipher and it is definitely subject to various statistical attacks, especially if you have a list of almost all books.
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
KP4MD detected wingtip vortices from reflected VHF signals. https://www.cfmilazzo.com/aircraft-wingtip-vortices
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by ted_dunning 6mo ago
That is a book cipher, not a one-time pad.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
Apparently it only smells bad if you have non-lethal concentration.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
Uh... yeah. Just hold the sysadmins hand over the lighter until they tell you the password. Never forget the easy way in ... the humans.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
Explain your needs and they will be incredibly gracious. They will also be sad for you to miss the rice.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
There are still contradictory customs around this enough that it is standard practice to warn exchange students from Europe that if they finish absolutely everything on their plate that this is a signal in many American homes that you shoul
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
At that point I would be very impressed if you could remember what the timers are for.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
Check out emacs for options like this. And, yes, there is a circumstance if you want to include Arabic or Hebrew in comments or strings. You need the zero width left-right markers to make that work.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
To prevent ligatures from forming when you need that.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
As do tabs, ems, ens and quads.
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by ted_dunning 7mo ago
They only render differently in some fonts, on some displays.

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