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by teraflop 3y ago
If you find yourself doing this kind of thing: > Defendants also used a “verification rebuttal” script that instructed employees to provide different and conflicting answers to consumers’ common questions depending on whether the verific
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by teraflop 3y ago
I'm almost certain that I've seen this exact phenomenon described in a sci-fi novel written before LLMs existed. I thought it was Neal Stephenson's Anathem , but a quick skim through the text didn't turn anything up. An
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by teraflop 3y ago
Hmm, browsing through some of those cases, I'm starting to notice a pattern of Air Canada not taking these tribunal proceedings entirely seriously. From this case: > I find that if Air Canada wanted to a raise a contractual defense,
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by teraflop 3y ago
Google's "standard" bandwidth pricing is about 15%-45% cheaper than "premium", which is admittedly a significant discount, but it's still an order of magnitude more expensive than some of the other options on t
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by teraflop 3y ago
> We’re extremely excited to accelerate our mission by joining forces with Notion’s world-class team. We sincerely hope that the Skiff community will join us for this next stage of our journey. Yet another entry for https://ou
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by teraflop 3y ago
This paper does not cover distributed systems, except for a very brief mention at the end.
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by teraflop 3y ago
Yup. From a high-altitude view, that's why splitting a huge database table into smaller partitions is not an automatic performance win. If you have M partitions with N rows each, then a lookup might require O(log M) time to find a pa
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by teraflop 3y ago
> What's crazy is that they have all this information and have already computed how much tax I owe This is not really accurate. If you're a typical employee, IRS has a pretty good idea of your income , which is just one of the
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by teraflop 3y ago
They're already planning to update the game in response: > Given that these names are officially changing, when the AOS finalizes their name selections for sets released so far, it’s likely that we’ll make a pack of the renamed bird
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by teraflop 3y ago
The one and only time I traded on PredictIt, around the beginning of the pandemic, I made an easy couple hundred bucks on this market: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/4683 The majority of traders seemingl
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by teraflop 3y ago
From what I can see from a quick glance at the code, you have the causality backwards. Each bounce adds a small random variation to each ball's velocity, and if one of them randomly ends up moving faster, then it will tend to gain more
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by teraflop 3y ago
The word "first" in that sentence means the first detection of this asteroid, not that it was the first asteroid detected in the same way.
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by teraflop 3y ago
Nope, it's random. The 4 possible notes are a subset of the major pentatonic scale, so they sound reasonably harmonious in pretty much any order.
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by teraflop 3y ago
Right, they only support section A, which means you can donate publicly traded securities but not other assets over $5,000.
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by teraflop 3y ago
Not quite everything, there's a (short) list of unsupported forms here: https://www.freetaxusa.com/forms-federal I found this out one year because they don't fully support Form 8283, which I needed in order to han
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by teraflop 3y ago
Cool concept. Right off the bat I see some big issues with the generated CPython documentation: > This provides a register-based virtual machine that executes the bytecode through simple opcodes. Python's VM is stack-based, not regi
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by teraflop 3y ago
> Should switch to 400Hz like aircraft do. Higher frequency lets you get away with smaller transformers, but decreases the skin depth on transmission lines which increases losses.
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by teraflop 3y ago
Laziness/simplicity, I guess. You can't safely use semicolons as delimeters unless you parse/tokenize the entire statement (to exclude quoted semicolons). The exact handling of quoted string literals can vary depending on
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by teraflop 3y ago
Egan has a somewhat smaller-scale and more personal exploration of a similar concept, in a short story called "The Hundred Light-Year Diary".
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by teraflop 3y ago
One concrete effect is that the the circumference of any given circle increases exponentially with its radius. So navigating without landmarks is much harder, because any slight errors in your direction of travel result in you going off-c
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by teraflop 3y ago
Most of the motherboard's power consumption is dedicated to supplying the CPU, and that already relies on the motherboard to step down from 12V to ~1V at a very high current. The demands on the 3.3V and 5V rails are pretty small in c
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by teraflop 3y ago
Because the physical infrastructure to do that is very large and expensive. To put it in perspective: a cubic yard of concrete costs roughly US$125, and the amount of energy you can store by lifting one of those cubic yards 10 meters into t
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by teraflop 3y ago
If you use all 8 bits of a byte for data, you need a separate way to store the length, or you need to make everything fixed-width which wastes space. "Varints" or variable-length integers, with 7 bits of data and 1 continuation bi
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by teraflop 3y ago
A hash doesn't do you much good if the document that corresponds to it is lost. And storing the document itself in the blockchain is hilariously cost-prohibitive, on the order of $100,000 per MB.
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by teraflop 3y ago
A system where users can recover their devices if they successfully hold onto their private keys is much better than a system where they can't recover their devices at all without Apple's reluctant help.
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by teraflop 3y ago
Git has something similar if you turn on the "diff3" conflict style, and I can't for the life of me understand why it's not on by default, because there are many situations where you just don't have enough informati
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by teraflop 3y ago
Nope, Mars is currently on the opposite side of the sky from Orion (and only a few degrees away from the sun, so it's difficult to see at all).
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by teraflop 3y ago
This is a cool concept! > Loop constants are written to the v hand. > There are eight callee-saved registers, which are written to the v hand, meaning that when it exits from a function, the values in v[0]–v[7] are not changed. Any in
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by teraflop 3y ago
So does Stack Overflow, although they tell you very clearly that your user ID is embedded in the link, right in the "share" box (and it's not obfuscated in any way). SO goes so far as to give you little notifications and achi
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by teraflop 3y ago
I don't understand what you mean. The job is "created" as part of the transaction, so it only becomes visible (and hence eligible to be executed) when the transaction commits.

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