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by teraflop 5y ago
Yeah, according to the cafe's website, they don't physically stop you from leaving. In fact, one of the FAQs specifically says that you can leave temporarily if you need to. It's just that they won't allow you to pay you
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by teraflop 5y ago
Yeah, "never slipping up" is a high bar. But there's slipping up once , and then there's continuing to commit crimes using an account for at least two years after you've personally told the US federal government
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by teraflop 5y ago
Well, the energy requirements for wireless communication go up with the distance squared . So even if you can transmit 13 million miles per watt, that's equivalent to about 200GW for 1 light year.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Well, it does seem like that system would benefit from plenty of fiber to ensure regular data flow.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Sadly, the combination of "wide cone" and "detectable from light-years away" implies some fairly prohibitive energy requirements.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Oh, I just meant caching within the lifetime of a single git command's execution. As it stands, when you run "git status", the git executable goes through each directory in your working copy, lists all of its directory entrie
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by teraflop 5y ago
The article gives some examples, but here's another one: consider what happens when you run "git status" on a large repository. In order to determine the status of every file, git needs to check each subdirectory for a "
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by teraflop 5y ago
But a cat free-falling from a height is also weightless, and yet they manage to right themselves using perceptual cues. The point of the experiment is to see how the behavior changes when the sensation of weightlessness is presented for a
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by teraflop 5y ago
On the other hand, consider the difficulty of taking massive amounts of data from the modern web and filtering out the subset that was actually generated by humans, rather than previous generations of language models.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Sorry, I don't really get the relevance of that objection. In everyday life, most of us are happy to accept the "reality" (in whatever philosophical sense you choose to use) of all sorts of personality traits that exist only
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by teraflop 5y ago
I read the paper, and I really have a hard time understanding what kind of threat model the authors are proposing. If the details of the watermark are public, as they suggest, what would stop a counterfeit manufacturer from just writing the
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by teraflop 5y ago
Of course it's not necessary for gender identity to be "completely formed and stabilized" to be able to talk about it. Do you think it's meaningless to describe a child as "short" or "tall" because th
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by teraflop 5y ago
This seems like a potentially interesting article with a very poor title. None of the 6 lessons cited seem to have anything to do with why the lander's anchoring mechanism failed to deploy. (At least, that's my reading of the brie
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by teraflop 5y ago
> A truly efficient implementation would never need to load the entire original file in RAM. It would just need to remember the binary offset of each line Except that this would most likely result in unpredictable corruption if another p
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by teraflop 5y ago
They applied for the patent in 1997, which means it expired in 2017.
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by teraflop 5y ago
To be honest, I'm not sure. I watched the Nanite tech talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMorJX3Nj6U ) because I find graphics technology fascinating, but I don't have any experience actually using Unreal Engine
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by teraflop 5y ago
Yes, that's essentially what it is. It runs a preprocessing step on meshes to generate a hierarchical LOD structure, and then at runtime it uses a custom software rasterizer running on the GPU(!) to dynamically render whatever level of
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by teraflop 5y ago
As mentioned by others, not really. Lumen can use either software or hardware raytracing as one of its components, but it uses them for different purposes. (One of the downsides of hardware raytracing is that you're limited to the ve
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by teraflop 5y ago
If you read datasheets for radio transceivers, one of the first things that will jump out at you is that simply keeping the analog radio front-end powered on -- either in listening or receiving mode -- is by far the biggest source of power
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by teraflop 5y ago
Dualism has always seemed like a complete red herring to me. Even if you assume dualism is true, and that human consciousness has some non-material basis, what reason is there to believe that an AGI couldn't also have a conscious mind
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by teraflop 5y ago
The other way I've seen this phrased is that unlike a transmitter, it's OK for a receiving antenna to be incredibly thermodynamically inefficient, because a weak signal can always be amplified -- as long as it's not swamped b
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by teraflop 5y ago
The books were not DRM-protected in any meaningful way. They could not have been, given that they were viewable using open source browsers without proprietary plugins. I remember specifically testing this by borrowing a book, flipping throu
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by teraflop 5y ago
AFAIK, selecting a channel doesn't prevent automatic updates, it just limits them to a subset of versions. It doesn't in any way prevent a new version from being published to that channel and automatically installed.
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by teraflop 5y ago
It's right there in the description: "we wanted to make it as easy as possible to support creators by reading official releases."
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by teraflop 5y ago
Fusion 360 has a free version and is very approachable. It's pretty popular among 3D printing hobbyists, but you can use it for all kinds of 2D and 3D designs.
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by teraflop 5y ago
"Private" and "public" are relative terms. From the perspective of an IoT smart thermostat talking to its mothership, your home network is a public connection, and it's successfully using E2E encryption to protect i
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by teraflop 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if "99th percentile of users" is calculated across all user accounts, including ones who logged in once a decade ago and never uploaded a video.
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by teraflop 5y ago
There is a huge gray area between "absolutely legal in all circumstances" and "absolutely not legal under any circumstances". The fact that somebody has not (so far) been found guilty in court doesn't mean their con
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by teraflop 5y ago
Still works, with a slight variation: instead of taking two measurements, you can take four successive measurements [A,B,C,D] over equal periods of time, and then do the aforementioned procedure with the values A+D and B+C as input. If the
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by teraflop 5y ago
This is awesomely cool! I'm very curious about how the physics in libsm64 relates to the original ROM code, if you happen to know. Based on my quick browse through the code, functions like "find_floor_from_list"[1] seem to be

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