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by teraflop 6y ago
> A TM can do the same computation as a prism, or any other physical system. To be fair, this is only an unproven hypothesis. The Church-Turing Thesis is an assumption about the physical world (which so far seems to have held up pretty
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by teraflop 6y ago
Integer factorization is not known to be NP-complete, so as far as we know, finding an efficient way to factor integers would not tell us anything about P vs. NP. Also, analog computation schemes tend to rapidly encounter fundamental physic
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by teraflop 6y ago
Don't forget about that time YC funded a smuggling ring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199286
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by teraflop 6y ago
The complaint says that the founders told investors that their model had been cleared by legal counsel, when in fact their counsel had warned them that it was "risky" and potentially fraudulent. This might be a naive question, but
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by teraflop 6y ago
The technology isn't complicated, if you already know what a cryptocurrency is. An NFT is a "bespoke" currency that anyone can create, each instance of which has a single indivisible "coin" with an embedded URL th
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by teraflop 6y ago
Probably worth mentioning that although the headline of that article refers to "eye drops", the sources that it cites say that the testing was actually done with an injection into the retina itself.
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by teraflop 6y ago
> Twitter is incapable of doing any judgements where the leaders / office holders of any country are concerned. What do you mean by this? Surely Twitter is capable of making judgments and enforcing its rules accordingly, just like
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by teraflop 6y ago
As noted in the documentation[1], doing this in the background on a repository that might be simultaneously in use is a bit non-trivial. You can do it using commands that already exist in Git, but doing so safely requires knowing a fair
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by teraflop 6y ago
Nitpick: the correct title of the blog post starts with "netaddr.IP", but the one currently on HN starts with "netaddr.ip". The former looks like the name of a Go type (which is what it is) and the latter looks like a do
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by teraflop 6y ago
The "metabolism" requirement is an important one, though. If you remove it, and you allow for "self-replication" that's entirely dependent on an external agent, then it seems like you would have to consider all kind
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by teraflop 6y ago
The redesign is 3 years old at this point, so I don't think you can blame it on time pressure.
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by teraflop 6y ago
To be clear: there is no joke in the code. The joke is the issue itself. Specifically, the idea is that the character designs in Among Us are so minimalistic that just about anything [1] can look like them, due to pareidolia. So there'
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by teraflop 6y ago
There is no such thing as "elliptic-curve RSA".
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by teraflop 6y ago
As Alan Kay put it: "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
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by teraflop 6y ago
Here you go: https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#a473b325@
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by teraflop 6y ago
And here's the corrected arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310571
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by teraflop 6y ago
Here you go: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/perseverance-and-mars...
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by teraflop 6y ago
Check the date... this story was published in 2007.
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by teraflop 6y ago
The same images were posted to the official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere It's pretty normal for NASA/JPL to release the coolest-looking pictures as quickly as possible for PR, and then follow
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by teraflop 6y ago
In fact that's exactly what they're doing: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is serving as a communications relay, as it did for previous landers. It's just that since there have never been more than a handful of spacecraft act
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by teraflop 6y ago
I've never seen an off-the-shelf processor that has hardware support for doing that kind of cross-checking on every instruction. And doing it in software would probably add so much overhead that the error-checking would be much more li
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by teraflop 6y ago
I don't think OP is arguing that this is a violation of the language spec; they're arguing that the spec (as implemented) is stupid.
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by teraflop 6y ago
It's even broader than that. The law applies to any "alterations to the ways in which a service distributes content". The law never actually defines what this means, but it gives a bunch of examples that go beyond ranking. Fo
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by teraflop 6y ago
That's a summary of the bill, along with some commentary on the arguments that were heard about. This seems to be the actual text: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...
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by teraflop 6y ago
It's even worse than that, because it's not even that there's no historical data to draw from! It got just as cold as this back in December 1989, resulting in power shortages and rolling blackouts, because of increased demand
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by teraflop 6y ago
It's not really a matter of whether the grids have capacity; the ties themselves can only handle a limited amount of power. As per ERCOT's status page, both of the high-voltage DC ties between Texas are currently operating at &g
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by teraflop 6y ago
Texas does have connections to other grids. But the problem is that since the grid frequencies aren't synchronized, you can't just plug one into the other. Transferring energy between grids requires either converting it from AC to
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by teraflop 6y ago
Technically yes, but they went from "stage 1" alerts (voluntary conservation) just after midnight on Sunday night, all the way to "stage 3" (rolling blackouts) by 1:30 AM. https://twitter.com/ERCOT_ISO&#x
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by teraflop 6y ago
CPython includes both reference counting and a stop-the-world tracing garbage collector. You can turn off the GC -- and openpilot appears to do so[1] -- but the tradeoff is that any objects that are part of reference cycles will be leaked,
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by teraflop 6y ago
Maybe the fact that ripgrep contains more lines of code is related to the fact that it has more features, and not just about the language it's written in? https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/ Also, it's

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