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by teraflop 1y ago
If the thing you value most in life is earning money, then anything that doesn't earn you money must feel like a huge sacrifice. That's a great mentality to have if you want to die with a high score.
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by teraflop 1y ago
You can't easily, automatically test concurrent code for correctness without testing all possible interleavings of instructions, and that state space is usually galactically huge. It is very easy to write multithreaded code that is inc
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by teraflop 1y ago
Here's a fairly recent example of a $5M lawsuit that hinged on the interpretation of an Oxford comma in a Maine law about overtime pay: https://www.fedbar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Commentary...
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by teraflop 1y ago
Why are you interpreting it as a complaint, or an expression of being bothered? Occasional reposts are well within HN's norms, and when something is reposted, it's common to link to past discussions for comparison.
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by teraflop 1y ago
Trump has been doing many lawless things that the courts might theoretically put a stop to, but I'm not sure this is one of them. The text of 8 USC 1182(f) seems pretty straightforward: > Whenever the President finds that the entry
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by teraflop 1y ago
Late response, but the whole point is that "statistically significant" doesn't necessarily mean "major", because significance is as much about the experimental design as it is about the thing you're measuring.
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by teraflop 1y ago
So any message from Gmail is treated as legitimate for google.com, and yet Gmail can't do its own checks on outgoing mail to ensure that unauthorized people don't put legal@google.com in the From: header? Seriously?
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by teraflop 1y ago
This is a super common misconception, but a small p-value does *not* (necessarily) mean a strong correlation. It means high confidence that the correlation is non-zero.
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by teraflop 1y ago
So from a mathematical perspective, the issue is that your "line" (path) actually has zero thickness, and so there are gaps between the spiral windings. If you sample a point from any finite-length path then you have probability z
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by teraflop 1y ago
That's true of lots of fonts. I don't think contexts where you would have to distinguish between those two characters are nearly as common in aviation as they are in programming.
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by teraflop 1y ago
The "inspection" part of DPI isn't limited to encrypted payloads. It's straightforward enough to look at application-level protocol headers and identify e.g. a Wireguard or OpenVPN or SSH connection, even if you can&#x27
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by teraflop 1y ago
> forcing even dimensions is fine; you can also just let libx264 pad/scale as needed This part is wrong, because libx264 will reject an input with odd width or height rather than padding or scaling it automatically. > redundancy:
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by teraflop 1y ago
> You downgraded the video to half the size, then blew it back up again No, that's not what that command does. It performs a single rescaling that resizes the video dimensions to the next lower multiple of 2. e.g. it will resize a
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by teraflop 1y ago
AFAIK, it's technically legal under the LGPL to statically link glibc as long as you also include a copy of the application's object code, along with instructions for how users can re-link against a different glibc if they wish. Y
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by teraflop 1y ago
A perfect theory of physics that exactly predicts the behavior of atoms doesn't really help you much when you're trying to predict the behavior of a spaceship containing approximately 10^33 atoms. Any such prediction is going to i
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by teraflop 1y ago
Almost. For one thing, Docker is not really "Linux inside Linux". It uses Linux kernel features to isolate the processes inside a container from those outside. But there is only one Linux kernel which is shared by both the contain
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by teraflop 1y ago
For an internal use case, nothing's stopping you from setting up your own CA, creating certificates that don't expire for 100 years, and telling your clients to trust them. It just takes a couple of OpenSSL commands which, while s
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by teraflop 1y ago
> With the typical albedo of 5% for an asteroid, the diameter of 3I/ATLAS needs to be 20 kilometers in order to account for its brightness. But as argued in my first paper about it, the reservoir of rocky material in interstellar sp
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by teraflop 1y ago
Yes, partial pressure is what matters. Normal air at 1 bar (1 atmosphere) contains about 0.2 bar of O2. Pure oxygen at sea level is 1 bar of O2. The article you linked has a graph showing that 0.5 bar of O2 can be tolerated pretty much inde
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by teraflop 1y ago
It may have that connotation to you, but in general (at least in the US) non-profit organizations are not required to have independent audits. Typically, that requirement only happens if they receive a certain amount of government funding.
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by teraflop 1y ago
Your comment seems like a non sequitur to me. Whether something is a "non-profit" has nothing to do with whether it receives or spends money. (See, e.g. the American Red Cross's ~$4B/yr budget.) It's about what it d
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by teraflop 1y ago
But as a counterpoint to that, (a) the database has its own caching built in, which you don't have to implement, and (b) the database knows when to invalidate its cache. To quote Douglas Adams: "The major difference between a th
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by teraflop 1y ago
Yeah, but if it has in its context window: > List in order the tallest mountains on earth from 1 to 5 > 1. Mount Everest 2. Mount K2 3. Mount Sahel 4. Mount Fuji 5. Mount McKinley and it still can't correctly figure out from tha
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by teraflop 1y ago
If you have a bit of time, I recommend the short story "The Seasons of the Ansarac" by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is about a society and its choice about how to deal with technological disruption. https://www.infinitematr
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by teraflop 1y ago
I'm kind of 50/50 on it being fake. Either Tesla or the rapper is doing something insanely stupid that opens them up to a lot of legal liability, and to be honest, both of those options seem quite plausible.
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by teraflop 1y ago
It's in the video linked above (although the parent comment looks like a pretty badly OCR'ed version).
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by teraflop 1y ago
Aside from inventing a bunch of individual algorithms, Tarjan is also known for introducing various theoretical techniques that are now considered fundamental. Most notably, amortized analysis. His Turing award writeup gives a pretty broa
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by teraflop 1y ago
I don't think the second half of your comment is accurate. Works created by the federal government have always been in the public domain, i.e. ineligible for copyright protection. The SHARE IT Act has nothing to do with that. (Of cours
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by teraflop 1y ago
I think what they mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow" is just what you ordinarily get in a terminal window. You run command A, and below it you see its output. You run command B, and below it you see its output. And you can
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by teraflop 1y ago
Yes, and it's not just about application-level integrity. The WAL operates at a page level, so dropping one WAL entry and then applying later ones would be likely to cause corruption at the B-tree level. For instance, say you have a

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