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by tgb 8y ago
Wow the manual test is very convincing: running fast.com's speedtest while pinging google makes the time increase from <30ms to over 1000ms! It's taking 1.5 seconds to ping google? I had no idea this could be happening.
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by tgb 8y ago
I think you misunderstood the above poster who was talking about the case without SQM (or I'm misunderstanding things because I've never heard any of these terms before now).
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by tgb 8y ago
Huh. Android Messenger will prompt me to copy the code to clipboard (which I don't think I've ever used since I'm always actually logging on with my laptop).
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by tgb 8y ago
I wasn't really thinking a niche topic but a niche use-case. Google is bad at doing literal, verbatim string searches these days and all I want sometimes is like Google 2005ish era search, just PageRank based and no modern machine lear
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by tgb 8y ago
So why aren't there more search engines these days? Google is great but we constantly talk here about how it's losing its edge for certain kinds of more specific searches like technical ones. So seems like there's room for en
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by tgb 8y ago
Seems like that's the wrong title though: the article is showing that search engines (other than Google, Bing, Yahoo) are still a thing. Maybe "alternative search engines are still a thing"?
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by tgb 8y ago
No the street labels don't even always show on maximum zoom. Yes I want the street name even if I'm going to the Chipotle they display because it's easy to know that I'm walking to Main Street then turn left versus check
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by tgb 8y ago
You told this story here years ago and I still remembered most of the details. Very enjoyable!
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by tgb 8y ago
This is what Blue Apron recommends for "recycling" their freezer packs: "We recommend cutting the ice pack open and disposing of the gel in the trash. You can then recycle on your own or send back to us!" [1] Yes, you ta
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by tgb 8y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harvard-segregated-graduat...
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by tgb 8y ago
I think modern washers weigh the clothes and change their cycles based off that and other information. Mine is similar but seems to always overestimate the time instead, which is probably the better failure state.
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by tgb 8y ago
He seems to be saying that you won't sleep for 16 hours the second night.
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by tgb 8y ago
This seems very surprising to me. I'm running a ~$200 Moto G4 for a year and a half now and it has no visible scratches. I don't use either a case or a screen protector and I never have for any of my phones. In fact it looks basic
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by tgb 8y ago
That's not their entire sales, that's their entire sales to people in South Dakota.
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by tgb 8y ago
Am I missing how this operates? I see others on the article making the same claim as you, but isn't the ruling that if company X sells to person A then the state where A resides gets to tax the sale? So in any transaction there will be
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by tgb 8y ago
Seems like a good idea. Two thoughts. I always dislike conjuctions in these kinds of questions: "Today, I tried working on [X], and got distracted everytime." I worry that if I answer 1 out of 5 that it'll assume that that I
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by tgb 8y ago
I'm super in favor of smaller transportation and in fact don't own a car, but there are a lot of practical reasons you're ignoring. The size of an SUV isn't such that it only helps in moving compared to a golf-car. There
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by tgb 8y ago
Yes, there's no carryover between games of Civilization. Then again, I'm pretty sure the card deck you're referring to only exists in AoE 3 which makes it pretty unique in the genre. Almost every other RTS has you start from
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by tgb 8y ago
Please! I struggle to find shoes that fit me since I find that trying them on in the store has basically no bearing with how they'll perform on the street. Yet the shoes I end up with don't exist in a year or two when I want to re
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by tgb 8y ago
In math and physics there is the Pin group which is named because it relates to the Spin group (named after spin like of an electron) in the same way that SO (special orthogonal group) relates to O (orthogonal group) and SL (special linear
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by tgb 8y ago
Okay but it's extremely different to poison something and announce that you've poisoned it because you don't want anyone drinking it and work hard to keep anyone from drinking it versus poisoning something and then selling it
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by tgb 8y ago
I don't follow you, the article author is quoting the study's co-author when toxic masculinity is brought up.
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by tgb 8y ago
Oh it's better than that! The term "quantum teleportation" is horribly misleading but that would be a major application of this. What "quantum teleportation" should maybe be thought of is allowing you transmit a qua
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by tgb 8y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, it changes my perception of this article entirely.
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Do you know what lightning really looks like?(nytimes.com)
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by tgb 8y ago
I hate to play the role of the grouch, but I read it after constantly hearing about it and think it's definitely worth reading, but the book just isn't that good. The writing was poor and it tried to force narratives on events wit
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by tgb 8y ago
I think you misread my comment which was not at all commenting on Chaitin! I was commenting on the article by Gisin, the one this thread is on.
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by tgb 8y ago
I only accused the author of doing a bad job of not looking like a crank. I realize that non-cranks do that sometimes.
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by tgb 8y ago
The author's writing has a lot of background behind it that is true and yet the author's argument that they should be called "random numbers" is poor, at best. It is not typically helpful to think of real numbers that wa
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by tgb 8y ago
I'm a mathematician by training (though this is thoroughly outside the scope of a mathematician's job) and completely agree. That said, there's a real topic in the philosophy of mathematics called "finitism" that ar

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