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by tgb 8y ago
Surely five minutes spent learning a debugger isn't really in the spirit of the rest of the post. It should be more like "read the entire man page of the debugger and try some of it out." Five minutes is only enough to learn
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by tgb 8y ago
Anyone have a better article addressing the question in the title? This one felt more like a grab bag of basic terminology with a little bit of history thrown in - less how they work and more of how to compare specs of related cards. As an
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by tgb 8y ago
Can that happen on an https page?
724.
by tgb 8y ago
Smart. Ease of payment through the app you're already using is a big value added here though.
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by tgb 8y ago
I don't think any search for life on other planets begins with looking for and sequencing DNA so the time between getting a false positive and disconfirming it could be a decade or more and be extremely costly to send unneeded equipmen
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by tgb 8y ago
It was eradicated in the US too - and surprisingly recently! It took only four years 1947-1951. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication_P...
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by tgb 8y ago
I think the meaning was in terms of a time keeping device not as a value store. The cheapest Walmart watch keeps time significantly better than the most expensive mechanic watch and many will last years of use.
728.
by tgb 8y ago
How often are you attempting to drive into parked cars?
729.
by tgb 8y ago
I use it for the fact that it's popular, of course. Worse than the fact that your balance stays in Venmo is that if you make a transaction larger than your balance, it gets paid exclusively from your bank account and doesn't clear
730.
by tgb 8y ago
Absolutely agree and notice a slight pattern with fantasy novels starting with overdone "spooky monster in the woods" setting before getting into anything interesting (like characters and plot). The opening to Game of Thrones is t
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by tgb 8y ago
Please explain why you think that! You literally just see her sitting on a tube, fall over while shrieking and then start drowning because she probably swallowed water the wrong way while shrieking and falling into the water. At that point,
732.
by tgb 8y ago
Let me be clear: - Once you start drowning, you don't look like a good swimmer no matter if you're Phelps or not - Videos selected specifically to have people who start drowning in them will show people at their absolute worst swi
733.
by tgb 8y ago
On what basis do you assume they are non-swimmers? The video doesn't show them swimming - well sure they were in a tube of course it doesn't show them swimming. Just because you can swim fine doesn't mean you will do so when
734.
by tgb 8y ago
I think you're jumping to conclusions that they are non-swimmers.
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by tgb 8y ago
Agreed though the previous study had an intervention and so more directly supported the idea that the belief created benefits.
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by tgb 8y ago
And since it's based on value, this is highly related to the number of people living there. There could be a perpetually-erupting volcano where no one lives and it wouldn't show up at all.
737.
by tgb 8y ago
Oh wow the game could let you know that, Otherwise yeah it's super frustrating. Of course I'd much rather have the wonder than the gold since say the pyramids would give you less than 185 gold and buying even a worker costs more t
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by tgb 8y ago
It's wasting if it's using more than the alternatives and it is using more than the alternatives.
739.
by tgb 8y ago
No that's exactly wrong. Consumption of eggs was positively correlated with better CVD outcomes but they only had data to conclude that this holds up to an amount less than 1 egg per day. People with .76 fared better than those with .2
740.
by tgb 8y ago
I should have added that there's a very good reason for making these assumptions: they let you represent the system with extremely little data! In general for a system with a continuous state space (like position) then to represent a g
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by tgb 8y ago
Yes it is a special case of Bayesian inference under the assumptions that the system is linear and that the priors and likelihoods are Gaussian.
742.
by tgb 8y ago
In this context, we did get the sprintf output - it was the chat functionality of a video game and that's how I knew anything was amiss.
743.
by tgb 8y ago
Isn't this surprising to a huge extent? My gut tells me that it's not that people don't have different learning styles, it's instead a combination of (A) the learning styles not being as obvious as the ones studied her
744.
by tgb 8y ago
Reminds me of the time I realized that the indie multiplayer game I was playing would print jibberish whenever you typed a "%" in the chat and therefore it was probably just doing an unsanitized sprintf somewhere. Then I realized
745.
by tgb 8y ago
My understanding was that this was NIH only and not NSF (though the NIH has a much larger budget so it's the majority of such funding).
746.
by tgb 8y ago
My password is a passphrase though. But you don't get autocorrect or swype functionality for typing passwords, understandably, so typing it is not easy (harder even because it grows in length for it's lower entropy per length).
747.
by tgb 8y ago
Can I use this space to ask how people actually use password managers on mobile? I got LastPass recently and put on it a good secure "correct horse battery staple"-type password. So now when I use accounts on my phone I have to ty
748.
by tgb 8y ago
I don't see the relevance. You can have (non-differential )algebraic equations that involve a "time" parameter. They can be non-reversible in the sense that I think you mean - that knowing a point "back" in time tel
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by tgb 8y ago
If de Garis is (still) predicting super-human intelligence in under 10 years, then it sounds like he is impressed.
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by tgb 8y ago
Differential equations say nothing about causality they just describe what happens. Please remember that Pearl literally wrote the book on this topic before assuming he missed an elementary counter example.

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