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by tgb 6y ago
I have an embarrassing question: can people actually beat Mario games without arcane knowledge of short cuts? I tried Super Mario World and literally struggle to get through the second world. Every stage is a try, try again affair. Am I jus
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by tgb 6y ago
I'll make a little prediction: the negative press Robinhood is receiving will be out-weighed by the fact that so many people are getting interested in stocks due to this. I think they'll be better off despite this debacle in a mon
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by tgb 6y ago
Would you consider a line in the plane to have holes? Its complement is disconnected. The complement of a solid torus in R^3 is not disconnected, yet it has holes in the sense discussed here. Moreover, this concept of holes is independent o
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by tgb 6y ago
This doesn't seem like an ideal introduction. I don't think it actually covers type checking at all (besides the note at the top) since that's relegated to third parties.
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by tgb 6y ago
Exactly: it gets caught when doing a hand recount. A hand recount was done in Georgia this year, for example. There were no issues. The conspiracy theories were successfully disproven.
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by tgb 6y ago
Modern machines differ from old ones is a very significant way: they give you a paper ballot that you - the voter - can verify before submitting.
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by tgb 6y ago
This is an interesting perspective I haven't considered. Isn't the exposure here the Vitamin deficiency? And so that could have chronic effects even though the infection is acute.
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by tgb 6y ago
Two thoughts: 1) Vitamin D levles is strongly correlated with physical activity levels, so a mere observational study can be strongly confounded - which may be part of why this study finds disagrees with some the merely correlational studie
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by tgb 6y ago
I'm completely on the-dude's side on the reading of the original quote (not the tango quote) and I'm a native speaker. Moreover I find your (and the GP post) tone extremely condescending. There's no way to read the-dude&
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by tgb 6y ago
You're way overthinking this. If I say "it's takes surprisingly little" it's because I'm emphasizing that it does not take a lot and instead a small amount is sufficient . Saying "it takes a surprisingl
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by tgb 6y ago
Saying "It takes surprisingly little time to do!" isn't trying to give a lower bound on how much time it takes. Obviously not completely unambiguous, but the "sufficient" reading is completely natural English.
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by tgb 6y ago
The article says that NoSQL has no relations. Is that the case? I would have assumed that, say, you'd make a blog system by making user entries with a list of blog post IDs and then each blog post gets its own entry with its data. If n
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by tgb 6y ago
This is an interesting point. I've taken to cooking beans from dry in a pressure cooker and usually in a "meal" that gets cooked with it at the same time. So I can't discard the water. The toxins in uncooked beans are re
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by tgb 6y ago
Unfortunately that paper became my litmus test for people arguing from bad faith as it was such a darling of the "COVID is just the flu!" crowd. My memory of the main problem was that the confidence interval of the false positive
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by tgb 6y ago
Wasn't [4] widely criticized for messing up basic statistics? Either way, numbers from April might as well not exist for what they tell us about today.
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by tgb 6y ago
So the main complaint is that the US Govt model has 70 million symptomatic-but-undiagnosed cases in the US compared to 23 diagnosed cases and the author claims this is wildly wrong. If those numbers were correct, we'd have diagnosed 23
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by tgb 6y ago
I have ThinkPad's T480s which is basically exactly that.
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by tgb 6y ago
Where have you been this election? There were National Guard stationed outside my state's capitol building for days while votes were being counted.
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by tgb 6y ago
This is a great example of gaslighting. The speaker of the house calls for national guard deployment while rioters are literally in the House chamber. Yet we're the crazy ones for suggesting that they get involved? This is what the Nat
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by tgb 6y ago
One thing to add: the search section is missing the argsort function, which is invaluable in my experience. It's how you work around the lack of key sorting, for example. Edit: though now I see it is brought up later on in the matrix s
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by tgb 6y ago
Frankly this has more in common with a 2FA approach with one factor being the password manager and the other your horcrux. I wouldn't call my phone authenticator app a client-side pepper.
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by tgb 6y ago
I think these concepts are significantly different - as different as salts and peppers at least. Peppering helps protect against database access revealing password. Horcrux protects against password manager access. Peppering is stored on th
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by tgb 6y ago
I think that undersells the advantage. You have to carry a qubit over, but it could be done even before know what you will need to send.
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by tgb 6y ago
Quantum teleportation is a process that both sender and receiver have to coordinate. Part of that coordination is that the sender measures 2 classical bits of information on their entangled qubit and transmits those two classical bits to th
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by tgb 6y ago
If you want to transmit 1 quantum bit (qubit), then you need to transmit 2 classical bits. Why is this useful? Because otherwise you have to carry the qubit over by hand. It's really just "quantum ethernet" not "quantum
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by tgb 6y ago
But wouldn't that be asked for at the same time as signing the EULA, i.e. at account creation? If you're avoiding banners, I can't think where else you'd put it.
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by tgb 6y ago
But wouldn't that consent be in the EULA? So long as they only track logged-in people, they'd have agreed to that.
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by tgb 6y ago
The first example is clearly using Republicans as the victim . If anything that's the opposite of what you're claiming he's pushing. He could have chosen other framing (like "conservatives" as perpetrators) if he
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by tgb 6y ago
I should have said "at least until" rather than "until", sorry. It's from a result that predates the paper, due to Fisher (using butterflies, not code bugs). The actual guarantee from the result is not that the num
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by tgb 6y ago
Yeah, exactly. If you wanted to know that your code was bug free, how could you do it? Set a team of experts to each independently scour for bugs. But when do you stop? The quick answer is that you should keep going until every bug you&#x27

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