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by thyrsus 4y ago
Equally, if not more, important to the scientific method is gathering data that might dis prove it.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I'm confused: do you think China would be more likely to take Taiwan if it saw that nexus of economic leverage starting to diffuse?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I think the form "beggars the question", i.e., left the question in poverty, unanswered, is somewhat less misinterpretable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I wish I could tell what parts of such games were realistic, and then be able to practice emergency maneuvers - e.g. at 70 mph, cargo falls off the back of a pickup I'm following - just how sharply can I swerve my Toyota Corolla withou
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by thyrsus 4y ago
TIL python type hints: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html Thanks.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
It's been a few years; has anyone had a contrary experience? E.g., a system with parallelism/concurrency that was reliable and faster than one built in Erlang?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I remember econ, and it seems this course is close to the subject matter I had. I thought then and still think that attempting to model highly irregular events (transactions) as a smooth linear system is doomed to failure, so I could never
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by thyrsus 4y ago
The chart (currently; it might have been updated) does show both reported GDP and light-at-night inferred GDP for "free" economies. The article doesn't say explicitly, but we must assume they're using a linear mapping b
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by thyrsus 4y ago
What is a blue card (in brief bio)? Urban dictionary was not enlightening.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
My ansible-pull runs are horribly slow (git pull is fast, running a few hundred tasks on the local system is not). I suspect the problem is in unnecessary copies of large dicts and lots of them. How would I confirm or refute that? If tha
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by thyrsus 4y ago
60s mainframes, but Hot Millions has brilliant performances by Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Bob Newhart, and Karl Malden. The denouement is utterly ecstatic.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I remember when nytimes.com started using java like this, and something like 8 out of 10 failed to function in Firefox on Linux.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
It probably is: English has "eat" vs. "feed", German has "essen" vs. "fressen", but duckduckgo.com translates both to French "manger".
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I am reminded of the recent experiment confirming quantum mechanics: reality does not exist until it is measured, but once measured it is a shared reality among the observers[0]. And what is measurement? The assigning of names such that
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Fidelity says 401k accounts are not eligible for lockdown. Why am I supposed to not be worried?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
My first intuition of a knowledge graph would be an IDE. If that's not right, how am I wrong? If it is a typical use, what IDE(like) examples are there? Org-mode is a tree instead of a general graph, but general graphs can be traver
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by thyrsus 4y ago
That might make sense if it were dangerous to be identified as Jewish. I have no idea if that is among the reasons.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
You are correct, but quadratic is sufficiently bad.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Either this is sarcasm or an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I believe that there are fewer than factorial(65536) particles in our universe[0], so I reject using a die with that many faces to equalize the probabilities. As other comments point out, a mere 65536 faces is on the verge of practicality.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
What would motivate such an expression? Was the intent that the variable have value undef in the false case and 0 in the true case?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Is that all the undefined behaviors? If so, it's an incredibly short list. It must exclude all the accessible undefined OS behaviors.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Some of these advance toward truth, but many do not. Did Schopenhauer's original make that distinction?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
The reaction time of the gold-graphene-gold gate is wonderful. How long does it take to set the phase of the lasers?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
It's only possible if you can identify large portions of the 50k original lines as having been previously implemented by other components (python modules, microservices, etc.), or that large portions are dealing with cases that are gua
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by thyrsus 4y ago
In shell (/bin/sh) ${1} gives you the first argument, which for simplicity in this context is trusted to be an integer, e.g., if the shell script name is most_freq_words, "most_freq_words 5" would put the five most frequ
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by thyrsus 4y ago
A scientific approach would be to have a large number of program requirement documents and a large number of programmers, and assign a methodology to half the programmers, forbid the method to to the other half, and then measure the output
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by thyrsus 4y ago
At what level should one code to be confident the backend will do proper chip-specific optimization? RTL? Or is that already too low level?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
In the analogy to the naked short, the option is "called" when the known deficiency causes catastrophic consequences. Example: The file system is so large it takes 60 days for the backup to finish, and thus the "call" w

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