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by tines 5y ago
99% doesn't seem very high. Does that mean that if you do 100 operations, 1 of them will fail?
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by tines 5y ago
Most of these are animal feces which, needless to say, is a lot less offensive.
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by tines 5y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I feel like the way it was originally worded was a bit confusing.
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by tines 5y ago
> Thus, use of the system would theoretically reduce the likeliness of a false-alarm-triggered retaliation How does not preventing a retaliatory strike reduce the likeliness of a false-alarm-triggered retaliation? It seems like it increa
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by tines 5y ago
Haskell does monomorphization as well. See https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/specialization/
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The Theoretical Minimum: Introduction to quantum mechanics with Leonard Susskind(theoreticalminimum.com)
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by tines 5y ago
Ah, that's annoying.
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by tines 5y ago
What do you think of the argument that the nature of boycotting has changed? In your example, people might boycott a restaurant they didn't like, but there were a ton of small restaurants, no one restaurant was very big. Now, we have a
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by tines 5y ago
Nitpick, I don't think 0 is a natural number
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by tines 5y ago
> If this is true, surely the right to not support people who's views you disagree with is just as necessary? Totally agree, but I think one of the nuances here is that what "support" means can be pretty narrow or very bro
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by tines 5y ago
It's a small nitpick but I think technically they moved from PowerPC, not POWER.
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by tines 5y ago
precated :)
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by tines 5y ago
While driving up Highway 1 with my family on vacation, I drove past/through Point Reyes and admired what a beautiful town it was. I thought that I'd love to have grown up there. Alas, I'll never be able to live in California,
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by tines 5y ago
Possibly the same reason why people like to listen to music while working? The essential feature common to white noise and music you're familiar with could be the predictability. I know for me a good song (uptempo, not too distracting)
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by tines 5y ago
Yep, well-defined in C++, but the resulting out-of-bounds accesses and all that are not well-defined.
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by tines 5y ago
I am a C++ fanatic---template metaprogramming is a beautiful thing---but I've come to believe that software that handles untrusted user input should never be written in C or C++. It's too difficult to write correct software by han
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by tines 5y ago
Firefox user. If I hit the Register button at the top of the home page, then it back, the register/login buttons disappear and I can't get them back without refreshing the page.
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by tines 5y ago
More like r/woosh
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by tines 5y ago
+1 for Inscryption, what wonderful and beautiful piece of art that game is.
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by tines 5y ago
If a person can represent two people then he can represent a theoretically unlimited number (just arrange everyone into a binary tree).
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by tines 5y ago
And also the end of civilization as we know it.
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by tines 5y ago
Is nand nonlinear?
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by tines 5y ago
In one portion of the article ("Smart people do bad things"), it seems like the argument isn't really against Meritocracy, it's against using intelligence as the only metric powering your meritocracy. If your meritocracy
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by tines 5y ago
But reproduction is a fundamental aspect of evolution, and (most?) cells in the body don't reproduce on their own, but rather they are manufactured. T cells for example are manufactured by bone marrow and the thymus multiplies them if
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by tines 5y ago
Tin-foil hat time: Who's to say that they could stand up to them before this system? The system itself could have been proposed by the CCP in the first place. I'll take my hat off now.
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by tines 5y ago
Actually I think this is the same fallacy as one of Zeno's paradoxes, and has the same resolution. We are discovering more wrong, as you say, but the "infinity" of wrongs is in the direction of the infinitely small (or "
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by tines 5y ago
> The system could only match "exact fingerprints" of specific known child sexual abuse images, he said. It has to match the fingerprint exactly, but the fingerprints themselves are not exact, otherwise they would be useless. A
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by tines 5y ago
> Liberalism announces ‘one person, one vote’ and ‘equality before the law’, and yet somehow the children of the wealthy have a plusher time on Christmas morning than those of the very poor (not to mention most other days of their lives
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by tines 5y ago
I feel like the cultural divide may be encouraged by certain groups. There's money to be made in market differentiation.
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by tines 5y ago
I wasn't arguing that there is ambiguity. Not sure how many times I have to say that in this thread.

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