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by tooltower 4y ago
What would be a better measure? Tons of carbon locked up in the wood? The amount of carbon they can remove from the atmosphere on an average day?
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by tooltower 4y ago
I liked the article. But like most "models", it's an approximation of reality. In most large companies I know, these are not distinct phases. All of these stages and "revolutions" are usually in full swing in a mess
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by tooltower 4y ago
I'm confused. What does budget have to do with using Blender? I thought a big movie budget is needed mainly for the labor and artistry, and comparatively little goes into software licensing. Is that not the case?
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by tooltower 4y ago
A follow-up of this tweet indicates that you found the person responsible for this mess, and was not authorized by Cloudflare to do this. Great. But it also sounds like a reasonably common occurrence, and hence a systematic problem.
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by tooltower 4y ago
A co-author answered a ton of questions on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/x38kx7/nasas_webb_ta...
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by tooltower 4y ago
That's pretty much it. It's notoriously easy to reach Turing Completeness without even trying. If you search for "Accidentally Turing Complete", you'll find several lists like this: https://beza1e1.tuxen.
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by tooltower 4y ago
Isn't this the same as Unix sed being Turing Complete? https://catonmat.net/proof-that-sed-is-turing-complete
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by tooltower 4y ago
There are many, many papers that show how you can make innocuous changes to inputs to make neutral nets produce the wrong result. You might be overestimating the difficulty of this process.
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by tooltower 4y ago
"Certifiably neutral" So, by a process that hasn't been designed yet. Especially when one considers how opaque most neutral nets are to human scrutiny.
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by tooltower 4y ago
What old C do you mean? I can't think of any version where undefined had a defined meaning
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by tooltower 4y ago
It's the same underlying reason for https://xkcd.com/1425/ . These tasks have always looked similar. The only reason we are amazed is because we know why one task is harder than the other. Understanding that is not
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by tooltower 4y ago
You've touched on regulation being one source of this problem. But do you think prices will become more normal if regulations disappeared? What do you think is different between the US health care regulatory structure, vs. those in oth
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by tooltower 4y ago
The new particles in this case aren't "smaller" than the ones we already know about. They are short-lived because they are heavier. They quickly decay into something simpler. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.
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Ancient Roman soldier carved a phallus with a personal insult in this stone(arstechnica.com)
7 points by tooltower 4y ago|0 comments
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by tooltower 4y ago
Am I living too dangerously? I keep two U2F keys enrolled, one as a backup in a safe place, the other on my keyring. And for sites that still use passwords, in-browser password manager works well for me. What kind of key-breaking do you thi
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by tooltower 4y ago
But couldn't the missing angular momentum still be imparted onto the measurement device? I.e. maybe our Stern-Gerlach apparatus will start spinning ever so slightly if they were floating in space?
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by tooltower 4y ago
FWIW, I'm pretty introverted too, but my internal monologue is pretty active. So that's one data point that's the opposite of the correlation you suggest. Not only that, my internal voice has become much quieter with age. And
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by tooltower 4y ago
Windows progress bars can occasionally go backwards too <evil laughs>
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by tooltower 4y ago
Capillary action requires narrow channels. Single surface shouldn't work, at least intuitively. Some might argue that any tiny crystal formed creates narrow channels between the crevices, wicking out more of the liquid and speeding up
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by tooltower 4y ago
AFAIK post-quantum crypto all has larger key sizes and much(?) worse performance. Has that changed? If not, I don't see ECC becoming obsolete any time soon.
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Tanis: Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim(bbc.com)
5 points by tooltower 4y ago|0 comments
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by tooltower 5y ago
I found this article hard to read. I was trying to understand what the current state of affairs is, and how these new abstractions improve the matter. E.g. the consistency properties, the weakenings, and when they help. Instead it read more
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by tooltower 5y ago
But they are the loudest opinion. It's a lot like how people are more likely to write an online review if they have had a negative experience.
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by tooltower 5y ago
If voting didn't exist on HN, don't you think the mods would have had to spend more time curating submissions? The total number of submissions is presumably much larger than the number of reports they receive or the number of susp
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by tooltower 5y ago
Woops! I don't think I can edit that anymore :(
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Ask HN: Early Development Story of RPi?
1 points by tooltower 5y ago|3 comments
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by tooltower 5y ago
Citations needed I know you are venting, and even agreeing with me, but I wasn't trying to make this a SWE vs PM thing. The dynamic you describe hasn't been my experience, at least so far. Wherever you work, I hope you find ways s
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by tooltower 5y ago
Management often likes treating software engineers as being replaceable, not accounting for the lost experience they now have to build up from scratch. Or as one of my colleagues so aptly put it, "SWEs are not fungible."
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by tooltower 5y ago
How do you synchronize it? And how do you feel about the ergonomics of markdown editing on the phone? I personally use markdown pretty exclusively for my notes, but I do find myself needing to open up my laptop for that. If I'm not aro
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by tooltower 5y ago
What a great list of "Things I've been meaning to learn for years!" I was all hip and cool once, and now feel like a dinosaur. This should help me catch up

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