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by tzs 7mo ago
Interesting that all those you specifically named aired on Fox, which is where Firefly aired. Other science fiction shows Fox killed after not more than one season were The Lone Gunman, Harsh Realm, Minority Report, Second Chance, and John
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by tzs 7mo ago
Multiplayer PvE can still be ruined by cheating. In many such games, such as MMORPGs, you are still competing for resources such as rare spawns. Spending hours setting up conditions for the rare spawn to appear, and then before you can get
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by tzs 7mo ago
OK, something weird is going on with HN here. The first time I looked at the comment above, there was a reply, a reply to that reply, and a reply to the reply to the reply. Later I came back and this time there were no replies. Since HN won
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Simple rule to keep in mind that even math savvy people seem to forget about is that: sqrt(x²) = |x| with bars for absolute value. i would disagree with that (pun intended).
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by tzs 7mo ago
Ah, I was unclear. I meant build in empty land far from cities where you also have room to put in enough solar panels and batteries to power the data center.
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by tzs 7mo ago
How well do these work when infrequently used? I can go months between needing to print, maybe even over a year. It is infrequent enough that the Brother laser printer I bought a little over 7 years is still on the toner cartridge that came
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by tzs 7mo ago
Hmmm. "[...] the deployer shall develop a risk management policy after deploying the system [...]". I wonder why it is after rather than before ?
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by tzs 7mo ago
Including a shutdown mechanism and doing an annual risk management review favors large incumbents?
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by tzs 7mo ago
Could these actually be functionally useful or are they purely aesthetic? For example, dust can short out electrical connections. Can enough dust get into an open RAM slot to cause problems?
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by tzs 7mo ago
> It’s cheaper and quicker to permit a launch than permit, zone and interconnect a datacenter There's plenty of empty land sufficiently far from cities and not being used for anything else and that shouldn't have permitting or
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by tzs 7mo ago
/r/LeopardsAteMyFace contains many counterexamples.
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by tzs 7mo ago
The Helium Privatization Act of 1996 (HPA) required it. It passed to House on a voice vote and the Senate by unanimous consent and was signed by President Clinton. After sales paid off the debt that has been incurred from the expansion of s
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by tzs 7mo ago
There was very little demand for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript before 2006?
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by tzs 7mo ago
> It seems to me that this is a parental responsibility. That's the point of the California law and similar laws in other states. It requires operating systems to implement a simple mechanism that parents can use to specify an age r
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by tzs 7mo ago
What ID? Most of these laws don't require any ID. They require that when the administrator of the computer sets up an account for a user the admin can enter an age or birthdate for the user, and that the OS provides an interface so tha
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by tzs 7mo ago
How would this hinder a kid learning programming? How would it even be noticeable?
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by tzs 7mo ago
They probably omitted it because it is irrelevant. It says (according to the title of the Reddit post...the body has been removed) Meta is supporting laws to collect more data, which they profit from. The Register article is about laws that
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by tzs 8mo ago
> We've spent over 300 years doing the Luddite song and dance. To be clear, I have no problem with Luddites and do not view them negatively, but to imply that this productivity enhancer is magically special in a way no other one was
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by tzs 8mo ago
A lot probably depends on who can do the new jobs. In many past cases where new technology eliminated jobs it was accompanied by new jobs related to the new technology that the people whose jobs were eliminated could do, or could reasonab
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by tzs 8mo ago
The early 2000s were too early for that for Java. Before Java 6 in 2006 JVM wasn't a good target for dynamically typed languages. In Java 6 they added some support but it wasn't very efficient. In 2008 they started serious work on
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by tzs 8mo ago
In that Padé approximant I think you can save a couple multiplications. As written it does this: n = 1 - 367/714 * x**2 d = 1 - 81/119 * x**2 + 183/4760 * x**4 return x * (n/d) That's got 7 multiplies (I&
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by tzs 8mo ago
It's also widely believed that is a big part of why he vetoed a bill to fund the Arkansas River Valley water pipeline in Colorado, to bring much needed clean drinking water to rural communities in southeastern Colorado (communities tha
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by tzs 8mo ago
> Generally when a writer inserts a person's race flippantly like in the parent's quote It may not have been flippant. There is a contingent of young men, almost always white, who think that minorities now have it easy and whit
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by tzs 8mo ago
It's the easiest way to not have to deal with Article 27. Briefly, if Article 3 applies to a site outside the EU Article 27 requires that site to designate a representative in the Union that people can contact over GDPR issues. There
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by tzs 8mo ago
That drops them down to 190k.
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by tzs 8mo ago
Well, I keep missing the "serve"/"server" thing because spell checkers think "server" is a real word so don't flag it. :-)
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by tzs 8mo ago
> I would still say no, there is something about finding the words for yourself, even if they aren't as elegant as an Ai can make. It's fine, most humans prefer imperfection. In this instance the only reason I considered using
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by tzs 8mo ago
I did post a link to the Supreme Court's decision at Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute's archive of Supreme Court decisions. I looked at the decision itself sufficiently to see that it was the case I remembered
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by tzs 8mo ago
How about comments that include AI output if labeled? Earlier today I remembered that there was a Supreme Court case I'd heard about 35 years ago that was relevant to on an ongoing HN discussion, but I could not remember the name of th
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by tzs 8mo ago
States do however issue the documents that you might need to present to the Social Security Administration. Maybe he had trouble getting those? Speaking of documents, here's a tip. Use your name as it appears on your birth certificate

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