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by variaga 6y ago
No, I have plenty of ordinary evidence in the form of my observations of the behavior of every other for-profit corporation across all of history. Like if you claimed "pine sap is sticky" I don't feel compelled to challenge y
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by variaga 6y ago
There needs to be some corollary of the "extrodinary claims require extraordinary evidence" phrase for ordinary claims. I feel like I can safely assume things like "a for-profit corporation will monetize resources available t
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by variaga 6y ago
Newton-Rapheson method to calculate X = 1/D 1) Make a guess at the reciprocal X(0) (this can come from a small LUT, but a static "guess" can also work) 2) Calculate an improved reciprocal X(n) iteratively using the relation:
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by variaga 6y ago
In the Apple II game "Below The Root", was a side-scrolling RPG kind of like early Zelda games, and you could use the floppy drive to wall-hack. Every time you walked from one screen to another, it would load the new screen from d
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by variaga 6y ago
It reads like a how-to guide for writing a IOCCC entry.
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by variaga 6y ago
So that's the thing. Switching to slack was brought up in our org and most people were at best noncommittal, because the option wasn't really "chime vs. slack", it was "chime vs. chime AND slack". We'd sti
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by variaga 6y ago
Amazon is a big place and I can't speak for all of it, but while IT announced that slack was "available" a few months ago, I don't personally know anyone that has actually switched to using it. Everyone still uses Chime
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by variaga 6y ago
The article describes an attempt to create a "one true colorspace" by using fMRI to look at people's brain activity as they view colors, which is an interesting idea. One of the questions asked at the beginning of the article
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by variaga 6y ago
It's not just the small volume. Having worked on a number of ASIC + eval-board combos, there are several issues: 1) Eval board design typically begins before the ASIC design is finished. This means eval boards are frequently subject t
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by variaga 6y ago
The paper's content doesn't support the conclusion ("It is clear that telling every patient to “finish the course of antibiotic therapy, even if you feel better” is outdated." "The time has come to challenge the max
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by variaga 6y ago
Yes, only 3 incidents - but in 35 years we haven't managed to clean up the mess made by the first one. Chernobyl has been a hazard now for 4x longer than the reactor was in service. That's the thing I would like to see from the p
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by variaga 6y ago
This is why (as a customer) I always prefer "yet another web account" vs. "sign-in with ____" - yes, it's a hassle to manage a different account for every different thing I use (although not much of one with a decen
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by variaga 6y ago
Esperanto (and all the other intentionally designed languages) are simple and logical only because nobody actually speaks them as a native language. They're consistent because everyone learned them from the same miniscule corpus of av
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by variaga 6y ago
Abolishing cash bail doesn’t mean "no pretrial detention for anyone". People judged to be a flight risk or a threat to the community can still be held without bail. Abolishing cash bail is about not unnecessarily imprisoning peop
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by variaga 6y ago
Right? Lucky Europe.
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by variaga 6y ago
TSMC's 5nm 'N5' process -the highest density process currently shipping- has a raw transistor density of 173 million per millimeter^2. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process ) If the transistors were
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by variaga 6y ago
Once upon a time (the "Dennard Scaling Era") VLSI circuit design used the same relative geometry at different "feature sizes" - all dimensions of the design(wire width, wire spacing, gate length, gate pitch, ..., etc.) s
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by variaga 6y ago
Yeah, probably, but that still doesn't make it right.
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by variaga 6y ago
also really classy to put their own copyright notice on a document "found on usenet and the author could not be determined"
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by variaga 6y ago
The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
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by variaga 6y ago
You can make a pretty good argument that the _rulebook_ is the Chinese-speaking intelligence in the room. "But it's an inanimate object, if the human stops following the rules it will be inert". Yeah, and if your mitochondr
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by variaga 6y ago
Yeah, was not impressed. Skipping over the (opinionated) survey of recent AI techniques (and their failure modes) and philosophic theories of cognition that is the bulk of the paper, the only bit that claims to be novel (pp 29-31) is an ar
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by variaga 6y ago
https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/output/2020...
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by variaga 6y ago
No, you're not the only one. I cringe every time I even think about going to BestBuy, because I find their "customer service" actively unpleasant. Pretty much the only time I ever go to BestBuy is when (a) I need a specific
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by variaga 6y ago
Probably a mix; for respiratory conditions, the _abysmal_ air quality in London (look up the "Great Stink" of 1858) and other industrial(izing) cities meant a move to somewhere the air was cleaner would have a rapid, measurable ef
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by variaga 6y ago
Of the half-dozen semiconductor- designing companies I've worked for, all of them used FPGAs for emulation. - modern FPGAs are huge. - when an asic design won't fit in a single FPGA, it's usually possible to partition the
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by variaga 6y ago
USPS is not subsidized. It has always been required to pay for itself through delivery fees.
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by variaga 6y ago
FedEx "SmartPost" and UPS "SurePost" are both basically "drop your package off with FedEx/UPS, and they'll put it in the regular mail for you".
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by variaga 6y ago
Anecdotally, I lived in one place where I never got a _single_ FedEx package correctly delivered of the dozens that were sent to me. This was a normal apartment, in a normal apartment building, in a fairly nice part of town. The only way I
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by variaga 6y ago
Correct - I remember the MagiCan promotion. At the time (1990), a $1 can of Coke would be far above the norm. (Later, in 1993, being charged the princely sum of $0.85 for a can of Coke triggered Michael Douglas' breakdown in the the m

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