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by voldacar 5y ago
My gut tells me it would work like a hash function, the diamond -> dot pattern function being trivial, but the dot pattern -> diamond function taking exponentially more effort
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by voldacar 5y ago
What's a good breakdown of the relationship between exercise and the likelihood of cancer? On the extreme end, I'd imagine that if you're very muscular your chance of getting a tumor would increase, simply because your body h
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by voldacar 5y ago
>Trustless solutions have no place in a world with robust trust, which is most of the developed world and parts of the developing world. Unless you use a silly spherical cow model of history and risk, the robust trust you are referring t
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by voldacar 5y ago
This article could have been 2 or 3 sentences but instead I had to wade through paragraphs of fluff
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thanks for the explantion. I already knew about double buffering but for whatever reason my brain didn't make the connection.
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by voldacar 5y ago
Some questions from someone who is obsessed with getting 0 frames of latency: >the one frame of added latency with compositing and game VSync does not apply to Wayland I thought that on X with vsync disabled , a fullscreen game will wri
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by voldacar 5y ago
Well afaik a pheromone is defined by its function, not its molecular structure.
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by voldacar 5y ago
>We cannot say that this is a pheromone,” says study author Noam Sobel, a neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. “But we can say that it’s a molecule expressed by the human body that influences human behavior, specifically
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by voldacar 5y ago
His opus 28 preludes are also particularly excellent imo
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by voldacar 5y ago
Bullets are loud and require you to transport a gun into the area and find a spot where you can snipe at your target, both of which could be very difficult in, for instance, an urban environment. You probably would get caught. The poison wa
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by voldacar 5y ago
The "This isn't happening" to "Actually, it's happening, and it's A Good Thing™" cycle has been ramping up a lot over the past few years. They can't even keep their own narratives internally consisten
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by voldacar 5y ago
Also a way to raise untraceable funds, like the cocaine smuggling thing.
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by voldacar 5y ago
but not instantly and with very limited range.
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by voldacar 5y ago
psychometrics is basically the only area of psychology that actually replicates well
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by voldacar 5y ago
Think about the potential for mischief or warfare it would enable. You could warp a tiny blob of some potent toxin right into someone's body. Fascinating.
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by voldacar 5y ago
If you are trying to make my car go over potholes without my consent, or in any way do something that I don't want it to, that is adversarial behavior. You are my adversary.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I do not desire to be beheaded. I do not derive pleasure from seeing others be beheaded. However, being beheaded is sometimes a part of the human experience. The world is a place that contains beheadings. It simply is. The internet, in the
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by voldacar 5y ago
I would rather that than the internet be sanitized and homogenized, yes.
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by voldacar 5y ago
>Contrast with the length of the recurrent laryngeal nerve Yes but that is noteworthy precisely because it is the exception to the general rule. It is almost always (99%+) correct that a strange structure has some kind of meaningful purp
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by voldacar 5y ago
The internet used to be so wild, dangerous, unpredictable. At some point, it was defanged. Now everything is safe, sanitized, and governed. Everything has to be nice and inoffensive. Gone are the days when you might stumble across an ISIS b
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by voldacar 5y ago
>Now it turns out I have to turn around and trust a central authority anyways! That authority being the government that is handling the prosecution of MtGox for fraud and theft. In theory, DeFi can solve this. In practice it is hampered
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by voldacar 5y ago
I don't think you understand the point of the talos
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by voldacar 5y ago
there are ascii variants of APL like j,q,k etc
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by voldacar 5y ago
The rest of the content on this website is simply amazing. I'm so glad stuff like this is still out there on the internet. Nothing clickbaity or exploitative, just really detailed instructional knowledge on an interesting niche subject
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by voldacar 5y ago
That's really clever. How long did this process usually take, what size crystals were you going for? And were these crystals ever visually interesting, or do most organic compounds just form colorless little prisms or cubes?
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by voldacar 5y ago
Leibniz technically
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by voldacar 5y ago
> I don't get why it's not reported in more neutral terms I do - more neutral, emotionally cooler headlines like this will get fewer clicks and therefore generate less ad revenue
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by voldacar 5y ago
You seem to be privy to some evidence that the court is not. Care to share it with us?
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by voldacar 5y ago
The guy should have just released a .iso of the laptop's hard drive. Then we wouldn't still be arguing over its authenticity a year later
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by voldacar 5y ago
I was a little disappointed that by "corded headphones" they meant "corded earbuds"

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