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by vortico 7y ago
This case is easy because the coin toss is independent. Radio noise is a time-dependent signal.
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by vortico 7y ago
How does one take a biased noise source source (like atmospheric noise with a certain spectral density) and convert it to a stream of uncorrelated random bits? I've never understood this.
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by vortico 7y ago
Then the "most motivated users" could release their build scripts, and the project would become fragmented.
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by vortico 7y ago
>bad boundaries and overcoupling of your subsystems And that's the overwhelming majority of ways to make money with software. Think of every video game, desktop application, and mobile app that people purchase. What you call "b
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by vortico 7y ago
How many KB or lines is the vsprintf implementation they used? Just curious.
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by vortico 7y ago
Scroll down one tweet.
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by vortico 7y ago
I'm not arguing that tests are useless. I'm arguing that tests are usually impossible. I invite you to suggest a test for https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack for example that could either 1) have prevented a bug,
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by vortico 7y ago
Perhaps the reason for "nobody writes tests" in the real-world isn't primarily because of time/cost, but because virtually no real potential bugs are testable. If you're writing a JPEG encoder or database model hand
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by vortico 7y ago
Archive: http://archive.is/OadGY Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMxjHTTDcpI
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by vortico 7y ago
and probably ever. It's not the right tool for the job, unless Apple really does some restructuring.
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by vortico 7y ago
I'm of the "organize everything in random .md files spread throughout my filesystem" type, but my friends would find this handy, and the design is beautiful.
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by vortico 7y ago
I need a table with booleans "There are now more people over X then children younger than Y."
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by vortico 7y ago
That's not how it works. Each commit is a "derivative work" of the last. If today a codebase is licensed under MIT, tomorrow you can change a single line of code, and this produces a brand new work under US and international
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by vortico 7y ago
If community patches are licensed under MIT or BSD, all CockroachDB has to do is include those license texts in their proprietary distribution, which is the only requirement by both licenses. Proprietary derivative works are allowed under M
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by vortico 7y ago
>$75,000 Wouldn't this only just barely cover court/lawyer costs?
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by vortico 7y ago
Could be useful for hunt-and-peck typers, although I'm not sure there are many emacs users like that...
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by vortico 7y ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by vortico 7y ago
Bump order predates 2channel by maybe 15 years.
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by vortico 7y ago
>If you had 1000 people in your house, bump order wouldn't work either It definitely does, and it works better than "popular" sorting, here's how. You walk by rooms and overhear people talking. You hear a lot of small
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by vortico 7y ago
It's one of those things that doesn't matter until everyone does it. The behavior of many Reddit users is based on the "popular" or "hot" order, and it truly does make a difference in the style of their convers
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by vortico 7y ago
It certainly has to do with Reddit. It's unnatural for humans to communicate with priority of "most popular". If you walk in a room with strangers, meet two friends at their house, or talk in private with your mother, all of
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by vortico 7y ago
Isn't 1000 psi almost a km deep? Not sure if this would work at all.
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by vortico 7y ago
When you click on Youtube's timeline, it seeks to the nearest I frame, not to the exact frame, so it avoids the problem altogether.
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by vortico 7y ago
You'll Always Be The Man Forever Dog
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by vortico 7y ago
Getting a smartphone a few years ago was a great change of my life. I can now catch up on boring emails, tech support, and GitHub issues while being in a place otherwise doing nothing. Typing on my phone is only about 1.5x the effort as typ
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by vortico 7y ago
Corrected, thanks
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by vortico 7y ago
Thanks! Attempting now.
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by vortico 7y ago
Stupid question: Can I play with GPT-2 by entering my own prompts using a website or downloadable project? Or is it not ready yet?
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by vortico 7y ago
Haha, I think you forgot a "you" in the title. I can photograph the moon from 300,000 km away with my phone.
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by vortico 7y ago
I can completely relate. Some contribution is good when a project has established a few regular contributers, but a lot of open-source maintenance these days is babysitting drive-by programmers. In my experience, people's code can be s

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