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by wiml 9mo ago
Nice. I think it would be even more æsthetically pointless if it fuzzed the commit date, message whitespace, etc instead of adding a blob...
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by wiml 9mo ago
True, perhaps it should be added as an IP option field or TCP option...
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by wiml 9mo ago
That appears to be the size of the list itself, not including the objects it contains: 8 bytes per entry for the object pointer, and a kilo-to-kibi conversion. All Python values are "boxed", which is probably a more important thin
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by wiml 9mo ago
I think (I am not a mathematician) that depends on whether you accept non-constructive proofs as valid. Normally you reason that any mapping from natural numbers onto the reals is incomplete (eg Cantor's argument), and that the sets of
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by wiml 9mo ago
Any HN comment is a finite expression, so it's impossible for me to specify a particular one. But the number of finite expressions is countable, and the number of reals is vastly more than a countable number, so most reals cannot be de
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by wiml 9mo ago
I used to go to the trouble of looking up the company's own sales contact or cxo or whatever and subscribing them to themselves, but now I just close the tab.
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by wiml 10mo ago
The Bay Area (according to the first hit on ddg) has roughly 40,000 homeless people, so I posit that they've built at most 124k units too many.
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by wiml 10mo ago
I'm surprised that works. Doesn't TLS1.3 do the thing where it crosschecks (a hash of) the setup parameters after key-agreement to protect against exactly this kind of downgrade attack? (My phone screen is too small to look thro
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by wiml 10mo ago
> Software licensing is just another form of property rights That's a pretty substantial assertion and without much to back it up. The framing of copyright as basically the same as ownership of chattel or land is a propaganda campai
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by wiml 10mo ago
We already have a solution, it's written down in the traffic laws. If the signals fail, treat the intersection roughly like a four-way stop. Everybody learns this in drivers' ed. It's not obscure. If the cars can't follo
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by wiml 10mo ago
Okay, that was insensitive of me. But yes, what you say is the logical consequence (except I'm not kidding about grief and impatience). My point really is that if we want our kids not to get horribly injured or killed, we can't ju
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by wiml 10mo ago
From what I understand, the effect of legalization (or decriminalization) on the amount of cannabis use is not straightforward at all. You'd have to factor that in somehow.
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by wiml 10mo ago
The number of people who report using it is only a rough proxy for the number of people who are using it, though.
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by wiml 10mo ago
There are some occupations where we aspire to that low level of risk. But it would mean that driving can't be an everyday activity for ordinary people. No driving if you haven't been getting proper sleep; no driving if jet lagged.
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by wiml 10mo ago
I don't think we're talking about merely "AI-assisted" PRs here. We're talking about PRs where the submitter has not read the code, doesn't understand it, and can't be bothered to describe what they did an
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by wiml 10mo ago
One of the things LLMs are demonstrably good at is eliminating self-doubt. That's why they're so disastrous.
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by wiml 10mo ago
"I think I covered that in the (PR text | comment two lines up | commit message), did you have an issue I didn't address there?" Maybe that's the AI agent I would actually use, auto-fill those responses...
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by wiml 10mo ago
The article touches on this briefly: they do do this, in the form of "five year lease, first year free as an incentive!". This lowers the actual rent by 20%, but they can still use the (pretend) full rent when calculating asset va
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by wiml 10mo ago
This would make it illegal to sell a phone or tablet with an unlocked/unlockable bootloader, wouldn't it.
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by wiml 10mo ago
I've seen a small but increasing trickle of open source projects leaving github for free(libre) alternatives lately. It's not a stampede but I'd say the exodus is on its way. The considerations for commercial users leaving gi
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by wiml 10mo ago
Man ... if there were a text file with "all relevant business knowledge" in any job I've ever worked, it would have been revolutionary. I'd say 25% of my work-hours are just going around to stakeholders and getting the
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by wiml 10mo ago
Don't forget the trident, you'll need it if the deliverybot uses its gladius
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by wiml 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure it's the case in all compression algorithms, period — if you make some inputs smaller, you have to make other inputs larger. There's a pigeonhole style argument for it. The trick of course is to make the input
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by wiml 11mo ago
Depends on the politician, yes? Some politicians will eagerly go into any level of detail on policy that you let them. Some seem to have no idea where their opinions come from.
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by wiml 11mo ago
Don't need anything as clumsy as a drone swarm. There are systems designed to aerially record an entire city at high enough resolution to follow each individual. And to keep history long enough to go back to before you thought you had
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by wiml 11mo ago
Rounding won't work either, at least if you're trying to find a way to do a hash join on float-comparison-within-epsilon. You would need to have a function such that |a-b|<p implies f(a)=f(b) and there is none, except the usele
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by wiml 11mo ago
I'm not sure what your criteria are, but high-Tc superconductors are used in a bunch of commercial applications. Magnet windings, very high-Q RF filters, and some exotic switching applications. "High temperature" still means
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by wiml 11mo ago
That sounds pretty nice. Is there a way to do it on purpose?
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by wiml 11mo ago
Are you saying you think trans people are causing software quality to decrease? How exactly? Please state your belief clearly.
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by wiml 11mo ago
In English there is also the name "rock dove" for pigeons (but I think technically rock doves are the wild ancestors of both white doves and city pigeons).

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