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by wiml 2y ago
If the effect size x site traffic is so small it's statistically insignificant, why are you doing all this work in the first place? Just choose the option that makes the PHB happy and move on. (But, it's more likely that you don&
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by wiml 2y ago
I've read that there was familiar controversy over player-piano rolls in the early 1900s/late 1800s. They'd be created in the eastern US and then be duplicated out west, potentially putting pianists out of a job.
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by wiml 2y ago
Until you try and you find that all the arable land is already occupied by industrial agriculture, the ADMs/Cargills of the world, using capital intensive brute force uniformity to extract more value from the land than you can compete
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by wiml 2y ago
This seems like a good place to Ask HN: What is the state of Android distros/forks right now anyway? What's the popular works-pretty-well-for-most-people project? What are some obscure or niche gems that could be better known?
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by wiml 2y ago
Yup. About fifteen years ago there was an explosion in small-run PCB services that cater to hobbyists (and cottage-scale professionals). If you don't need them overnight you can get good quality PCBs made at a very reasonable price.
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by wiml 2y ago
Because it's literally a polymer of lactic acid? It's safe enough that they use it for medical implants because its degradation products already exist in the body? (Or is this a sarcastic response along the lines of "didn&#x2
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by wiml 2y ago
The paper talks about looking for cellulose particles, though, not siloxane or PLA or whatever.
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by wiml 2y ago
If the URL identifies a resource (REST-style) and that database entry doesn't exist, then yes, 404 is less confusing response. If the URL identifies an API endpoint (RPC-style) then, sure, tunnel the error inside a "I successf
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by wiml 2y ago
Yes. The type C connector includes a couple of reassignable differential pairs explicitly for these kinds of shenanigans.
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by wiml 2y ago
Charge is conserved, so if your energy input is in the form of (say) a photon, you'll have to produce equal numbers of positive and negative charged particles. Baryon and lepton number are almost conserved, which would require you to
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by wiml 2y ago
This is a nonlinear filter because of the way alpha is determined. Since this is in SIGCHI, I assume the actual novelty here is "this filter has behavior that feels right to interactive users, (and is also computationally cheap)".
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by wiml 2y ago
You imply that you have access to some unvarnished truth, unlike the other commenters who are trapped in their bubbles. What is your justification for this belief? Is it possible for other people to have access to this higher truth, or is i
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by wiml 2y ago
I think even for a white dwarf the Roche limit is well inside the inner edge of the habitable range. So a planet that gets torn apart by gravity would already have been uninhabitably close.
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by wiml 2y ago
If they'll spit in your food for not leaving a tip, they'll probably spit in your food for other reasons as well. Best to simply avoid those places.
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by wiml 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.04879
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by wiml 2y ago
I think there are multiple mechanisms by which genes "activate" and "deactivate", but one of them is methylation, which can to some extent be passed to offspring: this is studied as part of "epigenetics".
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by wiml 2y ago
I recommend skimming the PLDI paper linked by asmeurer, it has a good summary. Some of its transforms are pretty C-specific, using the Clang frontend; some are pretty generic and probably work on any Algol-descended language. It's mean
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by wiml 2y ago
You're going to have that problem with any codebase written by people who don't particularly know the language. Typescript written by PHP programmers, Python written by Java programmers, you'll quickly get a huge impenetrable
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by wiml 2y ago
> Weather forecasts are nice to have, but often wrong. I think you are really, really underestimating the importance of weather forecasting to modern agriculture (and therefore global stability), shipping and transport, logistics, energy
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by wiml 2y ago
> Such cables don't just snap by themselves. Your general points are valid, but undersea cables do fail for many reasons. A few moments of googling turns up industry failure statistics. Most are still due to human activity in some w
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by wiml 2y ago
The door of a microwave typically doesn't form an RF-tight seal. Instead there's a groove that forms a resonant trap at the microwave's operating frequency. So it'll probably block 2.4-GHz ISM-band stuff like Bluetooth (
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by wiml 2y ago
How does statically typing your code "increase[] your bugs by a factor of 3x" when it has no runtime effect? What orifice are you getting the 3x from?
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by wiml 2y ago
Eh, it's a pretty common tongue-in-cheek way to refer to America's love of a slightly old fashioned system. I wouldn't read much into it.
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by wiml 2y ago
> One complicating factor here is that raw video is surprisingly high bandwidth. It's weird to be living in a world where this is a surprise but here we are. Nice write up though. Web sockets has a number of nonsensical design dec
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by wiml 2y ago
I think you misunderstand the saying. Information wants to be free — it is naturally so cheap to copy and transmit that its marginal cost is effectively zero. That doesn't mean you want it to be free, or that WIRED wants it to be f
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by wiml 2y ago
Your comment makes me wonder about the idea of building a superscalar, out of order, speculative implementation of the 6502 or 8080 instruction sets. Might make a good educational project.
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by wiml 2y ago
What is "Decline I" a typo of? I interpret is as a request to decline (that is, give the inflected forms of) the pronoun "I".
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by wiml 2y ago
Yes, and even chemical rockets make use of the exhaust as effectively coolant. But the problem is that then you have to carry enough mass to carry away heat. And suddenly your rocket is 99% expendable coolant and only 1% payload (or less).
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by wiml 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're wondering here. Of course physical distance is going to be a dominating factor, but this is measuring packet transit times. The speed of light over half a great-circle is only 67ms or so, ot maybe 100ms co
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by wiml 2y ago
By default I'd assume most chips don't get serialized (their package may have a date/lot code). The article doesn't say what the chip is, so I don't think there's a reason to think that it's one of the typ

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