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by wnoise 6y ago
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.
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by wnoise 6y ago
You might be able to order it, sure. Translating that into magnitudes is entirely subjective.
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by wnoise 6y ago
> 1. Research has found that the probability of conspiratorial thinking is quadratic with respect to political extremism in either direction. Extremism has no natural quantification. This statement is nonsense.
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by wnoise 6y ago
The stats show the police, black or white, are about equally likely to use excessive force against black or white people _per incident_. The problem is that they make contact with black people far more often per-capita. Some of this is be
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by wnoise 6y ago
It's typically because they get wealthier as they get older. I'm not expecting millennials and gen-X to get more conservative. Zoomers, maybe.
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by wnoise 6y ago
None of these were actually faithfully followed, and they were indeed used as excuses. But they used to be viewed as ideals to work toward. Now there are circles where they are _only_ seen as excuses, and they really have been demonized.
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by wnoise 6y ago
Almost half of those are indeed bad guys, and much of the rest does not fit under the normal meaning of the word censorship.
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by wnoise 6y ago
> You and the people who talk like you are getting downvoted because you're contrarian without actually stating an opposition view to what you're ranting about. That's true, but it also seems to effectively hold for the or
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by wnoise 6y ago
> the maintainer isn't doing much these days, Is there much to do?
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by wnoise 6y ago
> What is utterly baffling and puzzling is that we only ever see one particular outcome. Decoherence cannot explain that and nothing in quantum mechanics explains that. The blog post has a link to a transcript of Sidney Coleman's le
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by wnoise 6y ago
> We never allow anything other than video and image files either. I would have thought this would be an excellent way to not host malware.
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by wnoise 6y ago
IEEE 754 requires that -0.0 and 0.0 compare equal. > Does x*0 evaluate to 0.0 No, but it will compare equal, unless x is either infinite or a NaN. > Does x+0 evaluate to x? Maybe! Yes, unless x is either infinite or a NaN.
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by wnoise 6y ago
The requirement for multiple distorted images is ... in dispute.
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by wnoise 6y ago
Capabilities are an intensely underused design pattern. > Well, D-Bus was originally designed to solve the problem of... a message bus. I guess no one has ever told me what the "message bus problem" actually is. I get sending
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by wnoise 6y ago
Yes, you can do that. But libc can't use that as an implementation strategy without also having this linear-turned-quadratic behavior.
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by wnoise 6y ago
Sure, the quadratic behavior is attached to the "calling sscanf in a loop". The point is linear behavior for a call to sscanf. Which isn't the case for musl. Nor does musl call strlen, or even effectively call it. It will
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by wnoise 6y ago
In fact, having the length of the string was not required. Certain ways of implementing scanf() required getting the length of the string, or otherwise scanning the whole thing. But saner ways did not.
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by wnoise 6y ago
It's not entirely free of overhead. The overhead is constant per invocation though, so it's entirely free of _quadratic_ behavior. Which is what's being discussed.
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by wnoise 6y ago
Ah, I did indeed. Wacky.
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by wnoise 6y ago
Wow. Thanks for looking. > limited substrings of the input string as it refills its input buffer, As far as I can tell, that copying helper function set to the read member of the FILE* never actually gets called in this path. I see no
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by wnoise 6y ago
... that's the exact opposite of what I took from this. The obviously stupid, wasteful work is at heart an algorithmic problem. And it cropped up even in the simplest of data structures. A constant amount of wasteful work often isn&#
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by wnoise 6y ago
The sscanf issue was not obvious: it looks linear. And should be, on a better sscanf implementation. The duplicate checking on the other hand is a classic "accidentally quadratic" case that is obvious.
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by wnoise 6y ago
Yes, that's bad too.
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by wnoise 6y ago
> Planned future experiments will help researchers choose between the two pictures. But whichever model is right, I would expect neither model is "right", and instead each is better at capturing slightly different aspects of th
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by wnoise 6y ago
Yes. That is what I said and how I interpreted it. If the split is even (H0 true), getting a result that lopsided is a 1-out-7 deal. It's rare that a p-value is what you want, but for answering "how unusual is this case", i
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by wnoise 6y ago
In [2]: scipy.stats.binom_test(89, 200, 0.5) Out[2]: 0.13736665086863936 Unusual to be this lopsided (1-in-7), but not crazy.
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by wnoise 6y ago
I know someone who is similar with the paper files, but lazily sorts them when she needs to retrieve something, so the full scan only happens at most once.
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by wnoise 6y ago
(a): The complaint is about using the same word in different ways, without marking the difference, which has the effect of hiding that the conclusions are unfounded. (b): It's a small part of the essay, one sin among many.
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by wnoise 6y ago
> English is highly allusive Absolutely. > and ambiguous extremely rarely. > Many words that mean completely different things are spelled the same Homographs are rarely a problem precisely because they generally mean completely dif
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by wnoise 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by neutrality here; I want the title of a piece to accurately reflect the thesis of the piece, whether or not the piece itself is biased. But the current HN title is not a thesis at all. At best it's a

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