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691.
by wnoise 10y ago
Indeed. bit n has value 2^n; byte n has multiplier value 256^n.
692.
by wnoise 10y ago
To be fair, it's only a federal crime when actually committed in the U.S. (Unlike some of the laws that are enforced extraterritorially.)
693.
by wnoise 10y ago
Unfortunately very few people have the experiences of both men and women in tech, which is what is necessary to get a comparison from someone who actually knows how much shittier it is as one vs another.
694.
by wnoise 10y ago
They say "also known as the armonica", when "glass armonica" is the far more common term.
695.
by wnoise 10y ago
It's not that they don't take it seriously -- it's that it's boring and says nothing useful. Yes, everything could be a giant conspiracy that makes it appear as if the standard ways of approaching quantum mechanics are
696.
by wnoise 10y ago
See also "abstract stone duality". https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/abstract+Stone+duality
697.
by wnoise 10y ago
Bones, and the marrow hiding within.
698.
by wnoise 10y ago
I believe FreeBSD also run on POWER8.
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by wnoise 10y ago
> "multiple bites at the apple", so to speak, in terms of grading. It's simply not fair to the rest of the class. Isn't it? If everyone has equal opportunity, how is it unfair if some don't take advantage of tha
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by wnoise 10y ago
Hobby, hobbier, hobbiest? Hobbyist.
701.
by wnoise 10y ago
Wikipedia is wrong. You need a stuffed teddy bear. Everyone benefits by consulting the wisdom of the bugbear.
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by wnoise 10y ago
It's a gamble for those doing it. If you're willing to let them (and I don't see sufficient grounds on which to stop them) then it's pure upside for everyone else, as we learn the results. Very callously speaking, of c
703.
by wnoise 10y ago
The underlying suit was about surge pricing, however.
704.
by wnoise 10y ago
physics : ArXiv :: social science : SSRN
705.
by wnoise 10y ago
I don't want to call these usages in any of AAVE, French or Italian (the ones I've seen usage of) double negatives. They're doubly marked , but it's just one negative.
706.
by wnoise 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_high
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by wnoise 10y ago
Most of the money would be in development, not research. Elegant designs and methods exist, and the designs can be iterated very quickly. The very real problem has been interfacing with the rest of the world. Not at the hardware level (s
708.
by wnoise 10y ago
Nothing need break the symmetry -- consider the spontaneous symmetry breaking and the "Mexican hat" potential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking Any direction is as good as any other
709.
by wnoise 10y ago
It's not just general glassblowing skill; it's the intersection of that skill with knowledge of the sets of uses to which it will be put, and the techniques specific to creating forms that are not just bongs and statues.
710.
by wnoise 10y ago
You can share guards with a neighbor even without being behind the same fence. What he's describing is merely a community.
711.
by wnoise 10y ago
I like how most of the comments at npr are about how the defendant is a bad guy -- as if that's relevant to determining whether the patent is reasonable and if he violated it.
712.
by wnoise 10y ago
Really makes you consider the anthropic principle.
713.
by wnoise 10y ago
You already can name cells in Excel, and use those names as references, rather than B5, or whatever. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Define-and-use-name...
714.
by wnoise 10y ago
He didn't say we didn't need police.
715.
by wnoise 10y ago
Or your compiler takes a specification file listing memory-mapped addresses...
716.
by wnoise 10y ago
There is generally no formal requirement to have earlier degrees; they're helpful for admission, of course, but if you can convince admissions and an advisor to take you on, you're in.
717.
by wnoise 10y ago
That's one use case, but far more common is reducing latency and increasing bandwidth for distributed computing acting on a shared set of data.
718.
by wnoise 10y ago
Unsigned overflow/underflow is defined behavior, unlike signed overflow/underflow. Underflow will be caught by the upper range check.
719.
by wnoise 10y ago
In the U.S.? "True threats" are illegal, but that only covers threats that are reasonably believable. > Or do you think the threat is less credible if given online? Do you not?
720.
by wnoise 10y ago
That is, of course, explicitly covered in the article.

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