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by wnoise 4y ago
> My data is on my SSD managed by an operating system whose source code I can read whenever I want. These days what we normally call an OS is really just another guest OS to the embedded OSes that are really running the machine. Yes, sm
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by wnoise 4y ago
I was so disappointed when I learned what laser eye surgery really did.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Ketamine has been schedule III since 1999. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Ketamine-202...
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by wnoise 4y ago
I don't see a feasible way to ensure individual sovereignty over data you generate, without more regulation.
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by wnoise 4y ago
And for Julia, Quadmath.jl or DoubleFloats.jl
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by wnoise 4y ago
That's a semi-linear history merge.
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by wnoise 4y ago
I'm objecting to the statement that they're equivalent if you forbid ties. This is only true when you have as many candidates as score slots.
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by wnoise 4y ago
(a) bullet voting isn't actually a problem https://www.rangevoting.org/BulletBugaboo.html (b) Approval voting only incentivizes bullet voting when that is very close to actually capturing the voter's intent. The
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by wnoise 4y ago
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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by wnoise 4y ago
Not at all. Score Voting as usually defined is continuous on [0,1]. Rescaling to e.g. [1,5] doesn't change this. Restricting to integers on that does; but if there are fewer than 5 candidates, equivalent rankings can still differ fo
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by wnoise 4y ago
> High Complexity in Multithreaded Environments This is pretty much inherent in multithreaded environments.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Children technically can enter into contracts. But they're voidable contracts, so it's essentially no upside and only downside for those that would contract with them.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Not all dystopias are of the "direct violence" type.
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by wnoise 4y ago
> I've never seen any indication that Stockfish can know what a human is thinking, novice or grandmaster. But it's incredibly easy to train ML models to predict what a human thinks is a good move. Then you just send a signal w
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by wnoise 4y ago
> Even as someone who doesn't think the government should tell you how to live, you can't pretend to be blind to the fact of why the government doesn't want to promulgate this kind of promiscuity I can. Make the argument,
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by wnoise 4y ago
> Roman armies were only "staffed" by citizens Er, no. It was a path to citizenship. The Tartship Strippers quote "service guarantees citizenship" had real antecedents, and is even now a benefit of military service
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by wnoise 4y ago
Wouldn't that be zeroth degree satire?
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by wnoise 4y ago
That's really not the only thing going on. Yes, it allows you to take advantage of periodicity. But many common function approximations work best (i.e. not requiring any transform of the argument) over the interval [-1, 1].
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by wnoise 4y ago
Lots of accounts of Hades are exactly that.
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by wnoise 4y ago
No. The suckers in Ponzi schemes are expecting to get money payouts from the founders -- and the early ones usually do, payed from investments from the later ones. This doesn't resemble that structure at all.
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by wnoise 4y ago
That's starting to look a lot Haskell's typeclasses.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Well, yes, because there are several breaking changes that should happen, but can't before then, because of the adherence to semver.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Although the standard description is "two-party", it's almost always really "all-party".
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by wnoise 4y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9988266 And part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156265
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by wnoise 4y ago
The builder pattern is imperative configuration.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Some forms of duck typing absolutely can do this. "Row polymorphism" is the general feature that allows this, some duck typing can handle this, some can't.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Many comments have mentioned both the benefits to diffing, and various --word-diff options. Unfortunately word-merge tools are harder to find. You can of course use smudge/clean filters to unwrap and rewrap text, but those are quite
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by wnoise 4y ago
It's far more performative as a comment, and duplicates dilute the ability to actually read interesting comments.
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by wnoise 4y ago
This works iff you never want to tag anything but semvers. This is an unusual and strict policy. As soon as you want the ability to move outside this you need something like namespacing. Prepending v is a pretty lightweight way to do thi
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by wnoise 4y ago
Well, if they're actually independent, clearly those shouldn't be in the same repository...

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