wumpus

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   by wumpus 5y ago

   I just moved to the apartment upstairs because it has a familiar floor-plan, is renovated, and has a slightly better view.
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   by wumpus 5y ago

   Well, that's a joke referring to the typical Computer Science jargon of calling them both Algol-like languages. I don't recall him saying that while I used to read that group, but I would have chuckled.
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   by wumpus 5y ago

   And for those wondering why IF was awkward, there was no ELSE until Fortran 77, and doing that with GOTOs was a little ugly.
4. 574.▲
   by wumpus 5y ago

   I always thought it was to improve SEO in the face of headline rewrites?
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   by wumpus 5y ago

   I vaguely remember that they went back and drove more piles, somehow, until the building was stable that the exterior glass facade no longer shattered on a regular basis. However they did the work, it wasn't visible from the outside.
6. 576.▲
   by wumpus 5y ago

   There are many points south of SF against the Bay where the solid ground is down far enough that they instead drive piles until they find enough resistance. Oracle's HQ is still standing. But the (East) Palo Alto 4 Seasons Hotel, whoop
7. 577.▲
   by wumpus 5y ago

   The NYT said that the author of the paper who found sinking did not expect, in hindsight, that anyone from the city would read the paper.
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   by wumpus 5y ago

   This smelled like Chomsky, and a quick google came up with: > Anybody want a used Kay & Berlin coloring book? My grandchildren all outgrue theirs. https://twitter.com/fakechomsky/status/139078855863447553?la
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   by wumpus 5y ago

   It would be nicer if you had marked your edit where you made it; it took me a while to notice the postscript. Also, you could have mentioned that you made an edit in your reply. Thanks. I hope next time turns out better.
10. 580.▲
    by wumpus 5y ago

    [Because of the edit above, my comment is no longer relevant.]
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    Can't you just hold your cellphone up to your ear? Use the cellphone accelerometer to figure out what noise to make. I'm sure this app would make at least dozens of dollars.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    Thanks for the list, I see I didn't really miss anything. BTW, lots of HPC are (again) going for AMD. Hopefully I don't end up getting subpoenaed twice this round! It was a little painful last time.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    It would be nice to make a list of things that appeared to work in hospitals and then failed randomized trials.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    Those "upcoming" fleet regulations started last year.
15. 585.▲
    by wumpus 5y ago

    All you need is a smartphone app for that.
16. 586.▲
    by wumpus 5y ago

    Starlink is marketed to the military, but so far they've been testing it with the antennae they normally use.
17. 587.▲
    by wumpus 5y ago

    That's a telling edit. It's easy to misconfigure a few machines, or have an OS update hurt performance of your entire fleet.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    When I had a fleet of servers, I ran a performance test suite after every boot to make sure the machine was OK.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    I used to have a small startup with over 50 servers per engineer. Tell me all about TCO and digital transformation, I really need to learn about that stuff.
20. 590.▲
    by wumpus 5y ago

    Perhaps we could divide the statistics into "unnecessary servers Microsoft forced you to run" and "servers you actually need"?
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    As a user of many servers, I use very little Intel code other than what they've contributed to Linux. Am I missing out? I think I'm a pretty typical hyperscaler.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    I left my Palm Pilot on the dashboard of my car one day, and the LCD melted. Fortunately, I had seen this before in undergraduate physics lab, the day our LCD experiment was interrupted by the room thermostat breaking, sending the temp >
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    Several posters on r/Starlink report that they had seen their dishes at more than 122F, when this topic came up a few days ago. It's entirely possible that this story (and 122 hn comments so far) is about a dish with a loose heats
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    Here's an early example of a low-maintenance low-crew small reactor: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/berrios1/
25. 595.▲
    by wumpus 5y ago

    In my group and collaboration, we frequently discuss how difficult it is to do outreach because you'll get constantly criticized by fellow scientists about every single simplification.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    So, for example, you shouldn't eat algae Omega-3 because it hasn't been processed by a fish first? Aren't the fish why you end up with lead and mercury contamination?
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    Thank you for remembering that "cancer cured in mice!!!" is a headline about once per week.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    Uh, OK. Guess you get in a lot of fights on the Internet.
29. 599.▲
    by wumpus 5y ago

    My national-scale organization has Windows, but my unit doesn't. What might seem very, very unlikely to you is reality to other people.
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    by wumpus 5y ago

    You might want to check out the bit in the article mentioning the study that claimed you could figure out a person's sexual orientation from their photo. There are also many well-known algorithms that attempt to predict how nervous or