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841.
by yarg 4y ago
Because it cleanly allows for controlled and constrained remixing of genetics, which makes survivors more likely in mass fatality events.
842.
by yarg 4y ago
TL;DR: Tesla's about to glue a bunch of smart-phones to their superchargers.
843.
by yarg 4y ago
> I am not aware of a rasterizer that can operate directly with quaternions, nor a way to apply perspective or orthographic projections to them. This reminds me of something (seen here) that I thought somewhat interesting. Orthographic p
844.
by yarg 4y ago
Why not both? Apple's proven it feasible to provide high performance emulation of a prior ISA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
845.
by yarg 4y ago
It really comes down not to the question of equivalency, but distinguishability. If the universe is lazy evaluating things discretely down to scales well below that of observation, there's probably no damned way to tell the difference.
846.
by yarg 4y ago
I had a weird experience relatively recently - I looked at a (coding) problem, and came up with an approximate (albeit buggy) solution, with no conscious involvement. I looked at my answer, and didn't know what the hell it was meant to
847.
by yarg 4y ago
I know it's somewhat unlikely, but I was replying to someone who couldn't even see the potential value of a hacked terminal as the entry point to an attack chain.
848.
by yarg 4y ago
The terminal is used to contact the constellation as well as Starlink's backend servers. If the remote machines have the assumption of trustworthy terminals baked in, then this isn't a low threat hack.
849.
by yarg 4y ago
The one thing that makes me think that there might be something there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar . Not because it worked, more because it really didn't (and they thought it would); it m
850.
by yarg 4y ago
It's closer to calling Rocky Linux an alternative to RHEL.
851.
by yarg 4y ago
Flies with teeth, always the flies with teeth.
852.
by yarg 4y ago
Yeah, but the scaling functions for intelligence are exceptionally non-linear.
853.
by yarg 4y ago
O(1 for small n; n otherwise) just seems like a poor decision.
854.
by yarg 4y ago
If the sex of the author had any bearing on my interpretation of the article, I might actually give a damn. But it doesn't; so I don't.
855.
by yarg 4y ago
We can already resolve the interframe wobbles that happen due to the inability to preserve spatial invariants on static meshes allowing for dynamic camera motion. Of course, the spatial invariants of meat-suits in motion require an understa
856.
by yarg 4y ago
The existence of GANs as a mechanism for learning is reason enough to err away from static detection methods.
857.
by yarg 4y ago
> They're different enough in structure... Sure, I mean more in terms of producing a compiled form with O(1) rather than O(n) performance. > Massive switch statements are also not reasonable situations from the perspective of a c
858.
by yarg 4y ago
Not quite - the javascript engine failed to optimise reasonable situations, so the dude translated to a code structure (arrays of functions) that didn't require optimisation. Essentially he was forced to manually code what should'
859.
by yarg 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's true, but QI claimed that most people who claim to have read 1984 are lying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y83UkvHpYk Why would you pretend to have read a ~300 page book, just read the bloo
860.
by yarg 4y ago
If you go back far enough, no they didn't. Kidneys evolved, mutative replication remains the source of life.
861.
by yarg 4y ago
It's the second symmetric derivative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_derivative#The_secon... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_derivative#Limit > The limit is called the second
862.
by yarg 4y ago
Addict? No - certainly not to mushrooms. I have larger infrequent doses, and I'm doing so with decreasing regularity. Although I guess you'd describe that as the binging form of addiction.
863.
by yarg 4y ago
I've just been thinking of it as differentiation via integration. It took me until the end to realise that all I'd done was derive a form for the second derivative of F(x).
864.
by yarg 4y ago
This thread links to his accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887
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by yarg 4y ago
Assuming that you bought two of the same device? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048148
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by yarg 4y ago
> run around and around his cage > He certainly looked plenty pissed off. Wouldn't you?
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by yarg 4y ago
Poor little fighty bastards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease . Human efforts at eradication left them with such low genetic diversity that contagious cancer became a thing. https://w
868.
by yarg 4y ago
He's actually putting words in my mouth again; I really have no problem with people having a sex change. Acceptance was a vital social step, but promotion crosses a line for me - and there are severe deleterious consequences are ignore
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by yarg 4y ago
Different country, even more useless government. Though the progress in the US/Canada makes me think that maybe in 15-20 years NZ can have a referendum and continue with prohibition.
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by yarg 4y ago
Because searching inside for the answer when my brain keeps popping up with "nice train tracks over there..." doesn't really work for me.

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