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by zakk 7y ago
I am much taller than average, way above the 99th percentile. In some airlines I simply cannot seat, as my legs don’t fit. Sometimes flying is physically painful. I don’t see why making passengers extremely uncomfortable should be a good th
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by zakk 7y ago
Again, you are factually wrong. The first active repository in the list I just linked to you is used for nuclear wastes from a nuclear power plant. I just checked the first, there will be more if you just take the time to get informed. Get
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by zakk 7y ago
And that's why you should get a credit card from a real bank, rather than a debit card. With a credit card, in case of fraud, the bank will most likely side with you. (Talking about Europe, not sure the same applies outside Europe, for
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by zakk 7y ago
> No, there are none. According to Wikipedia there are many currently in operation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository#Rep... Is Wikipedia wrong?
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by zakk 7y ago
> And yet, not a single facility like that exists anywhere That's factually wrong. There are several deep geological repositories currently in operation.
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by zakk 7y ago
> in germany we do not have a long term storage solution that can safely withstand over 1000s of years for nuclear waste. A much simpler problem to solve as compared to other challenges due to climate change. You can build a storage big
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by zakk 7y ago
I should assume you never travel by airplane since there have been some disasters? Truth is that nuclear energy is the safest form of energy.
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by zakk 7y ago
> We need a massive buildout of wind and solar and nuclear.
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by zakk 7y ago
100 MB for a terminal emulator? Debian's package for xterm is 200 times smaller, but OK, let's try... Google Analytics? Thanks, I'll pass on this one!
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by zakk 7y ago
> Many ISP and other organizations had provisioned the size of the memory for their router TCAMs for a limit of 512K route entries, and some older routers suffered memory overflows that caused their CPUs to crash. > Engineers and netw
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by zakk 7y ago
> Even in your ideal experimental scenario, the laws of probability state that before the 10,000,000,000th such study is completed, we will see a case where the findings turn out to be incorrect. And yet by means of statistics one can mo
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by zakk 7y ago
The fact that an artificial neural network (which very roughly mimics human brain) is probabilistic in nature does not have any implication for Science as a whole. Science can make predictions that are extremely accurate (think ten signific
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by zakk 8y ago
Don't give them ideas, please!
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by zakk 8y ago
That's the exact reason why I consider MacPorts much more elegant.
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by zakk 8y ago
From the linked article: > Note that we are comparing released versions; Brave 0.24.0 is based on Chromium build 69.0.3497.100, while Brave Core 0.55.12 uses a newer Chromium build 70.0.3538.45. We do not expect the move to a later under
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by zakk 8y ago
That’s not a good reason not to use it. A function can be not thread-safe and still safe to use in single-threaded programs. The point is that strtok is not a good choice even for single-threaded code.
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by zakk 8y ago
If you code does intresive computation with structures containing a lot of pointers, you’ll get much more cache miss when using 64 but pointers. The performance hit can be quite heavy! Cache is a limited resource, and you want as many point
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by zakk 8y ago
I also learned it the hard way, but coming from the other extreme. I grew up in Italy, where asking “how are you doing” is not uncommon. Only difference: people actually expect a short summary of what you’ve been up to...
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by zakk 8y ago
That’s a good idea, but usually Netflix can blacklist domains faster then a VPN provider can acquire new “residential” blocks.
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by zakk 8y ago
Thanks for the nice guide. I wouldn’t use Google DNS as a default though, they don’t have a good record when it comes to respecting privacy.
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by zakk 8y ago
Euler identity looks very bizarre if you don’t understand the proof. Why should exponentiation, the imaginary unit and pi be related? In mathematics there’s absolutely no place for judging the bizarreness of statements, either they are righ
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by zakk 8y ago
When the world's most brilliant mathematician (or at least one of the most brilliant) says "it would be rather bizzarre if your argument worked" the implications are absolutely clear. As a scientist I would never make such a
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by zakk 8y ago
Well, in science there’s a simple rule: your substantiate your claims. A plausibility argument like Tao’s one is simply not an argument. To show that Mochizuchi is wrong you need to point out which equation of his work is wrong, which by th
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by zakk 8y ago
To me it sounds more like: I don't like the idea of this theory working, but I don't have a refutation. Honestly I am surprised of hearing such an argument from one of the world's best mathematicians.
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by zakk 8y ago
Maybe you are right, but it's quite pointless in this context to judge someone's intentions. Staged or not, if Gabriel's answer is factually accurate -- as it seems to be from a cursory look -- I don't see a problem here
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by zakk 8y ago
That’s absolutely not true in my experience (mostly around Europe).
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by zakk 8y ago
> People keep all kinds of stupid shit in home directories. SSH keys. Are you implying that it's stupid to keep SSH keys in one's home dir?
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by zakk 8y ago
> You can hear the stories about companies not hiring women when they are in a relationship and in the age when they are more likely to have kids. That's discrimination, and is a legally prosecutable offense in many countries. Unfor
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by zakk 8y ago
> said the decision was driven largely by concerns for the environment This has a potential for starting a lifestyle inquisition. The single worst thing one can do for the environment is to have a child. Does WeWork plan to fire you shou
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by zakk 8y ago
Simply put: slower. A quantum computer can solve certain problems within a certain computational complexity class, which would fall in a different class on a classical computer! Given a long enough amount of time, a classical computer can c

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