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praptak
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- Stability of icebergs is tricky. They don't "become" top heavy as the article states, they are constantly top heavy.
The center of mass of the iceberg is above the center of buoyancy 100% of the time. What prevents the flip is a flat base which hopefully counters the small tilts by moving the center of buoyancy in the same direction as the center of mass.
- Restricting access to land you don't own should be treated like theft.
- Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere attempt at making life easier for disadvantaged people is labeled DEI and as such cannot be tolerated by this administration.
- Indirectly. The actual spike of pressure that ejects the magma comes from the gasses dissolved therein. When the magma moves up, the pressure drops and the gasses become oversaturated and thus prone to violent release.
- I disagree about innovation in automation creating a contradiction in LTV. LTV states that the exchange-value of goods is determined by the socially necessary amount of labor needed to produce them. Automation only means that the socially necessary amount of labor changes, so the exchange-value changes too.
Also in Marx theories exchange-value is something different than use-value, the latter being unaffected by automation.
- Only if you assume that the only kind of value is the ability to be sold for a price. Marx would have a word about use value vs exchange value.
- My intuition for the Feynman's trick is that we construct a "morph" which produces the given function (the parameter t drives the morphing).
The key to the trick is that we construct the morph so that: a) we can tell the rate at which it increases the "area under curve" b) the rate is easier to integrate that the original function and c) the starting function has a known integral
a) is generally easier because differentiation under integral sign lets use use the standard differentiation rules.
b) this is where the difficulty in constructing the morph lies.
So we start from a known value of the integral (from c above) and then just add whatever the morph adds, which is the integral of the rate from a) over the interval of the morph.
- That's called motte and bailey.
- Yes, and this is a generalisation of the trick from the problem described in the article.
The chessboard in the article is a bipartite graph with different number of vertices in the two groups, so it cannot have a perfect matching.
- Dominoes on mutilated chessboards are matchings in a bipartite graph, a well studied problem for which an efficient algorithm exists.
- Small government without [big thing I happen to like] is [bad thing] therefore it's okay to make the government big in [the aspects I like] and I don't see any hipocrisy in that.
- Jsonnet solves a different problem though.
Need to configure 5 services with hundreds of replicas in 7 data centers? Some values depend on the service, some on the data center and some on the combination thereof? Maybe also overrides for a bunch of problemstic machines?
And you also want a manageable config language which doesn't turn into a full blown Turing tar pit?
Then jsonnet is for you.
So it's not entirely fair to compare it in the "pleasant syntax" contest. It's like putting a Unimog into a ranking of city cars.
- I'd go as far as to say that commercial/free alone is a red flag by itself.
The conflict of interest in such a setup is almost inevitable. The incentive is to keep the free version crappy to make money from the commercial one.
- 16 points
- Even in Ukraine it's quite possible to code. I worked at Google with people who stayed in Ukraine after Russia started the war. I can't say they were unaffected - there was stuff like meetings interrupted by missile alerts - but they managed to do normal work despite the ongoing war.
- I would try my hand at building a MUD but I don't have a solution for the hard problem of getting people to play it.
- You need a scriptable client though.
- I think I visited Grimne maybe 10 years ago? Some players were connected but all of them were running on automation scripts, i.e. no actual humans to talk to. There was an occasional admin popping in.
The feeling was eerie, like walking around an empty museum of your own past :)
When CEO dies for the same reason it's "the universe randomly hands out some justice" story, which is always a good story.