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I get your frustration here, but keep in mind: your use of that word is not harming Stripe any more than alternatives you could use, but it does harm an unrelated and oppressed gro…

It's not at all material to the point you're making, but to nitpick: Hans's first move was actually 1. d4 and thus the Wikipedia article you should be linking to is that of the Ind…

In their example, you're not giving S as an input to K — instead, you're using K to write another program P which iterates over all possible strings and returns the first whose com…

Yes; further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess

Slang ( https://slangapp.com ) | Boston, MA & Bogotá, Colombia | Onsite or Remote → Software Engineers, Product Managers (PMs), Product Designers Slang started as an MIT research p…

Their free tier has a 100GB/month bandwidth cap — surely the most trafficked websites in the world would very quickly hit that limit, no? Your point stands nonetheless — they could…

They're streaming a single live game right now! They explained that the research build of the game being used doesn't have an "observer" mode so it's not quite suitable for streami…

Close! You swapped an operation there: it'd be (2^8 button possibilities) ^ (5 minutes * 60 FPS), or about 10^43348. A bit of a bigger space to search ;)

Its GVWR is 5 ton.

Check out this chess programming wiki article [1] for a (still fairly hand-wavy) rationale for similar piece values, and the Wikipedia article on chess piece relative values [2] fo…

Unfortunately, that's a bit of a false etymology! According to humorism, black bile [1] comes from the gallbladder, not the spleen. The spleen was supposed to produce yellow bile, …

Comma's main advantage over Tesla's Autopilot was, as I understand it, the use of cameras to collect video data. Hotz presented that as the advantage at TechCrunch Disrupt, at leas…

MobX is written in TypeScript: https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx

There is no viewfinder. It is mirrorless.

It's definitely not proven to be correct; we definitely don't know for sure that integer factorization is in NP-hard. If I remember correctly, it's generally suspected that factori…

> What if a 3.5mm cable was a way for your phone to connect to various IoT devices to pass the basic setup data like your wifi SSID and password instead of this goofy process of br…

spaCy's 96.8% accuracy is for the task of POS tagging while Google's reported 94% accuracy is for dependency parsing, a significantly harder problem.

It is, in the same way that MtGox's BTC was independent of Bitcoin towards the end. They keep their own ledger of balances.

You can deposit directly into a cold wallet; you can't withdraw directly from a cold wallet.

The situation is even more amazing than you think. That Las Vegas hotel you mention was designed by the same firm [1][2]. [1] http://www.rvapc.com/works/707-20-fenchurch-street [2]…

> "Houses shouldn't have locks; you've got glass windows, don't you?! It's a false sense of security!" Chrome's threat model [1] paints a different analogy. In their view—which I d…

There's a fairly well-established notation similar to what you made up: ABC notation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation ).

I would guess that the service does something more along the lines of `pngcrush -brute` which is significantly more taxing.