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malf

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    This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.

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    If I leave other people’s stuff that I promised to take care of on the street and it gets stolen, I would be to blame.

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    Comment #39025283

    > It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs

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    Comment #38815441

    I always assumed you had to talk your way into some committee to submit one of these. Apparently it’s wide open. But why do it? Resume padding?

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    Comment #38420732

    > common sense 75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?

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    Comment #38405305

    Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“

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    Comment #37512644

    This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.

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    Comment #37493027

    “Using modern experiment frameworks, all 3 of ideas can be safely tested at once, using parallel A/B tests (see chart).” Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increa…

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    Comment #36654832

    SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.

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    Comment #36476786

    Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but eve…

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    Comment #36465953

    strace -e open

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    Comment #36307182

    I think it was 2x total speedup vs previous version, which already used gpu for “most” things, so the real speedup is 2/(1-most), which could be a lot.

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    It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.

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    Comment #36209134

    The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer’s nose in profile. Mwah.

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    Comment #36183676

    Obligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room

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    Comment #35936257

    I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?

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    Comment #35751497

    The choice of computer is just an additive constant.

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    Comment #35698264

    I remember some tool or other used 128-bit RSA back in the day.

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    > Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance. groan

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    The blacklist is visible on the about page of each instance. Feel free to go sample a few. The first one I tried had literal swastikas in the user name of the first post. It went d…