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This makes me think of the Cauchy distribution, a probability distribution whose average follows the distribution itself rather than converging (hence, the distribution has no "mea…

The linked PR has been flagged as AI slop, but there seems to be an equivalent PR that's still open: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30683

Aside from the obvious bit size changes (e.g. i8 -> i16 -> i32 -> i64, or f32 -> f64), there is no "hierarchy" of types. Not all ints are representable as floats. u64 can represent…

For those who are curious, `...` is a placeholder value in Python called Ellipsis. I don't believe it serves any real purpose other than being a placeholder. But it is an object an…

I've personally always thought of the Dirac delta function as being the limit of a Gaussian with variance approaching 0. From this perspective, the Heaviside step function is a lim…

Faster than what?

Connecticut. Everything is like this here. I have genuinely considered moving because of this. My current employer has another location in California, and as much as I hate the ide…

I've been experiencing this exact issue in the US. Lately a medical issue of mine has been getting worse, and the earliest I can see a new PCP is in May 2025. I managed to get a re…

Thanks for the clarification, I was definitely under the misapprehension that Fuchsia was basically 100% C++.

Fuchsia is written in C++, not Rust.

I mean, the sentence "The first actual case of a bug being found" implies that "bug" was already being used in the context of a malfunctioning computer. Otherwise, why would they w…

This confirms that vx-underground is aware of the claim, and that it likely leaked from them, but they are very explicitly not verifying the claim. It doesn't seem particularly ver…

I saw some folks on Twitter pointing out that "TatetheRailsman" is likely a typo of "TatetheTalisman", which is Tristan Tate's (Andrew Tate's brother) account. Weird that it would …

It's not a false dichotomy, the article is very clearly about whether the harm reduction benefits (which clearly exist) outweigh the public health risks (which also clearly exist).…

It's not exactly reasonable to expect super high fidelity audio at the bitrate constraints they're targeting here, and it certainly sounds a lot better than the Opus examples they'…

I would also find a link to those arguments to be satisfactory.

I ask this 100% genuinely, since this isn't a subject I've ever given any mind to. Why should we oppose this? What are the potential negative outcomes if this goes through? Can you…

I assume it's just mislabeled, it's a high-angular-momentum hydrogenic orbital, chosen because it looks cool and because it's trivial to evaluate (a spherical harmonic times a simp…

nrp is Nirav Patel, founder of Framework.

I accidentally entered my birth year as 79xx, instead of 19xx, and it blocked me from reading the article. So that's cool.

My understanding is that if a 1040EZ is appropriate for you, then TurboTax will also be free. It's only if you have a more complex filing situation that they charge. Please correct…

Is it possible that rather than cheating customers, they are simply trying to increase the density of the paperweight to make it more effective?

The judge cannot override the jury's ruling, so unless Google's appeal succeeds, the ruling stays.

Are you sure that's an artifact of the light source emitting colors sequentially, and not an artifact of the camera sensor detecting colors sequentially?

I know I'm anthropomorphizing the bees, but the queenless hive almost sounds like it's in mourning.