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And if ties within that second were resolved randomly, what perverse optimizing would you predict?

Well, they did a Big Damn Rewrite to use it for Wallet/Pay, and, in the process, dropped a bunch of features and made it infuriatingly tied to a phone number, because the rewrite w…

NumPy or Matlab. And it's possible the "original image" is multispectral (more than 3 channels), so you need to choose an arbitrary 3-channel projection.

After a few more leading attempts, I managed to give this prompt at https://beta.openai.com/playground : What problem does the following pseudocode have? def some_worker if disable…

I've also never seen ads in the Gmail app. Maybe it's because of G Suite.

For example, the scourge of "people also ask" at the top of search results, that appears synchronously where the top result was a second ago, and has a randomly-generated container…

See Borell-Cantelli lemma.

You have a citation on that for me to read?

Another reason scientists often don't release code is that code is not considered the valuable artifact produced by research--in more methods-focused fields in particular, it's ins…

Using the OS to invert the whole screen can easily be put within easy reach by keystroke or notification-area-button on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu. It doesn't require i…

Born in late eighties in California. My parents named our first dog after Gorbachev. I think that relief was felt from this side as well.

No it doesn't. The sync could be device-to-device, or it could be encrypted in it's storage on the intervening server, and require that the user provide secrets on the new device.

Why should you need any form of identification to buy a train ticket? Say, for domestic-only travel.

Right, and it's not morally wrong for a mosquito to bite you, and no one would say that the bug "should have known better", but we do our best to prevent it anyway. Both entities w…

I think that intelligence is much more environmentally driven rather than genetic, though I don't have any proper references for that. I would argue that, in a properly functioning…

I don't understand why you're being downvoted. Carrying capacity is a thing, and it applies both at the petri dish level and at the biome/global level.

This argument always seems a little strange to me. I think I can count on one hand the number of times, in 14 years, I've ever made eye contact with another driver while driving, o…

I have a PhD in chemical engineering, but not a PE, since I didn't go the industry route. I wouldn't feel comfortable calling myself an Engineer without it, and that was the attitu…

It would be nice if the Android sign up/log in forms allowed password paste, for use with a password manager.

An event can still be situationally, or cosmically ironic even if it's not in fiction. if you really want it to be a property of communication, then think of the communication as b…

BTW, typo in your FAQ: "We are currently ship".

Wow, I've never seen a more open defense of profit motive as the only possible objective function for business.

A comic that I assume was inspired by this stunt: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/free-love

One of the samples claimed to be an agent acting on the behalf of a client. Google says they're still deciding on the best format for these calls--here's hoping they take the criti…

Well, there's [1], but see also references in this Vox article, which hedges that somewhat: [2] [1] https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-... [2] https://scho…