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Terribledactylon Outrage Over Human Gene Editing Will Fade Fast

I agree with the fabricated outrage but there is an interesting difference between diet, exercise, tutoring. Your descendents also get your enhancement for free. (Or at least 50% off)

Terribledactylon A Cornell Scientist’s Downfall

Pretty sure he did believe, otherwise he wouldn't have made the infamous blogpost encouraging p-hacking.

Terribledactylon Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find

I've had two kavalans while traveling in china recently, both were forgettable. Decent enough but very expensive for what they were. Both were bourbon cask so maybe another expression would be better. Compass Box has never let me down, though this is not a luxury whiskey is the only super high end one I've ventured into.

Terribledactylon A California mall operator is sharing license plate tracking data with ICE

Westfield valley Fair does, they have a system that will let you know where you parked if you provide it your license plate details. If it doesn't find an exact match you get to train the algorithm for them.

Terribledactylon Ask HN: How did your passion for computer stuff start?

Oregon trail on an apple 2 in kindergarten.

Then taking apart my parent's IBM work computer to see how it worked, mostly got it back together..

Found a book on basic in the library around age 8 and was hooked.

Terribledactylon Apple is reportedly building a ’16K’ VR headset

That wasn't an aspect ratio point, it was about the stereoscopic requirement of display headsets.

Both eyes see mostly the same "8K" of content, just from a different perspective.

edit: Actually that's not quite right, even if you forgo a stereoscopic mode, the same content has to be shown to each eye. It's not like having dual monitors on a desk.

Terribledactylon Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance on Debian Linux

If you are memory throughput bound, and both processors are working independently (think embarrassingly parallelizable problems) you'd probably benefit from the total throughput change.

Otherwise it's pretty easy to get worse performance due to numa issues

Terribledactylon Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines

> It's bad enough that I have to disable tap-to-click

The crazy thing is that the "full" click is entirely simulated. I don't use MBPs anymore but the only place I had to turn off that feature was there as well.

Terribledactylon 'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer

I just put a threadripper build together and was surprised with an extremely difficult and finicky foxconn socket.

Takes a while for my monitor to wake up and was sure I had killed it on first boot with the stream of cryptic messages from the motherboard, but it was fine.

Terribledactylon IBM Plex – A new typeface

It's a natural extension of awful PowerPoints

Terribledactylon Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies

Pay some hourly nominal fee, and a "bonus" for how well it classifies some reserved data? Proof of work could be the fit.

Terribledactylon California's other drought: a major earthquake is overdue

The other advantage is that once the seismic wave is detected, you can transmit that info at lightspeed vs the 10s of km/h that seismic waves propagate.

Terribledactylon Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B

As an American who has worked at IBM, I'm also not surprised that this didn't find success.

They messed up my own payroll, by sending too little, then too much, then we had a 6 month back and forth trying to resolve it.

Terribledactylon How to sell a $300 chocolate bar

It looks like they sell lots of small batches, a particular batch might be 574, another 100, no limit to the number of batches though.

Terribledactylon Safari Password Generation

It's fine if you can invalidate the secret after some finite number of tries and block a particular actor from attacking many accounts. And there's no leaking cross sites if someone obtains and breaks the salted hash db.

Terribledactylon Building a Lightroom PC

https://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-development...

Jekyll, and a whole lot of attention to detail.

Terribledactylon Nursing Home Recreates Communist East Germany for Dementia Patients

I appologize, my comment came off much stronger than I intended.

Terribledactylon Nursing Home Recreates Communist East Germany for Dementia Patients

delete: I'm just going to delete my comment, it was off the mark.

edit: I was not precise with my use of 'most' and I apologise. I meant most Americans would better relate to Communist, as that's what's taught to us and was in the news.

Terribledactylon Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase

I had something similar with FedEx packages out of Terre Haute.

Terribledactylon iPhone update for Meltdown-Spectre: before/after performance benchmarks

The A8 doesn't have a dedicated crypto engine like Intel chips do (uncore I think they call it). The A8 does have a couple of AES specific instructions so each core can speed up the work, but they were executed speculatively and presumably are no longer done so.

Terribledactylon How do I permanently delete my account?

GDPR doesn't need to reenumerate this. Selling service above cost is already allowed.

Terribledactylon Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect

What leads you to think Intel will give him more autonomy? Or is their integrated graphics team setup differently than Radeon? I would suspect the old ATI boundaries after 11 years would still be stronger than something Intel has homegrown over the past 20.

Terribledactylon Why does American medicine still run on fax machines?

I mean they have a few niceties like having to physically be in the same spot to interact with it and lacking any sort of central discoverability. There’s not really an equivalent to email:francis@aol.com password:p0p3 and having anybody with a computer getting a copy.

Terribledactylon Hotswapping Haskell

I think the main benefit is the middle point. It sounds like they have programs with huge memory footprints and (I’m guessing) caches that take a while to warm up. This lets them avoid that. Fraud detection is probably time sensitive and slow responses aren’t acceptable.

Terribledactylon Coding the History of Deep Learning

Inspired by biology is typically a better way to think about it. Airplanes have wings inspired from biological birds, and they share some structural similarities, but in practice they serve very different functions.

Terribledactylon Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?

That or change it to talk about electric cars in general.

Where in Europe are electric cars a good idea?

edit: Also I think we'd have something that breaks Betteridge.

Terribledactylon Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers

It's either a seemingly random measure or, if in a single serving container, the total calories.

Terribledactylon Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years

I'd say macrumors and /r/apple are probably a better representation of the general public than other forms of contact you have with people. Realizing that viruses exist escapes some.

Apple even based a commercial on the premise a while back, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFy6egYcUg

Terribledactylon Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet

> By numbers, employees lose the vast majority of lawsuits under 2870 in california.

Do you happen to know if this is because only very strong cases materialize?

Terribledactylon Visualizing Algorithms (2014)

This implementation always moves the nth item, it should only do it most of the time, it could never return the starting array but needs to be able to.