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I'd like to see a "no-build" option to blocks depending on crates using build.rs

I asked Vikash Mansinghka about this 15 years ago. He was using Xorshift as an RNG for a probabilistic inference on an FPGA. Why? It used few gates and was high (enough) quality.

Almost everyone should use a csprng, but iykyk.

Ate the pie? You're gonna die.

Or the time he ran BitTorrent-over-MediaWiki and made a number of people very angry.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/01e4/ecb5a12b6735dd0344d888...

Andy was a PhD student at Brown when I was an undergrad.

Once he hired a magician off of Craigslist for a departmental event. The guy showed up drunk and lost his bird in the building.

Andy taught me a lot about trolling. I also hear he's banned from every post office within 50 miles of Baltimore.

Temporarily embarrassed billionaires can be a tough crowd.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/it-doe...

Conrad Anker covered his body in scree. Subsequent expeditions have been unable to locate it. There's speculation that it was secretly removed from the mountain for political reasons.

> Kaplan is an oaf whose plan to provide paid internet access to refugee camps falls apart once he learns that refugees in camps don't have any money (he also takes points off of Wynn-Williams' workplace evaluation for being "unresponsive" over a period when she was in a near-death coma).

The same Joel Kaplan who was involved in a coup?

Well that's a blast from the past. When I lived in London I hung out with some of the geniedb team (hey Alaric).

> [T]hey would have known this car was 5 miles away 23 seconds later.

Tack on a reckless driving charge and a speeding ticket.

Back in 2006 I cornered Bryan in the CIT elevator and asked him for the BattleTris source. Glad to see some progress being made.

> and while it was so ahead of its time, it didn't get enough of an uptake to satisfy... certain executives in engineering.

There's more to the story than just that. Jeff might remember the particulars. I don't want to badmouth anyone on second hand information.

Before cider there was Brightly. My recollection was that it was developed by a team in Atlanta and got cancelled before it reached general availability. People were pissed at the time (ex. "cancelling brightly considered harmful"). That died down when Cider delivered on what Brightly had promised.

The days of using Eclipse were particularly bleak. These days I use Antigravity for the overwhelming majority of my work.

> I wonder if those refilling them slipped them in?

I recall reading that they were smuggled into the country by organized crime. They'd then sell them for around 60p on the pound to coin heavy businesses (esp. laundry and vending.)

This was pretty common with £1 coins until they moved to bimetallic coinage. The fakes would be rejected by vending machines.

The biggest tells were poor reeding quality and slightly soft detailing. On very low quality fakes, the face and obverse weren't aligned, though I never encountered one of these in the wild.

Celtic kings in Ireland were subject to ritualistic sacrifice if, for example, crops failed.

There was a comparable controversy with The Exorcist because Linda Blair was dubbed.

He was also, in my experience, a bit of a jerk. As an undergrad I asked him "with oligo synthesis improving is there any way we stop bad actors from making recombinant pathogens?" His reply was "we can start by arresting people like you." My advisor worked with him at Celera and a decade on the amount of acrimony towards the public project was palpable.

That's a fair point. I was comparing the claim to rolling vs global shutter rather than "take a photo, rotate, take a photo." You can, however, get a true global shutter single exposure panorama using anamorphic lenses.

The "single exposure" brag is a bit silly. Since it's a swinging lens one side of the frame will be older than the other.

That's only because that chart isn't bookkeeping nuclear as renewable, which is misleading at best.

This has nothing to do with opposing gambling. It has everything to do with, say, opposing gamblers poisoning horses to win bets.

Bertrand Russell has been dead since 1970. I think he'll be okay. Or no worse off.

> they were expecting it to be big, hundreds of millions of users.

No reasonable person shared this expectation. It was Juicero-tier delusion.

> Without that distinction, what is the difference between a long term resident and a citizen?

You fall into an edge case. Irish citizens have special status in the UK as a result of the countries' shared history. In this particular case the biggest difference is that you can't get a UK passport as an Irish citizen.

> Two thirds of new American homes are in some sort of community association, typically homeowners’ associations, but also co-ops, and condominium associations, and 30 percent of American homes overall. Buyers opt into these associations, pay annual fees in the thousands of dollars, and suffer their annoying restrictions and demands because they create amenities: quiet, cleanliness/tidiness, safety, or things like public pools and parks.

Uh... People "opt-in" to homeowners' associations because two-thirds of new builds impose them. Municipalities don't want to accept new roads, so developers can get things built through privatization.

The _state_ isn't alarming, it's the rate of change. The transition is happening on a scale of human lifetimes instead of geological time.

Cambridge, MA.

After the city deactivated the existing cameras, Flock got caught putting more up. The city terminated their contract with Flock for material breach.