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@Rhywden Just looked up the wording of the Benn Act. It states that the Prime Minister must seek an extension from the EU if ... blah.
If he now tries to argue that leaving out the signature makes his request invalid then he did not make a request in the first place, legally speaking. Courts will usually tear you a new one when they spot someone trying to do such an obvious endrun around the rules.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
called Deepin
Tried it. It failed to boot when I tried it. Maybe something's changed in the last year?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Tried it. It failed to boot
It's 2019, the year of Linux on the Desktop. Why are you measuring it against outdated OS normative expectations?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
called Deepin
Tried it. It failed to boot
Maybe you didnât go deep en-ough?
Filed under: Iâll see myself out
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
called Deepin
Tried it. It failed to boot
Maybe you didnât go deep en-ough?
Filed under: Iâll see myself out
Too late, your too deep in it!
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
edit: Also, does this goatfucker want to burn every last bit of goodwill he had still remaining?
Such a small, small fire.
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@Rhywden I guess he's considering that he's just delivering parliament's request and acting as their mouthpiece, but indicating that he does not endorse it. The unsigned letter was sent along with a signed one from him saying he believed any delay would be a mistake.
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden I guess he's considering that he's just delivering parliament's request and acting as their mouthpiece, but indicating that he does not endorse it. The unsigned letter was sent along with a signed one from him saying he believed any delay would be a mistake.
Sounds like a candidate for r/maliciouscompliance
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Status: The year of the Linux Desktop is upon us!
After selecting your language, you'll be greeted with something I've rarely seen in a desktop Linux installer: An End User License Agreement. This particular EULA is verbose, and you'll have to scroll through it to trigger the "Accept" button and move on. There's references to intellectual properly, trademarks, logos, release of liability disclaimers, not using any Deepin software for illegal purposes, things like that.
Mr. Evangelho, remind me why I'm using Linux again?
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden I guess he's considering that he's just delivering parliament's request and acting as their mouthpiece, but indicating that he does not endorse it. The unsigned letter was sent along with a signed one from him saying he believed any delay would be a mistake.
Thatâs actually hilarious.
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Sounds like a candidate for r/maliciouscompliance
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden I guess he's considering that he's just delivering parliament's request and acting as their mouthpiece, but indicating that he does not endorse it. The unsigned letter was sent along with a signed one from him saying he believed any delay would be a mistake.
LOL. Tusk (or whoever gets that letter) should reply something along the lines of Thank you Mr. Johnson, I share your opinion, and by the way you should improve your opsecâsomebody from the Remain team must have snuck in a letter asking for another extension that was clearly meant to look like it came from you, but thankfully they forgot to fake your signature so we spotted the forgery. It's not something you would ever write in your lifetime anyway, is it? winksmiley.jpg
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Multiplying two numbers in O(n log n).
I thought we could already do that using FFT, but apparently that algorithm is O(n log n log log n).
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@topspin Reading the article is giving me a headache
This method is called n2 or n squared, because one must multiple n by n a number of times.
As a refresher: log is short for logarithm, which helps people decipher exponents that make numbers squared or cubed or even something higher.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin Reading the article is giving me a headache
A recurring theme with the science news weâve been discussing.
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@topspin I looked into the Wikipedia article on the algorithm.
That one may be faster (though the professor in the video from PM said: "Hell if I know at what size of
n
this becomes faster!) but it certainly isn't easier.
I mean that thing has like 10 steps with two instructions like "use FFT" in it...
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@topspin I looked into the Wikipedia article on the algorithm.
That one may be faster (though the professor in the video from PM said: "Hell if I know at what size of
n
this becomes faster!) but it certainly isn't easier.
I mean that thing has like 10 steps with two instructions like "use FFT" in it...Honestly, that's to be expected. Shaving off a
log log n
factor is mostly a theoretical exercise to see what the actual theoretical bounds are. So you will usually have a gigantic constant factor in your Big O and a hard to implement algorithm.
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@Rhywden it reminds me of the problem of triangulating a simple polygon.
A simple algorithm (ear clipping) that's easy to implement runs in O(n^2). That is of course pretty slow. There have been successively faster algorithms that work in O(n log n) (still reasonably implementable), O(n log log n) or O(n log^* n) (quite harder), or even randomized algorithms with expected linear time. All of the latter are good enough for practical purposes. But the CS theoretical question was settled by Chazelle's algorithm which runs in linear time. Back when I read about it (the paper is a good 40 pages, so I didn't read that) the papers referring to it called it "impossible to implement".
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@topspin More evidence for what I call "conservation of annoyance." Basically, anything interesting has a certain amount of "annoyance" built into it. You can find other ways of doing that thing, but all you can do is push the annoyance to somewhere you care less about right now. It's still there, just hidden under the proverbial rug. It's basically the generic version of the old trilemma:
Good, fast, cheap. Choose two. At best. Usually only one.
Once the very low-hanging fruit is gone, you can only optimize methods by trading off things you care about less.
Here, the tradeoffs are between efficiency and implementation ability. In other cases it's between accuracy and generality (you can have a really good algorithm for this one tiny case that blows up hard or just doesn't apply to a wide swath of the problem space). Or between ease of implementation and physicality. Or, in most cases, the tradeoffs are between all of them simultaneously. Hard to say "this is better" without specifying for what specific use.
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@Benjamin-Hall yeah, my boss calls it "conservation of difficulty under transformation" whenever we try a new approach that trades one set of problems for another. In our case, numerical stability is often one that you lose when gaining theoretical performance.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
At a previous job they locked down sudo so you couldn't do 'sudo su' but you could do anything else.
What about sudo ku?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall yeah, my boss calls it "conservation of difficulty under transformation" whenever we try a new approach that trades one set of problems for another. In our case, numerical stability is often one that you lose when gaining theoretical performance.
Conservation of annoyance is more pithy
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
At a previous job they locked down sudo so you couldn't do 'sudo su' but you could do anything else.
What about sudo ku?
Seriously? The
BDad Joke thread is
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NB: Onebox does not contain a picture of the perp.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
NB: Onebox does not contain a picture of the perp.
The man might be a dweeb, but does that mugshot matter?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
NB: Onebox does not contain a picture of the perp.
The man might be a dweeb, but does that mugshot matter?
Ah, a Kirk fan.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
NB: Onebox does not contain a picture of the perp.
The man might be a dweeb, but does that mugshot matter?
Ah, a Kirk fan.
Or an alien. Either works.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
NB: Onebox does not contain a picture of the perp.
The man might be a dweeb, but does that mugshot matter?
Ah, a Kirk fan.
Or an alien. Either works.
The undocumented guest worker thread is .
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin Reading the article is giving me a headache
This method is called n2 or n squared, because one must multiple n by n a number of times.
As a refresher: log is short for logarithm, which helps people decipher exponents that make numbers squared or cubed or even something higher.
Also: "a challenge still presented itself in the form of n * log(n)"
It's also not very helpful that the dude himself explains what is probably obvious to anyone with the slightest interest in the topic, namely that the traditional method is O(n²), but talks fuckall about what he came up with.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Just looked up the wording of the Benn Act. It states that the Prime Minister must seek an extension from the EU if ... blah.
If he now tries to argue that leaving out the signature makes his request invalid then he did not make a request in the first place, legally speaking. Courts will usually tear you a new one when they spot someone trying to do such an obvious endrun around the rules.
Did you happen to note what the prescribed punishment is for breaking this particular law?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Harvey picks the example of 314 multiplied by 159âa large equation
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Just looked up the wording of the Benn Act. It states that the Prime Minister must seek an extension from the EU if ... blah.
If he now tries to argue that leaving out the signature makes his request invalid then he did not make a request in the first place, legally speaking. Courts will usually tear you a new one when they spot someone trying to do such an obvious endrun around the rules.
Did you happen to note what the prescribed punishment is for breaking this particular law?
Flogging? Having to run as as Prime Minister?
Not sure what'd be worse.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
âsurprise audiences and subvert expectationsâ
Well, my expectation is that it'll be Emoji Movie tier pigshit. I eagerly await to see how it'll subvert that.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
âsurprise audiences and subvert expectationsâ
Well, my expectation is that it'll be Emoji Movie tier pigshit. I eagerly await to see how it'll subvert that.
It'll get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. From both fans and critics.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
âsurprise audiences and subvert expectationsâ
Well, my expectation is that it'll be Emoji Movie tier pigshit. I eagerly await to see how it'll subvert that.
It'll get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. From both fans and critics.
Movie of the year was Rambo: Last Blood anyways.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
People are buying new cars so they can work for Uber and Lyft.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
is terrible
Finally going through my bookmarks, coming across the "nasty" woman.
She's from the WWE alright:
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Just looked up the wording of the Benn Act. It states that the Prime Minister must seek an extension from the EU if ... blah.
If he now tries to argue that leaving out the signature makes his request invalid then he did not make a request in the first place, legally speaking. Courts will usually tear you a new one when they spot someone trying to do such an obvious endrun around the rules.
Did you happen to note what the prescribed punishment is for breaking this particular law?
Flogging? Having to run as as Prime Minister?
Not sure what'd be worse.IANAL, but laws regulating the function of the government don't seem to be very rigorously enforced, at least in Finland. Johnson may be bound by the law to write a letter, but if the law is not enforced and a sufficient punishment administered, then its virtually indistinguishable from not being bound by the law.
Edit: the -> then
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I'm willing to bet good money that they'll do a model with a nipple.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm willing to bet good money that they'll do a model with a nipple.
Sex dolls with this technology appears in 3..2..1..
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm willing to bet good money that they'll do a model with a nipple.
"Want to unlock my phone? Well limber up your tongue because my phone only unlocks to someone that can make it come, so I hope your cunnilinguous skills are top notch"
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@hungrier What's old again is new again, again
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
âsurprise audiences and subvert expectationsâ
:rich_evans_spilling_wine.gif:
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm willing to bet good money that they'll do a model with a nipple.
"Want to unlock my phone? Well limber up your tongue because my phone only unlocks to someone that can make it come, so I hope your cunnilinguous skills are top notch"
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm willing to bet good money that they'll do a model with a nipple.
"Want to unlock my phone? Well limber up your tongue because my phone only unlocks to someone that can make it come, so I hope your cunnilinguous skills are top notch"
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you know...... All I've got to say to parents expecting systems like Facetime and similar to do their parenting jobs for them, only to find out that their children are in fact smarter than a computer is.........
Quelle Suprise. :eye_roll:
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@Dragoon It might be answered by the actual paper, but the article leaves an important question open: why is extending private property beneficial. Because it does not seem to be an end unto itself.
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@Bulb Because people work much harder when they get to keep what they make. Which is rather self-evident. And because they don't get into fights on dividing the spoils, least of all on materials used to gain those spoils.
I could go into greater detail on this, and parallels to applied governmental ideologies, but that'd be Garage material at best.
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@acrow Yes, people work harder for things they get to keep, but that still needs an explanation. And I think I know some; but the point is the explanation is incomplete without that part.