mjd

But you nobody can read 70k books, so what was the point? He had a library nobody knew about, full of books he hadn't read.

That's not a library, it's an imitation of a library built by someone who doesn't understand what a library is for.

The filibuster isn't part of the system; it's not even part of the law. It's just part of the rules that the Senate chose for their own internal procedures.

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I'm puzzled by this. Why hasn't there been, over the last fifty years, a huge amount of research into EM staining techniques and which materials were best under which circumstances? Edison supposedly tried 3000 different materials for light bulb filaments before settling on charred cotton thread. Why hasn't something similar been done in this area?

Or perhaps it _has_ been done and that's why nearly everyone uses uranyl acetate? And perhaps coffee was tried decades ago and found to be generally inferior?

It was a great theory, and I was glad to have read it. Thanks for posting!

Still not good, sorry.

Before I posted the comment I had tried looking at it in reverse video, very similar to your night mode. It was a little better, but not enough for me.

Update: it looks fine on my desktop computer. It's only illegible on my phone. Maybe use a heavier font?

There is something here that I do not understand. The article claims that

“[The tablet] is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he records the events in the sky before dawn on the 29 June 3123 BC”

But radiocarbon dating of trees buried in the landslide seems to have reliably dated the landslide to 7500 BC.

For example https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01695...

Update:

The Wikipedia article about the coauthor Mark Hempsell says:

“Hempsell got public audience as author of the book "A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels' Impact Event", with Alan Bond proposes a theory not accepted by the scientific community…”

The link posted in this thread by user arto calls the theory “pseudoscience”:

“Despite this new evidence, curiously in 2008 the impact hypothesis was revived by some pseudoscientists in connection to supposed observations of a meteorite by the Sumerians…”

Now it seems very suspicious that the article claims that the tablet is from 3123 BC, when it was excavated from the palace of Ashurbanipal (650 BC).

Even if you were right, your comment would have been a useless waste of time.

But the article appears to be a copy of a press release from the University of Bristol from 2008.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945233.html

Trademark, not copyright. Legally they are very different.

I wanted to read this, but I couldn't because the text was light gray on white background.

“In an American police procedural, we would either have…”

In the first minutes of the American show “Keen Eddie”, the titular character bungles a project so badly that he is exiled to London.

It unfortunately lasted only one season.

Wikipedia has an article about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker

It's just like that episode of Star Trek, where Kirk shuts down the alien computer by talking to it in Armenian!

That's also how it seemed after the Iraq invasion and the removal of Saddam Hussein. “Once we get rid of the bad guy at the top, everything in Iraq will get better.”

It didn't turn out well. I hope this one turns out better.

I'm glad that someone decided to be "that guy". Putting the Euler-Mascheroni constant third the list was a very questionable choice.

I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Related and perhaps interesting: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/114730157688607856

O'Rourke also said “The Republicans are the party that says that government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it,” which I've thought about a lot this year.

Have you read the opinion?

You have missed the point of the story. GP is not a customer of Ovo energy. They sent him a bill in error.

“Companies cannot just go charge random people”

And yet they do. Anyone can send anyone a bill.

“By default, deleted values are overwritten with NULL bytes (0x00). This is a safety feature since not doing so would leave 'deleted' entries intact inside the datastructure until they are overwritten by other values. If the user wishes to maximize performance at the cost of leaking deleted data, LITE3_ZERO_MEM_DELETED should be disabled.”

Asked to comment, Carney's office stated that they had told those hosers to take off.

That's the wrong question to ask.

The right question is whether I have made any important files world-writable.

And the answer is “I don't know.”

So, containers.

And I run it with a special user id.

And reading any world-readable file.

No thanks, containers it is.

Yes, although the example I had it operate on was different.

A few months ago I noticed that even without `--dangerously-skip-permissions`, when Claude thought it was restricting itself to directory D, it was still happy to operate on file `D/../../../../etc/passwd`.

That was the last time I ran Claude Code outside of a Docker container.

I was a bit disappointed that this didn't turn out to be analogous to the “bee space”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langstroth_hive#Bee_space

The path taken did not traverse the boundary of every atom along the way, or even every grain of sand.

Even if it had, the airtag location service is not accurate enough to have detected that.

“The number of pageviews on your website and the number of likes on your tweets are fun to look at and sound impressive, but optimizing for them completely misses the point if they don’t lead to something more important (e.g. profit).”

Profit is fun to look at and sounds impressive, but optimizing for it completely misses the point if it doesn't lead to something more important (e.g. human flourishing, or net societal gain)

I love that fake citation that adds George Costanza to the list of authors!

I had an interesting conversation with someone many years ago, possibly Brent Yorgey. We were thinking of arrays in quite different ways. To me, it was a data structure, with a specific memory layout: a contiguous block of memory containing a sequence of objects of all of the same size, specifically to support constant-time indexing. To him, it was an API, a mapping from non-negative numbers to values, and the underlying implementation could have been a hash table or whatever.

I think we're seeing a similar disconnect here. Some people think a string is a contiguous block of bytes, perhaps with a sentinel value on the end (C string) or a fixed-size count on the front. Others think of it as an API for storing text. These used to overlap, but in recent decades they have diverged substantially. The argument here is about the meaning of the word, not the technical reality of the thing it refers to, so it has no objective resolution.