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New comment by np_tedious in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

np_tedious — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:14:09 +0000

It's pretty clear that he doesn't just mean Israelis

New comment by np_tedious in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

np_tedious — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:43:30 +0000

So you still have other stuff with AWS?

New comment by np_tedious in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

np_tedious — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:35:54 +0000

Lol. Def not for 5 year olds but it's about exactly what I needed

How about this:

Take a lot of pictures of a scene from different angles, do some crazy math, and then you can later pretend to zoom and pan the camera around however you want

New comment by np_tedious in "A Fond Farewell"

np_tedious — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:23:36 +0000

https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-233-years-and-st...

They appear experienced at navigating this confusion

New comment by np_tedious in "Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)"

np_tedious — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:37:36 +0000

If your number of AB testing combos cohorts is fewer then 100 then yeah this passes for being uniform

New comment by np_tedious in "Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?"

np_tedious — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:41:59 +0000

Well I was curious, but there's a lot there I didn't understand. Apparently I'm good enough at math to do the proofs, but not to write the exercises.

Exercise left to the reader:

Prove 7*n^3 + n is divisible by 2

New comment by np_tedious in "Five years of React Native at Shopify"

np_tedious — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 03:15:34 +0000

What does "DB queries" mean here? The on-device sqlite stuff?

New comment by np_tedious in "Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)"

np_tedious — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:26:09 +0000

That article is mostly about speed. The following seems like the one thing that might be relevant:

> Naively, you could take the random integer and compute the remainder of the division by the size of the interval. It works because the remainder of the division by D is always smaller than D. Yet it introduces a statistical bias

That's all it says. Is the point here just that 2^31 % 17 is not zero, so 1,2,3 are potentially happening slightly more than 15,16? If so, this is not terribly important

New comment by np_tedious in "Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)"

np_tedious — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:52:52 +0000

The user ID is non uniform after hash and mod? How?

New comment by np_tedious in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

np_tedious — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:41:28 +0000

> Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male.

There were definitely Chinese and Indian males too

New comment by np_tedious in "Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Docs and CEO Emails"

np_tedious — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:48:52 +0000

I think they had been relying on lazy security by obscurity and it pretty much worked... until copilot

New comment by np_tedious in "Should Sports Betting Be Banned?"

np_tedious — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:49:31 +0000

I do think sugar should be regulated more and probably excised taxed, but banning is a different thing altogether

New comment by np_tedious in "Should Sports Betting Be Banned?"

np_tedious — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:53:07 +0000

So is sugar. Would you ban that? People have agency and choice

New comment by np_tedious in "WP Engine is not WordPress"

np_tedious — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:59:10 +0000

The revision system is not (not is it claimed to be) a sacred principle of life, morality, or society at large. It's a core tenet of WordPress.

New comment by np_tedious in "How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)"

np_tedious — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:10:29 +0000

Idk much about him but stacking school busses on top of each other with a crane or driving a train into a sinkhole seem like pretty interesting things to do. Better than geeking out over the bloodiest Mortal Kombat fatality or whatever I was doing at that age. What's an example of the more "crap" content?

New comment by np_tedious in "How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)"

np_tedious — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:06:52 +0000

If you really think that, then you should be all the more interested in what it means to execute on that allegedly-harmful effort well vs poorly

New comment by np_tedious in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

np_tedious — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 13:19:35 +0000

I have a crush on dang but it hasn't gone anywhere yet

New comment by np_tedious in "Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)"

np_tedious — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:10:50 +0000

There is another big reason not to call him "sunshine and rainbows"

New comment by np_tedious in "Google's shortened links will stop working next year"

np_tedious — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 07:44:50 +0000

Are links generated from Google apps like

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx

going to continue working?

New comment by np_tedious in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

np_tedious — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:55:47 +0000

I took my parent post as meaning the app language dependencies. Pip packages or ruby gems or "must be exactly python 3.12"