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by 781 7y ago
There was an article recently about a behavior which in a recent version of C++ was made from defined behavior into undefined behavior, because making it undefined allowed for better compiler optimizations. I always thought that undefined b
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by 781 7y ago
Noob question here: what is stopping nature doing this, seeds and all that?
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by 781 7y ago
You heard about when FBI tips various national EU police and together they go and arrest the hacker on EU territory, right? One example: > Five individuals have been arrested as part of an investigation into two major ransomware familie
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by 781 7y ago
It's pretty obvious that if you want to simulate a brain, a Von Neumann architecture is terrible. People will invent new architectures, just like they invented GPUs and TPUs. And your second point is also flawed, the fact that Moore&#x
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by 781 7y ago
> getting people to think critically and just checking out. How do you check out? By going to a reputable news source, like NYT, WaPo or The Guardian?
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by 781 7y ago
Like the modern road network? The rail network? The world wide electricity grid? The internet?
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by 781 7y ago
One of last year's winner: > Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post > For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian inte
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by 781 8y ago
You make a very big assumption - that people don't care about Miami, a city with global name recognition and so on... I also assume you are not on Instagram, where Miami is huge - it's the 6th global instagrammed city, second US o
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by 781 8y ago
As a C++ developer who had to learn Javascript and Vue to write an Electron app, it was still faster than writing the same app in QT (which I used before).
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by 781 8y ago
As someone who wrote GUI apps in most of the frameworks, starting with raw Win32 and MFC, yes, doing a GUI in Electron is massively faster, especially if you use modern frameworks like Vue or React.
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by 781 8y ago
Complains about Photoshop being slow to start. Writes color picker in Electron.
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by 781 8y ago
Some people just want to watch the world burn
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? As you can obviously see in the image, the black hole is also flat.
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by 781 8y ago
If security is so important to you, you buy a $100 laptop, put the stick in it, get the files and upload them somewhere then burn the laptop and stick. Or just go to an "Internet Cafe" and do it there.
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by 781 8y ago
https://www.quora.com/How-can-photons-have-no-mass-and-yet-s...
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There aren't that many hospitals. Eventually all of them will be infected.
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by 781 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they had parachutes on board and ready to bail.
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by 781 8y ago
They did that. Doesn't prove a thing. https://www.airlineratings.com/news/boeing-ceo-muilenburg-ab...
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by 781 8y ago
Well, then I'm irrational too, because I won't set foot in a 737 MAX after this shitfest. The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this. The first accident was maybe understandable. We all know that shit happens. But
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by 781 8y ago
Well, the plane might be at an insane angle, so then you need an insane trim setting to correct it :)
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by 781 8y ago
Yes. Not related to this specific study: > Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain > Are there any significant differences based on sex alone? The answer, she says, is no. To suggest otherwise is “neurofoo
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THICC
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> With over 400,000 participants, the Apple Heart Study was the largest screening study on atrial fibrillation ever conducted, and one of the largest cardiovascular trials to date. Were the users aware that they were participating in a
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by 781 8y ago
So is the Scottish independence movement now forbidden on Facebook? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatism_in_the_United_Kingd...
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by 781 8y ago
Human work was for a long time a luxury product. It's the reason a hand-made swiss watch is so expensive, because you are literally paying a person to waste his time working on a trinket. Basically you "own" his time, and thi
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by 781 8y ago
ISIS also deplatformed itself with it's ultra-violent and gory videos. The white supremacists got this right, but starting with mellower content, memes, and not throwing one in directly in the deep end. Look at this guy, he avoided swa
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by 781 8y ago
Leading media, New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post are calling for immediate and drastic action against 8chan. It's only a matter of time until it will be shutdown.
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by 781 8y ago
Cells are extremely crowded. In fact, some processes like protein folding require crowdiness, if it's missing it can misfold. Realistic animation: http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/28234
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by 781 8y ago
C is too high level and bloated. 20 kb for a hello world executable? That's just shameful. Assembly language backends on the other hand absolutely scream. And with a modern IDE they're a joy to develop.
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by 781 8y ago
I say we should give them an award for this wise decision. We could call it a Darwin award.

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