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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Very persuasive article
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Probably some upper-middle manager that needed to push something through to get a bonus.
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
I assume rockstar didn't pay, so they leaked the source code. Not sure why anything would be delayed because of this.
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
It's a bit difficult to arrive at any number of years past 10,000 for any invention imaginable, past that they will all be unimaginable.
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
I'd also like to add that the other stats about blind people seeing, and more examples of blind from birth people describing colors, are from: Ring K, Cooper S. Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto,
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it is from David Suich, and I believe I have heard him make the claim more than once in interviews, however since I have his book "God took my clothes" (rating 3 out of 5, had higher hopes) the only thing I fo
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
I have a very alternative perspective, especially coming from an applied physics background. I don’t know if anyone has experienced what it is like to be a crab, but I know that there are people who claim to have experienced events from oth
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
According to the article, just opening a malicious file may lead to arbitrary code execution, no? Edit: will -> may
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Yeah, I had the same experience, but I found video series on youtube where they discuss each chapter which I found very helpful.
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Not a huge fan of using AI for solving programming tasks, but it would be neat if it could notify me when comments get outdated and stuff like that.
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Actually I ported it to Micronaut too and compiled it to native code. It's difficult to know exactly what the minimum amount of memory that a java application could run with during normal load, but I'd estimate that it was around
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
As a data point I ported a spring boot application to rust and max memory lowered from 200 mb to 9 mb.
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
https://archive.is/Xjkw3
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
From the article: > Tom Lane said: "I think this will be a disaster. There is far too much code that will get broken". He added later that the cost of this change would be "enormous", it would create "more than o
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
I recently looked through the source code of postgresql and every source files starts with a (really good) description of what the file is supposed to do, which made it really easy to get in to the code compared to other open source project
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Doesn't the appearance of fentanyl explain a lot of the increase in deaths?
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
It's not "some podcaster", it's not tabloid fodder, please unflag. Edit: To expand, Lois Rossman is the face of the "Right to repair" movement, and hand in hand with that goes to have control over the things yo
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Amazon accuses customer of racism and shuts down their smart home(youtube.com)
75 points by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago|16 comments
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Maybe this already exists, but I imagine if someone wrote at library for interacting with gnu or posix commands from python (or ruby, or...) that built up the commands in a structured way and parsed the replies and put them in a dict, that
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by BoardsOfCanada 3y ago
Can someone tell me how much these microkernels are used and where?
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The Craziest Friday Ever(racket.news)
6 points by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago|1 comments
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by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago
It impressively emulates the output of reasoning without reasoning.
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by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago
> I would often write huge refactorings thinking that they would be a solution to a borrow checker error, just to get another one at the end of the refactoring. Yeah this can often be a problem because the borrow checker doesn't kic
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by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago
So what OS does this emulator run on? Windows, macOS, Linux?
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What Is The “–>” Operator in C++?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago|0 comments
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by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago
I think that part of Chomsky's argument would be that language primarily is a tool for thinking and reasoning, and that the externalization and use for communication came later (I remember this from a lecture of his). In that view &quo
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by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago
I had to look up the difference between XSAVES and XSAVEC: "Execution of XSAVES is similar to that of XSAVEC. XSAVES differs from XSAVEC in that it can save state components corresponding to bits set in the IA32_XSS MSR and that it may
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Natural Explanations Are Being Eliminated for Tabby's Star(nextbigfuture.com)
4 points by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago|0 comments
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by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago
> However, the chart is flawed because it changes its calculation method mid-chart once it turns negative. The smaller positive numbers show how much the Fed was sending every week (around $2 billion on average) but when it turns negativ
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An FDA-approved asthma drug has shown the ability to restore memories in mice(thedebrief.org)
104 points by BoardsOfCanada 4y ago|42 comments

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