Firadeoclus

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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> it's going to be kinda hard to convince the wealthy to buy back their own assets. Why would that be? If an asset has a certain RoI people will want to own it.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
There are many knobs and levers. The extent to which it harnesses "capitalism and entrepreneurship" for wealth creation is not the only thing defining an economic system, and arguably the poor are not best served by maximising cap
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Mostly I'd agree. It could also fall under #5, as a trade-off between developer time and user time. And sometimes #1, if speed is an essential requirement.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> Your work will never set boundaries for you as they benefit from you working harder and longer. Some workplaces do set boundaries, and it is not universally true that "harder and longer" working brings benefits.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
It seems extremely unlikely to me that Spotify users stream 4 hours per day on average. I suspect it's less than one hour.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
A tutorial on first use is probably not enough to have most users remember the gestures or even just which options there are. Maybe spaced repetition would be a better approach.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
This kind of works but users don't always express their intent in their edit actions, either because no available edit action can fully capture the intent or because it was simpler to achieve the desired state in a different way. Chang
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> and when you mask database design with a UI, you get the worst of both worlds Visual tools don't inherently mask complexity. They can do, and many do, which is useful for some use cases. And they can also make things visible that
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
"Plain text" writing using a "text editor", is much more limited in its expressiveness than writing on a piece of paper. There is no reason to believe that a character grid somehow is the pinnacle of programming.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Unfortunately the article does not explain how the study establishes causation. >"Compared to non-users, regular cannabis users were more likely to engage in high-risk alcohol consumption, smoke tobacco, use other illicit drugs and
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
A GTX1080 manages about ~9 TFLOPS(fp32) (and has terrible fp16 support), where V100 gets ~15 TFLOPS(fp16), ~30 TFLOPS(fp16), and ~120 TFLOPS(tensor cores). Apart from one being a gaming product and the other being designed for computational
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Many models of that size are in serious productive use.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> The V100 only gets 14 TFLOPS because it lacks the dedicated TensorRT accelerator hardware. V100 has both vec2 hfma (i.e. fp16 multiply-add is twice the rate of fp32), getting ~30 TFLOPS, and tensor cores which can achieve up to 4x that
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> And while there is certainly room for improvement with typical webcams: the problem is in many cases not the camera, but the conditions under which it operates. Low light, shooting against the light, smeared laptop lenses, weird angles
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> double precision, which is expected these days in floats. Some people will expect it to be double precision (e.g. Python programmers) whereas others will expect it to be single precision (e.g. C/C++ programmers).
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
You are quite right about stardust and good habits. It seems to me, though, that many people use "god" (and especially "God") to refer to something quite different from "some higher axiomatic meaning". If that&
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Increasing total biomass permanently, e.g. reverting the loss in planetary forest cover, or growing the amount of soil, is a sink.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
HDMI 2.0 can do 4k at 60Hz without chroma subsampling, though not all devices support it. HDMI 2.1 can go much higher.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
I don't think we can take that as a given. Moving money has its overheads, of course, but so does every added complexity in law.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
With Vulkan you can choose to have a small matrix of feature levels and thus few optional code paths. Or you can have many. That choice is up to you. Whereas if the API defines feature levels, it isn't.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> I'll basically repeat my comment from below, but ergonomically set up displays meet ambient brightness, but don't exceed it (much). This is true in a world where many UI backgrounds are close to "white", i.e. maximu
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
I tried this with RealD 3D glasses, for some reason you have to look through them back-to-front for this to work (and it works on both sides equally).
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Panels do, however, also reflect a fraction of ambient light.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> In the same way font anti-aliasing is becoming obsolete with DPIs higher than we can perceive Screens might exceed acuity of most users but not hyperacuity. Even on a 400ppi phone screen at typical viewing distances it is possible to t
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Considering how birth rates have dropped across the globe over the last century, it clearly isn't dominated by genetic factors. Wanting to have children is far more memetic than genetic.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
The people who want to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere may not have the power to stop emissions at source, while they do have the ability to sequester.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Now the stack pointer is hidden. Is there only a single global stack? I agree with saagarjha, there is nothing unclear or "crap" about using basic operators in an idiomatic way.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> Allowing multiple files with the same file name - differing just by case - is rather silly from a human point of view. In the current paradigm where files are predominantly accessed by a path and filename, yes. But that need not be the
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
It seems to me that a straightforward fixing of an incomplete abstraction is exactly what Sandi Metz warns against (i.e. steps 5+6). The abstraction is "almost perfect", so it should not fall in the "unsuitable" category
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Which lisps don't use text files for source code?

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