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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
People optimize for the metric of intelligence not actual performance, reducing time and difficulty. The education industry is not about making people smarter, just getting them to grind away at problems and measuring their performance: lik
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Gemini appeals to the 'console-only' aesthetic, I won't bet on it replacing the everyday web, but it can be used to construct an alternative 'Internet for the terminal'-type experience: lightweight news, libraries,
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Perhaps its because its simpler to invest in proven technology? the pre-1978 hardware(pre-PC era) was niche computing without wide consumer base. Once there is a large consumer base it dictates the market.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
A negative income tax is far more complex, here is an example of contemporary system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit ``Millions of American families who are eligible for the EITC do not receive
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
You can recover the "lost stars" with cheap telescopes, some software and good weather. Urban astronomy is pretty popular nowadays: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Each fossil fuel car taken off the road means less pollution. The only thing that remains is tires, which shed tons of toxic chemicals on the road on any car.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
If performance matters, storage space should matter too.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
The fastest way to make it fast and performant is moving these 'Webgl' animations to a separate page like 'Github Globe'. Leave only text, no fancy effect, nothing irrelevant to 99% of users.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
These are really nice libraries, but they indicate there is a problem with input data having "gigabytes of ASCII floats", where you store floats as strings instead of binary formats(which doesn't require parsing anything). fo
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Centralized services are not going to provide 100% reliable end-to-end encryption, they're vulnerable 'single-point-of-failure' that can be pressured/hacked/etc to disclose their users data.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
if you have to get to 'defend their viewpoints' its a social belief that requires social reinforcement('defending'/'protecting'/'pressuring') to exist.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
religion and politics are obviously social beliefs, not individual beliefs. They require a group identity and social pressure to function.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Beliefs based on truth don't need social reinforcement and don't need to be 'believed by others' due being self-evident. The rest(social beliefs) are based on shaky, vague evidence, pressuring one 'to believe'
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
The problem here is lack of "species-targeted pesticides"(biopesticides), current insecticides are broad-spectrum chemicals that will poison every insect(and aquatic animals too).
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Link Exchange(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by FrozenVoid 6y ago|0 comments
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
I think they're going to exit the market until Australian legislation changes, Google will fight it on principle, since the law is essentially adding "link rent" to web searches(and uncertainty to legality of linking itself).
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
What if a human discovers whole aisles of cheese and decided to relish in it until casomorphin overdose?
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
I work by effort/benefit ratio. Many programmers start ambitious projects with very high effort and low benefit, like e.g. a browser/os/videogame/library which they maintain at expense of their health and limited time.
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Researcher zeroes in on critical point for improving superconductors(phys.org)
3 points by FrozenVoid 6y ago|0 comments
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
https://medium.com/swlh/connecting-a-286-dos-pc-to-the-inter...
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
The speech appears very banal - generic appeals and reiterated platitudes, along with some bureaucratic undertones fixating on numbers. Not something like passionate oratory masterpiece... How does it actually incite these people? It sound
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Its a symptom of hypercentralized internet, when you complain about facebook/twitter/reddit dictating free speech there is implicit assumption that 'free speech' depends on the mega-platform and there is no alternative.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Consider arbitrary precision, rationals, interval arithmethic, countless algebraic types, matrices, vectors with all of them requiring typing and composing long functions versus intuitive formula: mpz_mul(res,x,y); mpz_mul(res,res
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
_Generic macros provide similar functionality to function overload(which in C++ involves name mangling, that will never be accepted for C) https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
C needs operator overloading. Something like this: https://github.com/FrozenVoid/Infodump-DB/blob/943900c2dbf2e...
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
What is Github's side of the story?
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Why should metadata be a part of hashed content at all?
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Ability of normal citizens to view and comment on laws being enacted on their behalf before such laws are being voted on.
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/#hyperswarm More technical info on the p2p aspect(its DHT-based)
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by FrozenVoid 6y ago
Its perhaps the only modern high-level language(on the level of Haskell, they're adding GATs now https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/monads-gats-nightly-rust/ ) with C++-level performance. Usually the trade-off w

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