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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> I can handle the base2 / base10 problem by using context. I don’t need a clumsy new prefix. I feel numbers ure a much more powerfull abstraction than any particular unit, so when there is friction like this between conventions, I
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> Counter-argument to anyone arguing otherwise. The argument is pretty straightforward. Kilo, Mega, Giga, etc. are already well defined prefixes and it is simply confusing if we start to redefine them in some context. I agree that clearl
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
I tend to think of the US isolationist stance as a temporary consequence of their loss of total control. Like pouty child who would prefer to pass entirely on cake than to have to share it with their siblings. The frustration to not have th
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> The USA is more likely on a steady course of becoming increasingly less relevant to anyone but themselves. While it is certainly true that the USA is loosing it's status as the world's only superpower, it is still very much t
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
On the contrary, this is a small step towards putting the moon surface under US control. It is pretty clear, at least in my opinion, that the end goal is to disregard the entire "common heritage of humanity" narative. That was all
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
As I understand it, it is not the same phenomena. Because in your case increasing the number of texture that the GPU can hold won't increase the number of page faults. The number of texture to re-fetch will stay the same (i.e. all of t
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
From a hackers perspective I guess it makes sense yes, and as we are on HN this is perhaps not surprising. Still, this is not how humans usually interact. I trust there is no poison in my food without analysing it, I trust people to no shot
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
I think I agree with you on the big lines. Although I'm guessing large population migration will be more due to rising water (most humans live along some cost line). And if millions of people have to move, there will be wars with or
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Maybe focusing on price is not the best metric here, after all when talking luxury items the price has no direct relation with the physical product almost by definition. In this domain of purchasing, "higher end" means high class,
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Yes that is the technical conclusion. But maybe the most important thing is that we have to do an actual teardown of the product in order to have some confidence that Amazon is not lying on it's Echo capabilities. To be clear, I am not
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
I agree, all my friends and familly are on WhatsApp and they will definitely not switch. So from my point of view, I have to balance the cost between sharing data to Facebook and severely hampering communications with my love ones. I guess
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Because 0°C is not 0°F
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Maybe when developer productivity measurment becomes standard accross the industry we will realise that tech workers are in fact workers. Cogs in a machine. And not independant individuals imposing their will to the world through sheer will
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
I feel the same way, I understand git pretty well but cannot for the life of me use the CLI. Fortunatly there are some pretty good GUI around, I personally use GitExtensions and find it suits my brain nicely. Its windows only though, not a
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
>> growth in fossil fuel use are very closely tied >I have debunked this in another comment [1]. Energy intensity of GDP has been falling for decades. The carbon intensity of our economy is falling faster. Both can be true, energy
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> But nothing requires the base resource load to increase. That's my point. And again the data we have shows that GPD is positively correlated with energy consumption. I take your point that it does not have to be this way though,
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
You are right, I had misunderstood you. We can be more efficient with our ressources, what I had in mind was the total ressource consumption/extraction. Any efficiency we gain is largely offset by the rebound effect in our current syst
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> (Growth does not have to mean resource intensity.) That would be wonderful, alas the data we have suggest otherwise. But if you have ideas of how that decoupling between ressource extraction and growth could work I would glad to hear&#
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> if the government prints money to build infrastructure, where does the value they've added come from? From the labour of the worker. Notice that does not depend on where the money comes from in the first place. In our economic mod
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
I don't think the point is to replace Facebook&Co though. It is specifically a tool developped for political activists. Everybody can use it of course, it is free software. Given that context the decentralization feature is most de
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Yes, if I understand their FAQ correctly https://joinmobilizon.org/en/faq/
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
For the metric people, from the actual paper abstract: > Here we report superconductivity in a photochemically transformed carbonaceous sulfur hydride system, starting from elemental precursors, with a maximum superconducting transition
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> To dismiss all evidence of UAP's out of hand as "illogical" is just as unscientific as to accept them as being proof of ET visitation. I think it's pretty disingenuous to present those two takes as being equally bad
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> If you can manage that, though, it'd be very difficult to prove that you were responsible, which is why I think the targeted attack is entirely plausible. So the only argument you have to suggest it might be an intentionally intr
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> Standard library documentation is indeed clunky as it is auto-generated for the most part. I have not expressed myself clearly: the auto-generated documentation is severly lacking. The API of the standard library is clunky. To be fair,
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
Well there are no strings, only byte arrays. Now that's fine if you only pass bytes around in a stream, but if wan't to do any computation it you have to assume an encoding and basically anything outside of straight ASCII will be
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
I've stumbled upon the Zig language a while back and have been checking in regularly to follow its progress. Recently I took the time to write a very small program to get a feeling for it. My thoughts : - It's a very low level lan
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> In other words, Deep Learning's growing need for computing power seems to have reached a point at which it is now motivating fundamental research to find greener, cheaper, more energy-efficient hardware I don't doubt we will
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
> Or perhaps one should not assume anything about accuracy just from the numeric presentation of the value and when the accuracy is relevant, it should be mentioned explicitly (or looked for in the original source). Numeric presentation
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by HourglassFR 6y ago
To be fair, a notebook and a pen are fantastic thinking tools. You maybe could argue that the tools provided here are not that useful but thinking tools in general are a necessity, Daniel Dennet makes some compeling arguments for this. &quo

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