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421.
by IsTom 1y ago
If only the people who will command the murderbots thought the same way
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by IsTom 1y ago
> I think this is because optimization is likely an NP Optimization of computer programs is a fundamentally uncomputable affair due to Rice's theorem – in the general case you can't check if two programs are equivalent.
423.
by IsTom 1y ago
If you use a lot of sharing in immutable data it can grow a lot when serializing. A simple pathological example would be a tree that has all left subtrees same as the right ones. It takes O(height) space in memory, but O(2^height) when seri
424.
by IsTom 1y ago
In this kind of amounts it follows that import of coal should require this kind of license because of thorium content.
425.
by IsTom 1y ago
That was a severe overreaction by authorities after they knew he had it for months in trace amounts.
426.
by IsTom 1y ago
Plutonium was in form of an old soviet smoke detector, containing micrograms of it. This case is whack.
427.
by IsTom 1y ago
People downloading and compiling the kernel will not be using a fixed version of GCC.
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by IsTom 2y ago
We might be lucky enough to do that, but it could have easily taken intelligence another 500M years to evolve on another planet. First animal fossils are something like 700M years old, so it took 2-3G years to just any animals.
429.
by IsTom 2y ago
While it has more time to become a red giant, it'll become more luminous over time and life on Earth will be impossible much earlier. I've seen estimates of 0.5B to 1.5B years.
430.
by IsTom 2y ago
Maybe there is some space on the market for a Proof of Emapthy widget
431.
by IsTom 2y ago
Number of programmers that are in workforce that started before Standard ML (1983) is tiny and this argument would be relevant only to them.
432.
by IsTom 2y ago
I would assume that they're talking about redshift.
433.
by IsTom 2y ago
Works here on Linux too, so not just Macs.
434.
by IsTom 2y ago
Postgres is worse from admin side, but it feels like the only one that cares about developer sanity and doing things right.
435.
by IsTom 2y ago
I don't think entrepreneurs enjoy paying for "protection" when mafia knocks on the door or companies being taken over entirely when somebody in power decides that they like this one.
436.
by IsTom 2y ago
Another reason why "the richest third-world nation" monicker holds.
437.
by IsTom 2y ago
Maybe it could work similar to how Bitwig licenses work – you buy a license with a year of updates and it's yours – after the year expires you can download binaries for the latest version you're entitled to. Later you can buy acce
438.
by IsTom 2y ago
These people do such a disservice to their fields.
439.
by IsTom 2y ago
Find me a period in time where people weren't complaining about that.
440.
by IsTom 2y ago
You can as easily find music about romance about now as you could find sexually charged music back in 70s. It's about what you look for. Hell, in 70s disco culture was a thing.
441.
by IsTom 2y ago
You can be transhumanist (want to improve humans with technology) without all the rest of what the article is refering to. It's just conflating way too much. I think that transhumanism (the way that you'd find on wikipedia) is a n
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by IsTom 2y ago
It might be finite, but it also has a "fast growing sequence" kind of smell too.
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by IsTom 2y ago
Picking an ecosystem with working and chaper peripherials vs one with partially-working and more expensive peripherials seems like an easy choice for consumers.
444.
by IsTom 2y ago
Dropping their second biggest region, which makes them 25% of revenue sounds unlikely. Especially as it's just putting that money into competitors' pockets.
445.
by IsTom 2y ago
It takes time to create an economy. Even with consistent 5% yoy growth that's a few decades to catch up when you're starting with a few times less GDP per capita.
446.
by IsTom 2y ago
> Poland I don't know much about others, but perhaps you should be comparing ratio of GDP in the last 20 years, not absolute values. With Poland coming very poor out of communism and all.
447.
by IsTom 2y ago
I think it's because of all the NAT, which makes any attempt cumbersome for a lot of people.
448.
by IsTom 2y ago
This is also how Erlang's Dialyzer works.
449.
by IsTom 2y ago
What's the mass of an unladen elephant? An Indian elephant or an African elephant?
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by IsTom 2y ago
> on book 2 All the books were written over span of 30+ years and they changed over the time during this.

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