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by KMag 5y ago
Presumably the GP means that the NSO employees should be held personally responsible for actions taken by the NSO group, without diplomatic cover or ability to claim that they're law enforcement/military/intelligence. They a
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by KMag 5y ago
I think it's pretty clear the GP was asking if the optimizations implemented for x86 that aren't implemented for aarch64 would actually improve performance of generated aarch64 code. It's a question about CPU architecture&#x
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by KMag 5y ago
I think I first heard of this criterion being used by Niklaus Wirth for Pascal and Oberon compilers.
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by KMag 5y ago
Stack machines also tend to have better code density than register or memory machines, and code space is almost always at a huge premium on spacecraft. The high code density is because most instructions have all arguments implicit (by stac
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by KMag 5y ago
> I still have the code. Any chance of the code being released open source? I don't imagine anyone testing a spacecraft in their garage, but at some point, the must arise full-time software historians using automated tools to searc
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by KMag 5y ago
... or a hash table using RB/AVL trees rather than linked lists for hash buckets.
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by KMag 5y ago
Wow. Thanks for the background. It seems to me there should be a special investigator appointed to look into potential prossecutorial misconduct here.
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by KMag 5y ago
I think it would be possible to ring-fence the individuals to be prosecuted, facilitate an orderly handover of power inside Boeing, and then prosecute the individuals without risking mortal damage to the company.
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by KMag 5y ago
As with many such philosophical arguments, I think it's useful to split the word into two definitions, and the philosophical argument vanishes into a semantic argument. There are two definitions for mathematics. One definition is the
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by KMag 5y ago
Edit: upon reflection, I think maybe you and I are interpreting "The set of natural laws" in the GGP differently. I think maybe maybe you're interpreting this as a statement about how the universe actually works, instead of
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by KMag 5y ago
My understanding is that the main obstacle to higher performance Python is the huge value of preexisting extensions written in C. Maintaining compatibility with existing C extensions, or at least minimizing the porting effort for such exte
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by KMag 5y ago
Godel's incompleteness theorem
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by KMag 5y ago
Presumably when it is shown beyond a reasonable doubt that they conspired or deliberately overlooked the fraud. The prosecutor has every incentive to get participants to roll over and follow the conspiracy as high up the ladder as it goes.
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by KMag 5y ago
If the maintainer has 10 people they 99% trust, and they seem unlikely to collaborate, and they all have builds with identical SHA-256 sums, that's much better than picking one build from one of those people.
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by KMag 5y ago
I believe the bidirectional implication in iff is logical implication, not causal implication. If the GP is willing to entertain ... then you can conclude Mozilla will honestly spell what they're doing. Iff in general use does not in
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by KMag 5y ago
Back in Google New York, sometime after 2006, but prior to my team changing floors after the YouTube acquisition, my team sat about 2 cubicles over from Peter Weinberger, and a bit further from Brian Kernighan's office. My manager, Jo
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by KMag 5y ago
John Aycock credits McCarthy's Lisp work in "A brief history of just-in-time"[0] Though, as I mentioned, I believe the native code was generated when the module was loaded. These days, we generally consider JIT compilation
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by KMag 5y ago
> Some kind of ability to have contagious antibodies might be an actual improvement but the fact that we don't see that in nature tells me it has downsides that are difficult to see. My biology education is a bit weak, but off the t
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by KMag 5y ago
I passed a kidney stone a month and a half ago, and switched from a codeine-based painkiller to ibuprofen because of the constipation. (Also, for me, at least at the prescribed dose, codeine-with-acetaminophen/paracetamol gave less pa
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by KMag 5y ago
I'm not sure the latency on moving data between SSE and GP registers on modern x86 processors. If I remember correctly, late 1990s x86 was notoriously slow at moving data between GP registers and the x87 fp stack. I could certainly b
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by KMag 5y ago
The description sounds like software defined radio. A CPU's frequency jitter doesn't matter at all for haptic feedback. Presumably it's not for WiFi, as there are plenty of cheap well-tested WiFi chipsets, so maybe for wire
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by KMag 5y ago
McCarthy is generally credited with the first JIT for his early LISP work, but SmallTalk and SmallTalk-inspired languages were involved in a lot of the pioneering work related to modern JITs. My understanding is that McCarthy's JIT ge
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by KMag 5y ago
The rebuttal is irrelevant/non sequitur, which is different from being false.
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by KMag 5y ago
> I’ve seen this kind of phenomenon first hand when it comes to drugs. In 7th or 8th grade, I remember watching a video in health class that included a (presumably fictional) dramatization where a kid died his first time trying marijuana
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by KMag 5y ago
What if the ladder is rented out to do-it-your-selfers, is it then private property?
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by KMag 5y ago
The correlation between amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's has long been known, but how well established is the causation? All of my information is dated, but last I read, causation still hadn't been conclusively established.
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by KMag 5y ago
... don't forget a lack of standardized spelling, sometimes requiring phonetic processing of the characters in order to figure out what is being spelled.
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by KMag 5y ago
The OP is explicitly talking about an honest assessment of shortcomings. They're saying it's necessary. They said nothing about it being sufficient. Presumably, the implicit message the OP tried to get across is to also work wit
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by KMag 5y ago
The TLDR for the article is that it appears to be a combination of chromosomal and hormonal differences that are responsible for observed sex differences in autoimmunity. Are you asserting that a combination of chromosomal and hormonal diff
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by KMag 5y ago
In my Fortune 500 employer, we have pan-regional task forces/committees people can join for collaboration like this. I'm on the Engineering Training Taskforce in my region. We meet an hour a month to plan various events, includi

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