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by Maxatar 2mo ago
There's a distinction between claiming something is objectively better, which is what Fil-C claims with respect to its "idea" about memory safety compared to Rust... and claiming a personal preference for one approach versus
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
So put in the enormous effort needed to change the Constitution all towards a goal of some superficial and ineffective measure instead of taking a fraction of that effort and putting it towards actual concrete things that might improve soci
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
There are only 900 billionaires in the U.S. Do you think if they lost their voting rights it would affect the outcome of even a single election whatsoever?
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
The article addresses this.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
So data structures like std::vector should never be copied - period?
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Settlements do not in any way establish legal precedent or any legal standing. This is simply an agreement between two parties.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Not sure about Codex but Claude Code works with Github Copilot and can even work with open source models like Kimi/Deep Seek.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
There are but then you're required to pay API prices for them which can end up costing significant multiples of the price of the subscription.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Violating terms of service and violating IP rights are two independent violations. Neither implies the other.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
There are soooo many clones of Adobe Photoshop including clones that run right in your browser, and yet people continue to pay Adobe hundreds of dollars a month because there's like one tiny tweak that Photoshop has, or some small mous
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Haha I always interpreted "it" to mean literally the word "it". I didn't realize it's a short-hand form for iterator, but now I'm not so sure if that's universal or if there's a genuine split.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
This isn't backed by any evidence though. Jay Ritter maintains an extensive amount of data on IPOs here: https://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/ipo-data/ And his data shows that IPOs for the most part perform
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
std::views::enumerate is a C++23 feature, not C++20.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Is Gemini really that unpopular?
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
No Claude was not involved in any way in me writing it, and honestly it's kind of getting depressing how many comments are constantly questioning peoples use of LLMs.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
>Recently it's been shown that there are real, physical processes which are undecidable I want to push back a bit on this claim along two dimensions. Imagine a physical Turing machine built out of atoms, gears, levers, and an electr
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
You're kind of being a dick now.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
There's more than enough time in a day for a 5 year old to play with other kids and also spend some time learning.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Falsifying Yann Lecun isn't exactly a priority for anyone seriously working in this space.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Nah... a typical human hand has in the hundreds of thousands of bacteria if it hasn't been washed in awhile, not in the millions. Washing with soap reduces it down to the thousands and sanitizers reduces it another order of magnitude d
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
In Canada all homeopathic medicine must clearly identify itself as such and must also state that it's based on traditional form of medicine and not based on any kind of scientific evidence. The very "medicine" you linked to i
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
This is a big part of the problem... Kramnik had been bullying people for years about cheating, including aggressively bullying Daniel Naroditsky, and for the most part the chess community did nothing about it. It would be very hard for peo
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Kramnik was accused of pushing Naroditsky to suicide and defended himself by saying that it was far more likely that Naroditsky died due to a drug overdose. Toxicology reports later showed that Naroditsky did die due to the combination of a
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
If 10000 people witnessed a crime for which there was no physical evidence present, yeah I'd say something is very suspicious and would not convict.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Depends on your use case, once again. If your use case requires that arithmetic involving cents is exact, then yes defining 1.0d = 1 cent guarantees that, just as using the int value 1 = 1 cent guarantees that. Floating point numbers can re
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
By not thinking in terms of strict rules and dogmas and instead focusing on the actual problem you want to solve. If you want to guarantee that adding cents together results in an exact value without any loss of precision, and you also want
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
For those who don't understand what they're doing, yes. But those people end up having headaches and causing trouble no matter what.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Yes across all architectures and OS's that use IEEE 754 floating points.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
Imagine advising someone who explicitly said they work in HFT to use big decimals.
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by Maxatar 3mo ago
It might be your least concern, and that's fine but it's not the least concern for many people who need to process large volumes of transactions. Money, even within fintech, is a concept used across a wide variety of domains, and

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