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by Nitramp 6y ago
> The notion that Albright is a "patent troll" friend is incorrect. [...] There's the problem of possibly being too friendly towards patent trolls. But there's also the problem of supporting and encouraging frivolous
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> A meta point I'd like to add is that currently 10 % of the earths population in the "Westosphere" controls 60 % of the worlds wealth. This is untenable in the long term and all this flailing about will not stop a reversi
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by Nitramp 6y ago
I think IDLs are an important point among many others (I attempted to list some above). I think we might be missing substantial improvements if we'd just say "oh so we're back to a static IDL description, all old is new again
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It certainly does look like that. I do think though that we've learned a number of central lessons in the process: - treat messaging as a first class concept, not something to hide & abstract away. - do not attempt to implement pol
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by Nitramp 6y ago
As others have commented, it's bytes per second. But also, they are not flushing the file to disk, so this might really just writing to memory (in form of the OS's page cache).
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by Nitramp 6y ago
I haven't ever really used it, but doesn't Microsoft run its own tv style video series since more than a decade? I don't understand the format personally (I'd always take articles over video). It's probably appealin
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by Nitramp 6y ago
That is a common misconception. The Nazis initially did not particularly emphasize the use of Fraktur (it was a mixed message), and in 1941 Hitler decided to standardize on Antiqua fonts for all printing. (And modern Grotesks such as Helvet
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That's amazing. According to this article, bart is now moving to tapered wheels instead of plain cylindrical: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/11/17449460/bart-screen-convers... My understanding was tha
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by Nitramp 6y ago
Yes. Two things though: 1. Hopefully none of your users run an unreleased clang from head, so you're not using anything a user will run into. 2. Consider if it is it worth the effort to validate every commit pushed to head, or whether
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Because you'll spend a lot of time chasing down bugs that are actually issues in the compiler. Unless you're trying to vet the compiler itself, this won't improve your software but cost you a lot of effort.
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The other angle is that firing people means businesses lose organisational knowledge. Even in relatively low skilled jobs, replacing your workforce means you'll spend a lot of money on retraining or lost efficiency. Keeping workers on
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by Nitramp 6y ago
> Damore was not offered a chance to receive forgiveness by either the company How do you know that? I'm a Googler who has zero insight into the Damore case, and opinions are my own. That being said, in all my experience, Google doe
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by Nitramp 6y ago
That's not good. Imagine how you'd feel. Imagine people would generally claim that someone who looks like you is a bad engineer (say, someone with your hair color). And then imagine that people would expect you to constantly dispr
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Oblique Questions(neugierig.org)
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by Nitramp 7y ago
To give an extreme counter-example, imagine you had a constitution that legally gives unlimited supreme powers to a single person (which has happened, e.g. Germany during the Nazi years). I wouldn't describe that as the rule of law, bu
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by Nitramp 7y ago
Uh, yes indeed :-)
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> However, also in practice the faction in power gets to capriciously enforce what it wants selectively, usually to solidify standing. aka as "the rule of law". From a continental European perspective, the US stance in rule of
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by Nitramp 7y ago
It's Google's job to make sure their customers (people using the search engine) have a good time. If they're getting scammed after clicking an ad, people will learn not to click ad links and/or migrate to a different sea
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> [...] I thought many people would understand the implications and directions. Might be obvious, but consider that more people than you estimated, while understanding implications and directions, decided differently than you did. It&#x2
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by Nitramp 7y ago
The sad bit is that (some reasonable) telemetric data is really, really useful for software engineering. If you have a large enough program, of course it'll have way more bugs than you could ever fix. Crash tracking and usage analytics
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> The problem is that garbage collectors are optimized for applications that mostly have short-lived objects, and a small amount of long-lived objects. I think it's not quite that. Applications typically have a much larger old gener
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by Nitramp 7y ago
Yes. I intended that more as an abstract example for a tool that's useful to do science, but clearly not a science in of itself[1]. Though latex might still come in handy once you actually want to submit papers to journals, or for a th
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by Nitramp 7y ago
Science doesn't abstractly drop from the heavens, fully formed. Every science has practical enablers that are required to get stuff done. Astronomers use telescopes, physicists/chemists/etc use lab equipment, Mathematicians u
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by Nitramp 7y ago
German copyright has the concept of a "Datenbankwerk" (since the 90s). E.g. the telephone book contains lots of boring facts that are each in themselves not copyrightable. However the collection in itself is copyrightable, as it r
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by Nitramp 7y ago
"public" is not the right concept here I think. E.g. imagine a composer conducting a public airing of some work of music (e.g. on some festival). That you were able to hear the music in public doesn't mean the {composer,artis
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by Nitramp 7y ago
Yes, but if you're dead by 50 anyway for unrelated reasons, there's still not selective pressure to combat cancers that only kill you at 60+. That's regardless of your individual reproduction or your contribution to the group
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> Either way, your framing has zero bearing on my point. If they can produce them in quantity in vats for purposes of combatting cancer, why not produce them in quantity in the body? That's my point. I tried to answer "why are
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by Nitramp 7y ago
I'm not by any means an expert, but the very first Google hit (wikipedia as usual) gives: > Based on Neolithic and Bronze Age data, the total life expectancy at 15 would not exceed 34 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Nitramp 7y ago
My understanding is that cancer kills you late enough in your life to has little impact on your ability to reproduce, and thus fitness in the evolutionary sense. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/canc
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by Nitramp 7y ago
Suggesting that smokers should not vape because its dangers have not been fully established is like suggesting taking the stairs might be dangerous, so you should rather jump out of the window, as we know the dangers of that precisely. Of c

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