Noughmad

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by Noughmad 4y ago
> Current Bitcoin usage is literally a rounding error of global energy usage (0.1%) A tenth of a percent is definitely not a rounding error of global energy usage. It's equivalent to the consumption of 8 million people. Would you ca
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by Noughmad 4y ago
Which is to say, almost all of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents
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by Noughmad 4y ago
> We can't count paper "yes/no" votes in a way that everyone is happy with. That reminds me, for some reason the US doesn't have referendums. Why is that?
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by Noughmad 4y ago
Except Google and StackOverflow exist now. You start by searching and reading tutorials, not by asking other people.
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by Noughmad 4y ago
> As is so often the case, the people that say you should never do it probably have little relevant experience, they are just repeating something they heard. More likely, they're saying that 99% of people don't know how to self
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by Noughmad 5y ago
But the "vehicle in motion" is not the problem. Accidents are a problem. Exactly the same way as in a taxi - if the taxi driver causes an accident, is it your fault because you told him where to go?
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by Noughmad 5y ago
> The name clearly indicates that the primary feature is that it is not signed, and the logical conclusion from that is that it is not negative. No, the logical conclusion is that since it has no sign, you don't know whether it&#x27
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by Noughmad 5y ago
Essentially, the attraction is being able to wait for multiple things at the same time within a single thread. It's useful for things like webservers that want to handle thousands of connections simultaneously, but most of these connec
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by Noughmad 5y ago
The author spends the majority of the post saying how synchronous Rust doesn't work. The main problem? Closures have to be passed as traits. And they either don't know about the `f: impl Fn(i32)` syntax or refuse to use it for s
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by Noughmad 5y ago
> It's actually an interesting example where undefined behavior allowed compiler optimization That is literally reason why any behavior is considered undefined. So that the compiler can skip checks to produce better optimized code.
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by Noughmad 5y ago
> What is the value of "is competent enough to copy paste commands from a wiki?" Very high actually. You can tell them things like "please run in debug mode" or "please run with this command line flag" or ev
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by Noughmad 5y ago
But Sentry can be used for the same analytics as ads. You can send events manually, it doesn't have to be an actual error, with all the info attached. I'm a very satisfied user of Sentry, but I use it for an internal project. I al
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by Noughmad 5y ago
Far more in line with their EEE tradition: - 2021: Windows Subsystem for Linux that can run pretty much any Linux program - 2024: Custom proprietary extensions in WSL, hidden "incentives" to make sure some important software runs
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by Noughmad 5y ago
You're saying that the providers should have absolute monopolies? What could possibly go wrong!
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by Noughmad 6y ago
Firefox is older than Chrome. Did you use IE before that or are you just that young?
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by Noughmad 6y ago
I really don't understand the problem here. It looks like FLoC will entirely depend on the browser (which Google controls if it's Chrome). So the browser will analyze your browsing history (and since it's Google, it will prob
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by Noughmad 6y ago
Only the nuclear disaster gets called "Fukushima" though. The earthquake and tsunami impacted a much larger area.
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by Noughmad 6y ago
Are you counting every kid that dies of cancer in Eastern Europe as caused by Chernobyl? The reality is that only one kind of cancer rose noticeably because of Chernobyl, this is thyroid cancer. And note that the base rate is one per mill
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by Noughmad 6y ago
Yeah but every hurricane is already worse than Fukushima. Remember that the only damage to health in Fukushima came from the evacuation itself.
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by Noughmad 6y ago
> The number of deaths due to Chernobyl is grossly underreported. Maybe, if you only take the 31 number, that one is indeed grossly underreported. But any other estimate (like the common 4000 number) is really a wild guess. The reason is
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by Noughmad 6y ago
He is obviously a genius, like Steve Jobs, and Donald Trump, and just about every billionaire are. You don't become as successful as that without being both very lucky and very smart. What many people don't realize is that these p
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by Noughmad 6y ago
People are often fascinated by some aspects of those considered "enemies", even if for good reasons. Like Guy Fawkes and Che Guevara, almost nobody agrees with their idealogies, but they are both widely recognized as symbols of re
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by Noughmad 7y ago
Not all mathematics though. Math works by starting with a set of axioms. These are chosen, usually but not necessarily such that they will describe some kind of physical reality. That is the part which you invent to describe phenomena, like
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by Noughmad 7y ago
In that case, people should make it illegal. Like they did in most other countries. The US is full of outrage about companies doing unethical things but nobody wants to make unethical things illegal.
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by Noughmad 7y ago
Partially, but for those there's another catch. They have the campuses with game rooms, food, daycare, etc. all in order for you to spend as much time there as possible. They are literally building company towns.
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by Noughmad 7y ago
> So, why don't we kick it old school, and you just pay me money. That's the whole point of all these extra "benefits": so that they can pay you less money.
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by Noughmad 7y ago
> There once was a guy named bob. He was bad at his job and got promoted. That is not what the Peter principle (the principle, not the book) is about, that would be the Dilbert Principle. Peter principle says that people who are good a
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by Noughmad 7y ago
That's also a lot of rose-tinted glasses. The classic exchange comes to mind: A: Remember when 4chan was good? B: 4chan was never good. This is true for just about every community.
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by Noughmad 7y ago
I don't know. I work from home as well, in Slovenia, and I don't know anyone else around me who does. But I was recently pleasantly surprised when my new employer sent a work safety inspector (basically ensuring that employer prov
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by Noughmad 7y ago
Russia, unlike Saudi Arabia, is a democracy. They have elections. If the Russian people wanted to throw the regime out, they would have. Yes, you could make a good argument about propaganda, freedom of the press, and the unfortunate things

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