Shikadi

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by Shikadi 8y ago
Right, but it sounded as if they were implying the old HQ was in Silicon Valley. I'm sure that wasn't the intention, just clarifying for the possibility of readers who may misinterpret.
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by Shikadi 8y ago
I'd just like to point out that Amazon HQ isn't in California, it's in Washington over near Microsoft, separated by half of California and the state of Oregon. Either way, I hope the same
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Prisoners are regularly paid below minimum wage, so whether or not you or I consider it cruel or unusual, the judicial branch clearly doesn't
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Prisoners can legally be slaves according to the 13th amendment of the Constitution. (I don't agree with it, just pointing it out)
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by Shikadi 8y ago
The 2% thing and varriants are myths
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Personally, no laptop I've ever owned had at trackpad that _didn't_ just work. Of course there were a handfull in the store at any given time that were mediocre, but that's why I try before I buy. The Mac trackpad is definite
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by Shikadi 8y ago
I really like the interface Mazda came up with. Right by the shifter there's a knob that controls everything on the screen, which is as easy to glance at as the speedometer. Muscle memory still works to an extent
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by Shikadi 8y ago
>DOS was just a program loader DOS also provided a little bit of an abstraction layer with its system calls, and some utilities. I just wanted to make the distinction in case any readers took you literally
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by Shikadi 8y ago
What evidence?
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by Shikadi 8y ago
That's true in grocery stores too though
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by Shikadi 8y ago
I don't think near sightedness means better than 20/20 up close...
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by Shikadi 8y ago
To my knowledge, it's a buzzword. That being said, I'm also not an expert, and would like to hear from one to be sure, since it would be interesting af if they actually are using machine learning for Ray tracing
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Private loans can still be classified as student loans. Source: My enormous debt
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Oh yeah, definitely misread that
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by Shikadi 8y ago
It took me a good amount of googling to verify that, but you're mostly correct, there are only 132 developers with upload rights to the universe repository. Though I would argue that the distinction isn't just licensing, since Can
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by Shikadi 8y ago
In ubuntu, it's even less obvious. Main, restricted, and universe are all checked together by apt, and treated the same
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by Shikadi 8y ago
>Any language in the area of discourse is a Turing-complete language. Therefore you can do anything you'd like to in any language. Well with that argument, learning brainf*ck in depth should give you all the programming experience y
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Second this, learning multiple languages is generally seen as a good thing, opening your mind to different ways of solving problems, no?
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Moore's law is about transistor count, not performance
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by Shikadi 8y ago
I don't like when articles make it seem as if neural networks think, and come up with results the way humans or alians would. They don't perceive, they don't reason, they just crunch numbers. Also, it's strange to say ne
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Awesome read, I like how it goes more in depth about things like color burst that most articles I've read ignore since it's not (usually?) relevant to modern displays
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Not closely enough that it would have been considered low level at the time, if you look at the instruction set C isn't even close to one-to-one with the machine instructions. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Except what I'm saying is that PDP-11 era C wasn't low level. It incedentally took advantage of some low level features, but that wasn't by design, and wouldn't have changed its classification as a high level language
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by Shikadi 8y ago
I guess I'm arguing that it is a reasonable thing to say today in the right context. When I talk to web developers who don't understand anything about computer architecture for example it's much easier for me to tell them I&#
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by Shikadi 8y ago
If you think of the hardware as a black box, it does correspond to the instruction set architecture presented. Generally you don't think about implementation details of an op-amp when you wire it into a circuit. The issue is that CPUs
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Actually, the author's argument about PDP-11 is interesting because C would have never been considered a low level language back then, for any platform. Wiki definition, also what I was taught in my first CS class: "A low-level pr
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Language evolves. C is certainly lower level than C# or JavaScript, so even if it no longer fits the definition created decades ago, I don't see a problem with the term evolving to match modern times. People say assembly language when
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by Shikadi 8y ago
This probably is some sort of Fallacy that has a name... People should be looking for the best product at the time for them, not the best brand forever. There are anecdotes of people switching from one platform to the other and never lookin
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by Shikadi 8y ago
(I'm not a fan of apple, but) I wouldn't say "Apple isn't a tech company". Even a little. They design their own chips, software, and hardware, and sometimes push the tech industry (independent of whether or not they
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by Shikadi 8y ago
Who is Will?

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