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481.
by SolarNet 9y ago
I think the primary thing you are missing to get the speed improvement is actually doing the packed computations (e.g. computing two values at once; e.g. the numerator and denominator).
482.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Yes, however every region has different natural disasters that can be prepared for in different ways, so when they happen they cost many less lives.
483.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Or as the article said, there were budget cuts 12 years ago (e.g. under Bush) that turned 9 months of specialized training specifically about this skill into a set of CDs. But sure, blame political correctness.
484.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Especially since the article highlighted the issue, budget cuts, more than 12 years ago (under Bush), that prevented training. And also two wars that prevented hands-on training that was meant to replace it.
485.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Easier to organize counter protests that way. And to watch what actions they are planning.
486.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Except that anything newer than 1995 probably ignores the hint provided by __builtin_expect, and you'd probably have more luck changing the algorithm or vectorizing the code.
487.
by SolarNet 9y ago
The compiler is (probably) smarter than you. Generally speaking, it will automatically decide which branches are most likely and arrange them accordingly (e.g. for things like for loops and while loops especially, where the biggest gains ar
488.
by SolarNet 9y ago
And that the rest of the community is supporting his alleged abusiveness (e.g. by voting to keep him on board). It's not just because they dislike him, it's because the community in general seems fine with his kind of behavior. No
489.
by SolarNet 9y ago
I mean I'm not worrying about it at that level, just that it's something relevant to the idea of layout. C++'s templates are a powerful language feature for doing layout optimization however, and it's sort of the thing t
490.
by SolarNet 9y ago
AoS is useful for things where you want to effectively have fast (e.g. no cache misses) random access to many fields; the common OO approach. SoA is useful when you want fast iteration across only a couple fields of many objects; the common
491.
by SolarNet 9y ago
I think that's cool, but I would almost say that's like the `const` problem of c++ and the Open System problem. It's a single special keyword. Not a point to extend with arbitrary layouts. It is progress, but a very small ste
492.
by SolarNet 9y ago
The idea that governs the phone systems the modern internet was born from. That providers of network access must provide access to other networks equally. That the networks are neutral to the content flowing across them. This is about preve
493.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Or, traveling a 100 miles takes a couple hours even if it isn't public transit, because of things like safety, traffic, and the laws of physics. Also, a click-bait headline (she leaves at 4 am).
494.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Cracked even ran a commentary video [0] where all the hosts misunderstood how the internet works entirely (Netflix pays millions of dollars to Tier 1 providers (pre-Comcast deal even) every year, they don't use the networks for free, a
495.
by SolarNet 9y ago
The bit about the trigger was interesting. Is that software/firmware? Or is that a hardware trigger they are discussing.
496.
by SolarNet 9y ago
To be clear this was meant to be a tongue in cheek rephrasing to point out what was problematic about the gorilla statement and the google memo, I do not believe this.
497.
by SolarNet 9y ago
I don't, but I was pointing out the annoyance of such a statement. You could probably scrounge up such a paper on google scholar. For example, black lives matter 's point was simply that some specific white people were biogted,
498.
by SolarNet 9y ago
> Gorillas typically have black fur. So no gorilla can have white fur? Wat? More like "white people are generally bigoted, but of course this doesn't apply at an individual level".
499.
by SolarNet 9y ago
I mean the implication we exclude the object we are searching for when we say like. If I was looking for a table row "like" the value of row 34, row 34 wouldn't be a match.
500.
by SolarNet 9y ago
> arrogant journalists
501.
by SolarNet 9y ago
These include all the commit logs. How many times did your first commit for a brand new feature need zero fixing.
502.
by SolarNet 9y ago
> he dresses well, has good hygiene, is educated, well off, and speaks politely Have you seen the videos of two people, one white, and one black, who are all those things being treated radically different by various different groups? For
503.
by SolarNet 9y ago
This is why I subscribe to internet radio instead. It's cheaper and has better discovery features. For example di.fm
504.
by SolarNet 9y ago
I think it is how dangerous the reaction with alcohol is. Most drugs with alcohol make you extra drunk. This one gives you a heart attack.
505.
by SolarNet 9y ago
> 10 new "bitcoins" could fork every day Not really. You are forgetting how the difficulty works (or simply don't understand bitcoin). You'd have to have a significant percentage of the bitcoin mining infrastructure.
506.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Because it was probably accidental. As opposed to using something like Lisp macros, where meta programming doesn't require using the type system language and shoving it into the shape you need, and is basically normal programming . No
507.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Yes 51% of the branch you are attacking. They have hard forked, any bitcoin mining pool could easily control 51% (like 80%) of the bitcash mining worldwide.
508.
by SolarNet 9y ago
Not the OP, but I would suspect that the problem is displaying JSONB as if it were plain text json without having to deal with manually converting it or relying on DB operations.
509.
by SolarNet 9y ago
A dead project due to the shear complexity and obfuscation and proprietary bug/feature weirdness (e.g. undocumented relied upon in some edge case feature/bugs tend to exist in proprietary single-implementation systems) of flash. T
510.
by SolarNet 9y ago
I think his point is that when it comes to stuff like this, our intuition about reasonable assumptions is wrong. And we must as both you and the parent post say, be systematic about the response.

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