Taren

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by Taren 10y ago
The cases where such a cpu would be efficient are already the places where a normal cpu is extremely fast. So it would also fail in the same ways, pipeline stalls and all. If you need to wait for the answer to one computation to know what t
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by Taren 10y ago
But isn't it essentially just taking away time as a factor which is pretty much what predicting via determinism would do? Maybe the general definition of free will most people seem to go with just doesn't deal with weird edge cas
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by Taren 10y ago
But if your actions still could change randomly with your personality, memories and everything else that defines you how would that allow for free will? Say the universe is perfectly deterministic. You could look into the future by simulati
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by Taren 11y ago
I heard from a couple people that they don't exactly want to learn Fortran. Python stays out of your way and there is a major ecosystem around it by this point.
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by Taren 11y ago
I feel that optimizing your work flow to minimize context switches is worthwhile, though. Doesn't have necessarily anything to do with one another but even getting your thoughts out without grabbing your mouse or mashing shift-right ha
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by Taren 11y ago
Yeah, they copied a lot of the syntax over. To the point that there is an alias for curl by default. Probably a good thing, though.
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by Taren 11y ago
Alright, let's be fair here. If you have a sensible execution policy set which you basically have to the first time you use powershell it is only: Invoke-WebRequest https://dist.asp.net/dnvm/dnvminstall.ps1 | Invo
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by Taren 11y ago
Apperently it started at $1, was raised to $1.25 in 2008 an now they are planning for $1.90 which'd likely skyrocket absolute poverty numbers.