TheUndead96

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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Has anyone here seen it? Worth a watch?
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The "big production" example that kept being referred to in university was a (Belgian?) metro system. I think it was well suited to formal verification because it had a finite number of valid states, and the cost of failure was su
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The phrase "imperfect automation still has absurd economy of scale" is more insightful than many full-length books.
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I am also curious about this. I heard that something like one trans-Atlantic flight is worth 2 years of veganism. And that 10 or so freight ships produce as much pollution as the whole of Europe. These are vague statements, and the reality
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Computational Logistics at Picnic (Europe's fastest growing supermarket) (2020)(blog.picnic.nl)
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The regression of civilisation is palpable.
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I suppose more concretely "doing something related to what you are writing about". On principle I have nothing against pure philosophers, who integrate old theories and formulate new ones. However, in my experience, writings like
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I think we might be talking about different things here. Up until very recently it was against the code of most publishers to broadcast things like murders, offensive language, acts of violence and gore. Some might say that the societies of
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I think this might be what is meant by religious people when they say that nothing is "sacred" anymore. Meaning that there is no longer any value or virtue high enough to not be questioned, even if these are the axioms of the soci
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The School of Life infuriates me for many reasons, but I will restrain myself and talk just about this specific post. Perhaps the small libraries of historic figures has more to do with the availability of books than it does their minimalis
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I feel the same way. The best-case scenarios on all of the climate change charts have been scratched. 2 degrees of warming is basically a given and the debate is now one of damage control. The lag between action and effect is somewhere betw
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It is my belief that most people would not use Slack if it did not have the business buy-in it now has. Most people are forced to use Slack.
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There is some evidence for this: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...
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Very true. Big bang was actually first formulated by a Belgian Catholic priest: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosm...
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Just to address the comment above (it has been flagged and I can no longer reply directly). This is not a debate of America vs China. This is a debate of morality. We should not reserve judgement only for "bad guys". The reason Ch
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To those that believe that they would not have turned a blind eye during WWII to the systematic extermination of Jews, the current generation has been given a similar challenge. Where is your cancel-culture now? How will our children think
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Didn't read the paper, but I agree completely.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery
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On a somewhat unrelated note, the design of this landing page is fantastic. It is exactly how I like to have new tools presented to me. All the fundamental competencies of the tool displayed on one page, with sufficient, but not verbose, te
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xkcd – Dependency (2020)(xkcd.com)
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I agree 100%. I see many comments here critiquing the fact that this type of programming does not scale. Modern programming methodologies and this low-level hobby programming can coexist in the world.
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I felt that the manifesto gave the best description of the community. The homepage is mostly news about specific projects. I'm not directly affiliated with the group, but I follow some of the developers. And their podcast is pretty goo
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Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)(handmade.network)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OarBwHc2JzY I feel like Mozilla does not understand the "old-internet" which it prostitutes to sell itself to users. Lawyers, Amazon extensions, this is how we are fighting Fake New
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I personally would like to distinguish between donations to the Firefox product and Mozilla as a company. I donated every month for a year, but eventually didn't feel that my contributions were making it to the actual devs making a dif
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Exactly! (sigh)
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Fully agree. This reminds me of the point Peter Thiel makes about modern life being too internally focused. The distinction between stoicism and indifference is so important. The world is starting to loose faith that we can actually make th
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I don't know why this has become such a hot-button issue. I figured it was quite well established that video games are synthetic goals, and have always been tied to escapism. That is not to say that they are inherently wrong. Unless yo
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Ask HN: What bloated piece of software deserves a performant rewrite?
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I would wait and see whether GraalVM would not help significantly with performance. After that I would try running the web service with Deno. Then I would rewrite in Go, then I would rewrite in Rust. That is not to say I think Go is better

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