Thiez

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by Thiez 3y ago
How would that be better? The earth belongs to the living. Why would we possibly want to cryogenically preserve the dead?
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by Thiez 3y ago
The earth is hardly going to miss a persons worth of biomatter. If you want to be outraged on behalf of the earth worry about pollution and global warming instead.
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To me that seems complete nonsense. I have sold stuff for more than the minimum price I would have accepted, and bought stuff for less than the maximum I would have paid. This must happen all the time, and there must be many transactions wh
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by Thiez 3y ago
If you interpret 'indication' broadly enough to allow plenty false positives and false negatives, then sure. But surely you would agree that a stronger formulation (high price must mean high value / low price must mean lo
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by Thiez 3y ago
This seems trivial to avoid now that this trick is public knowledge.
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> introducing another layer of "barely elected" government If the UK really cared about unelected government, why don't they get rid of their House of Lords? This would have been much less painful than Brexit. It looks a l
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by Thiez 3y ago
Why is Typescript unsuitable for the product?
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by Thiez 3y ago
Assuming square coops, four small coops have literally double the attack surface compared to one big coop of equal total area. The ratio only gets worse when you divide them up further. The impact of a breach may be less for many small coop
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by Thiez 3y ago
If 99.9% of humanity agrees that sex work is bad, then surely sex workers and their customers combined must make up at most 0.1% of the population, right? And yet there are an estimated 1 to 2 million prostitutes in the US, so about 0.2% of
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by Thiez 3y ago
What makes us so confident that our database implements ACID correctly, the RAM stores bins correctly, and the disk drivers store the data correctly? In the end we have to make some assumptions about the correctness of (some of the) compo
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by Thiez 3y ago
Why would all black holes eventually merge? The mass in our observable universe is constantly decreasing, with more and more of it going forever beyond our reach. For any two distant black holes it seems more likely that they will eventuall
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by Thiez 3y ago
> The EU is just a vassal of the EU anyway. Are you trying to say they are their own master, or did you want to write "USA" instead of that second "EU"?
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by Thiez 3y ago
That doesn't really explain how stuff like not ending a source file with a newline is UB.
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by Thiez 3y ago
They want obfuscation. Rust libraries necessarily include the AST for public generic functions. So it may not be suitable.
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by Thiez 3y ago
Editing code live in production should not be part of your workflow, so kind of a pointless feature. I don't work with life-critical software and yet auditors demand that every code-change to production is peer reviewed and linked to a
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by Thiez 3y ago
Hardly, if you want to win elections you pander to the older generations. Being popular among 18 year-olds isn't politically interesting at all.
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by Thiez 3y ago
I'll play along with your attempt at armchair psychology. What makes you special that you are immune to this effect you propose I suffer from? Are you not just seeing what you want to see? Why is your simulation of causality better
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by Thiez 3y ago
If you look deeply enough into the 'complex causality' you'll find anything you want. It doesn't mean much by itself.
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by Thiez 3y ago
You realize location can easily be a proxy for protected classes such as race? And suppose a location has been found with above average risk. To compensate, we increase interest rates in that area... making it more likely that people are un
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by Thiez 3y ago
It is not poor engineering to prefer a statically typed language. If you want something exotic I would take Haskell over lisp any day.
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by Thiez 3y ago
Cool story. Now explain why almost everything we see is moving away from us, where fresh hydrogen for stars comes from in an ancient universe, where the cosmic background radiation comes from, why the distant universe appears 'younger&
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by Thiez 3y ago
How?
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by Thiez 3y ago
Not on a class that teaches programming to beginners, no. Would you?
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by Thiez 3y ago
On slashdot you could mark people as friends and foes. You could then assign a penalty to posts by foes (and posts by foes of foes and posts of friends of foes, I think?) so they were unlikely to meet your 'show post' point thresh
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by Thiez 3y ago
Although HTTP3 was a significant win for people with lossy connections and high latency.
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by Thiez 3y ago
Do you drive a car you built from scratch? How can you drive from A to B without first understanding how a car works by building one? And since you already built one, why not just keep using that one? Or maybe you have built a car. But did
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by Thiez 3y ago
OTOH since this scheme eliminates scalpers tickets may be significantly cheaper, which is a good experience. I imagine it is a net positive.
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by Thiez 3y ago
warrenm was asking whether Java's (and implicitly: the JVMs) concept of references could be used. I'm glad that you agree with me that they cannot. Representing the memory of a compiled C program with a giant byte array would of c
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by Thiez 3y ago
And now for a reference to a field in a struct living on the heap? Of course you can get C to run on the JVM (any CPU emulator written in Java proves that) but due to JVM limitations you cannot do so efficiently. Which is why it the JVM i
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by Thiez 3y ago
I imagine typing that comment took about as much effort typing those words on your search engine would have taken. Read this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_linked_list It is a datastructure that can easily be imp

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