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by Tloewald 8y ago
"A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." King James C
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by Tloewald 8y ago
I think that's unfair to PHP.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
If you squint at JSX it also looks like JSP…
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by Tloewald 8y ago
The first generation Newton was insanely good at recognizing really terrible cursive handwriting and terrible at recognizing tidy or printed handwriting. The second generation Newton was very good at recognizing tidy handwriting (and you co
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by Tloewald 8y ago
I totally get what it does, even if I hadn't seen it before. What I don't get is (a) the use of the word 'match' (that's unfamiliarity) and (b) the proposed syntax which looks like an absolute mess, something worthy
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by Tloewald 8y ago
So the proposal is super confusing to me (but I hadn't seen match before). At first I thought it had something to do with regex. Essentially it's a switch variant that is (a) confusingly named 'match' (bad) (b) returns a
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Thanks for giving credit where it's due and your own work. I note that landru posted a GIF which is ironically much nicer than the video: https://twitter.com/landru79/status/988807933243863040
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Seems to me that among other things the writer has completely missed the point of the Primer was not to educate in the sense they mean it but to build character .
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by Tloewald 9y ago
So we can get within epsilon for an undefined delta because humans can do something, although not always. Right, that whole claim about engineering a system that always knows when it’s not working sounds rock solid to me. After all, we can
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Which sounds like a lot of work. Oh, … and find an old mac to run it on … Oh, and a copy of the right version of CodeWarrior.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Arguing that it's possible to build an autonomous that is sometimes wrong but always knows when it's wrong seems like a stretch to me.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I have a copy of _System Shock_ for Mac somewhere. I played it on the PC but never finished it and picked up the Mac version later at a discount. I was very disappointed to discover it had a crashing bug mid-game for which I could find no w
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by Tloewald 9y ago
> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed This seems to me to be a clearly incorrect (and self-contradic
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by Tloewald 9y ago
One possibly nice fallout of this would be Intel offering Xeons to consumers to leverage its economies of scale on the server-side for the consumer market (since I believe Apple is the biggest customer for high-end consumer CPUs).
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by Tloewald 9y ago
To what are you sarcastically referring? Apple's switch to PowerPC which gave them a performance lead over Intel for five years and kept them competitive for another five or Apple's switch to its own ARM Core designs which have gi
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by Tloewald 9y ago
There’s this thing most countries have called the post office. I suggest it look into providing secure email.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
To be really good at something it is necessary (but not sufficient) to be interested in it. Running a company of 10 people is an experientially different thing than running a company of 1000, just like collaborating is an experientially
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by Tloewald 9y ago
If somehow a dog dies because of FB or Android then… maybe.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
It's more analogous to -- very analogous to -- the "clean room" BIOS clones that enabled the PC Clone industry to take off (and made IBM-compatible PCs actually affordable; before the clones took off, IBM's prices made
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by Tloewald 9y ago
So you're saying it's an Oracle product?
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by Tloewald 9y ago
It’s worse than that: 4) researcher is a serial p-hacker who even boasted about the practice 5) reason given for the small sample (most recipes had changed) was a lie and sample appears to have been cherry-picked
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by Tloewald 9y ago
It depends on the details of the case. (IANAL either.) Criminal law applies to criminal acts. It's possible for do something wrong that "injures" someone (physically or in some other way) without committing a crime. Criminali
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Ray Tracing is also a lie! Are they giving us an unbiased renderer? Looks interesting anyway.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Tort law covers death. Manslaughter is a criminal charge but wrongful death, etc. are how tort law handles the situation. You may recall O.J. Simpson was sued for wrongful death and lost. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02&
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by Tloewald 9y ago
It's still easy to tell banks from tech companies. Banks probably won't offer you 2FA or allow you to use secure passwords and will cheerfully bring down their website for maintenance for twelve hours at a stretch. They'll al
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Off-topic: the PS4's PSVR box is a bit reminiscent of the old Voodoo cards with their passthrough video.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Mozilla’s bizarre stance on H264 coincidentally favored Google’s position. Mozilla’s anti-ad-tracking stuff was all switched off by default. They make their money from ads meaning their incentives parallel those of ad networks. All ad suppo
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by Tloewald 9y ago
No it’s just beholden to one or another of them.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Doesn’t Spectre just require speculative fetching? In which case in order is not sufficient as to guarantee immunity. It’s Meltdown that relies on out of order execution. https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf https:&#x2F
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Processes can run a long time and pass data around. This isn’t realistic.

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