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by _hl_ 6y ago
I used this about a year ago for a small astrophysics simulation+plotting etc, together with futhark for some GPU code. It wasn't perfect (some crashes and weird behaviour), but worked remarkably well. I imagine it's even better t
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by _hl_ 6y ago
There's a handful of extremely accomplished professors, but beyond that contributions come from all over the place. Anyone with a bright idea can contribute. As for getting paid to do it, well, you are probably right, but for many peop
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by _hl_ 6y ago
I've seen questions of this kind a lot on HN, and I think they really deserve a better answer than what I can come with. Here's my best shot at an answer: Mathematics is a bit like art. There is no functional purpose to art, peopl
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by _hl_ 6y ago
I use signal on Android and an iPad. On the iPad, sharing photos etc to signal doesn't work, it looks like the touch input coordinates get translated incorrectly with the input location of the send button being somewhere off the screen
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by _hl_ 6y ago
I don't know about relevant EU law here, but even if Apple's terms are not enforceable in the EU, when you sell to e.g. US customers you would be subject to US law anyway, and Apple could go after you in the US. It doesn't ma
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by _hl_ 6y ago
As far as chemicals that don't directly kill you go, PFOA is probably one of the most harmful/poisonous chemicals you could think of.
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by _hl_ 6y ago
They don't. The lift is orthogonal to the wind direction, so it will be most efficient when the wind is directly from the side, with the forward force falling of with the cosine of the wind angle. There's really no way to change t
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Right, but afaik only one instruction per 'hyperthread' is fetched every cycle, but I'm happy to be corrected here.
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by _hl_ 6y ago
> each sum supposedly need 0,1ns Sub-cycle latency for an addition would be quite amazing... Nevertheless your point remains. > 100ns=0,1 ms 0.1μs, not 0.1ms
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by _hl_ 6y ago
If you studied math, or if you have any kind of respect for the mere concept of rigorous proofs, then these kinds of resources will leave you deeply dissatisfied. If you want to refresh your math, take an elementary result of any particular
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by _hl_ 6y ago
> Does anyone actually use Zig in production? Zig is cool but still very much unstable, running it in production is very much not recommended and/or insane. There's still quite a lot of compiler/stdlib bugs, design edge ca
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Yes, there is also no reason why I don’t have a personal road built from my house to my workplace reserved solely for me, it’s only a matter of investment. Almost nobody needs that investment, and if you’re going to lay more fibre, you’re b
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by _hl_ 6y ago
This is not true. With fiber, if you want to go full-duplex, you need to specify which frequencies you want to use per direction. Because 99.9% of users use much, much more downlink thank uplink, it does not make sense to reserve an equal a
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by _hl_ 6y ago
I’d like to add to that list all the “learn AI” blogs etc. that gloss over the details and show you how to call some libraries to do cool stuff. Everyone and their cat can learn how to invoke some APIs, which is cool, but the reality is tha
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by _hl_ 6y ago
It’s not that fantastic for low level systems programming due to garbage collection and the runtime. If you’re working with C et al, you’re generally doing something that requires extreme control, and Go is too high level to do that nicely
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Can you share some examples of what you believe to be toxic or exclusive behaviour? Personally (as a young bloke) I find IT to be extremely inclusive for those who want to learn, there's so much freely available information and materia
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Ah I guess I should have read TFA l, because search results have a similar feature (that is opt-out). For a browser I agree it makes more sense to get the icon directly from the site being visited without any privacy risks.
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by _hl_ 6y ago
I've already posted this somewhere else, but I'll copy it here again as well: It's not immediately obvious whether it is more privacy preserving if the client automatically makes a request to each site in the search results w
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by _hl_ 6y ago
It's not immediately obvious whether it is more privacy preserving if the client automatically makes a request to each site in the search results while scrolling through the results, especially since you're already trusting DDG wh
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Here's their kotlin implemenation, looks fairly straightforward/self-contained: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/tree/ma...
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by _hl_ 6y ago
This was extremely informative, thank you for taking the time to write it up!
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Program equivalence is in general uncomputable if I'm not mistaken, so a big part of the possible performance enhancements depend on the strength of their algorithm for proving equivalence. Definitely an interesting though extremely ch
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by _hl_ 6y ago
> The Oracle argument (and as things currently stand in their case, the accepted argument) is basically that the API taken as a whole can be protected even if each individual function name can't And let's be honest, that does m
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by _hl_ 6y ago
This will be very inefficient due to the way DBMS commonly lay out data in pages. And if you want to do any kind of aggregate queries (e.g. analytics) you're probably in for some royal pain. If you want to do this for security, why not
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Why rely on bash? Windows has Powershell and symlinks, what else is needed to create a nix-style package manager for Windows? I'm not saying it's a good idea, I don't think anyone would really want that, but it could be done.
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Although I don't see why it wouldn't work on Windows natively. Sure, it would probably need a complete reimplementation to replace all the POSIX stuff with Windows stuff, but fundamentally it ought to be possible?
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by _hl_ 6y ago
I don't think running a public web server application is one of the envisioned use cases here. It looks like a tool for quickly and dirtily getting some job done. But I agree that to get something useful done, you probably need to open
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by _hl_ 6y ago
> Playing devil's advocate, it's easy to say there are far more victims of CSA and child pornography than of school shootings among children. Is there any decent data that backs this up? Anecdotally, I have always felt like CSA
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by _hl_ 6y ago
> A few weeks ago they forgot to renew their SSL certificate At the risk of posting an insubstantial comment, holy shit.
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by _hl_ 6y ago
Switzerland is in the same position. You cannot get a majority for abolishing the draft, so it is here to stay (for now). You also cannot get a majority for extending it to women, for those who support the military tend to also be those who

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