_yosefk

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by _yosefk 12y ago
There are other methods, but regardless, it doesn't explain why keep doing it once you got that $3K suit. A relevant question for someone who got there using other methods, BTW. I think the answer is in the power of habits coupled with
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by _yosefk 12y ago
"Breastfeeding removes the father's ability to independently take care of an infant." This whole mammal thing is seriously backwards then. We should have evolved from snakes (whose offspring takes care of itself completely in
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by _yosefk 12y ago
You mean it always relinquishes pages to the OS upon free and never reuses a page? So every malloc is a memset(0) inside the kernel?
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Unicode defines a "logical order" and a "rendering order". The logical order is supposed to be the order in which you read the text - letters read earlier are closer to the beginning of the buffer. The rendering order is
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by _yosefk 12y ago
By "sane malloc" do you mean one that gives you "cleared"/zeroed memory? I think it's a rarity and I think programs kinda assume that malloc takes, I dunno, 300-1000 cycles at worst when allocating many megabyt
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Well, yeah, if you actually pay <10x when all is counted but get an actual 10x more, then you will have gained, but grandparent said "they won't pay 10x for 10x." My tongue is in my cheek or some other such place right now
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Removing restrictions on building would go a long way towards solving the problem IMO. You'd get uglier cities maybe, with taller buildings in more expensive areas, less parks, etc., but you'd get cities where more people could li
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Well, if you pay 10x for 10x more productivity you don't gain much, do you?.. Can't blame 'em for not bothering to look for a rarity for no gain.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Sucks for anyone trying to move from one apartment to another. Sucks for anyone trying to move out from their parents' apartment. Sucks for anyone whose landlord invests as little as possible into maintaining the building. (Obviously s
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by _yosefk 12y ago
What happens when the majority of people can't phrase or spell what you've just written, having played video games all their lives? An Idiocracy kind of deal, something else, you think? "Paternalism"...
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I can see how we'd be better off without human trafficking and, to a smaller extent, without the tobacco business. I'm not sure we'd be better off without weapons. In fact, if the club became world's most advanced weapon
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I think there's much (~10x) more C code than Ada code everywhere where safety matters. (No hard data, just a feeling from experience - if you have hard data proving me wrong, do share.) Also, it's not just Unix that's written
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by _yosefk 12y ago
You should learn to protect yourself by keeping it offline. "Strong passwords and encryption" is hopeless because you have a key logger running on your machine - a reasonable, simple default assumption that can and should be taugh
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by _yosefk 12y ago
No, because more than one such NGO could operate inside a given state and you could start a new one. Hence, "more representation", not less.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
People always want more money, but they won't necessarily want to work for it. Is there any evidence for a sufficient willingness to work under a basic income arrangement to keep the economy going?
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by _yosefk 12y ago
IOD comes with example code using identifiers such as _Name. AFAIK all C and C++ standards reserve all identifiers starting with _[A-Z] as well as those starting with __ for compiler use (and I've seen people complain about it a couple
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by _yosefk 12y ago
"Sad that the rich gain much", not "sad that the poor gain little"... "the rich shouldn't be allowed to enjoy so much." Oh well. In the USSR we had a joke about XX century revolutionaries' dream of
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Well, yeah, but using that land, extracting that oil etc. involves non-zero-sum games.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
While you can't replace all macros with blocks, I think there's an interesting argument in there about doing some things done with macros using blocks, and that it has the advantage that a function accepting a block can be passe
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by _yosefk 12y ago
A more compact representation is one advantage - that's why numpy has array of int.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
The "unreasonable effectiveness of data" in finding publishable results and creating commercially viable products ought to be blinding us (or rather "them" - AI researchers of whom I'm not one) to better ways to lea
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by _yosefk 12y ago
So do you think it worked for Bernanke after he went full Bernanke and the article misses this point? Or do you think it didn't work - if so, why didn't it?
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Different approaches to stability attract different people. I wouldn't touch a 1.0 that promised 1->2 to be a total rewrite. With a 1.0 that promises backward compatibility, I'll be sure to look into it. More importantly, it&#x
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I recently read an article in English talking about homophobia being widespread in Russia "despite the Russians having lived through the progressive social experiment of communism". Calling it a "progressive social experiment
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by _yosefk 12y ago
The average thing I publish on the Internet is thousands of words long. There was never a shortage of people taking some of those words out of their context, and arguing against what those words supposedly say. And I'm likely to have d
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Well, at some level almost everything can be described as using math. However, loads of software used by millions and netting millions can be and is written by people who most would describe as barely mathematically literate, from most so
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by _yosefk 12y ago
My take on it has always been, for money not to be a big factor in life, you need a certain amount of money. Otherwise you're constantly counting it, tracking prices, looking for income, etc. To be able to make enough money to not have
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Firstly, the problems he raises would be hard even if the native speakers of a given language were the first to develop computers. In fact I read a fascinating argument (from a link on HN?.. I forget) about Japanese computers developing int
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by _yosefk 12y ago
What's wrong with it is one is likely to be paid less. Theoretically I'd love to work at an environment where you're paid fairly without having to negotiate, and where negotiation skills would not affect one's compensati
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by _yosefk 12y ago
You mean typewriter manufacturers should have been kept afloat forever using taxpayers' funds so as to not fire workers? (That's what "the worker comes first" despite the consumer not wanting the product would mean, I th

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