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1141.
by a1369209993 6y ago
That superficially looks horrible. How do you write `Person (Compose Maybe Maybe)`, even, never mind anything more sophisticated? Edit, for that matter, how do you deal with a `Person f` that includes a `f (Maybe Something)` without confu
1142.
by a1369209993 6y ago
No. "User hostile content" is defined by the user .
1143.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> we're trying to assess Kubernetes' value proposition (i.e., to answer "does it suck?"). Well, I'm not, since I already know that, but if you don't know that yet, then your position makes more sense. (Tha
1144.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> It doesn't seem to explain why it's a complex Hilbert space. It's surprisingly difficult to motivate complex- (rather than real-) valued quantum mechanics. See eg https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?
1145.
by a1369209993 6y ago
Is true. They said: > > x86 generally has an advantage [empahsis added, not "x86-64"] Obviously if you take the worst of both worlds (bloated and variable-width instructions), you can squander that advantage, but the adv
1146.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> We might need to have multiple ARM builds for its microarchitectures. Nitpick: it is by definition not needed to have different build for different micro architectures (except maybe for performance). If the same code doesn't work
1147.
by a1369209993 6y ago
If something as essential as the infrastructure is so complex that you need a dedicated expert on it, it's bad infrastructure . To take a offhand analogy, you don't need a dedicated highway maintainance engineer in order to dri
1148.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> but you could use that to dismiss any technology at all No, you can't; you need three (-ish) factors: 1. The technology is sufficiently incompatible with what you're currently using that you need a rewrite to use it (eg, this
1149.
by a1369209993 6y ago
That is the behavior in 3.6; I'm pointing out that the earlier version (3.6) is a upgrade from the later version (70-something?), because Mozilla is making the browser worse over time.
1150.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> single click selects all in address bar and search box. FWIW, this is fixed in Firefox 3.6; you should probably upgrade.
1151.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> at what point do we stop calling it an "age"? Pessimistically? How long did the Bronze Age last?
1152.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> The toplevel post was edited to make it clear what account would be replying > > pretending to be the account that [ ]posted[ ] the AMA [emphasis added]
1153.
by a1369209993 6y ago
More like sixty-some; these tactics date at least back to McCarthy and the Unamerican Activities commitee.
1154.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> using a different account to reply to questions than the toplevel post > her comments were downvoted into oblivion Haven't investigated this specific AMA, but in general, any reply to a AMA, by a account other than the one that
1155.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> without getting into the weeds on the generative model No, that very much depends on the weeds of the generative model. I can generate random statements of the form "I am not X years old" for X \in {1, ..., 100}.
1156.
by a1369209993 6y ago
They said banning one was "as logically coherent as" banning the other, not that one was functionally the same as the other. (But since we're on this tangent, the only black pudding I've encountered was (admittedly dark)
1157.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> Will the company operate in the red instead of in the black as well? Pretty sure that'd just 'offend' (wannabe representatives of) Native Americans instead.
1158.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> > It is obviously associating racism with something not intentionally racist. > it is not just not intentionally racist -- there is no way any normal person would construe the term 'blacklist' as racist. it is as logica
1159.
by a1369209993 6y ago
Basically, a representative who splits the network by commiting two conflicting votes is (AIUI) by definition defective, and any representative that observes both potential blocks knows that , and can propagate that knowledge to any repres
1160.
by a1369209993 6y ago
Not sure about the probation but assuming 50$/hr, that's 25k$ to get into Harvard, versus bribes of usually >1M$ for alumni getting their kids in by funding a building, scholarship, or whatever. Sounds like they got a steep (if
1161.
by a1369209993 6y ago
The manufacturer can deny service to undesirables[0], by refusing to provide them with fido2s (either initial or replacement when broken). If we're willing to accept targeted denial of service we might as well have the New York Times (
1162.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> The commitment of two conflicting votes can split the network, thereby ruining it. Couldn't this be repaired (with probability something like 1-O(compromised stake) per attempt), by exhibiting (in, say, lexicographic order) the tw
1163.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management. To be fair, engineering-savviness and willingness to be management (especially the kind of management that are legible to investors) are substant
1164.
by a1369209993 6y ago
Roughly, that proving a statement of the form "For all a,b,c,..., there exists x,y,z such that some statement involving a,b,c,...,x,y, and z is true." requires actually constructing suitable x,y, and z given suitable a,b,c, etc
1165.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> Rust doesn't infer function types (on purpose) > I don't think rustc is currently smart enough to infer the totality loops in general. Well, yes; we're necessarily talking about changes to the language (or, equivale
1166.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> A systems programming language cannot afford to silo itself on a single OS solutions. If a OS (or alleged OS) demands that you dynamically link against libc (or anything else written in C) to interact with it, that problem is not the (
1167.
by a1369209993 6y ago
Works fine on BSD (though it's been long enough that I forget which BSD) as long as you ignore the parts of the documentation written by facist morons. Haven't had occasion to beat proper linking behaviour into a Windows machine,
1168.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> (b) the collision problems of MD5 aren't really a problem here, as why would someone [] have an incentive to make their file falsely look like this malware. While your overall point is correct, there is a specific tactic where
1169.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> It doesn't matter if it is the kernel or your application that calls dlopen(). My application calls mmap and mprotect(PROT_EXEC), not dlopen.
1170.
by a1369209993 6y ago
> There is 0 advantage in not having the option to use dynamic linking if you want to. The advantage is in other people (eg libc maintainers) not having the option to require you to use dynamic linking when you don't want to.

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