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by adwn 4y ago
Really? It's right there in the second sentence : > From China to the UAE, the Bahamas to Nigeria, countries around the world have started trialling the use of central bank digital currencies as a way to translate their national f
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You're forgetting about the billions of USD that go into buying the machines that make up the fab. > The material is just silicon. No, a lot of chemicals are required as well.
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> one of the best Vodka's i ever had So you've never had a better mixture of 60% H2O and 40% ethanol? Because that's what's left after 4x distillation followed by filtration, as claimed in the description. I'm
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> The language design intentionally trades programmer’s sanity for ease of implementation. There's nothing "easy" at all about UB-exploiting performance optimizations in modern C compilers, and "ease of implementati
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You think that there are no hard business decisions to make in established – i.e., non-software – industries? It's just smooth sailing along predefined routes?
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> moving back to the Russian serf village is not the solution, that place is now ruined, young people moved to the city, old people died off or drank themselves to death. One guy hung himself. Is it possible that you have a distorted p
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by adwn 4y ago
> We rely on having money. And we rely on a mature economy where someone is willing to solve every problem in exchange for that money. [...] This movement toward individualization correlates very strongly with the capitalism. Money as a
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> Or creating smarter autocomplete algorithms. Ah, the Sufficiently Smart IDE, companion to the Sufficiently Smart Compiler. Sure, go ahead and wait for the magic autocomplete algorithm that can deduce precise function signatures in a
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> Do you really need tests for the read(2) syscall when Linux is running on a billion devices, and that syscall is called some 10^12 times per second globally? This attitude blows my mind. The point of tests is to find bugs before you s
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by adwn 4y ago
I have no insight into the natural sciences, but I've spent a couple of years in computer science academia. With that in mind: > None of it would be possible without academia though. Industry just applies academic research. Meh, tha
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This assumes that 1) they themselves know how many hours of work leads to optimal productivity [1], and 2) there are no external factors that incentivize them to work fewer or more hours for appearances' sake. [1] If startup founders
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> Here's an example of a "good" benchmark from our dataset which starts slow and hits a steady state of peak performance Am I misinterpreting their graph? The difference between "slow" and "peak performance&
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> They’re a software, logistics company. Their product isn't some software, and they're not making money by selling software or a software-based service [1], so they're not a software company. They're selling taxi r
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That video was recorded while being at the office . If anything, it's evidence against the supposed effectiveness of forbidding remote work.
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> Space Karen Please keep HN free from these kinds of low-effort memes [1]. Thank you. [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/karen
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I vouched for a couple of them; the others are still dead.
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Just a heads up: you seem to be shadow-banned, all your posts are flagged.
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> why is it a bad thing to acknowledge that and try and fix it? I think the main objection against this kind of affirmative action is that you can't make up for discrimination against one group by discriminating against another gr
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You wouldn't construct a solid shell, but a swarm of more-or-less freely orbiting modules.
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> The bigger question then is why you would need all that energy. Cryptocurrency mining, naturally.
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> Trillions of meteorites? No, from one of the redundant planets, like Mercury. > 100 trillion hours of labor not counting commute time? You're joking, right?
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> We can solve these problems in a month if enough people just thought with empathy about this topic for 10 minutes. How?
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> My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place. That doesn't make any sense. Just 10 minutes before you've c
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> once computing became [...] expensive At what point in time do you think computing became more expensive than it was before? If anything, the cost of computing has been strictly monotonically decreasing since the very first programma
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> I wonder if Rust or similar could make the MMU transistors and energy budget redondant. No, those concerns are completely independent of each other. Rust's memory safety protects from accidentally accessing the wrong memory wi
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> rust (great language, tool ecosystem and community, but needs to stabilize before it's used for critical infrastructure.) There's hardly another mainstream language out there that's more stable than Rust: the standard
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> Making a random function faster and harder to maintain is bad engineering if the speed isn’t useful. 1) It's not some random function, it's part of the standard library. 2) Three-way string compares are far from uncommon, a
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> In the early days computer programming was considered a clerical job one learned in trade schools. That's because in those days, the term "programming" didn't mean "software development", it referred to
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That's not very convincing. Before the introduction of the potato, there were no below-ground alternatives that were superior to cereals in Europe and Northern Africa. > E.g. many roots are buried and hidden from tax collectors. T
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> Should be "32-ish architectural registers". The entire article is about instruction sets , not about their physical implementation, so I don't think this clarification is necessary.

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