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by adwn 4y ago
> 1) it looks a lot worse than 1% The 9% / 28% are for -fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow,unsigned-integer-overflow , which prints a warning on overflow. The version with -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error , which aborts the pro
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by adwn 4y ago
> producing temperatures of up to 180 degrees celcius That's a bit short of the 1000°C that Rondo's system promises, so these approaches are useful for very different applications.
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by adwn 4y ago
And the car was "nothing new" because horses have been pulling carriages for ages. The innovation of their technology is in how they solve the problem. Watch the video.
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by adwn 4y ago
No, the 120°C is for residential district heating. According to their website, they can heat up air to over 1000°C: https://rondo.com/how-it-works
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by adwn 4y ago
Then get rid of the filibuster first. This is something that should be done anyway, and as soon as possible.
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by adwn 4y ago
Ah, indeed: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/small_fortune#Noun English isn't my first language, so thanks for the hint!
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by adwn 4y ago
> a company worth a small fortune Atlassian Atlassian market cap: 52 billion USD > a small fortune > small What.
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by adwn 4y ago
The point stands, the vast majority of workloads are unsuited for GPUs, either because they are full of divergent branches, or because the data transfer and synchronization overheads would cancel any performance gains.
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by adwn 4y ago
Concrete without rebar lacks tensile strength, and Roman concrete is no different. When using materials with insufficient tensile strength, you're severely restricted in the kinds of structures you can build. That's why Roman buil
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by adwn 4y ago
> Days since Gravitational Wave Detected "One of these is not like the others..."
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by adwn 4y ago
The "downvotes magnet" thing was tongue-in-cheek – any name is either not famous enough, making it a bad answer, or famous enough to have lots of fans that will disapprove of the nomination. > why Kay ? I don't think his
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by adwn 4y ago
I suspect that any answer to this question will be a downvote magnet... Anyways, I nominate * Eric S. Raymond * Robert C. Martin ("Uncle Bob") * Alan Kay
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by adwn 4y ago
It was implied: >> it will compare to our current society like that compared to feudalism Unless you disagree that our current society is better than feudalism?
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by adwn 4y ago
> I agree with you that I don’t get their easy terrain advice. It allows you to keep a more up-right posture, which is more ergonomic when walking.
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by adwn 4y ago
That was a wild ride – from a reasonable start of "mainframes are a sub-optimal compromise" via "important foundations of our society rely on obsolete systems" all the way to "we'll replace capitalism with some
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by adwn 4y ago
> I also think it’s strange to have your heavy kit up high even in a civilian context when you aren’t lying down There's a good reason for this, and it's right there in TFA. > you don’t put the heaviest things on a top sh
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by adwn 4y ago
When you bury plants, they decay and release their carbon as CO2 back into the atmosphere within a couple of years. Reliably sequestering CO2 by burying plants is difficult and inefficient. In addition, converting crude oil to jet fuel is a
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by adwn 4y ago
> I agree. We spending ridcolous amount of money and fuel to colonizing Mars/space but at same time we are not able to feed millions starving children on our planet. And yet, in the very next sentence you contradict your own point
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by adwn 4y ago
I believe rchaud meant that the set of people using the term "military industrial complex" has a large overlap with the set of people demanding to "defund the military".
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by adwn 4y ago
Some actions have to be irreversible by design (think: emptying the trash to free up space on your drive, or deleting sensible user data). At some point, someone has to greenlight that action, and the best you can do is trying to ensure t
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by adwn 4y ago
> with GC you expect to run out of RAM and you expect the system to not just go down in screaming flames when that happens No, you don't. The main point of GC is that you don't have to think about memory as much as with man
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by adwn 4y ago
> Was C ever much more than a veneer on top of assembler? Maybe in the very early days, but that necessarily had to end as soon as compilers started doing non-trivial optimizations. Today, C is very far from being "portable asse
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by adwn 4y ago
Yeah, this model might require a little bit of tuning...
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by adwn 4y ago
Just a heads-up: You're responding to an ML language model, or possibly to a human giving their best GPT-3 impression.
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by adwn 4y ago
The "JITed languages can be faster than natively compiled ones" meme has been making the rounds at least since Java gained JIT support. It never worked out that way (except for niche cases), for several reasons: 1) Gathering infor
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by adwn 4y ago
No, the point is that Rust makes it much easier to add parallelism than C++: 1) Global state is discouraged by the Rust compiler: You have to explicitly put code which modifies global state inside unsafe blocks, to alert you that you ha
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by adwn 4y ago
Exactly, and the Rust version will "mysteriously" turn out to have fewer security vulnerabilities, scale beyond 1 CPU core, and have a nicer CLI interface :-)
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by adwn 4y ago
> I'm using it to make Rust programmers seethe. Oh, don't worry, we really couldn't care less if you're using C++. :-)
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by adwn 4y ago
> Assembly in the macro-assembler sense. Doesn't matter that it's obscure and not a direct mapping to any specific ISA, there is still relatively straightforward mapping between syntactic constructs and something von neumann-i
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by adwn 4y ago
> The major difference between Rust and [Zig, C] is that the latter are essentially "cocky macro assemblers". They derive their semantics from the semantics of the underlying assembly. I don't know about Zig, but as for

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