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Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century [video](youtube.com)
6 points by adwn 5y ago|2 comments
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by adwn 5y ago
There's no gravity on Elysium's habitats, but there's a centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the torus. However, that wouldn't be nearly enough to keep the atmosphere in, because the walls are only a couple 10s of
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by adwn 5y ago
Is there a point you're trying to make, or are you asking for technical information which would be better answered by man dpkg or a quick Internet search?
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by adwn 5y ago
> Yes, it's called capitalism and private property, the two most insane human inventions across history. That's also the system that has produced more wealth and prosperity than any other system in human history. Yes, uncheck
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by adwn 5y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that Intel's price segmentation is on par with intentionally letting people die. Look at it from another perspective: Say there's a company making gummy bears, and they sell the red gummy be
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by adwn 5y ago
> 32 people Slight correction: only 23 people, actually. So in every second football ("soccer") game, you have two people on the field with the same birthday.
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by adwn 5y ago
I'm sorry, dang, that wasn't my intention. I should have known better. It won't happen again.
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by adwn 5y ago
Where's my PC Bullshit Bingo (TM) card? I need to cross off a couple of fields: 1) reducing "diversity" to "different skin colors" 2) fixating on the Third-Reich-esque concept of "human race" 3) insisting
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by adwn 5y ago
But that's what open door means in this metaphor: "staying aligned with the field", i.e., following the mainstream trends.
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by adwn 5y ago
It's a matter of balance. Too much "open door" mentality, and you'll never achieve anything that distinguishes you from the rest. You won't create a new trend if you're always chasing the latest trends.
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by adwn 5y ago
No, you're seriously misrepresenting history there. First, the Nazis were also convinced that the Jews and certain other minorities had committed crimes against the state and the German people, so there's not a meaningful differen
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by adwn 5y ago
> Its well known that abstractions are the devil. Then why are you programming in Go, instead of directly writing x86-64 machine code? Remember that even assembly is an abstraction...
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by adwn 5y ago
> Google [...] market entrants How did you draw a line from the former to the latter?
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by adwn 5y ago
> but then you just end up moving your head around a lot (what a pain in the neck!) If moving your head causes you neck pain, you should get that looked after ASAP! Generally, a static posture over a long time is really bad for your he
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by adwn 5y ago
That's terrible advice if the objection is of legal nature, for example, or when human safety is at stake. Also, you typically don't have unlimited resources, so "you just have to try something" isn't a good justifi
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by adwn 5y ago
I don't get it. Some items on that list can be legitimate, non-technical objections, like 3, 5, 7, 30, 31, 33, 56, 58. Others can be legitimate, technical objections, like 1, 6, 19, 46.
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by adwn 5y ago
> Are those operations so important? Yes, absolutely. You can't even implement thread-safe reference counting ( std::sync::Arc in Rust) without atomic RMW – or even a thread-safe counter . A lock-free single-produce-single-consu
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by adwn 5y ago
> As long as you use C's volatile for all the variables that are involved in a (lock-free) transaction, you should be fine I think. No, you really won't, neither in C nor in Rust. There are (at least) two reasons for that: 1)
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by adwn 5y ago
> social justice [...] Marxists How did you get from Social Justice to Marxism? Those are two different ideologies with different goals and little overlap, except that both require strong, authoritarian states to achieve their agendas.
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by adwn 5y ago
Yes, that's great, exercise is important for your health, I already mentioned that. Doesn't change the fact that you generally won't lose weight through exercise, but through a change in diet. > It is to build muscle, rai
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by adwn 5y ago
Although technically true, it's much easier (and quicker) to gain X calories than to lose them via exercise. So if you're overweight, your number one priority is to control your diet. Regular exercise is important for health reaso
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Problem Broke Math (and Led to Quantum Physics) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by adwn 5y ago|0 comments
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by adwn 5y ago
Programming languages differ, yes, but not so much that they face completely different design decisions. Also, it's not "reasoning by analogy", it's learning from others . In fact, why stop at generics? Why not go back
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by adwn 5y ago
What happens to the water after production? Can it be recycled?
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by adwn 5y ago
Next week on HN: This AI can finally tell you whether an article is a waste of your time
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by adwn 5y ago
> If some program really needs an unsafe block to do something, then that goes into a (hopefully small) library of heavily-scrutinized functions that do dangerous things but expose safe interfaces. Device drivers make up the largest pa
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by adwn 5y ago
> The point was to use compile-time checks instead of a MMU to separate kernel services. Rust's compile time checks cannot replace the MMU. There were experimental SAS (single address space) operating systems which didn't d
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by adwn 5y ago
But that's one of the big promises of micro-kernels: You don't have to have 100% trust in the driver for that gamepad you bought from some unknown company. What about that WiFi driver with 10,000s of lines of code? Are you absolut
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by adwn 5y ago
> Rust's memory model largely makes those isolated address spaces unnecessary, I think you're confusing several concepts. Rust's "memory model" is the C++11 memory model. Maybe you meant the borrow checker and
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by adwn 5y ago
> C++ is what it should replace, except it’s not clear that Rust is as fast for performance-oriented applications I don't think that's true, at least not in a way that matters in practice. Sure, from time to time there's

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