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by adwn 6y ago
Yes, dang is a (the?) moderator on HN. Send a mail to hn@ycombinator.com and he'll (hopefully) sort it out.
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by adwn 6y ago
Just a heads-up, all of your comments seem to get shadow banned. I'm not sure why, maybe you should contact dang.
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by adwn 6y ago
> This "weed problem" comes from a farming not going with but against the nature. All farming is "going against nature", by definition. Take a 100m by 100m field and let it go "with nature" for 10 years. D
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by adwn 6y ago
> That's not a problem for the people selling the robot. Yes, I'm sure their customers will buy expensive machines that don't work. Haha, farmers are dumb, am I right? Ugh.
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by adwn 6y ago
> People have to accept that in real life there is a thing called code-reviews and senior engineers are supposed to prevent such badly written code. Ah, yes, the "you're holding it wrong" argument, just like the article
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by adwn 6y ago
That paper doesn't show what you think it shows. There are too many variables between these CPU implementations to support the conclusion that the ISA doesn't matter for power consumption.
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by adwn 6y ago
Area isn't what affects power usage, switching activity is. [1] Besides, the cache size doesn't negatively influence or constraint the design of the core logic, but highly complex instruction decoding absolutely does. [1] Well
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by adwn 6y ago
Here you go: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... Because the data structure LotsOfData doesn't implement the Clone trait, attempting to create a copy will fail at compile-time.
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by adwn 6y ago
> Also when i try to pre-order for Germany the ETA is Mach 29, 2022 What are you complaining about, Mach 29 is really, really fast! That's 10 km/s, enough to achieve orbit.
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by adwn 6y ago
That's highly misleading. Pre-agricultural humans weren't some kind of noble savages, living in perfect harmony and balance with nature. They lived "sustainably" only in the sense that their environment killed them off a
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by adwn 6y ago
> and don't go spewing their shit all over the cosmos Why? What's the downside to littering on some random asteroid? There's no ecosystem that would care – not even bacteria – nothing and nobody would mind if you drop a
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by adwn 6y ago
> Why do you need a Web GUI or even a NAS OS? Who said anything about Web GUIs? I can't make sense of the rest of your comment. What does that have to do with my original question?
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by adwn 6y ago
What's my best option if I want to buy a compact, energy-efficient NAS on which I can install Linux? I just want the hardware, and not pay for the vendor's crappy, inflexible software.
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by adwn 6y ago
> Economy is closer to a zero-sum game, after all theres limited resources in a period of time. The "economy" is so much more than just the extraction of natural resources, and it's not a zero-sum game in general. Maybe
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by adwn 6y ago
> [...] and because the rest of us are literally slacking as we post here, and want to believe our slacking is some kind of biological necessity Maybe that's because we've observed one too many "I work 80-100 hours per w
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by adwn 6y ago
> Hm? That paragraph is accurate. No, the assumptions in it are ridiculous in context: 1) "You could probably work twice as many hours as a corporate employee" : Okay, maybe you can "work" 80 hours a week, as in &q
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by adwn 6y ago
> Every time I read one of PG's posts, it seems like he's working from a narrative that he's trying to conform facts to. Indeed. Compare this gem from [1]: You could probably work twice as many hours as a corporate empl
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by adwn 6y ago
Tesla's main innovation and unique selling point was "attractive, high-end EVs" , and later, "attractive, mass-market EVs" . It was never "marginally more efficient mass production of cars" . Before Spa
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by adwn 6y ago
> For example: Tesla itself Bad example: Tesla almost went down the drain during the Model 3 ramp-up because they thought they knew better how to do large-scale car manufacturing than all the other large-scale car manufacturers. Turned
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by adwn 6y ago
> 0b1111_1111_1111_1111 That's just 16 bits and will result in the value 65535, not -1.
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by adwn 6y ago
Yes, !0 would work. Or, to make the intent even more clear: -1_i32 as u32 Definitely better than declaring your own function prototype.
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by adwn 6y ago
> My solution is that touch interfaces are a bad design in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I also hate touch interfaces, for all the reasons you mentioned. But saying they're "bad design" is not a solution – it
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by adwn 6y ago
> What about interfaces that don't have a right-click, such as a touch interface? Are you suggesting that we switch to TUIs/CLIs on touch interfaces? If not, what's your solution? > I've found that doing one-off
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by adwn 6y ago
> real UNIX [...] real UNIX [...] real UNIX Yes, we get it, you hate Linux. Your user profile page says as much. Get over it.
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by adwn 6y ago
> What matters is that you can make a profit buying a stock now and selling it at a higher place down the road. Making a profit has been the point of buying and selling stocks literally since day one, when the Dutch East India Company
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by adwn 6y ago
> Arguably, reasoning why to go to university feels more like rationalization rather than supporting evidence. It's definitely not physics. Ironically, basically all physicists of the last ~100 years went through university in ord
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by adwn 6y ago
> the air is notably lacking in both oxygen (for us) and nitrogen (for plants) Minor nitpick: There are only very few plants that are able to extract nitrogen from the air. That's because N2 is a very stable molecule and it takes
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by adwn 6y ago
> Perhaps more exact is to say that corruption requires authority. Yes, that would be more correct. Authority != hierarchy, but you can't have a society without authority. You could start out with anarchy, but then authoritative s
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by adwn 6y ago
> If A forgets the ticket and B approves the building permit because of it, this is corruption. That's not what I meant, there's no quid pro quo in my example. My point was that neither A nor B are above or below each other i
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by adwn 6y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, you hit the nail on the head. There are so many minor scandals that get inflated to epic proportions by the players of the opposite team, that truly outrageous scandals stay without consequ

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