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by adwn 6y ago
> But the costs over time are negligible [...] In heavy industry, they're very much not. Large machines often cost large amounts of money. You don't want large machines sitting around doing nothing when they could do useful w
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by adwn 6y ago
> So I have no idea what you're talking about. Then you should also read the sentence directly after the one you quoted, in which it's explained: > > The equipment that sits around waiting for low or negative electri
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by adwn 6y ago
> Historically, isn't that a "stormier" route? I'm no expert, but I think it makes a huge difference whether you're in a flimsy, wooden ship with even flimsier sails made of cloth, or in a 400m long, extremely
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by adwn 6y ago
> Relative to an absolute viewpoint [...] Any yet this "absolute" viewpoint is never really absolute , but always relative to the authors current position in time – as if by coincidence. EDIT: To clarify, when an author us
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by adwn 6y ago
> In fact, I think we're approaching the "runaway" part of an exponential curve. Tangential nitpick: There's no "runaway" part of an exponential curve. At every point along the x-axis (typically time), t
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by adwn 6y ago
> You're batting 0 trying to defend sexual predators here. This is what's wrong with public discourse in the current cancel culture climate: One cannot even discuss facts without being accused of defending the worst kinds of
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by adwn 6y ago
> You entirely missed the point. A 60 year old man sleeping with someone young enough to be his granddaughter is disgusting. Full stop. You're moving the goal post. At first your claim was that Minsky should have known the women w
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by adwn 6y ago
> Which is also illegal. Where? Even within the US, prostitution laws vary wildly. > And if you're having sex with a teenager for money, she probably has some pretty major life issues going on. Did Minsky know that they weren
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by adwn 6y ago
> I guess if some billionaire flew me to a private island in the Carribean where young attractive girls started throwing themselves at me, and I was the age and... attractiveness of Minsky, giant alarm bells would have been blaring in m
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by adwn 6y ago
Although that might have been tongue-in-cheek, the word "about" could refer to the accuracy of the position, not its precision. Precision != accuracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
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by adwn 6y ago
Keep in mind that this is just the first stage, at ~70m. The second stage – Starship – will add another 50m to that.
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SpaceX Boca Chica: Super Heavy Booster BN1 Stacked [video](youtube.com)
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by adwn 6y ago
> I agree. In Rust I write correct code slowly. "Productive" I am not. I'm confused by that statement. Do you not care whether your code works correctly? Do you consider finding and fixing bugs to be separate from writin
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by adwn 6y ago
Those "tons of nonsense housekeeping" help me detect and avoid bugs. Memory unsafety is not the only category of incorrect code – a bug is a bug, even if it doesn't enable an attacker to gain access to your system. Some of th
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by adwn 6y ago
> what is Rust bringing to the WASM table? Unless you have to interface with a lot of mostly-header/header-only libraries written in C or C++, Rust is just so much more productive to work with than C or C++, even if you don't
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by adwn 6y ago
> But for sure it's a racist trope [...] but useful for certain world views Please stop. HN is not the place for baseless accusations of racism. Please assume good faith in discussions.
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by adwn 6y ago
> #thisguyknowswhathashtagsmean[...] I don't, actually. Please, enlighten me as to the purpose of hashtags on HN.
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by adwn 6y ago
> Your bringing up another issue entirely. That's the poster's modus operandi here: he doesn't miss an opportunity to advertise his two favorite topics – abolishment of intellectual property and his own whitespace-based
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by adwn 6y ago
> If a work is entirely digital, what is the difference between the original and the copy? The difference is that the original instance of the work potentially required considerable time and money, whereas its copies are essentially fr
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by adwn 6y ago
> #abolishcopyright This isn't Twitter. I'm not sure what you hope to accomplish by using hashtags on HN, but it makes you look like an immature child – similar to writing "M$" in the 90s and early 00s.
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by adwn 6y ago
> I don't have to think about abstractions as types I only need to think how to solve the problem in front of me. There's a function in a popular Python scientific library (I can't recall the name of the library or the f
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by adwn 6y ago
> What do they expect to get out of creating an API that is proprietary to their specific non-monopoly device, and that therefore very obviously nobody will ever actually use? You mean like Cuda, which is wildly successful, has a huge
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by adwn 6y ago
I think you're spot on. For 99% of the use cases, traditional threads are the way to go. It's only when you have a truly massive number of logical threads (>100k, or even >1M) not doing anything most of the time, that OS thr
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by adwn 6y ago
Ugh, do you really have to be this nitpicky? Fine, you wrote: > the approximation is generally good enough for a game No, it's not generally good enough for a game – only for some games, and not good enough for any game wi
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by adwn 6y ago
It appears you have a very niche definition of "game", one which excludes basically all 3D games.
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by adwn 6y ago
Only in the strictly mathematical sense. To a first approximation, floating-point numbers behave like real numbers, and that's good enough for many use-cases (not all, though). Similarly, fixed-width integers have a totally different a
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by adwn 6y ago
> The ironic thing is that the earliest programmers are women. That's not correct, or at least, very misleading. The "programming" which you're refering to, would be more precisely called "data entry" usin
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by adwn 6y ago
> [...] so you can't use it for just blindly extracting numeric tokens at all [...] So in other words, it's completely useless? > This is not an intended use case for sscanf. Then what is?
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by adwn 6y ago
> Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one. Wrong. Memory unsafety, in its various forms, is the primary source of exploits in software written in C. > I'd be much more worried about c
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by adwn 6y ago
That's the wrong question to ask. The right questions are: 1) Are there any real examples of software exploits that could have been fixed by programming language features? 2) Is there an incentive to exploit software bugs in a payment

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