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901.
by adwn 6y ago
Addendum: In the analogy, the two-minute video of the albatross is cut and edited from the rest of the holiday footage, in the same way that a released movie is cut and edited from many hours of unreleased footage.
902.
by adwn 6y ago
> the licensed work vs the whole work of the artist Ahh, I think I see the source of the confusion: in my analogy, the two-minute albatross video is cut and edited from the five-hour holiday footage. Sorry, that was my fault for being
903.
by adwn 6y ago
> You're conflating copyright and privacy. No, this has nothing to do with privacy. The context was "When you buy a DVD, you don't expect hundreds of hours of unedited footage to come along with the film so you can cut
904.
by adwn 6y ago
> there is nothing obvious in that deduction. But it is: The concept of "private property" is pervasive and deeply ingrained in modern Western civilization. You should have very, very good ethical and practical reasons for wh
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by adwn 6y ago
> That is not a reason or an answer to that question. [...] The question was why couldn't the material be packaged up in any other ways? Re-read the original question by jcerelier, who explicitly asked why consumers don't hav
906.
by adwn 6y ago
> What are good reasons for not having this right by default ? The good reason is that someone or some company paid for creating all those hundreds of hours of footage, so they get the first and final say over who gets to view and&#x2F
907.
by adwn 6y ago
I don't see a contradiction between these two statements. There are more languages than C++ and Python. You could use Rust, or some of the languages targeting the JVM or the CLI.
908.
by adwn 6y ago
> That style of quotation makes it seem like I personally find orgasm noises upsetting rather than that I believe others can. Was that how you understood my original comment? No, that was a failure of my editing skills. Sorry for that.
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by adwn 6y ago
It's even more perplexing when you consider that some countries that today are strongly associated with certain ingredients (Germany and potatoes, Italy and tomatoes), didn't know them until a few centuries ago.
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by adwn 6y ago
> I am asexual by choice due to several instances of violent sexual assault. I am sorry for what you had to endure. However, I think you're using the term "asexual" in a non-standard way, and I believe that has led me an
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by adwn 6y ago
> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." I'm sorry if I violated the site rules, but I don't see how? At
912.
by adwn 6y ago
> I find BDSM quite repellent [...] orgasm-noises in porn [...] upsetting I'm not denying that some people feel that way, but it's extremely easy to avoid coming into contact with depictions of BDSM or pornographic orgasm n
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by adwn 6y ago
> As an asexual person, I wish this wasn’t the case, and I find it extremely triggering how hard it is to completely avoid adult content online. By "extremely triggering", I assume you mean "somewhat annoying"? Why
914.
by adwn 6y ago
> I think that's what it's called, but I may be wrong. You're wrong: that's not what it's called.
915.
by adwn 6y ago
What would a coarse-granular specification for Excel look like? How would you prove correctness against such a spec? Examples, please. In these discussions, I only ever see vague statements and handwaving by formal verification proponents —
916.
by adwn 6y ago
> But his fundamental thesis that a "Program" should be treated as a mathematical object and proved using rigorous logic is still true How is that even remotely true? How are you going to formally model a browser, or a word p
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by adwn 6y ago
> What's the use case for it outside of, say, binary executable loaders? If you're doing low-level optimizations, and you know that your pointed-to objects are, say, 8-byte-aligned, then you can use the lower 3 bits of your p
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by adwn 6y ago
Exactly my point. A high-performance 2D GPU library won't make older hardware unusable – "the right tool for the job" and all that.
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by adwn 6y ago
> At some point it has to stop though. No, it doesn't, actually. > How much longer are we going to keep making formerly usable computers obsolete? For as long as increases in performance and energy efficiency open up the pote
920.
by adwn 6y ago
> If CPU rendering, or more limited use of the GPU, was good enough for those devices when they shipped, why isn't it good enough now? Seriously? That very same argument could be made for anything that increases computing power,
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by adwn 6y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, but most of what I read on a day-to-day basis is in English. And yet, whenever I see or hear the term "string", I associate it with "sequence of characters", not with "cord&quo
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The Piet-GPU Vision(github.com)
123 points by adwn 6y ago|38 comments
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by adwn 6y ago
> There is some argument to be made for exp, as it is considered an 'elementary function'. But exp() is defined as the limit over an infinite sum, so why does it get to be an elementary function? My point it that the distin
924.
by adwn 6y ago
> Not really an exact [...] solution But it is exact. > Not really [a] closed form solution It's my understanding that what is and isn't "closed form" is rather arbitrary. Functions which are used frequently
925.
by adwn 6y ago
...in a vacuum.
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by adwn 6y ago
For what it's worth, I downvoted you for the tone of your post, and for the allegation that I live in in Silicon Valley ( "[...] proof that SV is full of assclowns" ), when I don't even live in the US.
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by adwn 6y ago
Your knee-jerk reaction is misplaced. There are valid use cases for intrusive linked lists [1]: a) When your nodes can belong to multiple lists. You can't do this with arrays. b) When you need fast removal from the middle of the list
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by adwn 6y ago
Your post is the very incarnation of the term "strawman". Less of this, please (although I have to say that I found that part: "but spends several years "finding himself" aka partying, drinking and generally not do
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by adwn 6y ago
> However processes do add one more thing: you can scale to multiple physical computers in ways threads can't. Although this is technically true, communication with another system has orders of magnitude higher latency and lower b
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by adwn 6y ago
> Is this a scientific advance or a technological one though? Where's the difference? (this is a genuine question, I'm not trying to trick you)

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