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by adwn 2y ago
> Yet the US space program existed solely and exclusively due to a large and heavily centralized governmental effort. That's not quite the right conclusion to draw from this. The US could afford to put a humongous amount of resour
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by adwn 2y ago
> The "design of WebGPU" is a problem. It's designed for the web to be secure and sandboxed so the API design reflects that. The page you linked clearly states that wgpu-hal's API is extremely unsafe and skips many
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by adwn 3y ago
> abusing a vector in this way is not a safe interface and is instead a good way to introduce several memory safety bugs (for example, UAFs) No, as long as you don't use the unsafe keyword, an out-of-bounds vector access won&#x2
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by adwn 3y ago
> Turns out localization takes a lot of space. Does localization involve more than a few hundred strings per locale, all of which should compress really well? Maybe add in some localized icon sets, but much fewer than the number of sup
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by adwn 3y ago
The problem is that in practice, you don't have complete information, and the information you have is slightly incorrect. You also don't have a complete model, and the model you have is slightly incorrect.
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by adwn 3y ago
You mean "xnor", right? It's the != operator which corresponds to xor .
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by adwn 3y ago
The built-in Gigabit transceiver cores, which you'd have to use for the PCIe protocol, are connected to very specific IO pins on the FPGA. If the PCIe slots on your mainboard aren't already routed to those pins, then the FPGA will
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by adwn 3y ago
> Are you saying you don't understand why unexpected behavior causes anxiety? It's a pretty well documented effect, from rats to humans. I'm saying that your leap from "the car in front is behaving unexpectedly beca
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by adwn 3y ago
Braking to avoid hitting an obstacle (like that tree branch in the first example) is hardly "acting unexpectedly". > "Acting unexpectedly" is one of the aspects that makes dealing with mentally ill people anxiety-pro
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by adwn 3y ago
They interact via the electromagnetic force.
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by adwn 3y ago
> They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. A
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by adwn 3y ago
> We haven't had energy independence in Europe for decades. Yes, and that has bitten us in the ass big time .
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by adwn 3y ago
Your argument is proving too much [1]: Every attitude will lead to absurd results when followed to absurd lengths. It's like claiming that the advice to drink water is "quite psychotic" , because drinking 50 liters of wate
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by adwn 3y ago
Why would "ruby -> rb" be okay but not "java -> jv"?
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by adwn 3y ago
I think OP's point is that QUIC needs fewer round trips than TCP+TLS to set up a connection.
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by adwn 3y ago
Of course it was sarcasm. I meant to highlight the major problem for using renewables for heating: you'll need most of the power when the least amount of daily solar insolation is available – in winter. This means you either need a
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by adwn 3y ago
> If there’s any language regarding the dwelling being habitable, then the lack of a license makes it by definition not a habitable dwelling By which definition of "habitable"? Because I've never seen a definition of &
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by adwn 3y ago
Is that a serious question?
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by adwn 3y ago
> You don't actually need your heat pump 24x7 even on those cold days, if you can run for 15 minutes one, 15 off that would make a big difference to the grid That's already the case – the actual heat pump only runs intermitte
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by adwn 3y ago
Isn't the point of QUIC to offer high performance and flexibility at the same time? For these requirements, a one-size-fits-all API is rarely the way to go, so individual user-space implementations make sense. Compare this to file IO:
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by adwn 3y ago
> Why do we insist on our energy system to be infinitely flexible and full power available 24/7? I like to heat my home during winter. We have a (modern, highly efficient) heat pump, so we need most electricity during January, jus
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by adwn 3y ago
But then why would it have to be a shared counter? Any write to a non-cacheable memory location is transmitted to system RAM, it doesn't have to be shared with other cores, nor does it have to be a counter.
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by adwn 3y ago
> just by incrementing a shared counter (which cannot be cached) That's not true, a shared counter (i.e., an atomic integer) is cached – in fact, there's no guarantee that its value is ever written back to system RAM. You&#
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by adwn 3y ago
> I would encourage you to read the facts [...] I already have, thank you. > They sold 180–190 °F coffee, with a lid, to a 79yo lady at a drive-through window. I know. That "79yo lady" is an adult who is liable for her o
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by adwn 3y ago
> The McDonald's hot coffee lady case wasn't frivolous. No, this isn't "twisted in our living memory". The people who think that the lawsuit is frivolous haven't forgotten that the coffee was hotter than o
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by adwn 3y ago
Well, there's Servo [1], which I have high hopes for. [1] https://servo.org/
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by adwn 3y ago
> I've often said that the most reliable way to get "rich rich" is to watch where money is flowing from point A to point B, stand in the middle and stick your hand out. Oh come on. If it were this simple, everyone would
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by adwn 3y ago
> Longevity of the job, social responsibilities (such as improving the community etc), are all secondary to the financial success for the shareholders. I think you're describing the way things are , while dwalling is talking abou
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by adwn 3y ago
Exactly – unintuitive, inconsistent behavior like this is why I wrote "braindead design decisions around arrays" . I know of no other language that managed to get something as simple as arrays quite as wrong as Lua did.
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by adwn 3y ago
> One way to think about "tables" is that they have an array part and a hashmap part. But why conflate the two? There's no benefit to this, only drawbacks. > The # operator works on the array part simply starts count

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