akhosravian

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by akhosravian 1mo ago
Actually some say “modern C++” dates to 19th century Europe. Ada Lovelace provided some of the earliest examples of undefined behavior that C++ programmers still love talking about to this day.
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by akhosravian 2mo ago
Steam predates all those platforms by years. The only platforms that I can think of predating it are long dead and didn’t have the same concept of ownership (gamespy, gamestorm, AOL, heat.net, etc). Indeed, part of why those platforms strug
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by akhosravian 11mo ago
Why would you allow notifications from most apps? What could the McDonald’s app possibly offer to warrant allowing it to dictate your attention for even a fraction of a second?
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by akhosravian 1y ago
That’s a cool historical fact but the modern colloquial usage is synonymous with poor (financially) countries.
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by akhosravian 1y ago
And when you work on a really big codebase you start having multiple files and have to learn tools more advanced than ctrl-f!!
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by akhosravian 1y ago
The comment you are replying to was replying to a comment that was more akin to “the ceramic bits on the floor were caused by your parents meeting” though
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by akhosravian 1y ago
These dosages are off the charts for what most people ever do. A typical estimate is 15 mg psilocybin per gram of dried mushroom so for a 200 pound person that’s 90 grams of mushrooms. 5 grams is the classic heroic dose.
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by akhosravian 1y ago
People like free and the “greedy corporations” found a way to give them what they want. Google search is trash now (for reasons that aren’t entirely in Google’s control), but for the first decade it was magical how well it could one shot fi
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by akhosravian 2y ago
Funny you mention Seattle’s light rail. The first part of New York’s subway system was built in 4 years and had more stops than Seattle’s light rail does after 15 years. We (Americans) absolutely built big public projects in reasonable time
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by akhosravian 2y ago
The idea that it costs nothing somehow is bizarre. If you divide the NHS budget for 2024 (192 billion) by the UK population (67 million) you’ll find it works out to just under 3000 pounds per person just for 2024. Assuming your wife’s visit
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by akhosravian 2y ago
Plea bargains account for over 90% of convictions in the US. Part of the cause is prosecutors can and do offer deals that rational actors would have a hard time refusing. As a trivial example: imagine you are charged with a misdemeanor you
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by akhosravian 3y ago
I’m not a CS academic or a mathematician, but don’t Godel’s incompleteness theorems preclude a formal proof of correctness?
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by akhosravian 3y ago
Surely you can’t believe the outer space treaty will be followed once interplanetary travel is actually possible. If someone like Elon Musk were to liquidate all their earth assets to lead a mission to mars to start a permanent colony there
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by akhosravian 3y ago
While the world’s resources are finite I think it is excessively pessimistic to suggest we’re consuming anywhere near all that is available to us. It’s possible to call out externalized costs (eg greenhouse emissions, many plastics) and be
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by akhosravian 3y ago
My recollection is in Europe (or at least Spain circa 2016) Mountain Dew was much less intensely colored than in the US, and the neon tint was mainly from the bottle.
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by akhosravian 3y ago
Teams has the advantage of being able to juice their numbers by counting everyone with an office license as a customer.
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by akhosravian 3y ago
The Kinect was released in November 2010. Are you suggesting they’re still running it? My understanding is it died ~six months after the Xbox one released (early 2014) when they stopped bundling it with that console. They kept selling it fo
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by akhosravian 3y ago
Thanks for writing this. I cringe every time I see someone drop the phrase “there’s no direct English translation” as if it means there is some unique insight only able to be expressed in that language. Words aren’t isomorphic between langu
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by akhosravian 3y ago
El Pais is a well knownand reasonably reputable Spanish newspaper; at a tier equivalent to the New York Times or Wall Street journal in the US. It is unlikely they are producing AI fabrications of this sort.
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by akhosravian 3y ago
For context apple offers 0% apr financing on many of their products with the Apple Card. If one has the means to buy a new iPhone with cash, why not take the free ~40 bucks you can get by using Apple Card financing and keeping the cash in s
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by akhosravian 3y ago
Tabs vs spaces has been a viewer setting for decades for tab users.
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by akhosravian 3y ago
I have a very strong distaste for our based future, but saying ads are “paying to spread disinformation” is like saying joining the army is only for people who want to murder other humans. There’s an element of truth, but it is way too redu
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by akhosravian 3y ago
I’ll allow that I’m entirely misunderstanding the goal, but why is it important to stick close to the semantic meaning of rust code? How does this differ from implementing GC in C++ then showing how much better Java does?
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by akhosravian 3y ago
1. Medicare only covers the most expensive in terms of health care costs demographic. Knowing nothing else I’d expect having more people on Medicare to correspond with higher costs per capita. We make 25 year old men who statistically have
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by akhosravian 3y ago
The problem here is the open market insurance is all garbage compared to basically any employer plan. Especially for those of us in tech.
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by akhosravian 3y ago
Where are you staying? That has not been my experience with any Airbnb in the last 5 years. I’ve stayed in airbnbs in New York City, San Francisco, Berkeley and Corvallis. It costs as much as a hotel, often misleading about having a “whole
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by akhosravian 3y ago
Not the OP but I’m guessing the problem they are referring to is when people think they need to understand what a monad is from a category theory pov before they can write meaningful code. Or worse yet, when they are trying to teach the lan
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by akhosravian 3y ago
Bloomberg is privately held, and Mr Bloomberg holds 88% of its shares. In this scenario the board works for him, not the other way around.
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by akhosravian 3y ago
The point of these studies is that MDMA can improve the efficacy of talk therapy. I don’t think anyone in this space is thinking MDMA will replace traditional anti depressants as a thing you take regularly for an indefinite period of time.
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by akhosravian 3y ago
I think it is unlikely Epic or Valve will adopt something as overtly hostile to business users in their ecosystems as long as they are controlled by Tim Sweeney and Gabe Newell (respectively). I think it’s anyone’s guess what will happen wh

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