amscanne

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by amscanne 10y ago
To me, free will is the lack of external forces controlling my decisions and actions. That is, I can decide things for myself, even if those decisions are a deterministic product of my current state. How are you defining it such that it mus
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by amscanne 10y ago
Many people believe that free will and determinism are not incompatible (compatibilists). Personally, I'm not even sure introducing non-determinism matters much. What would it even mean? That beyond determinsitic actions defined by our
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by amscanne 10y ago
What's "artificial" shaping? The average consumer ISP has an over subscription ratio of 70-to-1. Unless you want to pay 70x as much for your "100mbit" connection, there are going to be times when packets get dropped
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by amscanne 10y ago
Seems as valid (and invalid) as the implied conclusion here: > This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worl
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by amscanne 10y ago
What does "real income" mean to you? Income in USD? The only sensible way to measure income is with purchasing power, and that's far more complex than an exchange rate (since many of the services and goods originate in the UK
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by amscanne 10y ago
Presumably he means that it's a cost, therefore paid with pre-tax dollars.
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by amscanne 10y ago
Experience is a red flag? That's ageist, and absurd.
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by amscanne 10y ago
I think you want a different word here. Generally DMA to/from the GPU is cache coherent (either via DMA sniffing for cache invalidation or software managing regions for DMA, e.g. marking relevant PTEs as nocache). So accesses are _cohe
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by amscanne 10y ago
Yes, the author committed another pet peeve of mine: omitting Mexico City from the list of largest cities in North America. Particularly stupid, given that it is the largest!
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by amscanne 10y ago
You can include the entire "extended" golden horseshoe area (all the way to K/W and Peterborough) and you've still got only 8.7 million people in 12,185 square miles [1]. By the way, I was already using the golden horses
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by amscanne 10y ago
> Also nitpick - we are the fourth most populous city in North America, and only Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles have a larger population. As of mid last year, Toronto contains more people than Chicago. Ugh, this is a pet peeve of
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by amscanne 10y ago
Presumably those who have invested millions are going to be even more aware of the downsides to voting (losing the ability to split) than most.
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by amscanne 11y ago
My experience in Canada was that "experience" was simply a euphemism for age. I'm not complaining about genuine experience/wisdom/etc. I just think the correlation with age is a lot weaker than prevailing wisdom in
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by amscanne 11y ago
I feel this is one of the root problems with Canada's scene. Young founders are simply not viewed as credible without sufficient "experience" (an obvious euphemism for age). The result is that assistance offered to start-ups
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by amscanne 11y ago
I sure hope a company has a scalable business model before going public. Then again, Twitter?
586.
by amscanne 11y ago
Perhaps the incident I heard of may have involved a fancy coffee, like a latte. ;)
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by amscanne 11y ago
Or the implication that young founders are somehow in need of "adult supervision". This idea is alive and well in Canada (a more conservative culture generally); their tech scene hasn't exactly exploded as a result. This is
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by amscanne 11y ago
I can't remember who told me, but I recall a story of people working for the federal government declining a cup of coffee when visiting an office for similar reasons. It's applying the rule beyond reason, but that sure beats the
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by amscanne 11y ago
Different countries have different rules for taxation. It's perfectly possible to be considered a resident (or deemed resident) in two places concurrently. This is frequently the case for people who split their time between multiple co
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by amscanne 11y ago
> It would not, the US has tax treaties with countries like Canada so you don't get double-taxed. The only case in which you get double taxed is if the US has no treaty with the country. This is only true for federal taxes. States a
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by amscanne 11y ago
> And that's assuming you maintain Canadian residency - if not then you're only on the hook for federal income tax I realize that this is a hypothetical, but FYI the CRA has rules that kick in when you're paying taxes and
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by amscanne 11y ago
> Ndiswrapper is GPL-licensed. The resulting modules are probably not, but they are usually not distributed anyway. I was referring to modules wrapped by ndiswrapper. Of course they are distributed. There are other examples as well: nvid
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by amscanne 11y ago
>If it's an application, no, but if it's a kernel module (e.g. drivers to talk to their devices), then yes. There is debate about this, but there are certainly cases of compliant non-GPL modules. It doesn't strictly follow
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by amscanne 11y ago
Assuming you've got a buffered channel with non-blocking send and receive calls, I seriously doubt that the three lines protected by a mutex are the bottleneck for scaling your service. It's basically exchanging one set of atomic
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by amscanne 11y ago
Replacing a channel with a ring buffer that spins (and uses runtime.Gosched every 1000 failed attempts) is really bad general advice. The other advice is similar. It may be a good idea for very specific use cases and might have served the a
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by amscanne 11y ago
I think the comment is pretty astute -- this is a big challenge. Even if Canada, where the state is effectively the sole insurer and determines treatments and pricing for everyone (arguably more centralized than in the UK), the actors in th
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by amscanne 11y ago
buyer's money => seller => agents. The buyer doesn't have any payment terms with the agents. The agents are paid by the seller. This may normally be with the buyer's money, but that's irrelevant.
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by amscanne 11y ago
Can't you claim that as HST input tax credits though? It's not really fair to claim your costs went up 13% when it's all refundable.
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by amscanne 11y ago
The iPhone 4s is only four years old. The mandatory (1) software updates (specifically iOS8) have basically made it perform half as well as it did when it was sold, I don't think it's a shining example. (1) If you want support.
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by amscanne 11y ago
While I'm sure that's an opinion held by some, it seems unreasonable when you have both EXPORT_SYMBOL and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. If there is no distinction, then why does one exist? I think there's a good argument to be made rega

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