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by andrepd 6mo ago
It's disgusting that they were ever allowed in the first place. Cars have extremely high externalities, the bare minimum is that people pay for them. An EU directive implementing vehicle tax proportional to weight is urgent. Heavier
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Iran Ceasefire: Israel intensifies Lebanon strikes and Iran closes the strait(apnews.com)
17 points by andrepd 6mo ago|3 comments
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Agreed. Make bike paths and people cycle on bike paths. Crazy stuff I know!
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by andrepd 6mo ago
My first time hearing the name RAZOR1911 was on the cracktro for GTA IV, which had this banger of a music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4-9PsZHqI
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by andrepd 6mo ago
> Iran is a shell of the threat it was a month ago. That's why it is crippling the entire world's economy and demanding concessions bigger than the status quo ante bellum, with the US powerless to stop it. Because it's no
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by andrepd 6mo ago
There was actually no "thought" being put into the IEEE spec as such. It was merely a codification of the design of the Intel FPU (only one of many, very different implementations of FP units pre-standardisation). There was though
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What historical evidence do we have of Jesus' crucifixion and its aftermath(old.reddit.com)
3 points by andrepd 6mo ago|0 comments
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Neat example of cognitive bias, the brain perceives the Nope as being much more prevalent than it actually is!
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Absolutely! IEEE floats are ubiquitous in software and hardware. I bet good money they will still be around 40 more years into the future :) and any alternative has to fight their ubiquity. Better alternatives have been proposed for a long
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Indeed, but sprawling lead-smoke infested freeways is the stuff of the 1950s; bike lanes and playgrounds and grassy tram tracks is what some cities are starting to do just now! So actually more futuristic, objectively speaking :)
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by andrepd 6mo ago
There's a fine line between prohibition and all-out attack, everywhere all at once, from TV internet and sports, trying to get everyone addicted to gambling, from 9 to 99 years old. Like... cigarretes aren't prohibited. But you&#x
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Algorithmic optimisation will be the death of us. Over-dramatic? Maybe, but this thought springs to my mind more and more.
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by andrepd 6mo ago
These other "randoms" are US allies which host bases and equipment used to attack them. In more practical terms, wrecking shit up in places like Dubai that made their name off air travel and attracting "expat" douchebags
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Slight tangent, but to me futuristic cities are actually places like Amsterdam, with cozy streets and bike lanes everywhere, not places like Dubai with 16-lane freeways and a quasi-slave underclass staffing the tacky malls.
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by andrepd 6mo ago
> Unums have proven difficult to build efficient HW implementations for Valid point, but not quite true anymore. It comes down basically to the latency of count_leading_ones/zeros for decoding the regime, on which everything else de
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Is it an arithmetic average of relative error over the given range? Because if yes then it can be misleading, and potentially a bad meshes to rank alternatives (though the HTML report includes a graph over the input range, which is quite ni
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by andrepd 6mo ago
I don't quite understand how they define "accuracy".
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by andrepd 6mo ago
That is indeed one of the problems with IEEE floats. There are only 10^80 atoms in the universe, and a Planck length is 1^-60th of the radius of the universe. But 64-bit floats have an absurd range of over 10^±300! Worse than that, notice
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by andrepd 6mo ago
To add to the answers given already, there's the matter of the sheer scale of wealth these people have (especially relative to e.g. median worker wages). The richest people on earth in the 80s were a bunch of discreet Japanese CEOs w
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by andrepd 6mo ago
For those nostalgic for different times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ
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by andrepd 6mo ago
To be fair, I did entertain myself by drawing comics on my notebook or playing with my pencil and rubber as if they were toy cars.
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Screens and computers are incredibly useful in education when they are used for some concrete purpose . Just think about how incredibly useful it is to use Desmos or Manim to explain certain mathematical concepts, as opposed to chalk on bl
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Reading this paragraph I was genuinely convinced it was an April 1st thing.
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by andrepd 6mo ago
"Responsible Statecraft" they call themselves.
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by andrepd 6mo ago
I don't see a way out of this except government regulation. The EU has the most motivation to do it, as a huge economic bloc with a lot of motivation right now to become as independent from the US as possible. I guess I can sort of m
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by andrepd 6mo ago
> Scraping static content from a website at near-zero marginal cost to its server The gall. https://weirdgloop.org/blog/clankers
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by andrepd 6mo ago
> OpenAI: These checks are part of how we protect products from abuse like bots, scraping , and other attempts to misuse the platform. This would be fucking HILARIOUS if it wasn't so tragic.
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by andrepd 6mo ago
Multiple cursors were the killer feature that got me to start using Sublime Text back in ~2010. Still an absolute staple of my text editing toolbox. Ctrl-D Ctrl-D Ctrl-D ...
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by andrepd 6mo ago
With the open world™ minimap and objective markers on the corner of the screen? I suspect not :)
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by andrepd 7mo ago
This is already the case since parliamentary minutes are typically on the web as well. Unfortunately of course, this only includes the "official" discussions, not those taking part in corridors, offices, or lobbies... :)

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