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by argv_empty 9y ago
This seems a bit like replying to a suggestion that the world would be a better place without nuclear weapons by telling the other person to unilaterally disarm.
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by argv_empty 9y ago
Has someone claimed to have a better name?
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by argv_empty 9y ago
The original argument was that naming them "monoids" reduces cognitive load. The argument as I see it written is only that naming them reduces cognitive load. I don't see anyone suggesting that the specific name they happen
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by argv_empty 9y ago
Like GP, I often wonder what untyped languages offer over typed languages for prototyping, and this "soooo much annotation!" thing just isn't a satisfying answer anymore. "Typed" does not mean "as verbose as C#
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by argv_empty 9y ago
If Netflix had to write some of the check You say this like you think Netflix is somehow using the internet for free.
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by argv_empty 9y ago
Those are not the ISP's users, and the ISP has already been paid for the traffic going there.
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by argv_empty 9y ago
It is entirely appropriate to limit the speed and size of large trucks (high bandwidth users) on roadways or charge them more. This has nothing to do with net neutrality. ISPs already get to sell their users as much or as little bandwidth
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by argv_empty 9y ago
Many fear being outed from photos It's not "outing" once you've already been doing it in public.
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by argv_empty 9y ago
Do you have the same complaint about, as another user mentioned, not being able to recover your data when you forget the password to an encrypted drive? This is a pretty disingenuous analogy. GP did not ask about recovering data from the
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by argv_empty 9y ago
That seems like what stock compensation is aimed at. If the company gets a better deal on something, it retains more of its assets and is thus worth more to its owners.
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by argv_empty 9y ago
if you want to really understand how most modern computers actually work, there's probably no better way than to learn C I have found advice like this to be a good sign that the speaker has a very limited understanding of how modern
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by argv_empty 10y ago
It might be more productive to just not ascribe all of Antifa's actions to Berkeley or its student body.
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by argv_empty 10y ago
I feel a vague sympathy for those people. Feh. You always treat a gun like it's loaded. I see no reason to treat a ballot differently. The potential consequences are far more wide-reaching with the ballot.
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by argv_empty 10y ago
Honestly, tying the qualification of H1B to salary only works as some sort of state-sponsored unionization. It's not unionization. It's a simple case of letting the market decide who's got rare and valuable skills. If you
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by argv_empty 10y ago
This still feels unsatisfying, since the target language is really just the source language with slightly modified surface syntax. Connecting languages with nontrivial differences is where writing compilers starts to turn interesting.
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by argv_empty 10y ago
We use the tape's reference frame, of course! Looking at data stored on some particular device in the physical system is going to force a particular reference frame, where you will have a defined simultaneity. A global definition of si
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by argv_empty 10y ago
I'm not sure it's useful to try to discuss concurrency with someone who refuses to believe that a group of machines can be in a state (which is really the point of the article).
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by argv_empty 10y ago
Even if a Turing machine were a physical object (I had thought you would be aware that it's not), either one of those moves completes before the other, or both complete simultaneously.
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by argv_empty 10y ago
No, we just have different notions of system state. If we have a pair of, say, Turing machine heads on one tape that aren't necessarily moving in lockstep, I say that the system state is the tape contents, the two heads' locations
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by argv_empty 10y ago
It sounds like you're modeling the state space wrong. In a concurrent system, the state is not just one thread's (or one processor's, or one machine's) internal data (including program counter). That would be like saying
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by argv_empty 10y ago
A professional is in sort of a weird position union-wise though. He often is part of some organization of professionals. That organization doesn't negotiate one employment contract for all (or even large portions of) its members, but
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by argv_empty 10y ago
Those three are claimed as necessary conditions, not sufficient conditions. I agree that "engineer" also implies some degree of technical skill (like understanding the difference between sufficient and necessary).
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by argv_empty 10y ago
The only actionable advice in here for someone tasked with developing a curriculum for teaching concurrency is to make sure the prerequisite courses instill the idea of computation as a sequence of state transitions.
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by argv_empty 10y ago
Almost certainly, or his defense of the earlier claim would include some description of what new knowledge or novel techniques he developed with this research.
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by argv_empty 10y ago
is a luxury I take it you haven't spent much time in non-downtown Seattle?
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by argv_empty 12y ago
Of course. One can definitely cherry-pick a Massachusetts-sized sample from a US-sized country, but it's rather hard to cherry-pick a Massachusetts-sized sample from a Massachusetts-sized country.
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by argv_empty 13y ago
How common is it for experiment.com funding to include labor? Most of the projects I checked look like they're just covering equipment and travel, and that's not going to be enough to work on the project full time.
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by argv_empty 13y ago
Who are these 1.2 billion? Facebook's users? Notch already has access to that audience. Plenty of them already play his game.
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by argv_empty 13y ago
The authors sure took a long time saying, "because companies select managers based mostly on factors other than managerial talent, like seniority."
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by argv_empty 13y ago
The Supreme Court could have declared that the search can only be for evidence of a particular nature for which the police already have probable cause and that failure to yield to a pedestrian is not probable cause for drug possession (of

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