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by ascar 4y ago
I downvoted this comment as I disagree strongly with that statement: > git has absolutely no meaning for a child, it's a professional tool used for work It's not just a professional tool for work. It's a version control sy
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by ascar 4y ago
At least the recruiters who figured that out for me came with higher quality messages and offers. I dread the day when the London recruiter spam mills figure this out...
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by ascar 4y ago
This effectively needs at least the same kind of regulation as Casinos. It's nothing else than gambling, arguably much worse and predatory in luring you in and making you spend money.
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by ascar 4y ago
> And they dont have democracy. They cant french revolution on their CCP thing. [...] Dont say culture please, nobody prefer autocracy to democracy but the autocrate But it is mostly cultural. Individualism isn't nearly as important
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by ascar 4y ago
> my contract had a sneaky clause in it that said both parties are responsible for 50% of attorney fees. Which contract? The one you did the arbitration? If the consumer law says the winner has to pay the fees, how can such a clause be l
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by ascar 4y ago
oh you're right, my bad. Sloppy on my part! I somehow got tripped up by the 4xSIMD. I was assuming you meant it's using 4x 64bit SIMD there which it doesn't. mulpd and addpd are 2x 64bit, also visible by the xmm instead of ym
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by ascar 4y ago
If you look carefully you will find that the slower algorithm uses less instructions and the faster algorithm uses 2xSIMD and more than twice as many instructions. And yes unrolling the loop carried dependency on the strength reduced versio
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by ascar 4y ago
Do you have a reference for that? I googled and I couldn't find anything good. While it might sound intuitive that SIMD instructions consume more power, I don't think that's necessarily true to a relevant degree in practice.
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by ascar 4y ago
Your points are factually correct, but in practice not a big concern, if your floating point value is much more precise than necessary for the numbers used. E.g. if you use doubles for the range of 32bit integers even adding 1.0 2 billion t
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by ascar 4y ago
> Tldr: autovectorizer transforms the first code into SIMD instructions, but the second into 64 bit instructions. That's not the tldr. It's actually more wrong than right. The actual TLDR is: loop dependencies prohibit the comp
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by ascar 4y ago
> Please consider the the students perspective. I, myself, went through academia with a one single goal - to obtain a piece of paper for future employment reasons, which I endured, with gritted teeth > > I have no idea how it works
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by ascar 4y ago
> Finally, most important projects were done in groups of 2 to 5-6 Much less reason to cheat in group work too. It's much easier to just put in minimal effort and let someone else in the group do the work. That's just another f
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by ascar 4y ago
It's one "valid" way of complying with GDPR.
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by ascar 4y ago
I don't think that works here. When getting a lawyer you are more interested in outcomes than price and we are probably not talking 100x but more like low to mid double digit percent. Important enough for the lawfirm in control of thei
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by ascar 4y ago
Can you elaborate? The US has such a high incarceration rate for in European eyes often benign offenses that I find that statement hard to believe even though I don't know the Dutch laws (I'm German). E.g. I can't imagine a D
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by ascar 4y ago
Since a few weeks/months ago, no. Before that yes.
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by ascar 4y ago
> In the wild, the limiting nutrient for cyanobacteria is often iron or nitrogen. How can nitrogen be a limiting factor if ~78% of air is nitrogen? I'm assuming they also take the CO2 out of the air, which just makes up 0.04%.
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by ascar 4y ago
It proves we can grow plants in the available regolith. Given the results of the experiment as shown in the article a not all obvious result that highlights some challenges. E.g. the plant growing in the Apollo 11 sample turned purple from
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by ascar 4y ago
I love cafe latte made with a high quality bean in a portafilter. I use special higher fat oat milk for it, which gives it a nice nutty flavor and still puts a cup at just about 150kcal. I'm fine with that. The oat milk actually tastes
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by ascar 4y ago
I honestly don't know what will happen if I lived for an extended period of time abroad and come back. It might be a reasonable backup plan, but I also don't fancy the idea to uproot my life and lose my social circle when shit hit
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by ascar 4y ago
Well, you can also stay at L5 forever. It's a terminal level afterall. L6 typically needs at least 9 years of experience and the majority of people will never reach it. And at L6 you make half of 7 figures. L5 still make great money an
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by ascar 4y ago
I'm not sure which situation you are asking about, but generally if you are not earning money and can't afford health care, you should qualify for social security and that covers healthcare, rent, basic needs. In general it's
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by ascar 4y ago
> Are you saying the government auto-enrolls you in Germany? Kinda. Healthcare is not provided by your employers, but by health care insurances. It is generally mandatory to be insured. The system is split in universal healthcare (payed
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by ascar 4y ago
> The amount of money you can make in the US as an experienced engineer is probably 5 fold if not more. Senior engineers are easily pulling 7 figures here This statement is inaccurate for most people. The salaries for H1B visa holders ar
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by ascar 4y ago
> If you work for, say, a FAANG company, you have pretty solid healthcare. While you're employed. For how many days of sickness does your contract say do they have to keep you employed? Isn't it even employment at will? I don&#
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by ascar 4y ago
My dream was to go to California too when I started studying computer science. Then I learned about employment laws, health care and social security in the US. As a person that had close experience how important these things are when things
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by ascar 4y ago
Most child prodigies and most people that work their ass off don't become millionaires, much less ones that can earn a million a year from interest. Also he did receive compensation for all the years he worked, no?
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by ascar 4y ago
> as long as I was sure the stupid thing did everything the port on my laptop does. And didn't require external power. As I understand if you want it to do everything your laptop port does and expect to be able to use more than on
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by ascar 4y ago
Their language says "will be available" and "can purchase", which actively promotes iPods for sale. Saying "while supplies last" is more of a hint than a direct and clear statement that production has stopped.
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by ascar 4y ago
"while supplies last" is literally the only reference in there hinting (can't really call that stating) that iPods are discontinued, right? Did I miss something else?

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