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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I live in Manhattan next to an intersection where people are beeping all night long. White noise machine on = I don't hear anything.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
bzip2 isn't very large, and they seem to believe they speed that up too. I don't see why this wouldn't speed up small things. Whether it's a big program or a small one, it probably has hot code and cold code, and organiz
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
It doesn't feel like microservices address the same problem. For one thing, if you have a CPU bound task, splitting it out into two different servers is often going to worsen the problem, as now you have network communication overhead
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Tesla was founded before Facebook, and I'd argue that Facebook would fall into the same category as Google or Microsoft on this question.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
It seems far more likely that the controls were lax than that the saboteur was one of those privileged few. It's not a naive comment.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
It is a starmap for a game that will never be released.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I don't think most people would advise "calling out" as an effective modality for approaching addicts in general.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
This story and stories like it are not rooted in reality. They're rooted in what we dream reality might be, or what we wish reality were. They are wish-fulfillment fantasies.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
If it were actually as simple as that, don't you think this would have occurred to the greatest philosophical minds of our generation, and don't you think therefore that P-zombies would not be discussed? I'm all for bagging o
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> Not that I have an actual example to try this on, which is why the issue is a source of endless debate... This is the core of the issue. Until we can build an apparently conscious entity, there will still be people claiming there'
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
P-zombies do appear to ponder, though. They are in every way externally indistinguishable from normal people. That's the whole point of the thought experiment.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> We have genetic algorithms, so I'm sure we could come up with such laptops. It is almost certain that we someday will. I doubt I'll still be alive to see it, though.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17269230
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
No matter where you work in the Bay, there are decent 1br apartments within a fifteen minute bike ride that cost less than $2500 a month.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> rent seeking behavior So many people are confused about the meaning of this term lately, to the point where I think we might need to scrap it and come up with a new one. In traditional economics, rent-seeking is a bad thing, because it
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> At least some of the many payments making up these results are not properly documented, and from the looks of it, this could amount to willful negligence. If a company is operating in a state and taking millions for political ads, it
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I would not panic over this just yet. It is deeply concerning, but there are some mitigating factors: - Population growth is slowing. - Per capita CO2 emissions are falling. - Good reason to believe this trend will continue.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> I honestly have no idea why it is this way. An endless supply of passionate, naive, and young talent. I guess at least 50% of my graduating CS class at one point or another wished to create a game. Far fewer wished to create a database
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I could imagine maybe a law requiring foreign companies to obtain a bond when selling consumer goods, if they don't have substantial presence in the U.S. This bond would be a surety that consumers could recover damages in the case of n
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I'm sure you can find someone who uses many programs compiled with TCC. That tells me little about the actual prevalence of programs compiled using various compilers.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
It's been a minute since Borland or Watcom were mainstream C compilers on Windows. Consider the year between ~2000-2015. Based on my recollection, it seems like MSVC was used at least 75% of the time, with the other compilers each havi
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Do you really think this is why, though? It's hard to picture Steam the application being performance sensitive.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
So is the contention that Apple is already insider attack-resistant? Or is the contention merely that they might be?
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
The difficulty, huge though it is, is secondary to the lack of utility. Even with C, for a long time there was only a single viable, mainstream compiler on any given platform. Clang being the main exception today.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Your counterclaim can as easily be said of acupuncture, homeopathy, mindfulness, etc. When a phenomenon that ought to be fairly straightforward to measure defeats repeated attempts to measure it, it is at a minimum fair to say that it proba
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
You could do something like provide a public key in the transaction, and then sign the handshake with the tor node.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
On the contrary. If you care about the intersection of gaming and mobile, you are almost certainly using an iOS device.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I suppose it bears some structural similarities. "You don't need to worry about X if Y." The X and Y are different, though, so as with many cases where the variables change, the relationship may or may not hold.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
There's no reference to real names in the new code of conduct. I'm not sure if there was in the old one either. Perhaps the Slack channel has additional rules.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> So, outsiders can muckrake and as long as they are loud enough, someone will be removed? No . . . one has to actually violate the code of conduct to be removed. If there is no muck to be raked, then you should be in the clear.

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