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by atq2119 4y ago
I'm partial to for-else-loops. They fit perfectly into languages with compound expression (produce a value from a break in the loop or from the else block). They don't come up that often, but when they do they're really the
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by atq2119 4y ago
Of Brave New World, to be precise. I do sometimes wonder though if people who actually lived in such a world would truly perceive it as a dystopia, or if that's just our status quo bias.
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by atq2119 4y ago
I've been wondering about this recently. Modern branch predictors are really good at predicting correlated conditional branches. That is, if you have two if statements near each other that use the same condition, modern branch predicto
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by atq2119 4y ago
Yes, transistor densities are increasing, interconnects are getting denser as well (that's what the "metal pitch" is about). There are also improvements in power consumption. I imagine there is more use of EUV and surely mate
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by atq2119 4y ago
You're right, socially ascribed gender didn't go away across society, but there was a string conscious effort by many - still is, by the way - to make it go away or at least make it significantly less impactful. Importantly, the
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by atq2119 4y ago
> AFAIU one group think gender should be a social construct, rather than a biological one Gender is a social construct by definition . This all starts with the purely descriptive observation that when you analyze the informal man/w
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by atq2119 4y ago
> For instance, biological sex is binary/bimodal for all intents and purposes. It is discrete, and very much not a spectrum. This is such an interesting example for why free speech protections are important, but good faith discussio
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by atq2119 4y ago
Use your browser's built-in password storage. You already trust your browser with your passwords, and it's always better to keep your attack surface small. Offline-only is an additional attack surface reducing move. Sure, you may
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by atq2119 4y ago
Doesn't Chrome have a built-in password storage? Firefox does, which is what I use and recommend.
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by atq2119 4y ago
Agreed. The part I don't get about these discussions is that Firefox saves passwords offline for me just fine, and I have to trust my browser to handle my passwords already anyway. Sure, I have to manually copy a password between devic
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by atq2119 4y ago
I didn't mention quietly patching over a deficiency. I suspect that (without bad intention) you're reading something that's not there into what I wrote. Side note: The whole point of unpleasant non-recurring one-off issues is
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by atq2119 4y ago
Such people usually don't become famous enough unless you also count founders. How about Bill Gates, for example? He was a pretty good coder by all accounts.
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by atq2119 4y ago
That's a really good point and applies to unpleasant recurring tasks, but I think there are some unpleasant tasks which are one-offs. Basically, small pieces of technical debt that may get ignored or swept under the rug, that are cumul
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by atq2119 4y ago
Since you mention stable diffusion, there's this: https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK/blob/main/shark/examples/sha... Looks like it's still early days, but clearly it has recently been ma
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by atq2119 4y ago
Right, but price setting via market mechanisms is orthogonal to capital ownership. I'm increasingly convinced that we should strive towards an impure market socialist system because control of large corporations that are more powerful
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by atq2119 4y ago
Cars are big and heavy, and so building them near the buyer has a logistics benefit. Chips have higher value per weight and size by orders of magnitude.
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by atq2119 4y ago
People can adapt, but the real question is how quickly. If you go from virtually 100% grid availability to a complete long-term outage, many people won't be able to adapt quickly enough and will die, especially in large cities. Dependi
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by atq2119 4y ago
The entire purpose of the EFF is political activism, and always has been. I suspect I know what you're trying to insinuate, but please at least be explicit instead of contributing to a world of increasingly fuzzy language.
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by atq2119 4y ago
That's an interesting thought. Personally, I feel messing with another person's personal branch is dangerous. They might already have some change locally, which is going to lead to surprises, and most of the people I work with unf
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by atq2119 4y ago
> if you consider order of memory allocation to be part of the semantics Don't do that, then? :) LLVM can already do heap-to-stack, so people don't seem to feel too strongly that exactly preserving heap allocations is worth it.
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by atq2119 4y ago
It does technically sound like there is a gap in the emulation, yes. Though, since interrupts are normally transparent to user space software, you'd have to use something like ptrace or be messing with the signal delivery mechanism to
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by atq2119 4y ago
That take frankly says more about you than about Elon Musk. Yes, his manner of speaking was unusual for somebody in his position, but it's perfectly compatible with great technical depth.
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by atq2119 4y ago
There were less than 40 years between the first integrated circuit and the world wide web. I mostly share your QC skepticism, but as a bet this would be risky.
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by atq2119 4y ago
More like 0.1% or less.
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by atq2119 4y ago
Even then it incentivizes useless churn. Lines of code is just awful as a target.
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by atq2119 4y ago
It's a weird choice to (1) pick 1965 as the starting date and (2) not discuss at all the fact that peak inflation followed the oil price shock of 1973.
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by atq2119 4y ago
This is exactly it. If you're serious about climate change, then you should see high fossil fuel prices as a good thing. In reality, few people do.
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by atq2119 4y ago
Those are all great (and I do some of them), but they aren't really going to move the needle. It is a step above a flag on your social media profile pic, but it's just a step and we all need to climb Mt Everest.
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by atq2119 4y ago
It is structured under the presumption that some people think that AI generated CP is harmful, and AI researcher think that some people think that AI generated CP is harmful, and are afraid of the potential backlash. The commenter did not
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by atq2119 4y ago
A year sounds extreme for being net negative, but I have a somewhat similar experience in a mixed hardware/software company. There's so much domain-specific knowledge that takes most people a long time to ramp up in. You haven&#x2

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