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by atq2119 5y ago
I agree with you, but consider the possibility of donating the difference to a political organisation whose aim it is to eliminate shady behaviour by companies. There's a broader spectrum to donation than just donating to the poor.
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by atq2119 5y ago
Living in cities is already more efficient than the alternative. Having everything in close proximity to each other is huge for efficiency. Imagine how much more efficient it could be without cars. But yes, people living a rural life usuall
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by atq2119 5y ago
This is the fallacy of composition applied to aggregate demand. That's important to know about, but what others were talking about is the psychology of individual choices. There isn't any aggregation or composition happening there
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by atq2119 5y ago
Energy production isn't going to go away.
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by atq2119 5y ago
And (admittedly depending on what type of housing you live in) you can have your own solar on the roof, set up to still supply you even if the grid is down. Hollywood is doing society a disfavour by misrepresenting the apocalypse. EVs and b
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by atq2119 5y ago
This is a reasonable position to take, except the last paragraph is phrased too carelessly. Somebody who really cannot do any programming at all without a second person probably really is useless as a programmer , but most people will li
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by atq2119 5y ago
Nothing is ever non-obvious in hindsight in the social sciences ;) That said, I like that one way this can be read is that being a C-level executive is typically not about some inherent skill or talent. Instead, people simply grow into the
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by atq2119 5y ago
The terms are definitely overloaded and can differ subtly between vendors. Those "scalar-for-each-thread" instructions are prefixed v_ on AMD's GCN. The "v" doesn't stand for "scalar" ;)
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by atq2119 5y ago
This is largely true, but there remains the issue that there are some people who, for whatever reason, almost seem to go out of their way to assume bad intent and interpret what was said or written in the worst possible way. There is probab
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by atq2119 5y ago
I agree where there isn't inherently a stack. Many of the introductory examples of recursion are trivially transformed to an iteration in constant space. However, there are plenty of interesting cases where if you don't use recurs
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by atq2119 5y ago
Not every unbalanced tree is necessarily a degenerate situation. Syntax trees aren't necessarily balanced naturally, for example. (They typically are somewhat balanced, of course, but if you do have one that's unbalanced, there&#x
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by atq2119 5y ago
As a society we have already decided that manufacturers can't just configure the devices they sell however they feel like. One of the most obvious restrictions is on how they configure any radios. fouric is merely arguing that there sh
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by atq2119 5y ago
Playing devil's advocate, one could argue, especially in the case of WSL2, that it's a Windows subsystem that allows Linux to run particularly well by providing virtual devices etc which can be accessed from the Linux VM. It'
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by atq2119 5y ago
Parent's point was that Apple made the switch without having to get software vendors on the project, due to excellent emulation of x86 on their ARM.
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by atq2119 5y ago
That's not actually a contradiction. Market doesn't mean capitalism, and socialism doesn't mean non-market. Market socialism is a thing, and the form of socialism that most of the more thoughtful socialists prefer.
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by atq2119 5y ago
Not really. It'd be more accurate to say it's a workaround for an existing proper hygienic macro system built on static introspection and code generation.
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by atq2119 5y ago
Most people don't find arguing from formulas intuitive unless the formulas themselves are intuitive. If you truly believe they are, I'd be curious to know why.
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by atq2119 5y ago
The variance goes to 0 only if you normalize, which is to say that two random high-dimensional vectors are very likely to be close to orthogonal (under mild assumptions on their distribution). I agree that that's one of those important
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by atq2119 5y ago
Your description fits with my understanding, but I'd draw a slightly different conclusion out of it. As I understand it, the terms SIMD/MIMD/etc. are meant to refer to the assembly instructions used to program the chip, and f
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by atq2119 5y ago
It's not even about home office work necessarily, it's about whether there's a long-term culture of having remote conversation. The company I work for is old by tech standards, and has always had fairly distributed offices.
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by atq2119 5y ago
That's not how it works. The light source and steppers are important, yes, but there's much more to a fab. Think of all the chemistry, for one thing. What you claim is basically like saying a robotics company could just build thei
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by atq2119 5y ago
That's a tedious debate that has been rehashed to death. Finding somebody who has CSAM without being a child abuser doesn't save even a single child. Finding everybody who has CSAM without being a child abuser would likely save
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by atq2119 5y ago
Let's be real, of course many of those people will be child abusers. But let's also be real about something else. Think of the Venn diagram of child abusers and people who share CSAM online. Those circles are not identical. Not ev
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by atq2119 5y ago
No. The two methods are qualitatively equally good. In both cases, some outputs have probability floor(2^n/K)/2^n while others have probability ceil(2^n/K)/2^n. The numbers of outputs with each probability are such that
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by atq2119 5y ago
FWIW, 0 A.D. started out as a mod / total conversion for Age of Empires 2. So the inspiration is rather direct :)
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by atq2119 5y ago
> someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids." Yes, let's think about the kids, please. I certainly don't want my children to grow up in an authoritarian surveillance state...
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by atq2119 5y ago
The comment you reply to does not claim that there's a causation between fun ownership and suicide. It merely notes that the gun violence in Switzerland is largely suicide, which is probably simply because the share of gun suicide am
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by atq2119 5y ago
Apparently Huawei has an interesting ownership structure that may partially approximate this? Unfortunately I never bothered to try to find out in more detail.
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by atq2119 5y ago
The cases are different though in that the UK situation is clearly mostly a consequence of Brexit. That doesn't apply to France.
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by atq2119 5y ago
Is this really fundamentally different to existing syscalls? They already have to guard against the possibility that another thread does funny business with the memory accesses by the syscall. You add ring buffer control structures, sure, b

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