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by atq2119 5y ago
> most of the members of the 95%ile that have joined MENSA aren't massively successful, any more than anyone on the middle of the bell curve. This may be a selection effect. Perhaps the members of the 95%ile who are successful don
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by atq2119 5y ago
Neither Python nor Lua are always interpreted. (Both languages have fairly well-known and reasonably widely used alternative implementations that include JIT.)
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by atq2119 5y ago
Micro-management like that very often fails, though. What do you suggest shops do if they risk crossing the 1% threshold, for example? I agree that a lot can be done if you're careful about how you do it, but if you aren't careful
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by atq2119 5y ago
FWIW I agree with your thought process here. Proclamations of certainty around UBI are common, but the only intellectually honest position is that we simply do not have enough empirical data to tell with a useful level of confidence how a U
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by atq2119 5y ago
> Normally, an increase in money supply would cause consumer goods to increase in price, since more people are able to buy them This isn't actually true, though it's a widespread belief (quite a number of pundits kept making in
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by atq2119 5y ago
College students are just as smart as graduates and they tend to have much more time on their hands. So yeah, this is cool work, kudos and everything, but the fact that a college student is doing it is the least surprising part of it if y
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by atq2119 5y ago
In theory you could do parallel scan tricks to implement primitive restart at full speed, but obviously it's going to cost you and it complicates the index fetch immensely since it effectively ends up being split into two parts. Most l
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by atq2119 5y ago
Sure, but now the case is before HR and B has to waste cycles defending themselves. Or, depending on just how dysfunctional the place is, they never even hear of the false accusation until months later when it has already metastasized throu
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by atq2119 6y ago
Fixups are done by usermode code, which means the pages containing them can't be shared between different processes. The kernel has no visibility into what is being fixed up. (Also, the fixups themselves could actually be different b
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by atq2119 6y ago
I'm not the author, and I've never used Perl, but I've wanted to write pretty much this article (on the open source projects I'm involved in) for a long time now. I believe the people talking about and pushing "comm
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by atq2119 6y ago
I've felt for a while now that the way the tech world talks about "the $foo community" is just fundamentally wrong. You can only have real communities as long as the number of people is small enough. Once you cross Dunbar&#x2
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by atq2119 6y ago
Neat, though they look unoptimized at a glance. For example, I'd expect the strlen loop to be rotated so that there is only a single backwards branch instruction per iteration. Basically, you want the loop structure to be: co
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by atq2119 6y ago
My browser already sees all of my (web) passwords anyway. Therefore, using the browser's built-in password management reduces the number of external entities I need to place my trust in. Though fair enough when it comes to enterprise f
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by atq2119 6y ago
Browsers have had built-in password stores for years now. Why not just use those?
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by atq2119 6y ago
"Remote familiarity" with free software includes people who have a hard time telling open source and free software apart, which may include politicians who have only been recently told that those terms even exist. It stands to rea
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by atq2119 6y ago
Yes, this is the main reason to welcome these recent adoptions of AGPL. Blanket bans of licenses are bad for free software. More pressure to revisit them is a good thing.
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by atq2119 6y ago
See section 1.5 ("Base Instruction-Length Encoding") of the RISC-V spec. It's actually a bit more complex than just using 2 bits (I had forgotten those details), but the basic idea is the same in that there is a fixed cascade
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by atq2119 6y ago
> you could burn the top 2b to mark instructions as 2/4/6/8 bytes (or whatever) in length. FWIW, this is exactly what RISC-V does.
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by atq2119 6y ago
> wouldn’t every single A/B test done by a product team be considered unethical? Potentially yes, actually. I still think it should be possible to run some A/B tests, but a lot depends on the underlying motivation. The distance
950.
by atq2119 6y ago
Did you mix up inflation and interest rates in your last paragraph? The whole point of QE is to ensure interest rates stay low.
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by atq2119 6y ago
You can argue all you want, ultimately it's for courts to decide, and in the meantime the Apache 2 license creates a ton of legal uncertainty for no good reason. For example, GPL has language requiring you to make clear that you change
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by atq2119 6y ago
Apache 2 is a terrible license for another reason anyway: it requires modified versions to carry notice of the modification on every modified source file. This means that tons of people who fork Apache 2 projects on GitHub are in violation
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by atq2119 6y ago
It's very clearly backed up by the history of how the GPL came to be in the first place. There was a printer driver that RMS wanted to change but couldn't. If the system he was working with had had code signing for printer drivers
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by atq2119 6y ago
That was my first thought as well. However, both vaccines with this issue are viral vector vaccines. Might be coincidence of course, but it gives me pause.
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by atq2119 6y ago
> Inequality by itself is not a bad thing. Isn't it? Even when taken to extremes? Wealth inequality is in direct conflict with a core value of democracy: one person one vote is reduced to a bit of a joke when there are people who
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by atq2119 6y ago
A
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by atq2119 6y ago
Being in the bottom quintile for the US is not very relevant if you're not from the US. What matters far more is your position within your own society, as that's what gives you the safety net, connections, education, etc.
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by atq2119 6y ago
Leaving aside for the moment that this policy is only a partial protection against a malicious client, the same policy could well be implemented in X11. (The window manager is not fully equal.) At a meta level, this is probably the most f
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by atq2119 6y ago
> With X11, if you copy a password from your manager, you must assume all running apps now know it and transmitted it to a malicious server. There’s no way to tell. With Wayland, it is only transmitted upon pasting, and only done direct
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by atq2119 6y ago
My second favourite conspiracy theory is that a lot of the transgender flame wars are fanned by secret agencies to distract the activist populace from topics that are more important and less convenient for the powerful elite (economic justi

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