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by atq2119 1y ago
From personal experience, it's definitely possible to earn more than 2x that in total compensation before taxes as an individual contributor in Europe. Maybe not all of Eastern Europe, but I can't really speak to that.
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by atq2119 1y ago
In what world does holding the user's private data for 30 days make sense for a spell checker ? Even sending the data at all is sad. We've had offline spell checking for decades.
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by atq2119 1y ago
What's actually weird is how society normalized binding contracts that are far too long to be reasonably read by the people they are supposed to be binding to. A well functioning legal system would throw out everything in those contrac
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by atq2119 1y ago
To be fair, keeping your own resources in the ground as long as possible is often the strategically right move if your time horizon is long enough. It means they will still be there when other world regions run out.
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by atq2119 1y ago
I like your optimism that a decent end state can be reached at all. There are so many ideas that sound good on paper but are bad in practice, and that happen to be convenient for the goals of unscrupulous powerful people. The notion that so
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by atq2119 1y ago
> The book [...] didn’t You mean the book that has a 40(?)-page chapter in which characters you never hear from before or afterwards describe what's happening in their home lands didn't go into the day-to-day? :) Lord of the Ri
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by atq2119 1y ago
I would go even further and call it the responsibility of high status to ask such questions. As a high status person, you have an outsized influence on culture whether you like it or not, and an environment in which this kind of question
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by atq2119 1y ago
That bit does seem a bit whiney. AMD's latest offerings are quite good, certainly better value for money. Why not buy that? The only shame is that they don't sell anything as massive as Nvidia's high end.
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by atq2119 1y ago
Sure, but we were talking about the perspective of software developers. The hardware designers take on complexity so that the software developer's work can be simpler.
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by atq2119 1y ago
CPUs are still a great example for how caching simplifies things. There's a long history in computer architecture of cores and accelerators that don't have a cache but instead rely on explicitly programmed local scratchpads. They
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by atq2119 1y ago
More likely it's because the scene they're using is completely unrepresentative of what people are interested in: almost no triangles, primarily procedural nodes (for spheres), and in general a fairly simple scene.
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by atq2119 1y ago
In terms of how its business works, Apple is primarily a fashion company. A deeply technical one, yes, but that's not what drives their decision making.
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by atq2119 1y ago
I'm certain that web style scaling is what the vast majority of desktop users actually want from fractional desktop scaling. Thinking that two finger zooming style scaling is the goal is probably the result of misguided design-centric
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by atq2119 1y ago
Not to mention that only a small fraction of the world uses inches...
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by atq2119 1y ago
Thank you for that. The excellent fractional scaling and multi-monitor support is why I finally switched back to KDE full time (after first switching away during the KDE 3 to 4 mess).
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by atq2119 1y ago
That's a pretty snarky and unhelpful approach to the conversation. That said, I'm also a bit surprised to see somebody discuss modular inverses without mentioning the extended euclidean algorithm, which is a more elementary soluti
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by atq2119 1y ago
While you're likely right in describing the status quo, it's unfortunate that it has come to that. The one thing that's really objectionable in that section is the last part about people who attack or flame without apparent r
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by atq2119 1y ago
It's fascinating how differently people's brains work. Autocomplete is a total focus destroyer for me when it comes to text, e.g. when writing a design document. When I'm editing code, it sometimes trips me up (hitting tab to
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by atq2119 1y ago
Many inventions simply happen when the environment is ready for them, e.g. manufacturing techniques have advanced to the point where something is possible.
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by atq2119 1y ago
That's the thing about sci-fi: almost all good sci-fi stories are really sci-fi + X, where X is some other genre. Often adventure or mystery, sometimes horror, and in this case political thriller / spy story.
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by atq2119 1y ago
That's a bold statement, considering that many of the largest C++ code bases - including at least one of the few remaining C++ compilers! - don't use exceptions.
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by atq2119 1y ago
This makes sense for objects that can enter an equivalent invalid state after successful construction as the result of a method call (e.g. a file or stream). For objects that don't have that property, you're just exchanging one ki
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by atq2119 1y ago
To be fair, there's a reason for the pattern with init methods you're describing. C++ constructors can't return values. If construction is fallible, the only way to communicate the error is via C++ exceptions. If you're
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by atq2119 1y ago
If you go the batching route, bisection on failure makes it more like O(log(1/commit rate)).
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by atq2119 1y ago
This doesn't work across forks, though, and therefore doesn't compose with GitHub's model where you push your changes to your private fork and then open a PR from there. There's also no native UI support for it in GitHub
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by atq2119 1y ago
It's not the same price. The shipping companies charge you a processing fee in addition to the actual tax, so you often end up paying a lot more. Bulk shipping is more efficient.
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by atq2119 1y ago
> We do have farmers growing apples, but there's no harvesting those during our snowy winters so our tariffs on apples are just active when local apples are in season I'm curious: apples are fairly easy to store in bulk. That&#
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by atq2119 1y ago
I don't think the answers from others in this thread are particularly satisfying either, at the time I'm writing this. Thinking about it a little bit, I'd say the major challenge for converting from shared to static library i
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by atq2119 1y ago
If buying hyper luxury goods was the only thing that this wealth was good for, I'd agree. But it's not: many of those billionaires are using their wealth to subvert democracy. They are quite literally enemies of the state. The onl
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by atq2119 1y ago
Diffusion could potentially be more efficient for local inference. With auto-regressive models, token generation is basically one token at a time, and so is not compute intensive at all -- it's bandwidth bound. With diffusion, you alwa

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