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by bcoates 2y ago
The constant-math method above doesn't require that and works on denormalized expressions, too. That said, the trick for turning four or more argument bitwise operations into a series of vpternlogd operations has yet to be posted
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by bcoates 2y ago
In theory, they could form some sort of phased array beamforming to fuck one guy in particular, but ignoring that sort of targeted malice, and assuming non-correlated noise and a non-directional receiving antenna, the inverse square law wou
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by bcoates 2y ago
As far as I can tell, electric cars are regular old FCC 15b devices, but the emission limits are generous enough that an AM radio can't operate from inside of one, the same way you wouldn't expect an AM radio sitting on top of a g
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by bcoates 2y ago
"If it didn't work you didn't believe hard enough" also known as "Real Communism has never been tried" or "Conservatism never fails, it can only be failed" is a sort of... information-free stock posit
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by bcoates 2y ago
You can't reasonably assume the end user system has a system JVM installed (they probably don't, in fact) so they're not really an alternative to a fat binary -- if you can install dependencies, you can just pick a single-tar
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by bcoates 2y ago
Yes, it's bad. Learn to mind your own business. If you don't understand, you are failing the test.
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by bcoates 2y ago
I mostly agree with you but take the opposite position: attacking memory safety bugs has been so successful that we should use the same pattern on other large classes of bugs. It's absolutely possible to write a reasonably usable langu
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by bcoates 2y ago
Does the FDA have any actual mandate or expertise to do that, or are they just embracing mission creep?
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by bcoates 2y ago
Generally OLEDs don't use off for black outside of special-effect low power modes. The display only has stable contrast above some threshold brightness that in a dark viewing environment is going to be noticeably brighter than off, and
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by bcoates 2y ago
If you unplug the network you can't send messages, correct. Other people upthread have already gone over how you can't separate delivery from message processing and how TCP's attempt to do so makes it defective (unless you la
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by bcoates 2y ago
Any evidence this actually causes material performance improvement? Pre-shared compression dictionaries are rarely seen in the wild because they rarely provide meaningful benefit, particularly in the cases you care about most.
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by bcoates 2y ago
This is a popular saying that is basically wrong. You have very limited guarantees around an arbitrarily bad partition, but this is also a detectable condition. Lots of defective systems exist, but in general non-defective systems generally
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by bcoates 2y ago
Re: Compensation expectations, I figured out a long time ago that bad programmers create bad code, and bad code creates work for good programmers. If the amount of bad code is no longer limited by the availability of workers who can be trai
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by bcoates 2y ago
As sort of an exception that proves the rule thing, there was a real recent-ish case of (attempted) drink spiking in the LA area that demonstrates how it would actually go in real life vs the "unexplained mystery blackout while out dri
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by bcoates 3y ago
Yeah. Looks like the processor is in virtual x86 mode from the dump, maybe that causes weirdness in the OS/2 BSOD?
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by bcoates 3y ago
My guess is that the Infocom game was setting up some sort of FP emulation TSR and not cleaning it up, and BattleTech was coincidentally using it. Or whatever the equivalent of a windows 3.x VxD is for OS/2, if that exists. Or just oth
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by bcoates 3y ago
"For example, what if the parallel sums are of different lengths? On GPUs, fast parallel reductions only work when inputs all have the same length. [...] Vexpr’s vectorizer groups the inputs by length and performs a reduced number of o
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by bcoates 3y ago
I've used WYSIWYG UI dialog editors (mostly the one MSVS used to bundle with C# in... I wanna say 2012?) that maintain their entire state as somewhat-editible two-way code (so if I modified the code, at least within a constrained envel
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by bcoates 3y ago
Yep. All the no-code systems I've ever investigated are essentially expert systems, and if there's one constant over the history of AI boom and bust cycles, it's "statistical models absolutely demolish expert systems eve
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by bcoates 3y ago
Feel free, I'm not so optimistic about the mechanisms of Wikipedia. Almost all the wrong information in the article has a high-quality source (presumably repeating either the Wikipedia article itself or some other random journo playing
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by bcoates 3y ago
This article is borderline incoherent and written as WoW roleplay for some reason. (this is from memory plus the less-incorrect looking sources I can find; I'm probably wrong about something but less wrong than the Wikipedia) The corru
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by bcoates 3y ago
It really depends on the decision! For example, the mass of pages the Supreme Court has spent on ERISA could possibly count as a method of state-sponsored torture. I totally understand being over the whole deal, but if you actually care abo
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by bcoates 3y ago
If my childhood experiments with anything amenable to a screwdriver are anything to learn from, you'll learn more from breaking it than looking at it. We can always use all those pointless atomic bombs we spent billions on to sterilize
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by bcoates 3y ago
It's not at all legalese. Part of the reason the whole publication is so long is that each of the justices was fully aware that it'd be read by law students, interested citizens, etc. for decades to come and wrote out in longhand
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by bcoates 3y ago
AIEO is a thing, baby. Did you not think a system that gathers effectively all its input from the web would just be left alone by hostile actors with almost zero costs and millions to billions of dollars of upside? Welcome to the big league
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by bcoates 3y ago
Some particular build of Chromium and Chrome are vastly different systems. A lot of this is philosophical; The Mozilla way is to support standards and tut-tut at websites for doing overtly malicious things like looking at user-agent or aski
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by bcoates 3y ago
Uh, early 2000s? There was very much 24/7 news media back then. Mature internet news, immature social media, multiple 24/7 national news channels for most major countries and languages... I daresay most teens in the early 2000s we
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by bcoates 3y ago
No, we have a problem with the news selling those fictional things as real. Turn off CNN or OAN wherever you get your firehose of algorithmically generated nonsense from and they magically go away.
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by bcoates 3y ago
I got distracted by this throwaway line: "That included white nationalist Richard Spencer, who used to write for Breitbart" As far as I can tell the Grauniad has (in multiple articles) confused him with a different guy of the same
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by bcoates 3y ago
I mean, who wants to feel like they work at a bullshit job where nothing matters? If you can sell putting on a show of dramatic urgency at any level you'll find lots of buyers (at least until the disillusionment sets in)

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