benj111

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by benj111 4mo ago
Is altruism entirely about self interest? I'm not saying that to take away from it, but people do things to feel good, or because they get something out of it. Either way you are being rewarded. This explains plenty of bizarre outcomes
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by benj111 4mo ago
At least back then pages were slow because the internet was slow. Now we have pages being slow because? Why?
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by benj111 4mo ago
All online services are like this. I used to sell stuff on eBay. Had multiple accounts randomly closed. Never did find out why.
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by benj111 4mo ago
Cool. I particularly like the O'Reilly book cover that never was. Although I fear you may have misunderstood what wasm is... Question/critique. Isn't getting the mime type by file extension a bit windowsy? Would it not be eas
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by benj111 4mo ago
If I listen to X band. Watch Y film. Am I doing it purely for myself or have I been prodded by society in some way? Am I a 'real' fan of band X, or not, because I only got into them with there latest hit album? This isn't a n
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by benj111 4mo ago
So why isn't the batch checker taking on that responsibility? Doctors aren't responsible for anything and everything that happens. If they've had a drug tested to check it's safe, after informing the patient, what else i
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by benj111 4mo ago
How does that justify a 30 fold increase? If an individual Dr can get a batch checked while saving the patient money, it obviously isn't justified.
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by benj111 4mo ago
But where does that leave us when programmers treat themselves as architects with the AI doing the drudge work? As seems to be the fashion. It then means you have 2 parties focussing on the big picture and no one focussing on the details.
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by benj111 4mo ago
>To exist the compressed file only needs a formula to validate the result. Like it being a type 42 image with this checksum. It might take a quantum computer to confirm existence I interpret this to mean that the checksum is the compress
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by benj111 4mo ago
Are you Autistic per chance?
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by benj111 4mo ago
I don't think "make it work" necessarily implies starting with the wrong language. It's sort of like "premature optimisation is the root of all evil". That shouldn't imply you should use completely the wro
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by benj111 4mo ago
You say this just as Google's AI is confidently telling me 'c.addi4spn' is 7 characters long. So from my perspective you still need to know how to do the thing to catch the errors. Also, are you not missing out on the unknown
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by benj111 4mo ago
'last century' 'turn of the century' etc just make me think the 1800s. So I just say last millennium. Probably get confusing again when people start referring to 'the 20s' not as the 1920s.
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by benj111 4mo ago
>18. A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing I kind of disagree. It may not be a very big or interesting program but a hell of a lot of useful stuff is done on spread sheets without any loops or anythi
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by benj111 4mo ago
You do realise that Gaza isn't a separate country? Not that it's the same country, as either option would require Israel to give it's citizens voting rights, or it's rights as an independent nation.
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by benj111 4mo ago
There's also 'Neverending Story 2'. 'The best album in the world ever part 2+' (though I suppose not technically impossible), and various 'Ultimate' things. And perhaps the Final Fantasies.
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by benj111 4mo ago
Yes. I had a printer that decided that the ink pad was full. Presumably you're supposed to throw the printer away at that point? The windows option was some dodgy warez type thing that you have to pay for. Debian just had a package on
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by benj111 4mo ago
Worked for the Sinclair C5 (Yes I know it wasn't a washing machine motor....)
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>Losing a few percents in efficiency is an acceptable compromise for avoiding the use of expensive and supply-constrained chemical elements. Is it? A 1% decrease in efficiency means increased fuel costs for the user. Acceptability should
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by benj111 4mo ago
Oh god why did you make me read that. >We intentionally chose this constraint so we would build what was necessary to increase engineering velocity by orders of magnitude What kind of wanky bs is "engineering velocity". Maybe t
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by benj111 4mo ago
>I heard that they don't clean the dishes enough Is that defamation? That isn't a statement of fact, that's just relaying what you heard. If I relay what the Daily Mail says, am I also guilty of defamation, or can I rely o
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by benj111 4mo ago
To build on what others have said. Multiple motors per axle allow you to get rid of the diff, and you get torque vectoring basically for free. Then there's braking. More driven wheels means more braking energy that can be recouped via
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by benj111 4mo ago
This seems like the wrong tactic, even in a money grabbing sense. Either say one month free and end after that, or end after the free data amount. If the customer finds value they will sign up and be less likely to look at their credit card
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by benj111 4mo ago
Same here and I started uni in 2003. At home it was dial up and you had to unspool the wire across the house from the phone plug to the computer. At uni it was fast. So you could actually load images by default.
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by benj111 4mo ago
It doesn't even have to impact readability. See for example https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphRPC/blob/master/doc/nymphr... There's an int8 in the middle of int32s knocking everything out
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by benj111 4mo ago
Is this about premature optimisation or just good architecture? The number of data formats I see that miss obvious things like alignment etc. it isn't something you can easily change later if it becomes widely used. To me this post rep
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by benj111 4mo ago
> x = (x + 2 step) % width Hmm. now. Is operator precedence not an instance of hidden flow control? You need to know that 2 step is done before adding x. x = (x + (2 step)) % width Or x = ( 2 step + x) % width Should be preferred? Perso
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by benj111 4mo ago
>Computers are not good with fractions. You're introducing a currency that does 1/8ths. A computer can handle that a lot better than decimal.
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The guinea was also seen as posher. So guineas were used as a social indicator
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I'm sure there have been plenty of flags that haven't been vegan.

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