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by bjourne 2y ago
> They hacked all of our major telco's and many of America's regulatory organizations including the treasury department. Please cite your sources. After decades of watching American propaganda, we know all too well that it is t
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by bjourne 2y ago
Lund working on feature phones! My job was writing and managing test suites for verifying the J2ME implementation. It was a top secret collaboration with Motorola. They took QA work extremely seriously and bugs could delay major launches. U
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I worked at SE when the iPhone was released and that is not how I remember it. :) The mood was more like "lol, it has no buttons!", "too expensive!" and "it can't work without a stylus!" I think many serio
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by bjourne 2y ago
Estimates of Hamas membership originating from Israeli state sources should be taken with a grain of salt. I expect the Israeli regime's blood thirst to be counter-balanced by the desire to free hostages, but apparently not. I don&#x27
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by bjourne 2y ago
I believe the reason was that the Nazis were forced to repent due to the Allied occupation. They also had to pay billions in reparations to Jews affected by the Holocaust. If that hadn't happened and the NSDAP had been allowed to conti
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by bjourne 2y ago
> I like how even in this thread, you have many people - almost certainly very few of whom have no real stake in the fight A popular chant is "The children of Gaza is our children too." Israel has killed up to 5% of Gaza's
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Maybe you're the dumb actor posting on behalf of American tech moguls?
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Does it handle alpha-renaming? Most of the golfed interpreters I've seen over the years does not and hence does not handle the full untyped lambda calculus.
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So word vectors solve the problem that two words may never appear in the same context, yet can be strongly correlated. "Python" may never be found close to "Ruby", yet "scripting" is likely to be found in both
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> Fascinating. I'm sure you're not lying and that this is true from your perspective. I guess the difference is that I actually hang out with left-wing people and have been doing so for decades, whereas you base your opinions o
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> Personally, I think the issue is mostly about behavior, and not specific ideas. "Let's all make an effort to move culture in a better direction" became "If you don't wholly endorse these specific changes we&#x2
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by bjourne 2y ago
Those who complain about Wokeness most often can't see their own thorn in their eye. Peter Beinart wrote about this years ago: > The theme of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was “uncancel America.” But wh
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by bjourne 2y ago
Analysis is the key. You write a program to multiply matrices. That is software engineering. You analyze the program to figure out how much slower it becomes as the matrices becomes larger, how many times it must access ddr, how well-utiliz
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by bjourne 2y ago
> The program design skills that our current curriculum emphasizes are “what distinguishes a garage programmer from a serious software developer,” in the words of the Fundies 1 textbook. I lol:ed. > The “code swap” at the end of the s
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No.
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Nvidia Tensor Core Programming(leimao.github.io)
8 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
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Because tests also serve as api validations. If you can't write a test for functionality without fiddling with internal details the api is probably flawed. Separation forces access via the api.
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I write unit tests for my C code all that time. It's not difficult if you use a good build system and if you are willing to stomach some boilerplate. Here is one test from my "test suite" for my npy library: void
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Here are some links explaining why it is difficult: https://www.bcchvt.org/community-updates/2023/3/2/why-cant-h... https://www.shp.org.uk/homelessness-explained/why-is-it-hard...
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Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the fact-checkers, nine years later(poynter.org)
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Would you say the same thing about criminal court judges too?
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Yes, you would parallelize it with prefix scan which has complexity nlog n I believe. However, floating point is neither commutative nor associative.
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> Community Notes aren't simply voted on by counting clicks on an up button, it's more sophisticated than that. Go sign up and do some rating yourself to see how it works. I did. I was almost immediately locked out since too ma
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Haven't they noticed what a complete cluster fuck "Community Notes" are on Twitter? Just way to easy to game and just way, waay to easy for hordes of trolls to "Community note" real accounts into oblivion. For examp
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by bjourne 2y ago
Cool! > If you only require it to be correct modulo 128 or 256 (for 7- or 8-bit ASCII) then a solution might show up. Another variant I thought of is to not require the character to be picked from the least bits of x. Still seem very dif
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But on the bright side, we may not stay uniplanetary either!
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What if the word contains repeated letters?
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Maybe you are expecting too much? I use copilot and similar tools to write simple code where I know exactly what should be done, I've just forgot the details. Like "Using Plotly and Python write a stacked bar chart where each st
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by bjourne 2y ago
> Employers dont like instability, period. Employers don't like to pay their employees more than the bare minimum, period. Whether that is out of greed or "just economics" is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Why Does USB Keep Changing? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments

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