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by bluecalm 3y ago
I think it's a problem with democracy: there is zero incentive to pursue the truth or get things right. As the decisions of governments rarely have direct immediate consequences for your life there also isn't a fast enough feedba
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Speed limiters in cars is one such solution. It's simple to implement - we just need to make it max 130 (or whatever) km/h on highways, 80km/h on "country" roads outside of population centers and 40km/h (or wha
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by bluecalm 3y ago
There are many readily available technical solutions to limit danger from cars and drivers. The problem is that there is zero political will to do so. I think mainly because of car manufacturers playing this on two fronts: bribing or blackm
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Brave might be the best thing to come out of the crypto era :) I hope it will somehow survive both Chrome changes and crypto dying off.
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Your argument works with IP alone and without client lists. You very much want to put a company's client list in the same bag as IP but it just doesn't belong. Protecting one (arguably) allows people to invest in developing someth
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Entertainment is much better for recreational players without pro players in the game maybe with the exception of occasional tournament celebrity. Pro poker player doesn't provide anything to anyone with the exception of a challenge to
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I was involved in poker for most of my adult life - first as pro player and then as a poker software developer. I was very lucky to be able live off poker winnings as a player and then become financially independent thanks to the success of
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by bluecalm 3y ago
In most sports money come from sponsorship. It's not a zero sum game but positive sum game where you compete for the value added (from the player's perspective)
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Hello fellow HN'er! I am PioSolver author and thanks for mentioning my software as a turning point in poker theory evolution. Feel free to pm me (by Pio email or Discord). While I am no longer involved much in the poker world it'
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by bluecalm 3y ago
It's simple really: we want free market when we want a given area optimised. Cheaper goods, better value, more efficient services. Do we want better gambling companies - more efficient at luring people in and getting them to spend mone
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I have written that chess engines stopped improving at chess played from starting position - it's a draw every time (well, unless you really push them to play very fast on limited hardware). The reason we assess current Stockfish as st
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I am sorry but this is completely wrong. It's true old Stockfish lost to Alpha Zero with specific rules, most notably no opening book which classical engines weren't supposed to be used at in competitive play (which is the reason
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Obviously. The point is that in interesting games (for example chess) the solution can't be memorized but parts of it can. The point is that in chess we have a solution as good as the mathematical one today (for all practical purposes)
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Yeah but this is not very useful concept in practical play and that was the context of my comment. Chess is at different stage today than it was a few years ago. The difference is that no matter what resources and how much time your opponen
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Chess is weakly solved for all practical purposes (it's not proven but no one is able to show a winning sequence for white even with weeks to prepare vs a top engine playing with something like 30 minutes per move) and it doesn't
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Initializing variables means the compiler will not be able to warn you when you use ununitialized value. I prefer to get the warning than use zero initialized one by accident. Build.c file - good idea if performance is priority but you rem
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by bluecalm 3y ago
You are not arguing in good faith but just in case I will point out what you are missing: 1)Implicit operator overload is a bad design in case of pointers and objects because a.b and a->b are both readable, easy to type and short. 2)Inte
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Man, this is completely unrelated problem. Implicit operator overload is just a bad design. Integer promotion has advantages and disadvantages, especially in a language like C where you often use 8bit or 16bit types for memory optimization&
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by bluecalm 3y ago
There is something to "explicit is better than implicit" mantra. I appreciate the C way because if I write a.b and it's an error it clarifies what's going on in my head (I now know a is a pointer not an object).
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by bluecalm 3y ago
You don't really need a linter. It's just a warning setting, see: -Wimplicit-fallthrough From the compiler docs. It's just not a problem. If you waste time once and learn about warning options in the compiler you will
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by bluecalm 3y ago
It's interesting to see prevailing negative sentiment about booking here. My experience is completely different: usually a very nice place, no surprises, two times the host has done something wrong (cancelled my reservation or didn&#x2
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by bluecalm 3y ago
There is another safety related recall going on right now - this time in the world of cycling. Shimano (the biggest parts manufacturer) is recalling more than 2 million cranks (and it's likely they will recall even more in the future).
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Morality is a mechanism that helps with following some rules within a society without spending excess resources on enforcing them. It evolved in small groups (in comparison to the size of societies today). If you accept this view on what mo
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by bluecalm 3y ago
ThinkPad T14 3rd gen? I didn't want a 4k screen but I think those were available 2-3 years ago.
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I thought this as well: "Intel is too important strategically that US government surely will help them one way or another". I still haven't bought stock though. It's not like Intel had cash problem when threats from AMD
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by bluecalm 3y ago
So TSMC and Samsung run circles around Intel manufacturing for more than a decade now but that's only because they didn't care. Now they plan to overtake their rivals for a change so that's totally gonna happen! Reading Intel
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by bluecalm 3y ago
In EU it's very illegal. You can't tie consent to use personal data which isn't absolutely necessary to provide the service. If it wasn't car companies (pet EU regulators industry) we would be talking about billions in f
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Let's see how quick EU officials are to enforce and punish their own industry for those practices. GDPR is one thing but they don't even tell their customers what they are collecting and there is often no way to turn it off.
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Adding timers to red lights seems like an obvious idea. You can even put them in the middle instead of yellow :)
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Things like what? Traffic violence and risky behavior if a raising problem and it seems we don't have a solution for it despite many attemps. My view is that most of it comes from a small group of drivers. It's not "everyone

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