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by btrask 8y ago
That sounds more similar than most people are with the biological father they grew up with.
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by btrask 8y ago
Because we're seekers of truth, not partisan sophists? Edit to clarify: I want to know the truth, so the burden of proof is always on me. If someone doesn't have the time or energy to make a full argument, I still appreciate the
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by btrask 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but you clearly didn't make it to the second paragraph. I was (partially) trying to poke fun at those people.
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by btrask 8y ago
Killing people is illegal because it reduces the number of taxpayers. If ants paid taxes they'd be protected too. Killing people who don't pay taxes isn't okay because we'd rather make them pay than put them to death. I&
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by btrask 8y ago
> imagine they were 'robots' No. Don't. Edit to add: I understand you were using this as a thought experiment. Sorry for knee-jerking. If you're employing people to do something robots can't, you need to understa
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by btrask 8y ago
How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI
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Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)(what-if.xkcd.com)
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How to commit fraud and get away with it: A Guide for CEOs (2013)(macroresilience.com)
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by btrask 8y ago
That's a big part of the problem.
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No, it’s not the Incentives–it’s you(talyarkoni.org)
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by btrask 8y ago
Especially if we ensure that the end of exponential growth will kill us.
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by btrask 8y ago
I would go farther and say that when credentialism creeps into a community, it's done. That said I very much appreciate the genuine experts who post here, and hate seeing them driven away by disrespectful people. HN walks the line betw
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by btrask 8y ago
Pardon my aesthetic judgment, but this is a beautiful comment.
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by btrask 8y ago
It seems to me that you are already a good writer.
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by btrask 8y ago
GPUs are the state of the art in massively parallel processors. If you are building a parallel processor, it should be evaluated as a GPU to see how it stands up. For example, Larabee was tried as a GPU and found wanting.
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by btrask 8y ago
It's not clear to me that raw ISAs can be copyrighted or patented. Worst case there is clean room reverse engineering. Emulators are legal.
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by btrask 8y ago
Yes, I do. Turing completeness means that instruction sets simply do not matter. In fact, you cannot buy a "native" x86 processor today. Every modern x86 processor actually has hardware to run some highly optimized microcode instr
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by btrask 8y ago
This is a great "well actually" that also manages to be technically incorrect. If you change the styling in your terminal emulator , it changes the transparency of your shell (and other terminal programs).
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by btrask 9y ago
Thanks for trying. There are still a few areas where good samaritans are valued, but they are drying up (mostly due to companies and scammers).
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by btrask 9y ago
It seems to me that "unsafe" Rust is a subset of Rust as a whole. Unless the Rust language does not support unsafe code at all?
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by btrask 9y ago
To put a point on this question: should an unsafe language (or language subset) be as safe as possible, or as unsafe (i.e. powerful) as possible?
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by btrask 9y ago
As someone who could contribute technically to Firefox but doesn't, let me add my perspective. First of all, Firefox is a huge and complex project notorious for its legacy code and architecture. It's not a project that I would fin
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by btrask 9y ago
It's funny because if your computer is plugged in at a Starbucks, they're mining with their own electricity. Whoever did this wasn't stealing from their customers nearly so much as they were stealing from Starbucks themselves
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by btrask 9y ago
A while back I saw some comments on HN arguing that dystopic fiction writers are literally evil and a threat to humanity. That made me slightly but genuinely scared. When people start outright attacking caution , that is when the bubble is
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by btrask 9y ago
I feel like there's a tendency to put browser developers on a pedestal. Browsers are large and complicated, and no, a single person cannot write a browser competitive with Chrome from scratch. On the other hand, a single person can pro
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by btrask 9y ago
If you used Node, you would have IIRC around 40MB (edit: 24MB on my system) of memory overhead before your code even started running. If you are CPU-bound, multiply that by the number of cores you want to use.
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by btrask 9y ago
I'm a big fan of SQLite, but this kind of marketing puts me off a bit. ZIP and XML are popular standards with dozens of implementations. The only thing that can read an SQLite DB is SQLite, AFAIK. To be sure, SQLite is very well suppor
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by btrask 9y ago
If you just think about it in terms of real estate values, Earth has all these great amenities that Mars doesn't (and won't for a long time, if ever). * Breathable atmosphere * Full gravity * Low radiation * Decent temperatures In
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by btrask 9y ago
> If you're running FF from a VM as your daily driver, there's something not right somewhere I think. I am. QubesOS is a similar setup that runs applications in Xen VMs for security. I think you can do GPU passthrough but it&#x
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by btrask 9y ago
Something without a GPU: VirtualBox. Last time I tried a Servo nightly in VirtualBox (to be fair, a few months ago), it immediately crashed/aborted with a GPU-related error. I think there's a good argument for preventing security-

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