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by choeger 4y ago
Interestingly, this requires a second set of vehicles, as the electrical trucks won't cut it on the long haul. This evens the ground for rail-based logistics, which also need a second set of vehicles at the target location. Of course,
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by choeger 4y ago
Funny thing: The "not a tank" Gepard actually is essentially a Leopard 1 MBT with a different turret. So it's the quintessential example for the definition the author uses: The role has changed and thus did the turret, but th
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by choeger 4y ago
There might be a perception thing involved as well. Insects tend to emit sound in high frequencies and adults get worse in hearing those as they age. When I was in my early 20s, my mother once swore there were no crickets around while I was
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by choeger 4y ago
While everyone asks about lisp or forth for this task, I have to wonder what one has to leave out of C to make it "minimal" enough for this task. The subset of features left out might teach us something about the language.
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by choeger 4y ago
> nondeterministic (but predictable!) Huh? How could a nondeterministic algorithm be predictable? Do you mean algorithms with a nondeterministic but overall irrelevant component ("pick a random element from this set")?
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by choeger 4y ago
Is that a Haskell or GHC feature?
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by choeger 4y ago
Yes, I did. We buy our cars out of a saving account where we put a monthly fee in. I know relatively well what our car costs us and yes, it's a significant amount of money. Unfortunately, the alternatives are nearly always more expensi
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by choeger 4y ago
I don't buy the infrastructure, except for parking, it's needed for logistics anyways. the environmental impact of manufacture is a red herring as it's pretty much impossible to spend money without a similar impact.
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by choeger 4y ago
In our case it's the weekend trips with the kids. Cars big enough to carry all kids are expensive and relatively rare. Renting over the weekend is expensive. And working on Fridays and Mondays makes it difficult to go out to a rental s
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by choeger 4y ago
I don't know about this particular paper, but there's a) usually a page limit when publishing and b) definitely a limit to a reader's patience. So filling a paper with trivial or technical proofs is not good form. That being
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by choeger 5y ago
You're celebrating the fact that people don't own something that they probably (judging by looking at other people) would find quite useful . Many, many people pay a lot of money every month to own their own private mode of tra
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by choeger 5y ago
Yeah, about that "impractical" part. I think it's time to reconsider it. With the Falcon, SpaceX has made access to space if not cheap then at least very affordable. The sheer cost of the Mars missions, as an example, make th
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by choeger 5y ago
The invasion of Ukraine had a curious effect on me. Before, when I read about the 50s and some (US) generals advocating for a nuclear first strike against Soviet Russia, I was dumbfounded. How could military leaders be so fucking stupid? Ho
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by choeger 5y ago
Being anti-nuclear is deeply engrained in the DNA of Germany's green party. Even more so than climate change. In fact, when the anti-nuclear movement started, climate change wasn't even a topic. In other words, the only thing that
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by choeger 5y ago
Great answer! Very much appreciated!
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by choeger 5y ago
Nice article, but the intro is a little lengthy. I have one remark, though: If your language allows for automatic differentiation already, why do you bother with a neural network in the first place? I think you should have a good reason why
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by choeger 5y ago
If you have so many top-level components or change your dependency graph that often that sorting becomes an issue you want to automate, you might want to reconsider your architecture.
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by choeger 5y ago
That's a very plausible theory you have there (except for the hit on European colonialism). But there's the question of why someone should sacrifice so many domesticated animals just to discover another food source (after all, t
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by choeger 5y ago
I cannot think of anything supercritical...
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by choeger 5y ago
Now wait for pretty much every game to come with kernel-level drivers ("anti cheat").
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by choeger 5y ago
That's completely and utterly bonkers. First of all, Russia has nuclear weapons. No one is ever going to invade Moscow as long as that is the case. Full stop. Second, even if there were no nuclear weapons in play, NATO ain't the U
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by choeger 5y ago
I don't think that most people can do that. In fact, I think only the ones that already understand a topic can realistically give an estimate of the percentage of their understanding. Someone who "got" 25% or 45% of some mate
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by choeger 5y ago
But how do you measure progress, then? If you are already on the backfoot, don't you want some kind of concrete measurement of how you improve? Admitted, this would require to use grades slightly differently (not as aggregation towards
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by choeger 5y ago
Because they unlearned how to do it. Their managers unlearned how to even think about a product being shipped and installed on many different clients that are ( gasp ) not under our control. Seriously, it's a loss of skills. Everyone i
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by choeger 5y ago
I think by starting small. Setup a raspberry pi for home automation, etc. Maybe connect a NAS or so. Add your own dedicated server with domain name, etc. My hypothesis is that you learn much more effective by learning the basics because 9
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by choeger 5y ago
Yeah, no. In the ideal on premise setup you can shutdown remote access on the network level. You're not an admin? You cannot reach admin tools from your VPN. You can also always offer a personal two factor authentication for exemptio
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by choeger 5y ago
That's just retroactive rewriting of history. These "local demands for autonomy" where a violent, foreign funded, uprising. It was about to be crushed by the legitimate Ukrainian military which was in turn crushed by the Russ
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by choeger 5y ago
There won't be consensus. This war started over one party having lots of demands and not even recognizing the other party as sovereign and the other party just wanting to be left in peace. How the fuck should a compromise look like her
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by choeger 5y ago
An interpreter omits the target architecture/format question and thus is more portable than a compiler. Of course, you could compile to a higher-level language, for instance directly to C. But that's usually still a complication t
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by choeger 5y ago
I think the only way to go is via an interpreter. That interpreter should be written in C, or some language trivially bootstrapped from C (that rules out C++, unfortunately, which has its own bootstrapping problems). The interpreter could t

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