choeger

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by choeger 6y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but what makes you trust the app when you mistrust the installer? Or mistrust the installer when you trust the app? Shouldn't both come from the same more or less trustworthy source?
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by choeger 6y ago
Or in Math or some engineering field. CS wasn't a thing in German universities until the 70s, I think. So for someone in a senior position in 1990 it seems quite likely to be around 50, too old to have finished a PhD program around 19
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by choeger 6y ago
Basically an early incarnation of what electron does today, no?
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by choeger 6y ago
Maybe they had to make up for the Minix running on the Intel processors...
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by choeger 6y ago
Your contrived example starts with the very premise of a distribution. An agent gets copied. There are 7 variants. You make an experiment and argue that for 6 of the 7 variants your strategy is successful. All builds on the premise of a dis
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by choeger 6y ago
I call bullshit. Teenagers aren't complete in their development yet. That's why you can, and should, train and teach them. Teaching empathy is of course difficult and don't forget that the bullied peers are also teenagers t
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by choeger 6y ago
First of all, the chance that you are a simulation does not depend on the number of simulations in existence. In fact, there is no such chance, as there is no random distribution process you are observing, except you claim that every observ
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by choeger 6y ago
It might be worth mentioning that in later additions of the game the jump mechanics have been much simplified. Also the game engine was used in Crusader if I am not mistaken.
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by choeger 6y ago
I think the usage of the term tells you something about the managers that use(d) it: For them it was really like an infection. Their developers came in contact with that free software and all of a sudden their big enterprise corp had legal
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by choeger 6y ago
Oh they certainly can. But they have to compete against huge greenhouse complexes. So basically you are trading logistics vs. economics of scale. I don't know who would win in every case.
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by choeger 6y ago
In my experience, you need both numbers. A customer naturally wants to know when a change arrives in production. I call this "latency", you call it cycle time, but maybe there is a small difference because I also try to include th
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by choeger 6y ago
How do you imagine that would happen? Even if a rocket fails catastrophically, pulverizing the nuclear waste, distributing it evenly across earth, how do you imagine that would make the planet inhabitable? Is the planet inhabitable now, aft
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by choeger 6y ago
It's not the safety. One could conceivably put a glas she'll around the burnt fuel and it would survive reentry. But first of all, the cost is still massive, even with SpaceX. And furthermore, you'd just put it into (decaying
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by choeger 6y ago
Vertical farming will almost certainly not generate the mass of calories to feed the world. But that doesn't mean it cannot be useful. Many vegetables are already grown under very controlled conditions and it doesn't take much fan
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by choeger 6y ago
The issue will become obvious rather soon. It won't be the state that uses the surveillance like Stasi or Gestapo would have (although, it might come closer with excuses like IP or public health). Instead my bet is on online shopping.
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by choeger 6y ago
I think you should reconsider the actual problem, if you do not understand it. The fact that rustc is backwards compatible is great, sure. But it does not solve the problem of distributors. Say you have libfoo-1.0 that uses rust and cargo 1
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by choeger 6y ago
While rust certainly does a lot of things right, it is still a moving target with a relatively high velocity. There is a python library that recently switched to rust (partially) and now cannot be build on several platforms. This also means
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by choeger 6y ago
It is true that at my level of understanding I would intuitively prefer hidden variables. But that's not my point. My point is that the notion of "measurement" or "wave function collapse" simply don't seem to e
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by choeger 6y ago
QM is obviously very true in the sense that it makes useful predictions (in that sense, truth is somewhat a quantity). But it is arguably very inelegant in its seemingly ad-hoc introduction of probability. Naturally, one would hope to one d
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by choeger 6y ago
Interesting approach. Caveat: > This technique is often called "abstract interpretation" and JET internally uses Julia's native type inference implementation, so it can analyze code as fast/correctly as Julia's c
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by choeger 6y ago
I do not want to debate the fairness of it, because it is way too complex for a comment. But there is another downside of pay cuts for remote workers: A remote worker does not have access to the same market as someone living in a hot cluste
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by choeger 6y ago
Looks like Turkey/Azerbaijan have made their homework regarding online propaganda.
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by choeger 6y ago
So in the worst case, temperatures would drop back to what? The fifties? I can live with that, I think. But is there more to this than just temperatures? Is solar radiance important for other factors as well (besides the obvious like crops
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by choeger 6y ago
It is. Normally, a match expression can bind variables to values. In lexical scoping, these variables exist inside the match expression. In dynamic scoping they exist outside. The design mistake seems to be to assume that the patterns insid
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by choeger 6y ago
I just read the part about the name binding and its ... totally bonkers. Sorry, but I have no other words for this: > The implementation may choose to either make persistent bindings for those partial matches or not. User code including
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by choeger 6y ago
From the outside, if a society fires their best reporters because they use a "forbidden word" it is already over the edge. Everything else that will probably follow (reeducation camps, etc.) is barely driven by momentum. In the en
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by choeger 6y ago
> Initial findings showed that 73 percent of mechanical, electrical and plumbing components observed failed to conform with the developers’ drawings How is that even legal? Let alone technically possible? How does construction of these m
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by choeger 6y ago
What I don't get: How does the server decide between read and write mode? Does it first do a read mode redirection and then if the result is "all icons requested" it does a write mode? Or is there one indicative icon that wil
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by choeger 6y ago
Stupid question: Could the state (or a large group of states) not effectively impose restrictions on bitcoin wallets? Say, I, the federal agency of crypto, publish a list of "legal" (i.e., with owners know to me and subject to my
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by choeger 6y ago
A type check would give map a type, say [a] -> (int -> a -> b) -> [b]. If you try to apply it to any function that does not have the type (int -> a -> b), the check would fail.

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