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by coldtea 4mo ago
Yes. Code doing what you need && nothing else is better than code doing what you need && 10 other things you don't need but have to take a perf/memory/clutter hit for.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Why would host speed fluctuate?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
You shouldn't be OK with them having any random values, either. If you have a civilization, you have a vision about life, and what's good and what's bad, and you want to see it to continue. That some of them will inevitable c
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by coldtea 4mo ago
That's why people shouldn't take life advice from cartoons and celebrities
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> When doubts were raised in May about the authenticity of a prizewinning short story by Jamir Nazir, social media users were lightning-quick in their condemnation. “If you know, you know,” commented one. Nazir later told The Atlantic th
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Saying "Near lossless" to mean 90% accurate retrieval of saved vectors is simply a lie. Lossy-ness is binary, not something you can paper over with getting close enough. Lossy-ness is a binary, "near lossness" howe
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Not just a meme. In my experience it is quite accurate for a large percentage of techies - especially the more hardcore they are. It's the fresher ones, with less experience, that are more excited by stuff like "smart appliances&q
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> My LinkedIn feed That's your problem right there. When has anyone's LinkedIn feed been anything else than blatant attempts at self-promotion, spam, cliche business advice and empty work-related platitudes (a lot of it AI gen
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Why are files so bloated in the first place? Because AI prefers adding new code over modifying existing code, and it rarely deletes anything. Did you ask it to delete stuff or consolidate functionality? Did you ask it to reuse certai
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Condescending? That's the mission of a scientific journal / conference / etc. Doesn't mean practical development work is "less worthy", but it's not a fit for them.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
...and likely asd and/or adhd
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Snapdragon chips do (used in many/most androids), Samsung own exynos also does iirc. If the OS/platform doesn't use it that could be another thing, but those chips do offer audio coded decoding, including aac
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> China is poorer than Taiwan per-capita despite being the same culture What does being "the same culture" have to do with anything? Aside the fact that Taiwan is much smaller (and different situation), Taiwan was cold-war per
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Does it? There are plenty of disastrous decisions in the last 70 years at the level of major policies. "In the last 70 years" does a lot of work in your argument, as it includes a full blown revolution, counter-revolution, e
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Or perhaps they wanted something theoritical that advances the state of the art in database design and architecture (which is the whole purpose of academic reasearch/conference/etc) - not merely some report describing doing someth
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by coldtea 4mo ago
So? Japanese cars and motorcycles were derided for being cheap copies of European and US designs initially too.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> They never mention they could’ve been wrong. The author assumes they’re always right Everybody assumes they're right when they argue, else they wouldn't be arguing their points. So for the point this post makes whether they&
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> I remember a lot of bad natured Usenet flame wars. In that swearing or bad faith arguments were involved, sure. In their nature, breath, and impact outside the web, no. "Flame wars" back in the 90s were entertainment for the
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Recycling the metals is obviously far less useful than being able to still operate them even if Apple stops macOS updates for them!
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> You’re complaining about where the founders didn’t follow their principles to their logical conclusions. But you overlook that you’re using the founders’ own principles to criticize how they fell short Which is irrelevant, since it&#x
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by coldtea 4mo ago
In the real world, as a black, you would be disenfranchised in the US, even into the 1960s (and even now in certain systemic aspects), and the Constitution didn't prevent that. In fact it was written by people owning slaces or disenfra
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by coldtea 4mo ago
And some other country might be liking those Founding Fathers concepts' even more. So? Doesn't change the fact that they weren't very good with not letting class/race/gender/etc position influence their policy
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Well, the same white men created Jim Crow and seggregation. If you were a black man would you have been disenfranchised when those laws were in force? I'd say yes. The fact that it was/is worse elsewhere, e.g. in some places in As
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> If a person is incapable of reasoning outside of their class/race/gender/etc position, then how is a fair law even possible? An entirely fair law might not be possible, at least as long as people with specific class&#x2
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by coldtea 4mo ago
It's not so clear cut to me (looking from outside). It makes sense to interpret some cases in historical context and others not, because some cases are not as much affected by the difference in context. That's not being machiavell
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> The RNC tried to stop Trump from winning the candidacy but he won regardless. That's not an example of people getting what they voted for though. It's RNC trying to prevent people prevented get the alternative to what they d
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Sure. I never do flamebait and rarely do snark tho (usually only after several increasingly futile exchanges). Flippant comments (like the autotune one) and/or sincerely held even if unpopular opinions, I'll stoop to, yes.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
That's just what we needed! Nuclear autotune.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Skills are good. They shouldn't do that.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> return value not worth the cost of troubles it can bring That, funnily, could be the motto of Forth

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