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by davemp 9y ago
It’s old I think. I might try to dig up some more recent stuff.
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by davemp 9y ago
The data appear to be correct. Maybe you’ve ingested to much propaganda to believe these numbers. I’m always skeptical of statistics about highly politicized issues as the interpretations and sampling can be very irresponsible/biased.
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Norway has __considerably__ lower population than the USA. There has to be normalization or your comparison is just bogus.
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by davemp 9y ago
Mass shootings are almost by definition outliers
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by davemp 9y ago
Apparently the USA is behind Norway, Finland, and Switzerland in mass shooting deaths per 100k population [1]. For typical gun related homocides it is most certainly correlated with poverty and education. [1]: https://lh4.googleu
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by davemp 9y ago
Alien vs Predator: Whoever wins, we lose.
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by davemp 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what use case do you have that makes a POSIX shell a big deal? I’ve never had issues as a somewhat heavy user.
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by davemp 9y ago
Please don’t quote with code snippets, it’s unreadable on mobile.
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by davemp 9y ago
I’m not convinced that firing a weapon is that useful of a statistic.
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by davemp 9y ago
This is just fantasy. Sure in nice places where you likely live this may work. These areas are not where police homicides tend to happen though. Some areas of the USA are actually very dangerous. In these areas there is a much higher likeli
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by davemp 9y ago
Maybe most watched in Denmark?
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by davemp 9y ago
What the heck are you talking about? There is plenty of available space in the USA. It doesn’t have to be some crazy dog pile into desirable areas. Spread jobs and amenities out and we all don’t have to jam into a few cities or fight people
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Eggs are insanely cheap. I’m not sure why anyone would bother to fake them.
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by davemp 9y ago
That doesn’t really agree with the conservation of mass: > The law implies that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space, or the entities associated with it may be changed in form . . . -Wikipedia
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by davemp 9y ago
Could be a small data set
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Manual memory management is just one aspect of performance. If you want to compete with C you’re gonna have to be able to hand tune some bottlenecks. The compiler isn’t going to produce optimal code.
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by davemp 9y ago
I think there’s a caveat that the language needs to support inline assembly.
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? The site is loaded before I can even tab to it.
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by davemp 9y ago
As far as broadcom and intel drivers. Intel is definately superior. I have both chipsets in my devices, and I've had bugs in broadcom drivers cost me hours more than once.
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by davemp 9y ago
I didn’t even know about __builtin_clz(0) being undefined and I use it regularly (for code challenge BS mostly). That’s really painful. It looks like it’s something to do with log(0) being undefined and hardware vendors just couldn’t agree
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by davemp 9y ago
I find proof by induction very intuitive: “If every ‘legal’ step holds, then any way of chaining legal steps also holds”. There can be a lot of information gleaned from the steps (operational semantics for example). Playing around with indu
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by davemp 9y ago
It gets really bad when you're using "Hoare Logic" in "Coq"
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? American culture was mostly imported from Europe during its infancy. Latin America was barely even a thing then.
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by davemp 9y ago
> Well they didn't, capitalism pushed them into the grave. The Benedetti family, owner of Olivetti, did some stock acrobatics in the early 80s and failed massively Sounds more like the Benedetti family pushed Olivetti into the grave
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by davemp 9y ago
I'm not going to watch any more 10min hobbyist benchmark videos.
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by davemp 9y ago
How does that battery life test show anything about the A11’s efficiency? - The displays will be drawing a huge majority of the power—diminishing the effect of the processors. - The batteries have massively different capacities.
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Are you trying to make the “sufficiently smart compiler” argument here? The reality is that the fastest compilers for the fastest languages still require babysitting and hand written ASM for peak performance. > human effort is better spe
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by davemp 9y ago
> assembly does not make it faster It is still very possible to hand write assembly that’s faster than optimized C. The compiler can’t just magically assume the same pre/post conditions that you can. Also register allocation is an N
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by davemp 9y ago
tinfoil hat on Use the Pixelbook Pen™ and let Google add even handwriting to their profile on you!
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by davemp 9y ago
I've worn both RGPs and hybrids. RGPs are unwearable for me because of comfort levels. Even after a two week adjustment period. Hybrids have been really comfortable for me. The lens change may take a day or two to adjust, but I tend to

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