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by dialamac 6y ago
You are being overly obtuse. The term popular vote has a clear definition in US presidential politics and the meaning of “won” the popular vote has a clearly defined meaning. That this has no bearing on the outcome of the election is a sepa
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by dialamac 6y ago
Well sugar beets excluding water content are about 85% sucrose. Sugar production and consumption dates to antiquity, long before mass western obesity epidemics, a luxury item. It essentially became a staple food in the North American diet
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by dialamac 6y ago
> We did not evolved to eat processed sugar, which is not easily found naturally in the environment The flour you make French bread with is not found any more or less naturally in the environment than the sugar you get from cane or beet.
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by dialamac 6y ago
I have a hard time believing he would have been unfamiliar with Plan 9. It wasn’t exactly obscure in the research community at the time. See the USENIX proceedings in the late 80s and 90s. This is mere speculation, but I doubt he would have
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by dialamac 6y ago
The accepted answer is somewhat true but also has some glaring inaccuracies. The fact is that there are/were some very effective C compilers for Z80, none of them free and far from it. By the time compiler technology advanced through t
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by dialamac 6y ago
Probably. It’s an honest mistake. For Gen Xers and early millennials blue m&ms are memorable for being added in the 90s with much ludicrous publicity.
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by dialamac 6y ago
CPython is pretty terrible. Numpy has the concept of views, cpython doesn’t do anything sophisticated.
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by dialamac 6y ago
Boeing is the only American commercial transport jet manufacturer based in the US. The US politically would never allow the loss of this - whether it be “Boeing” or some new named thing that’s basically the same. For pro-global politicians
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by dialamac 6y ago
Indeed, I did just that (with NetBSD long) about 20 years ago on a Dreamcast.
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by dialamac 6y ago
RAM drive? Ramdrive.sys
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by dialamac 6y ago
Model inconsistencies, unreasonable mathematical idealiazations and false assumptions are what are commonly classified as paradoxes in physics. It’s a common use of the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_parad
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by dialamac 6y ago
This doesn’t sound quite right. Unless they changed something threadpoolexecutor does involve multiple OS threads, and is not single threaded. Sure the GIL puts a big limitation on parallel execution, but it is most definitely different. Fo
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by dialamac 6y ago
I’m not arguing either. But dude, google? Google!? Its business is selling ads for corporations. A google software engineer can get a job at countless places including nonprofits sometimes making close to google money, but even if they mad
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by dialamac 6y ago
> including many with an anti-corporate streak. So basically the worst form of slacktivist hypocrites.
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by dialamac 6y ago
No they’re underrated. We all know the stats. Driving isn’t the safest activity. Having said that there’s a lot of wishful thinking that the current state of ML can do any better if we were to just put them on the roads today as-is.
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by dialamac 6y ago
How much time is actually spent in the python runtime/interpreter? That python can glue some libraries together at a high level was never really in doubt.
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by dialamac 6y ago
“Doctor, it hurts when I do this!”
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by dialamac 6y ago
Do you pretty much exclusively use LispWorks, or do you other tooling. I am curious to hear.
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by dialamac 6y ago
There’s nothing to really block much on the aur. There are some guidelines in naming and no duplicates, no maliciousness etc that are enforced, but that’s it. But anyone can upload a build script (PKGBUILD) for anything. If you want to see
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by dialamac 6y ago
In a fair society it should be taxed as an externality. There is a real environmental cost associated with software bloat.