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by drb91 8y ago
It is paranoid to think that the people outside your house want to rob or kill you. It is not paranoid to see that the “wrong context” is just a matter of time.
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by drb91 8y ago
Getting tasks done has never been a ringing endorsement for the general applicability of the underlying algorithm. Meanwhile, the entirety of human communication is built on symbols. If computers can’t deal with them, how useful can compute
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by drb91 8y ago
This is an article in a popular magazine, and there is no “problem” nor any “whining”. Except here in the comments, oddly!
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by drb91 8y ago
Would you like to elaborate on what you consider inflation and deflation to be? Any currency can gain or lose value against other currencies regardless of the currency in circulation, which is different than comparing the proportion of bitc
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by drb91 8y ago
This seems to be railing against the concept of beureaucracy, which JIRA naturally reflects. Is this really tool-oriented at all? All criticisms here could be levied against Trello, Asana, or post-it notes on a wall.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well they also gained much of that value in the same year—looks exactly like an asset getting overvalued by a lot of people followed by a dump. I don’t think this is contrary to a deflationary currency—it’s not like they only move in one di
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by drb91 8y ago
I don’t see how it’s any better to put your money in the bank and have no control over how it’s invested—guns, tobacco, drugs, etc.
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by drb91 8y ago
Why would you want the wallet with you at all times? How often are you transacting? Seems like more of a risk than a benefit here.
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by drb91 8y ago
That’s not really “fair”, though, the positive aspects of oil will be severely tempered by the myriad effects of global warming.
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by drb91 8y ago
It’s up to the employer to make expectations clear.
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by drb91 8y ago
> extracting arguments from the first line of an HTTP request. The reason this sounds simple is that the use of “arguments” conceals a good deal of semantics. Yes, you can cut a huge amount of complexity out by using a subset of HTTP, an
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by drb91 8y ago
People have traditionally wanted to use the maximum sized type that can fit in a register.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, that may be true, but there is good reason to doubt the effects of adding more roads to LA: demand will grow to meet capacity, which I am sure Musk is aware of given that he runs a car company.
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by drb91 8y ago
This has been a common meme forever. See: Fathers and Sons by Turgenev.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, it’s still poor hiring if that is the excuse: rude and unhelpful.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Since a lot of the work is stateful and difficult to parallelize, doing it on CPU will probably be faster, that way you only pay the latency to jump to the GPU once. You can still easily cache the glyphs post processed, especially if y
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by drb91 8y ago
Cars fill the capacity of the roads. LA will just get more cars. LA deserves better public transit.
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by drb91 8y ago
I associate NIMBYs with going against things that improve a neighborhood. I don’t think that includes all types of resistance.
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by drb91 8y ago
> You still have to render glyphs individually, almost always on CPU. How do you figure? As I imagine it you would stream the buffer to the GPU and render it with a pixel shader. Even if layout or glyph calculation is done on the CPU it
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by drb91 8y ago
Who doesn’t love to be manipulated constantly?
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by drb91 8y ago
The USA has been content growing the economy at any cost, and this type of protection simply had no money behind it and would have easily gotten massive political blowback.
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by drb91 8y ago
What exactly would you want to see in this situation? I don’t think most have issues interpreting actions like this.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, except humans who need to eat!
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by drb91 8y ago
Exactly my point: automation will serve greed, not anything that will clearly be good for humanity.
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by drb91 8y ago
I wouldn’t characterize either as FP, though—both of them still actively encourage maintenace of mutable state and use of macros. They may be “simple” in that they are very analyzable but you’re teaching a whole bag of skills, and the most
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by drb91 8y ago
Why does that distinction matter here? Besides, many OSes in the past were more like libraries than active resource managers.
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by drb91 8y ago
Where is the value of such distinction? What is consciousness without self awareness—memory?
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by drb91 8y ago
> Automation is a good thing for humanity Well, only if it serves the common goal of humanity... which at the present doesn’t seem like anything coherent.
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by drb91 8y ago
C’mon, just because people can live with things doesn’t mean they don’t care about them.
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by drb91 8y ago
One robot vs state violence?

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