dsharlet

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by dsharlet 9y ago
https://github.com/dsharlet/ComputerAlgebra (disclaimer: my project) might do what you want, it lets you manipulate expressions and then compile them to "native" .net functions that can be evaluated with high
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by dsharlet 9y ago
As much as I can't stand it either, Trump is the president of the US, and making a lot of waves. It's not surprising that he is dominating the news, and it's not just "political blather".
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by dsharlet 9y ago
I really disagree with this. I work on compilers, so I feel for the people who work on GCC, but, I think it is totally unreasonable to expect the average GCC user who might have encountered this bug to be capable of fixing this themselves.
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by dsharlet 9y ago
Maybe not all, but many of those regulations and permits are there for a reason. The vast majority of the population cares way, way more about not having construction in their yard than they do about enabling a competitive market for ISPs
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by dsharlet 9y ago
That "rot" likely started centuries before anyone even imagined a computer for an "array" to exist on.
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by dsharlet 10y ago
> Fiber I lay in the ground isn't a shared resource I disagree, and you are trivializing serious issues that lead to this regulation. There's a good reason there's a lot of regulation in this space: people don't like
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by dsharlet 10y ago
It's not going to compare well. The assembly is a pretty simple port of a basic C implementation of radix 2 Cooley-Tukey FFTs. The author gets ~2x speedup from writing this in assembly. In contrast, highly optimized FFT implementations
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by dsharlet 10y ago
Uhh, no, I don't remember that. I remember this: > The war itself played a major role in the growth of health insurance, according to a March 2002 history of health insurance benefits from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a
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by dsharlet 10y ago
Maybe, just maybe, if there is literally nowhere on the earth that you can go to find your ideal society, that your ideal society can't exist? There are hundreds of countries and 7 billion people. If none of them have the system you wa
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by dsharlet 10y ago
> Perhaps Google could, by offering a no-ads subscription across their adwords networ. They are unlikely to ever offer this though, because it would cannabalise their existing, highly profitable ad business. Hardly anyone else would have
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by dsharlet 10y ago
> I disagree with you about the DNC emails, they go above and beyond preference into outright campaign strategy coordination and undermine the whole idea of the primary process. What exactly do you think the primaries are? They are not o
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by dsharlet 10y ago
Don't miss the blog post he linked either, it's also a great read: http://zxq9.com/archives/911
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by dsharlet 10y ago
This is where the "100x myth" comes from. If you write a naive scalar algorithm in C, and then you write (almost) the same thing in CUDA, you can get a ~100x speedup. The problem is that most of that speedup is coming from the lac
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by dsharlet 10y ago
Would you still say this: > I'm not sure Wheeler's turncoat, pro-consumer behaviour was predictable (or, for that matter, predicted) by anyone, you or otherwise. After reading this[1], written by Wheeler? > Back in the origi
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by dsharlet 10y ago
I read a bunch of the posts that are still accessible, I still think it makes the point: it's not surprising that Wheeler is reasonably pro-consumer. It's just that I can't find the particular post that has stuck in my he
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by dsharlet 10y ago
Amusingly, it seems that he allowed his blog's domain/hosting to lapse. You can find some of it on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20110206171653/http://www.mobilem... I've only be
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by dsharlet 10y ago
When Wheeler was nominated, he had a blog on the topic of telecom public policy, going back several years, with a lot of very deep and nuanced commentary on issues like the natural monopoly that arises in telecom infrastructure. I read a lo
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by dsharlet 10y ago
Without digging into it too much, I would bet that most of the improvement from ICC comes from their awesome implementations of transcendental functions used in this program (exp, sqrt, etc.). Still, the general point is good. last time I t
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by dsharlet 10y ago
You must be joking. The only place I've ever gotten adequate audio quality from an FM transmitter is in a tunnel more than 1/4 mile long. They're crappy even driving through the middle of nowhere where 9/10 radio station
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by dsharlet 10y ago
It's bullshit on another axis as well: it assumes that the labels have a claim to a share of all music revenue on YouTube. The slideshare deck they linked for that claim shows the large majority of YouTube songs are "off label con
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by dsharlet 10y ago
There's a huge difference in illiquid assets (most of that 11.2% is real estate, stock, etc.) and currency that is at least presumably intended to be liquid.
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by dsharlet 10y ago
I called it that because that's where I'm from... And I don't really consider it derogatory. It's really an accurate description. I was referring to the literal middle of nowhere, where no one lives, not even small towns
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by dsharlet 10y ago
I wouldn't assume that the general public is strongly against this kind of legislation. A subset (our subset) is, but the HN demographic is small compared to the rest of the country. The basic concept of strong encryption is not someth
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by dsharlet 10y ago
The compiler can use the known bounds of a type to perform correctness checks or optimizations. It might not be testing every possible value of an int explicitly, but the compiler certainly uses the range of an int to make lots of decisions
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by dsharlet 10y ago
> C++ is a baroque language with way too many conflicting features, conflicting cultural standards, and general all-around cruft. Isn't it? This is a really common sentiment, but when pressed to name a specific thing that should be
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by dsharlet 10y ago
We absolutely do know that. Even without any aggressive tax avoidance schemes, if you have a significant investment income, you probably pay an effective ~15% tax rate [1] [2]. I can pretty much guarantee you that most of the people named a
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by dsharlet 11y ago
Electrical engineering is a pretty wide field that doesn't necessarily involve working with actual electronics. Personally, I've built a circuit simulator software package, but I can't actually design or build circuits worth
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by dsharlet 11y ago
There's no way that those other sports are more dangerous than boxing. That's ludicrous. About 5-10 people die per year from boxing [1], while about 1 in 1.06 million people die per day of skiing [2]. That same source estimates th
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by dsharlet 11y ago
If it just gets encoded at the same semantic level as text or an AST, then what do you really gain by using modules? That doesn't seem like as big of a win as people asking for modules seem to think it is.
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by dsharlet 11y ago
I think this is vastly over-estimating Tay's capabilities. Nearly all of the examples I saw of offensive behaviors were just generic responses to leading questions. Everything that didn't fall in that bucket was clearly just regur

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