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by ema 7y ago
The Mill architecture uses install time specialization to go from not quite machine code to machine code to maintain the 1:1 mapping with different implementations.
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by ema 7y ago
The Mill architecture has some neat ideas here where you can issue a load in cycle 10 but specify it to arrive in cycle, say, 80 so the cpu can be busy for another 70 cycles whether or not the loaded value is in the cache or not.
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by ema 7y ago
I wonder how much of the work those 70.000 cancer researchers do is theoretically unnecessary busywork like applying for research grants or dealing with office politics. Further I wonder how much of their research is optimized for looking r
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by ema 7y ago
FYI although this article is published on the website of David Perell it was written by Mason Hartman who I believe goes by female pronouns.
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by ema 7y ago
> Interestingly, the page as I just read it does not (no longer, I guess) mention "version control". I think you're misreading gp, they want to add version control to the requirements, they're not discussing an earlie
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by ema 7y ago
I've come to the conclusion that the benefit dynamic typing brings to the table is to allow more technical debt. Now of course technical debt should be repaid at an appropriate moment but that appropriate moment isn't always &quot
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by ema 7y ago
If driving people from or to poor neighborhoods increase risks for the driver then it's fair risk compensation.
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by ema 7y ago
Wouldn't a plant that is able to grow much faster easily out-compete a lot of other plants?
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by ema 7y ago
We don't have a word for it because we don't see it as overengineering, we see it simply as engineering ;) On a more serious note, there is this idea that at their core systems are about accepting inefficiency in order to gain con
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by ema 7y ago
Because hackers have a wide variety of interests and often love learning about things they never heard of before.
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by ema 7y ago
no "lederhose" is correct, "lederhosen" would mean at least two of them. German doesn't share the peculiar feature of English where you refer to a thing in plural if it is made to contain two legs. Now for the fun p
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by ema 7y ago
Well for one thing Europe relies on immigrants to keep it's population from declining and if the whole world becomes like Europe in this regard we're gonna quickly run out of immigrants. ETA: I see from your other comment that you
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by ema 7y ago
I agree, however this doesn't necessarily mean that average fertility will rise again. The environment could keep changing faster than the genes can adapt. Also "desire to have children" might be difficult to encode in DNA so
104.
by ema 7y ago
I think I still prefer chaining "else if"s but I do appreciate seeing this new perspective on something I thought I knew like the pockets of my pants.
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by ema 7y ago
Mastodon will only have robustly succeeded in their mission when people don't think of it as joining Mastodon but as joining some particular social hub which happens to run Mastodon. Think of how people aren't joining academia but
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by ema 8y ago
Well Spain's time is a bit weird because they use CET which is most appropriate for like Sweden and the Czech Republic and the countries slightly east or west of them. Even France's use of CET is more about integration with their
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by ema 8y ago
This is a question to which I haven't found a satisfying answer yet: why do old houses look better than new ones? There are answers like "only good looking houses got preserved" or "it's just perception, in a hundre
108.
by ema 8y ago
Wouldn't it be much more efficient to require a minimum income/wealth of would be residents and so lower the demand for housing enough that all these rich people can invest into something more productive than real estate?
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by ema 8y ago
The taxis I have been driven in in Germany and Spain didn't even have a partition between the front and back seats. Honestly I would feel weird sitting in the back of a taxi when the shotgun seat is empty. Must be some internalized ega
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by ema 8y ago
As a casual cyclist 50 psi already feels like "this is amazing I just hope my tires aren't gonna burst". So it seems "higher is better" is solid advice for most people, who aren't gonna go over 90 psi anyway.
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by ema 8y ago
A hard fork that resets the mining difficulty would be the only option then I think.
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by ema 8y ago
I assume evaporation is gonna be below an inch a day in even the most hot and dry climates. Considering the total height of the water column it's negligible.
113.
by ema 8y ago
Nothing really. Except since this 51% attack is pre-announced people can choose to not accept any transaction as confirmed until the attack is over.
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by ema 8y ago
I think how to judge this attack depends on how the coin presents itself. If they're clear about being in a phase of the project where such attacks are feasible then it's just vandalism, but if they're presenting a more flatt
115.
by ema 8y ago
In which way is Amazon's TOS forced upon me? I could choose to not shop there, couldn't I?
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by ema 8y ago
In a sense, yes absolutely. OTOH in another sense this is clearly ridiculous. I suspect this ambiguity is irreducible.
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by ema 8y ago
I've made many mistakes in my life but I always had enough respect for technology to not yank out parts of a system which I did not understand.
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by ema 8y ago
If there is no double spend between the later arriving block from mars and the block earth already mined the next block could acknowledge both. Basically making the blockchain a blocklatice. If I haven't missed anything the only reason
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by ema 8y ago
It's trying to be the former but is still the later.
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by ema 9y ago
Sometimes I do want to see the messages of people I did not subscribe to. For example when they reply to my message. In this case I need to have some filtering (read: moderation) system in place that ensures I do not get overwhelmed with sp

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