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by emn13 2y ago
The article lists 2: firstly, simply that ML models are now feasible at a scale they weren't only a few years ago. Secondly, compute power is now better enough that it can now simulate more realistic environments which enables sim-bas
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by emn13 2y ago
Presumably the author really is missing a driver; I doubt he'd have missed being able to install without it. If he really does need such a driver; then the exact name of it or the details of Dell's BIOS options and whether they h
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by emn13 2y ago
If you're literally using it just once, why not stick it in a local variable instead? You're still getting the advantage of naming the concept that it represents, without eroding code locality. However, the example is a slightly
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by emn13 2y ago
Those deduction in no way change the basics of income (and sales) tax, which is on revenue, not profit. A person that has a good wage will pay a significant amount in tax even if at the end of a year they have no more wealth than before it
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by emn13 2y ago
At the risk of dating myself, I suspect the author of that self-described rant either has forgotten how long it took for C++ to mostly dethrone plain C, and perhaps practically more relevantly, how painfully long it took for new versions of
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by emn13 2y ago
Anybody earning a wage pays tax on revenue, not profit. Property taxes can be even be on value, not revenue or profit. For any given tax burden, I don't see the "justice" problem by shifting more of that towards value and re
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by emn13 2y ago
Yeah, that's what I meant. There's no built in support; but it's indirectly readable since client-side JS can read it.
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by emn13 2y ago
Getting slightly off topic, but I think it's hard to find the right terminology to talk about html's complexities. As you point out, it isn't really a syntax anymore now that literally every sequence is valid. Yet the parsin
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by emn13 2y ago
Let's not downplay the simple fact that wind energy has the lowest levelized cost of electricty and has for over a decade now (in the US and AFAIK on average worldwide, not universally). As an intermittent source it's never going
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by emn13 2y ago
You might interpret that clearly true statement in two different ways: - That it's not feasible to incorporate this style of traffic design elsewhere since cultures differ - That we need to consider how traffic engineering (eventually)
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by emn13 2y ago
And yet the html5 syntax variation survived (with all it's weird now-codified quirks), and the simpler, stricter xhtml died out. I'm not disagreeing with out; it's just that being flexible, even if it's bad for the ecosy
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by emn13 2y ago
However, potentially a localStorage (and sessionStorage!) compatible cookie-replacement api might allow for annotating keys with secure and/or HttpOnly bits? Keeping cookies and localStorage in sync is a hassle anyhow when necessary,
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by emn13 2y ago
Also, while laws ideally are inspired by an ethical social contract, the codification proces is long, complex and far from perfect. And then for rules concerning permissible behavior even in the best of cases, it's enforced extremely s
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by emn13 2y ago
The default C# style has always preferred a large dose of unnecessary runtime flexibility. Sometimes that comes in the form of lots of dynamic dispatch, sometimes it's DI, sometimes it's non-sealed overly large base-class types, a
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by emn13 2y ago
I never really got over the order-dependent and fairly slow compile times, but it's been like 10 years since I used it for anything even slightly complex. Is F# better in this regard now, or are there accessible patterns to help deal
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by emn13 2y ago
That statement strongly suggests it's the implementation of the ISA that matters more than the ISA, whether that be due to process node, skill and investment by the manufacturer, or perhaps a bit of luck. By good ARM, do you mean speci
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by emn13 2y ago
Phoronix has a specific benchmark subset that tries to tease out (at least for zen5) a hint of how much the wider data-path matters vs. how much the frontend/ISA extension itself, by disabling those selectively on an epyc zen5 chip: h
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by emn13 2y ago
"Rolling the version periodically" is probably quite problematic for browsers. Kind of a key point of the web is that stuff if at all possible keeps working. Breaking changes like that are hard. Even if the spec just listed occasi
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by emn13 2y ago
That's good to hear; some projects require copyright assignment before merging contributions, or some extended license that might permit re-licensing, and I wasn't aware of the status of the Wordpress code base in that respect.
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by emn13 2y ago
Let's let the judge or jury figure out the legally pertinent facts and standards; that does not always correlate well with either morality or plain language. I wouldn't be surprised to learn some example of clear extortion in plai
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by emn13 2y ago
I don't have faith in wordpress nor really care about them, but I find this particular aspect of Zeldman's story pretty believable. It's not hard to see Matt's actions both as bad and yet well intentioned, especially if
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by emn13 2y ago
But that's the whole point! The expression is jarringly mild and reasonable given the circumstances.
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by emn13 2y ago
One man's extortion is another's negotiation. I think this framing, however natural given Matt's phrasing, isn't really helpful. We all routinely extort better deals - we just call it negotiation, and we usually try to
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by emn13 2y ago
Slight tangent; but arguments such as "if indie content creation moves to TikTok that's because it's what the next generation wants" are almost universally invalid. The reasons a trend emerges are complex and definitely
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by emn13 2y ago
Both of those are easy to fix. You'll adapt quickly if you pick a different convention. Additionally, I find that in practice such "unusual" code is actually beneficial - it often makes it easy to see at a glance that the co
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by emn13 2y ago
Further important (to me) scenarios that also argue for greppability: - greppability does not preclude IDE or language server tooling; there's often special cases where only certain e.g. context-dependant usages matter, and sometimes g
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by emn13 2y ago
Was the market asking for tech review videos, or was the market asking for a platform that helps select, curate, and present content? If this trend were merely about format, then websites that just host videos would be a viable model - they
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by emn13 2y ago
I think that shift can be explained not as any outright consumer preference, but rather as a form of platform/advertiser preference. It's hard for a standalone website to compete with a platform in the best of cases, and better ye
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by emn13 2y ago
Yep; though we'd have to test a few cases to figure out what the cutoffs are here, and if there's any middle ground left for a divide-and-conquer strategy. It's also definitely going to depend on the cost of the hash function
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by emn13 2y ago
This probably depends on the size of the area to be searched, and just how hot that region is. After all, if it's fairly small, there won't be any cache misses, and the data structure does use less memory than a typical hash table

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