flamedoge

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1. 61.▲
   by flamedoge 8y ago

   There is the problem of conflating science with mathematics.
2. 62.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   Engineers, like most human beings, are free to waste their talent. It wouldn't be nice to demand some kind of moral responsibility from engineers just because they can do more. How they live would be up to them, and free market solutio
3. 63.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   You can teach the compiler. "How" is easy. "Should" is debatable. One can easily write a clang diagnostics pass to recognize few set functions.
4. 64.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   who didn't see this coming?
5. 65.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   definitely not enough "feed" for anyone
6. 66.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   this is what frustrates me
7. 67.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   decentralized network can't come soon enough. I foresee YC, Reddit, Youtube, FB, and alike get supplanted by technology that has no ownership.
8. 68.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   I mean in the context of fully loading AVX512 vector processor.
9. 69.▲
   by flamedoge 9y ago

   It's power throttled by design. I don't think it's heat throttled. I'm sure Intel could push for higher power or optimize power to allow full bandwidth performance, perhaps there isn't a strong demand for sustained,
10. 70.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    > "ping-pong" back and forth. like travelling down a virtual tube
11. 71.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    well there is. if you used <= "at least" sizes.
12. 72.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    a lot of compiler works to enable.. C spec mandates fixed width numerics afaik.. try imagining 64bit division using 32bit.
13. 73.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    I thought it was odd that a single application would even hit the limit. Then I realized Electron.
14. 74.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    you can't guard against every imaginable stupidity. you try but users will inevitably find a hole.
15. 75.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    it's a museum/prison for live animals
16. 76.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    When you take away the effort to meet people, you naturally put in less to interactions
17. 77.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    are they any good for arctic patrolling?
18. 78.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    You jest but really it shouldn't cost 2B for a database.
19. 79.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    that's a filtering problem which should be user-tailored.
20. 80.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    I think some oriental cultures associate number 4 with death.
21. 81.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    Numbers are just numbers. It's superstitious to attach negative connotations to something so amoral.
22. 82.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    I feel like the more I learn, the more convinced I become that computing is because we build stupidly impenetrable abstractions that keep us from shooting our feet. Yet I can't shake the feeling that we are leaving so much room for o
23. 83.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    I wonder what the effect of limiting a conglomerate to 5 companies would be.
24. 84.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    C std says int has to be at least 16 bits. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types
25. 85.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    or you could just dump information from LLVM opt's inliner pass.
26. 86.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    I went from GMail -> Inbox -> GMail -> Thunderbird
27. 87.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    awesome.. might buy rpi 1 cuz of this
28. 88.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    Theoretically, there is draw towards big companies offering a package of solution rather than individual pieces. Small companies offering superior piece doesn't get rewarded because of the package-offering-draw effect which rewards sub
29. 89.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    There is an obvious third option - have the phone run slower but tell user about it, that it's running in limp mode because of deteriorated battery.
30. 90.▲
    by flamedoge 9y ago

    And things like things needed to keep patient alive and breathing