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by fuckstick 4y ago
It's a link to a document on architectures well over a decade old - the most recent mentioned is the original Core architecture (from 2008). Honestly, based on your first comment I thought you were implying something about content depe
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Listen to the audio between 4:00 and 4:15 - maybe in a quiet room with headphones. That's either TTS, or a Lex Fridman impersonator with some fucked up vocal cords. You tell me what's more likely. There's also the mispronunci
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> I listened to the whole thing and I found it very convincing. Eh? "Lex Fridman's" voice is shaky as fuck in the first 30 seconds and apparently he can't pronounce science now? - it says sci-in. (It continues to be f
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Lex Fridman was born in 1983 and Feynman died in 1988, that's more obvious than Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan since although Rogan wasn't doing much in interviewing during Jobs' life, it's plausible since they are somewhat co
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by fuckstick 4y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=dinosaur+book+programming
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up. Eh, what? Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVHcloud already exist. The first 2 at least have feature parity I thought.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> Be warned that you risk serious dehydration and/or electrolyte imbalance if you try this. A bit dramatic, considering these are widely food additives to things like gummy bears in similar amounts and stories abound about their eff
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Osmotic laxatives such as lactulose need only 10 grams or so for “effect”. Standard dose of say lactulose for cirrhotics is about 20 grams multiple times per day to keep them shitting.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
If you are being above board you can split the “adult” population into elderly or senior, but without that stated up front I would expect adult to mean everyone 18+. And especially since most people under 64 don’t just up and die, it’s misl
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by fuckstick 4y ago
It’s not generally hated. It has a cadre of permacritics that are very vocal and often dramatic, and some of them often pop up in threads such as this one, that is all. It’s especially pathological since there are alternatives - if you hate
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by fuckstick 4y ago
I agree with the first statement but not “there are certainly exceptions” - because this seems to suggest that the vast majority of those in the industry (obviously there’s some variation from indie to AAA, but it’s doesn’t matter here) b
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by fuckstick 4y ago
How does one form such a misconception? What did you read or watch?
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Waymo in its current form in Arizona launched about 5 years ago.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> all suffer from deep regret, burnout, resentment, depression Nonsense. John Carmack is the most obvious counterexample. But pretty much anyone that works in gaming. While the stories of resentment of specific employers abound — your ge
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Seriously you can Google it. This is well trodden ground.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Yeah, no, not going down this rabbithole. If you’re already convinced STTOS and TNG were the pinnacle achievements of SciFi TV entertainment then we just have to agree to disagree.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> It's important to note that in STTNG, Star Fleet is not the entirety of the human population in the show. Oh that’s right, they’re often comically overtly racist caricatures. In any event Star Fleet specifically is a dystopian he
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by fuckstick 4y ago
The themes are hyperfixated on a few aspects of a utopia and human behavior with complete deafness to everything else. That’s the charitable take. The less charitable one is it is a type of willful indoctrination.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> Of course he missed the whole point, that it may not be realistic today, but it was an aspirational vision of a better future. It’s not realistic because it’s fundamentally either autistic or straight up dehumanizing and authoritarian.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> Why do we call them "hot dogs" when they typically have a very low percentage of dog meat Because historically, the insinuation was that cheap sausages contained dog meat, that’s why. Someone has answered your gravyboat quest
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by fuckstick 4y ago
It’s the default substitution done on iOS devices - the OS used on the most widely used smartphone in the US - this is a lot more common among HN users than copying and pasting out of MS Word??
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Why are they soft or smart? That makes no sense - they’re just open and close quotation marks.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
They’re not smart quotes - they're just open and close quotation marks. What is smart about them? And I don’t see how one is any “softer” than the other. People’s programming editors often do paren matching - does that make them smart
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Such a large wall of text - when if you actually spent a few minutes actually using MAME you’d know it warns about bad dumps and then allows you to proceed anyway. You’d also know that dumping the database in MAME is very straightforward. T
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> Sounds like it was dead on arrival How can something that is still in deployed commercial use for many years be “dead on arrival?” Moreover, AM stereo came out long after the FM band was well established.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
I mean, sure, but I’m just saying point me to a source that is ranking Python as #1 or #2 most popular. If it’s TIOBE or something similar it’s meaningless. I say this as someone that has made their career mostly on the “top 5” TIOBE lang
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Because they serve the role of what used to often times filled by PCs. Turns out not everyone needs a PC and they also don’t want have to do everything on a tiny touchscreen. If they didn’t exist I think the alternative for many would be th
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by fuckstick 4y ago
> It would seem sensible that since Facebook poured a lot of resources in optimizing PHP Well they sort of half assed tried years ago - they employed GvR at one point. Then they gave up and they continue to lean heavily on C++, Java and
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by fuckstick 4y ago
Not when you’re paying them more than that (or close to it) though.
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by fuckstick 4y ago
A bachelor level EE curriculum is a good start. There must be open courses for most of this these days (perhaps MIT 6.374). Once you understand some basics of semiconductor physics and integrated circuit design all of this becomes much easi

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