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by geertj 3y ago
I had the same vibes with Herb Sutter's cppfront. It offers full source compatibility by introducing a new syntax that can be mixed freely with the traditional syntax. Seems like it's actively being worked on here https:/&#x
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by geertj 3y ago
> After each try with Rust, I ended up going back to c++ myself, it's just more productive in practice. That has been my experience as well. Rust and the borrow checker get too much in my way. If I want a high level language I will
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by geertj 3y ago
From memory, at least Steve Jobs and Kevin Mitnick are missing. I believe the black bar started with Jobs?
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by geertj 3y ago
The A18 node will be the first node that IFS will deliver to external customers. That node was recently pulled in and is scheduled now for H2 2024. What you heard so far, like from Ericsson, are design wins. Presumably Intel is working with
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by geertj 3y ago
Interesting.. would you have a source for those rumors?
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by geertj 3y ago
I’ve been getting pretty deep in C++ recently and the name Bloomberg shows up all across the C++ standards community. They seem to be a strong C++ shop.
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by geertj 3y ago
Awesome write up, a lot of effort must have gone into this. I believe the benchmark program outputs the wrong units? It should be picoseconds (ps) instead of femtoseconds (fs)?
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by geertj 4y ago
From my limited understanding, when a trip is used in a therapy session, it allows a patient to observe past trauma from an (emotional) distance, allowing them to process it. I can see how that would work. If trauma is so severe that you ca
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by geertj 4y ago
Fundamentally it seems though that more information is available at run time? You may get partway there in the compiler, but assuming you have sufficient transistor budget, it seems more optimal to do reordering in the CPU.
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by geertj 4y ago
Well put. There’s the adage that says don’t judge people as you have literally no idea what they might be going through. In this case you have no idea why they did a stint in crypto. Now, if during an interview it’s clear that someone has a
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by geertj 4y ago
> So, attempting to be objective and realistic are harmful to the cause? Yes, this can harm the cause. Providing honest true facts while not providing data supporting causation can cause people to become skeptical of climate change if so
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by geertj 4y ago
> I don't think it's so simple. There will be higher order effects, there always are. I don't think the second order you brought up above changes the argument either. If investing in a certain industrial sector is desirabl
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by geertj 4y ago
> The government can easily decide to prioritize the domestic market and limit exports. They can, and have done this in the past, e.g. the US ban on export of crude oil. But this does not change the point materially. Not exporting and c
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by geertj 4y ago
It would prove life is abundant, but it would still not prove that intelligent life is.
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by geertj 4y ago
Interesting. What would be one of those factual statements given your expertise in the area that the ML folks don't understand?
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by geertj 4y ago
Very sad indeed. Curious if there’s any aussies here that can share the local perspective.
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by geertj 4y ago
Care to elaborate on the 'path dependency' part? What quantity isn't conserved here? (honest question)
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by geertj 4y ago
I am not so sure. In my understanding of the block universe, causality doesn't really exist, and the universe is simply a consistent solution with boundary conditions both at the beginning and at the end of time (as well as in space).
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by geertj 4y ago
> The lack of imagination around what is possible and the supposed paradox posited by Fermi is disheartening. I think similar reasoning could apply though. If advanced civilizations escape into a different dimension or state of being whe
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by geertj 4y ago
> What’s wrong with a species of sentient house cats that just want to nap all day? Nothing wrong with that, but if life is common, you’d need all life to be like that to explain the Fermi paradox, which seems unlikely.
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by geertj 4y ago
> Just having basic stack unwinding and failing a task would be a start. As the sibling comment pointed out, if you extend this idea to clean up all state, you end up with processes. I do have some doubt on the no panic rule. But instead
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by geertj 4y ago
> Tesla were early adopters by making use of them, but not innovators. There are two versions of the Gigapress history going around. In one version the idea came to the Idra CEO in a dream, while in the other version Elon gave multiple d
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by geertj 4y ago
Hmm, yes, that sounds plausible at least.
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by geertj 4y ago
The part I don’t get is who benefits from a sabotage like this? It seems to me that it would be in Russia’s interest to keep the optionality of deciding to supply gas or not in their own hands, so why damage the pipelines and give away that
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by geertj 4y ago
> But a technical CTO can stand up to reports that want to go down an obviously bad road, whereas a non-technical CTO would have as much defense as I would at jiffy lube when the tech asks me if I want my fluids flushed. It kind of sound
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by geertj 4y ago
> Hans is known to have cheated Do you have a link to this? Proof that this player has cheated in the past would be the strongest evidence, I believe, he'd do so again.
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by geertj 4y ago
Yes! Through CO2 to be precise.
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by geertj 4y ago
If something is not 100% fungible, it can still be fungible to some extent. Given the size of our electricity grids and to a lesser extent the capacity to store energy, electricity is definitely fungible at some level. I don’t have the numb
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by geertj 4y ago
We notice repeated failures because we have metrics on our "up to dateness", and those metrics will stall. We also send logs to CloudWatch logs and alarm on certain threshold of errors. Once an alarm fires, we investigate manuall
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by geertj 4y ago
We tried to set up Airflow in our team in the past. The big problem we encounrted is that its unit of management (I believe it's called a "job" but I'm rusty on this) is too low level. Our pipeline processes a lot of dat

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