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by haberman 7y ago
It's got nothing to do with how long they've been competing, it's got to do with dominance and quality. If AMD overtakes Intel in price/performance, capability, and market share in 10 years (and I think it's totall
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by haberman 7y ago
When I was building a PC last December, I considered AMD until I saw that https://github.com/mozilla/rr requires an Intel processor. > rr currently requires an Intel CPU with Nehalem (2010) or later microarchitectur
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by haberman 7y ago
Do colleges make their budgets public? When a program is taking too long to run the first step is to profile. What does the data say on college costs? > But that is a tangential problem, in that wealthy donors want to give big gifts fo
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by haberman 7y ago
> Analysis of health data from millions of people shows that people on the western edges of time zones get about 19 minutes less sleep every night than people on the east, and also have significantly higher rates of obesity, diabetes and
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by haberman 7y ago
Is Nim stable? I have vague memories that some parts of its runtime had some deep issues that weren't yet resolved, like maybe around concurrency? I see the language is at 1.0 now, does it have a stable, solid, dependable implementat
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by haberman 7y ago
> At the beginning, the leap second duration between POSIX and TAI was smeared over years from one leap second to the other. So the difference between both timestamps would change continually other these periods! Do you have any referenc
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by haberman 7y ago
> A POSIX second corresponds to 1/(24 * 60 * 60) of a day. An SI second is defined using atomic time measurement. I don't think that is quite accurate. Traditionally Unix Time seconds are SI seconds, that tick in sync with UTC
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by haberman 7y ago
This seems like a potential solution to the problem of how to #define MY_ASSERT(x) in release mode such that it fails to compile if "x" is not a valid expression. Previous I have used this idiom: #define MY_ASSERT(expr) do {} whil
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by haberman 7y ago
The story of how the Prime Meridian was chosen has a similar flavor of controversy. There was a conference in 1884 to decide where it would be, and a large portion of the discussion concerned France's opinion that it should be in a ne
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by haberman 7y ago
Very much agreed. Things get weirder and weirder as you get towards the poles. At the poles themselves the sun spends half the year hidden, and the other half spiraling up and then down! But never gets very high above the horizon. I've
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by haberman 7y ago
> organizations need not and should not elevate spokespeople and leaders who speak regularly on unrelated issues that organizations find do not advance their mission, and/or that alienate important constituents. I, like many other s
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by haberman 7y ago
In this survey the finding is exactly the opposite: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/17/ssc-survey-results-sex...
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by haberman 7y ago
It was entirely on topic to the post I replied to ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21193515 ), which tried to introduce a clear distinction between progressives banning speech and China banning speech. I disagree. I wi
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by haberman 7y ago
I think the progressive definition of "marginalized" is fundamentally broken. It's used as a way of a priori deciding who is the aggressor and who is the victim in any conflict or disagreement, based solely on the identiti
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by haberman 7y ago
That is exactly what happens when people offend the groups considered "marginalized" in the USA. Here is Kevin Hart apologizing repeatedly for offending the LGBT community: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/
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by haberman 7y ago
Chinese feelings towards Hong Kong arise out of a history of subjugation by the British. The Opium Wars devastated China's economy and sovereignty, including the British forcing them to cede Hong Kong. This was the beginning of the &
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by haberman 7y ago
My friend Zach Shaner wrote a really interesting article called "ST3 is Slow Because It Reflects Our Values." ST3 is a transit project in Seattle. https://seattletransitblog.com/2016/04/07/st3-is-sl
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by haberman 7y ago
It appears that there was widespread support 18 months ago, even among Native Hawaiians: https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/03/26/hawaii-news/poll-... But the same article says that in 2016 support was
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by haberman 7y ago
There's also this from Bill Gates: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
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by haberman 7y ago
GC isn't an abstraction either. By that argument, you could claim that you have zero-cost abstractions even if you have stop-the-world GC.
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by haberman 7y ago
One similarity seems to be the way they both restrict user access to the stack to prevent stack corruption or overflow. The article talks about how eBPF doesn't have an explicit stack pointer and doesn't give a function access to
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by haberman 7y ago
I'd love to see an eBPF vs. WASM compare/contrast. These seem to be two emerging technologies for sandboxing code in non-GC-oriented runtimes. Both have compiler backends now. It would be very informative to see how their choi
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by haberman 7y ago
This article sticks out in my memory as my go-to guide on the subject: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/
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by haberman 7y ago
There is this, from July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnRbXWojW7c
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by haberman 7y ago
I think Octopath Traveler is a beautiful example of 2d pixel art reimagined.
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by haberman 7y ago
Love KSP and I'll be looking forward to this! I really don't get cinematic trailers though. If it's not actual gameplay, then what does it tell me about the game? What does it tell me that I don't already know from KSP
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by haberman 7y ago
> So, what’s const for? For all its flaws, C/C++ const is still useful for type safety. Const variables can also be mapped read-only. This gives you hardware protection against modifications, and also uses less RAM if the const va
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by haberman 7y ago
Top comment in this big thread argues the opposite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20616055
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by haberman 7y ago
[I'm deleting this, I don't think it is spurring constructive conversation]
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by haberman 7y ago
I just looked at the original paper again and I see that in some of the tests the researchers asked participants to estimate the raw number of questions they got correct, in addition to the percentile relative to their peers. Even in raw n

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