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   by hawk_ 5y ago

   > Surely having sharper and more intelligent humans is an objectively better uncontroversial outcome What if there's a level of intelligence above which humans decide not to reproduce?
2. 272.▲
   by hawk_ 5y ago

   do you happen to have a mirror for the vr-revisited paper? This link doesn't work https://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf
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   by hawk_ 5y ago

   > correctness unfortunately rapidly breaks down when physical disks are used, since these may misdirect reads and writes. Isn't the whole point of consensus to get around discrepancies due to faults in individual devices. With hig
4. 274.▲
   by hawk_ 5y ago

   all of that should reflect in economic indicators of parents and their say marital status/history etc... - you shouldn't need an imprecise proxy like race to level the playing field.
5. 275.▲
   by hawk_ 5y ago

   i think you're referring to startup time not actual runtime of long running tasks
6. 276.▲
   by hawk_ 5y ago

   how's javascript better than java in its design or elegance?
7. 277.▲
   by hawk_ 5y ago

   My intro to cryptography was in a class by Victor Shoup. Highly recommend any of his books or materials. While I ended up not taking up cryptography professionally, I have fond memories from his course.
8. 278.▲
   by hawk_ 5y ago

   just because others were ALSO responsible doesn't absolve him of any of the responsibility of all those deaths.
9. 279.▲
   by hawk_ 5y ago

   I won't understand respect for someone who was reponsible for the deaths of 100s of thousands of people because he lied.
10. 280.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    while this may seem "fun", it's not recommended for production https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/q97el0/comment/hguoch...
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    > It's a "fun" fact that US presidents have a nearly 20% death rate for example. that's lower than the 100% death rate of general population.
12. 282.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    ordered insertion can happen in the "middle" of the list. unordered always has to reach the end (to ensure no duplicate) so it's worse for insertion as well.
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    but java's hashmap still resizes when breaching the loadfactor. so any similar implementation, even for singlethreaded cases can't achieve (soft)realtime. I am not aware of any linear hashing or similar approach for in memory hash
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    thanks and is the padding for aligned access (wasted space) or just full byte (poor performance on non x86/64 like architecture)? because that's the interesting part as to what's the tradeoff chosen and whether a dev can choo
15. 285.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    when Optional<u64> is used in rust what's the memory layout like? is the absence tracked using a pointer which is null or a bitvector of optional fields?
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    A crude analogy I use is "just because one enjoys sex doesn't mean they would enjoy being a prostitute". To get back to liking coding again I had to do something without deadlines or pressure of delivery and something I just
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    this is the price we pay for rewarding "efficiencies" up and down the entire chain, leaving no slack whatsoever. with large companies or operations these efficiencies can be over really minor things as well because it means bonus
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    where does it say .net 5 was faster than openjdk? hotspot is a very sophisticated jit compiler that has probably 100 manyears put into it just in optimizations. given that .net added monomorphic/bimorphic call site devirtualization re
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    even if the gradle script is written in kotlin, wouldn't you face the issue with gradle regardless?
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    any references/benchmarks for some realworld apps/services? and also what do you mean by oracle suing if you implement value types?
21. 291.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    yes that's one of the reasons in some countries if you have the ability to set your own salary you aren't allowed to take salary and instead must set yourself up as a "freelancer".
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    > cleverly navigating company politics in order to ship something in environments conversely, company politics can be a reason why someone could be 10x in one setup and a complete dud in another.
23. 293.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    > Wrote hard-to-understand procedural code to 5000-line files. Did not actively share knowledge with his peers. The author seems to mean prima donna, not a 10x engineer and then goes on to destroy that strawman. Actively sharing knowledg
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    sorry i am out of loop here. what specifically is the problem with POPCNT on AMD64?
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    is there a similar checklist for model 3?
26. 296.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    The ones we are getting in Europe are still from Shanghai, not sure if that matters.
27. 297.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    I am personally buying a Tesla (in Europe) mainly because of the supercharger network. But I suspect the build quality of VW might be better.
28. 298.▲
    by hawk_ 5y ago

    Tesla makes/reports quarterly shipments so there are always spikes in the shipment months. For example this has Model 3 in top 10 selling cars in Europe https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2021-june-europe-ca.
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    That's great, was looking for something like this. Will look closer and hope they don't pivot to charging money from companies for not fighting them.
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    by hawk_ 5y ago

    you shouldn't let facts get in the way of a good story.