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by ithkuil 2y ago
Ok strassen and others are better but they are still O(n^w) where 2 < w < 3
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by ithkuil 2y ago
There are peaceful means to affect policy. But not only you have to vote for the right people, you also have to let candidates know what they have to promise in order to gain the votes. This election cycle nobody quite focused on healthcare
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Even that violence is better when minimized right? You don't want police to apply excessive force. You won't want innocent bystanders to be shot by the police. You don't want the police to hurt people just because they think
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by ithkuil 2y ago
You're free to privately judge anyone anyway you want. As long as you don't impede their freedom to live their own life. We have laws that prevent you from harming other people. Not only you cannot murder them but there are also l
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I agree that the system needs to change. I agree it's fair to criticize executives who are responsible for suffering. But I also think we have to be very careful with the messaging about that. Because I don't want to live in a soc
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The concept of a "chief" is deeply rooted in human psychology and thus also in the circuitry behind moral intuition. We spawned an emergent disembodied super-human organism called "society" that lives through the action
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Another option is to flee and shortly after turn yourself in into a police station unarmed
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by ithkuil 2y ago
There is a static vs dynamic distinction and strong vs weak typing There is also a semi humorously named "stringly typed" which means weakly typed in such a way that incompatible types are promoted to strings before being operated
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by ithkuil 2y ago
IIRC initially blaze was literally using python as a config layer. That made it too easy to write build scripts that were too slow and too hard to optimize and that negatively affected the overall build experience. An increase in edit/
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I wonder if there may be parallels to other countries. Perhaps that makes social networks worth billions?
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by ithkuil 2y ago
If you're not in control and responsible for your own campaign, how can they be in control of the country once they run it?
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Which is something that in principle AI tools could do, i.e. learn from feedback is how they got created in the first place. However the current generation of models needs a specific form of training set that is quite different from what a
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Thanks. In a first draft I used the words descriptive and prescriptive but then I decided to avoid possibly using the wrong terminology. Would "prescriptive" be a synonym for "normative" in this case or is there an impor
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yes people are fed up. Nobody is arguing that people are happy and somebody is misrepresenting that. What I'm trying to say is that there is an explanation for why this sentiment exists despite measures of material wealth and economic
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by ithkuil 2y ago
There are so many metrics. The act of selecting one metric or another metric to drive a point across is a key way to "lie with numbers". The numbers themselves are usually correct but they paint a misleading picture nevertheless.
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I think perception about what numbers mean is even easier to manipulate
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Perception can be manipulated in many ways. People get used to things and give for granted things that used to be luxuries a few generations back (see "hedonic treadmill") Combine that with active participants who control the medi
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by ithkuil 2y ago
You can tune a piano by ear by listening to the beating. You need one note to be tuned according to a given reference but that reference doesn't have to be 440 hz
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by ithkuil 2y ago
You have a slow perfect pitch
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by ithkuil 2y ago
MyLLoboto
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by ithkuil 2y ago
You check the tag before doing float operations
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by ithkuil 2y ago
By a Quetzalcoatlus to be precise
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by ithkuil 2y ago
If you flip the argument on its head you can frame it as: since most objects die young it's very likely they will stay on the stack and thus it makes sense to invest in an allocation-site optimizer that will put the object on the heap
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by ithkuil 2y ago
OTOH Elba is a much more vibrant place nowadays. Trump would even have some opportunities to run a B&B
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I wanted this feature exactly once: I was building a memory manager for a database and I needed to know exactly how much space a deep data structure was using. The servo project has the same problem and they built a library that contained a
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Does this mean he wouldn't have run this time if it weren't for his legal troubles?
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by ithkuil 2y ago
servo's Ipc-channel doesn't use Unix domain sockets to move data. It uses it to share a memfd file descriptor effectively creating a memory buffer shared between two processes
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by ithkuil 2y ago
It's possible, just like many countries have jumped straight to mobile phone and avoided wired infrastructure. In any case, that's the result of continuous improvement and progress and my point was that we cannot get there by just
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by ithkuil 2y ago
This. Also because it's not like low income countries are going to stay low emission forever. If you think about it, that's disrespectful towards people living there; they are not noble savages. They are people just like you and m
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I'm a non-deterministic black box who teaches complex deterministic machines to do stuff and leverages other deterministic machines as tools to do the job. I like my job. My job also involves cooperating with other non-deterministic bl

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