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by ivoras 5y ago
Yeah but we're not really talking about bronze ages or if a species can achieve comparable technology, but whether we can correctly detect intelligence, or even life, around us. I don't think we should label dolphins as un-intelli
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by ivoras 5y ago
That's a wrong way to think about it, since all modern "humanoids" are descended from the same ancestor not that long ago. And if you consider dinosaurs humanoid, then so is that meme cat that can walk on its two back legs.
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by ivoras 5y ago
First we need to decide how intelligent are the dolphins, then let us look at the stars. Every single life form on Earth today had exactly the same time to do its evolution in. Us, bats, dolphins, tapeworms, birch trees, amoeba, mushrooms,
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by ivoras 5y ago
I've just read a great and trippy book which resonates a lot with this kind of thinking, Geometry for Ocelots ( https://amzn.to/3jQeVxt ), it's a sci-fi which basically attempts to deal with how intelligent species
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by ivoras 5y ago
What about China? It's famously irreverent towards western-style copyright, seems like it could (well, it's a difficult "it", granted) score some brownie points by making a mirror which is accessible both within and with
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by ivoras 5y ago
It's all fun and games until your fridge gets reclasiffied as a computer.
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by ivoras 5y ago
I was and still am totally amazed that people still think it's a good idea to require each individual site owner to comply with that kind of policy instead of letting the browser vendors do the hard work. Which is easier - to modify an
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by ivoras 5y ago
Did anyone manage to use the provided Windows binary to succesfully compress anything? For me, it exits producing a 0-byte "compressed" file.
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by ivoras 5y ago
Historically, that has been a major reason for banning apps for both Apple and Google. IIRC Apple even went to extremes and banned browsers which do not use their own JavaScript interpreter.
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by ivoras 5y ago
Oh, why have they redefined the word "enum" to mean a "union"? enum Result<T, E> { Ok(T), Err(E), }
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I funded Coinbase in 2012. Making 6000x on my best startup investment yet(youtube.com)
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by ivoras 6y ago
A lot of comments are criticising the frameworks or the developers, but suprisingly almost no one is criticising Python, which remains a language of the early 90ies as far as parallelism is concerned. A bit like Stockholm syndrome - "P
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by ivoras 6y ago
Hope they run away on time if they find unusually active scarab beatles, sand devils with faces or mummies... (I kid, I kid, of course, this kind of looks like the beginnings of many Mummy movies)
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by ivoras 6y ago
Surprisingly, Go's png decoder is half as slow as the default libpng :( https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/fastest-safest-png-deco...
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by ivoras 6y ago
Well, if any cryptocurrency is to gain really wide adoption, this is the way to go: integrate it into something a large number of people already use. And judging by what WeChat does, a chat client is an excellent choice - after all, money s
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by ivoras 6y ago
Yeah, $1.30 isn't peanuts... but that price is for low volumes (single modules) on a retail site. High volume production probably slashes that down to about half, and then we're in the price range of 7 segment LCD panels like link
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by ivoras 6y ago
To be fair, it's not always either-or: an OLED display of 128x32 or 128x64 resolution costs peanuts and requires 4 lines for routing (I2C), and I've used them on 8bit uCs. Like https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e&#x2F
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by ivoras 6y ago
Oh single points of failure, where art thou... I hope everyone realises that Let's Encrypt is by now an essential part of the Internet, somewhat like DNS is, just massively centralised.
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by ivoras 6y ago
Is the partial index technique to avoid indexed NULL data as effective for PostgreSQL 13+? It looks like in v13+ PostgreSQL could create a single leaf for NULL data and just store row pointers within it, which should reduce data sizes at le
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by ivoras 6y ago
Go does include a reasonably capable HTTP server, so they could have done it in Go... but would you add the Go's HTTP server LOC to the count? :)
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by ivoras 6y ago
a) 90% of everything is junk b) that's what you get when you start optimising for paper acceptance
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by ivoras 6y ago
In other words, Apple needs to just add 4 more cores to M1 to absolutely mop the floor with the Ryzen?
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by ivoras 6y ago
Russia is also starting vaccination with their own vaccine next week: https://www.livemint.com/news/world/russian-president-vladim...
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by ivoras 6y ago
> ...misconceptions... Yet if you skim through specs of modern NVMe devices you see commodity devices with latencies in the microseconds range and several GB/s of throughput supporting several hundred thousands random IOPS. So where
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by ivoras 6y ago
Astrophysics just seems soooo speculative. Even with margins of error in the millions of years and light years, it just seems that most of it is assumptions supported not by evidence (because we can't get direct evidence) but by previo
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by ivoras 6y ago
Not every country pledged to "eradicate COVID", but at least one did: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/20/asia/new-zealand-coronavi... And, like expected, they continue to have, and will continu
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by ivoras 6y ago
The word "elite" in this context has always bugged me. It's to good of a word to be wasted for such a label. Elite(s) should be something positive.
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by ivoras 6y ago
The Mars bar was named after the company, which was named after the person, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Clarence_Mars . Also, M&M's.
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by ivoras 6y ago
> Angle brackets require unbounded parser look-ahead or type information in certain situations So.... they'd rather pull the "it's hard to do" or the NIH card, than make it easier for developers switching between lang
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by ivoras 6y ago
There's one HUGE upside for doing it the current way: autogenerated columns. E.g. CREATE TABLE t (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, x INTEGER UNIQUE); INSERT INTO t (x) VALUES (42), (43) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING RETURNING *; This does

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