jackmott

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by jackmott 10y ago
Because I am old now and am not as easily entertained by being in fantasy worlds all by myself any more, I can't handle it. But games like this that are either MMOs or small scale persistent worlds where you friends can join (like min
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by jackmott 10y ago
sure, but that still releases the co2. at least you get something useful from the co2 though.
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by jackmott 10y ago
and the rate of warming was orders of magnitude slower.
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by jackmott 10y ago
That is correct, the rate of change right now is unprecedented by several orders of magnitude, saving for a couple of events in the last 1 billion years, caused by similarly unusual circumstances, during which mass extinctions occurred, whi
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by jackmott 10y ago
> This isn't related to climate change sure it is, read the whole article.
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by jackmott 10y ago
No, if you learn more about him, its really more work ethic. I think he is smarter than an average person, but not smarter than the average programmer by a whole lot. Just robotic like work ethic.
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by jackmott 10y ago
I would amend that to say it may result in the illusion of cheaper internet. Your internet bill will go down, but services on the internet you use will either get more expensive, or degrade (as with adding advertisements).
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by jackmott 10y ago
the masks on avx 512 can lead to more than a 2x improvement sometimes
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by jackmott 10y ago
going to be more and more of them until the people demand this president is gone.
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by jackmott 10y ago
>with a memory safe language and prevented all issues like that from ever happening. drastically reduced, but not quite ever. For instance, use a GC language, especially in this domain, you might do some data pooling to reduce GC overhea
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by jackmott 10y ago
they aren't good reasons now . They were good reasons ~20 years ago. language spec should probably now default to zeroing memory unless you specifically ask it not to....and maybe that should be a verbose option :)
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by jackmott 10y ago
I dunno man, maybe there are higher ideals than "the company". Ever thought about that?
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by jackmott 10y ago
And I would be reluctant to work with someone who wouldn't write that letter.
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by jackmott 10y ago
boom http://fssnip.net/
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by jackmott 10y ago
The series of tubes analogy was pretty sound. Hell, it is even literally true now.
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by jackmott 10y ago
don't have sympathy, these people are always awful.
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by jackmott 10y ago
In time you will come to know that obsessive internet race cheat sleuthing is the greatest form of entertainment in the world. You get your Sherlock Holmes fix, you get insane psychologies to study, and you do good for the world, putting ho
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by jackmott 10y ago
https://gist.github.com/jackmott/988b4742394cf5e7d331e31c0ee...
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by jackmott 10y ago
I can't speak to Visual Studio for Mac, but the Ionide plugin for VSCode is very impressive. VSCode will fire up faster than Visual Studio for windows and use less resources, ionide has some features Visual Studio does not. There ar
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by jackmott 10y ago
F# can be a nice language even if you don't care for the functional paradigm. Discriminated Unions and pattern mactching still come in handy, the syntax is still less verbose, there is less biolerplate/ceremony than in C# where ev
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by jackmott 10y ago
I am glad I am not the only one thinking "Not fast enough! We need to add more speed!" Stuff like this is amazing though.
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by jackmott 10y ago
yeah i have fever dreams of C and ML having some sort of super baby. rust and nim are close but not quite
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by jackmott 10y ago
worrying about your muscles catabolizing when you are trying to lose weight is one of the ways your brain makes excuses to keep eating and stay fat. You are going to lose some muscle, its ok, you will still look better and feel better and p
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by jackmott 10y ago
There is something to be said for realism. The four minute mile didn't just topple for psychological reasons. It happened due to the development of better strategy (pacers), and continued to drop from there due to better training, bett
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by jackmott 10y ago
pffft I severed all that stuff and felt better for it.
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by jackmott 10y ago
I constantly pick up the metaphorical phone to call the DBA then remember that I am the DBA...
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by jackmott 10y ago
there is at least one way to write plain sql and get compile time checking, with f#
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by jackmott 10y ago
Not everyone can afford a crack ops team. Not enough crack ops people exist to go around even if they could. "The Cloud" lets us do WAY better on reliability and a little cheaper on cost than we could with our own bare metal serv
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by jackmott 10y ago
a big l2 cache will tend to lead to good overall performance. In that it will positively impact the performance of a wide range of programs. Especially ones that adhere to common OOP or functional programming practices. (Pointer hopping, vi
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by jackmott 10y ago
sorry, we will keep making that leap as long as the crazy person osnpresident because we all worry some approximation of that could happen now.

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