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by jcranmer 8mo ago
The audits of people under that are going to fall under 2 or 3 categories: a) People who filled in the wrong number on the spreadsheet that is taxes for whatever reason, and the audit is informing the filer that they filled it out incorrect
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by jcranmer 8mo ago
If you don't like it, join the Amish and file a Form 4029.
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The Rust RFC process requires essentially unanimous consent: there's no formal voting procedure, but the various teams can block any feature from going in. But sure, keep on saying they're basically the same thing.
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> The justification is to force people to work until they are too old to do so. Actually, the justification is to prevent old people from having to work. Retirement didn't really exist until the creation of pension systems in the
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by jcranmer 8mo ago
The government doesn't decide when you retire. The government decides when it is willing to pay you to be retired.
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> What no one wants to hear is rust is destined for the same fate. If you want to see the future of rust, look at C++. Rust has a much better initial state, but the rules evolving the system (the governance model, the kinds of developers
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by jcranmer 8mo ago
Wikipedia links to this guide to the APP, published in December 2006 (much closer to when the rule itself came out): https://web.archive.org/web/20191007132037/https://www.bis.d... . At the end of the gui
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by jcranmer 8mo ago
> Assume FP64 units are ~2-4x bigger. I'm not a hardware guy, but an explanation I've seen from someone who is says that it's not much extra hardware to add to a 2×f32 FMA unit the capability to do 1×f64. You already have
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by jcranmer 8mo ago
I really, really hate the modern trend of scrollbar design. I guess it makes some amount of sense if you're aiming for a mobile phone factor, where real estate is somewhat limited, but changing the scrollbar from a widget that lives fu
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
x86 has (not counting the system-management mode stuff) 4 major modes: real mode, protected mode, virtual 8086 mode, and IA-32e mode. Protected mode and IA-32e mode rely on the bits within the code segment's descriptor to figure out wh
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
> The problem with extremely smart people is not many people understand them. I know this is a common trope in many media portrayals, but it's really not my experience. The "insufferable genius" stereotype tracks most not
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
It's been decades since I read Surely You're Joking , and I've completely forgotten about that chapter. It plays no part in my conscious recollection of the book. The episode that really stuck in my mind was the episode abou
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
> misogynistic behaviors were cultural at the time, I agree they're abhorrent but people are embedded in their culture. Moral relativism is a thing, but I think a more useful way to think of it rather than just saying "misogyny
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
The youngest person to receive their PhD was 13, per the internet, so yes it is possible for a 12-year-old to be in grad school. Although, at least when I was in university, even undergrads still got the @university.edu email address.
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
I think it is more specifically that Filipinos tend to speak English with a more American accent, unlike English-speakers in (say) India.
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> The fundamental laws of chemistry have not been changed much by quantum physics, they just became better understood and less mysterious. Quantum mechanics has explained various cases of unusual chemical bonds that appeared to contradic
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
> If our unit of charge had been set when we knew about quarks, we would have chosen those as fundamental, and the charge of the electron would instead be -3. Actually, I doubt it. Because of their color charge, quarks can never be found
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
If you allow contraction after inlining, whether or not an FMA will get contracted becomes subject to the vicissitudes of inlining and other compiler decisions that can be hard-to-predict. It turns out to be a lot harder of a problem to sol
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
It is possible for 12-year-olds to attend university.
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If I were targeting Rust for compilation, I wouldn't do lifetimes, instead everything would be unsafe Rust using raw pointers. I'd have to do an actual project to see how annoying it is to lower semantics to unsafe Rust to know fo
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
> Now, if a and b are already float, then it's equivalent. Not necessarily! Floating-point contraction is allowable essentially within statements but not across them. By assigning the result of a * b into a value, you prohibit contr
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
Chomsky is very well known for the fact that his anti-US imperialism stance is strong enough that he becomes a standard bearer for any malodorous regime the US is against, starting from his denial of the Cambodian genocide and attempted hab
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
Compilers aim to be fully deterministic. The biggest source of nondeterminism when building software isn't the compiler itself, but build systems invoking the compiler nondeterministically (because iterating the files in a directory is
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
It is generally considered a bug in a compiler if its output is nondeterministic. Of course, compilers are large, complex beasts, and nondeterminism is so easy to accidentally introduce (e.g., do a "for each" in a map where the ke
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
I mean, do you have a counterexample? FWIW, Bill Gates is one of the people I would have pointed to as one of the less disreputable modern billionaires, and finding out that Melinda divorced him over his Epstein connections really soured my
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
Yes, the Abrego Garcia and Öztürk detentions are two very newsworthy cases that have actually reached the point of a final judgement in the district courts, as opposed to "merely" preliminary injunctions against the government. (I
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
> I had hoped one day to re-implement parts of LLVM itself in Rust Heh, earlier this day, I was just thinking how crazy a proposal would it actually be to have a Rust dependency (specifically, the egg crate, since one of the things I&#x2
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
It's not like satellites need anything like computer chips, which are finicky things to build that require parts with a sole supplier on the entire planet.
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
ICE's current mission isn't to deport illegal immigrants. Its current mission is to antagonize anyone who is not a WASP, and seemingly these days, anybody who stands up for non-WASP citizens in the US. As can be easily ascertained
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
> If you tools are not updated that isn't the fault of C++. It kinda is. The C++ committee has been getting into a bad habit of dumping lots of not-entirely-working features into the standard and ignoring implementer feedback along

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