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by jcranmer 1y ago
It's worth pointing out that export templates were removed from C++ based on feedback from the most expert implementers of C++ on implementing the feature, which unanimously resolved to "don't": https://www.op
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It's difficult to find trustworthy statistics quickly, but the penetration of electricity and running water in US households is only about 99%. At the scale of the US (~130 million households), 1% of households lacking electricity equa
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> A PGP key is the only standardized cryptographic passport for the internet I think this rather gives the game away. For people for whom PGP is important, their PGP key is their identity. And there is a community of people like this. Bu
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Prices in the US are not tax-inclusive, so the effect of sales tax ruins that plan.
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https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/ > We may use Personal Data for the following purposes: [...] To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, Op
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> In copyright cases, typically you need to show some kind of harm. NYT is suing for statutory copyright infringement. That means you only need to demonstrate that the copyright infringement, since the infringement alone is considered ha
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"How dare the New York Times demand access to our vault of everything-we-keep to figure out if we're a bunch of lying asses. We must resist them in the name of user privacy! Signed, the people who have scraped literally everything
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by jcranmer 1y ago
std::unordered_map basically specifies a bucket-based hashtable implementation (read: lots of extra pointer chasing). Most high-performance hashtables are based on probing.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Sorry, no. IEEE 754 is correctly implemented in pretty much all modern hardware [1], save for the fact that optional operations (e.g., the suggested transcendental operations) are not implemented. The problem you run into is that the compi
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My electricity and gas bills both charge me $0.xxxxxx per unit price, or 10,000ths of a ¢, although the last digit is invariably a zero. I've also seen 4-5 digits on currency exchange places. I'd have to break out a calculator to
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The noob-expert meme is really apropos here, as floating-point is really the option to go for if you know nothing about it or you know a lot about it. The "problem" with floating-point is that you have to deal with rounding. But i
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> I don’t think Decimal64 has the same features, but it has been a while. Decimal32, Decimal64, and Decimal128 all follow the same rules, they just have different values for the exponent range and number of significant figures. Actually,
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> because it's apocryphal that the purpose of hyperloop was to sabotage public transit but the motive sure fits the crime Elon Musk told his biographer that the purpose of his Hyperloop proposal was to kill CAHSR. That's not ex
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The Republicans set the agenda and the rules in both the House and the Senate. They knew, before the shutdown started, that the bills they crafted would have to get 60 votes in the Senate to be enacted. And they also knew, before it started
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> Repeal section 230 §230 protects Meta from liability for user-generated content. Ads are not user-generated content. So repealing it would do absolutely nothing in this case.
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> I've always wondered why UFOs are only a USA phenomenon. They're not. There are however two factors greatly biasing your perception of UFOs. First, it takes a fair amount of effort to track down information in foreign languag
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by jcranmer 1y ago
IEEE 754 doesn't (usually) distinguish between different NaN encodings for the purposes of semantics--if the result is a NaN, it doesn't specify which NaN the result is. Most hardware vendors implement a form of NaN propagation:
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by jcranmer 1y ago
When you go from (a + b) + c to a + (b + c), you're invoking the associative property, not the commutative property. The confusion between associativity and commutativity is the entire point of this thread!
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The electoral college was originally intended to have the states appoint some grandees who would get together and discuss whom the best candidate for president would be (for an election system that actually works like this today, imagine th
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by jcranmer 1y ago
No, the two evaluations will give you exactly the same result: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... IEEE 754 operations are nonassociative, but they are commutative (at least if you ignore
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The fact that the C++ committee is technically a subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup is among the least of the issues of ISO for standardization. The main problem is that ISO is a net negative value-add for standardization. At one point, t
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I went to 10× revenue because I figured the ~$1 trillion was over something like a decade, rather than over a year.
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I had the benefit of being able to write that comment after seeing the other replies you wrote to sibling comments, and those comments reinforce the impression that you believe in the inaccurate stereotype of Indians as "noble savages.
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I know that "ads" is the popular assumption for how you're supposed to make money, but most sites don't really make all that much money with ads. Facebook and Google aren't rich from selling ads, they're rich f
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The main question I have with all of these deals: how much of the deal is OpenAI actually required to buy, versus how much of it is an option for OpenAI to buy? Because if you tot up all of these numbers, it's something like 10× curren
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It's really hard to read this comment as anything other than "don't worry about the genocidal policy of the US with regards to the natives, for they were a violent people." Indeed, it's actually an example of proble
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Even in the US, the Indian Wars weren't finished until the 1890s. In fact, most of the big wars against the Native Americans took place after the American Civil War. One of the big faults I have with US history in the education system
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I do think this is pretty much the one use case for a true "portable assembler", where it basically is assembly except the compiler will do the register allocation and instruction selection for you (so you don't have to deal
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I should have clarified that I was primarily referring to the stuff dealing with all the wrapper formats (like PKIX certificate verification), not the core cryptographic algorithms themselves. The core cryptographic algorithms, IMHO, should
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> But hasn't all that foundational code been stable and wrung out already over the last 30+ years? Not necessarily. The "HTTP signature verification code" sounds like it's invoking cryptography, and the sense I'v

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