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by jjmarr 2y ago
My first question was "what should I be looking for when this image is compressed?" A good compression algorithm should preserve important qualities of the image, but I can't evaluate that without knowing the qualities preser
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by jjmarr 2y ago
85% of software engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo do so every year. https://x.com/danluu/status/1351785083598893062 Anyone who can code is fleeing this country en masse and the government'
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I find it hilarious that boomers used to hire assassins from a magazine and that was more successful than the "darkweb hitmen" today.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Literally every city in southern Ontario is now a bedroom community of Toronto. There isn't anywhere else to move. Let's take London, Ontario, a city of 400,000 people 120 miles (200 km) from Toronto, Detroit, and Buffalo. https:
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Kagi search isn't free either.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Arbitrary precision sounds good but my registers have 64 bits and it takes several instructions to load arbitrary bit slices from memory. It's a lot more performant to use the equivalent of scientific notation.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
"Floating points are the worst method of representing rational numbers, except for all the others." —Winston Churchill probably
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Alternative alphabets have been kicking around for ages as a way to make it easier to learn English; mainly because our existing alphabet is inconsistent and doesn't have a 1-to-1 correspondence of letters to sounds. https:/&#x2F
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The court would make a "declaration of incompatibility" with the ECHR which leaves it up to Parliament to change the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_incompatibility
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It's entirely possible for something to be a positive-sum game, and still have people individually acting in their own self-interest reducing the size of the economy. Global warming is the same thing. If everyone pollutes, we all die a
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The less labour rights a country has, the more competitive a country's businesses are. If you can keep your workers in quasi-indentured servitude, you're going to be more profitable than a business that can't. It's a pri
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by jjmarr 2y ago
If twenty components work 99% of the time, then they only have an 0.99^20 = 82% chance of working as a collective. If your 5.1 GHz (billion instructions per second) CPU had a 0.00000001% chance of failing at a given instruction, you'd
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I've been getting randomly flung by the terrain in Roblox since 2008.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It goes against the spirit of the thought experiment because it's an attack on that spirit. Abstractly, Rawls says society shouldn't be racially/ethnically/socioeconomically/etc prejudiced. The vast majority of peop
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I watched something based on this in my debate club, so this isn't my own original thought. There's a strong argument that the knowledge someone has from being disadvantaged contributes to their views on justice. The original posi
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by jjmarr 2y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/meta-openai-say-disrup... https://openai.com/index/disrupting-deceptive-uses-of-AI-by-... OpenAI has also banned Israeli influence operations. Do you thi
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by jjmarr 2y ago
In Canada, we have software and computer engineering programs accredited by the same entity (CEAB) that does civil engineering. My program is more out of date (Java Server Pages, VHDL) but the school can't lower the quality of their pr
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Brilliant. I own some Bed Bath and Beyond stock. I was going to sell it for a ton of money, but now that the company is bankrupt, I can sell it for practically nothing and avoid taxes!
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Original article: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/inst... I'm a huge fan of Ryan Peterman. I appreciated his actionable advice on his personal blog (developing.dev) as someon
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Journalists are often judged based on their public output. You get bylines on published articles, and you can use those to apply for jobs. There's not much emphasis on secrecy because the goal of a news outlet is to be read by as many
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by jjmarr 2y ago
This is a good point. It's a occupational hazard that's been joked about for decades (as Royal Mail acknowledges). The article doesn't say what the postal service is doing to mitigate this. Is there PPE a worker can use if th
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The most important metaskill is reading paragraphs. The reason? It allows you to read books instead of blog posts made out of single sentences. The big-picture style of writing only gives us an overview of concepts. High-level is for those
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I've never had that when using Gentoo but I started in 2016 or so. The IRC was helpful in getting me started and I learned a lot in menuconfig.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It's on-topic when the author said: > Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to move on to other things. It's clear
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by jjmarr 2y ago
For those that don't understand the differences between Funtoo and Gentoo, this is a good summary: https://www.funtoo.org/Wolf_Pack_Philosophy My understanding is that it was created after the founder of Gentoo had som
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by jjmarr 2y ago
My current solution to std::vectors not being constexpr is initializing a std::array with an immediately invoked lambda expression. That lets me algorithmically determine the size of the array at compile-time, which is the main use I'v
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I'm more interested in hearing why the above post and the examples you've cited fixed the problems that others have encountered in the socialism space. If this was a startup trying to make worker owned co-ops more attractive I&#
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by jjmarr 2y ago
"Every company should be owned by its employees" is the definition of socialism, which is social ownership of the means of production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism Specifically this is marke
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> For example, we could disable TB's corruption detection/recovery code paths that provide storage fault-tolerance. And then you could zap "a regular database" with a cosmic ray and see what happens with a regular con
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by jjmarr 2y ago
This is the purpose of the mixed economy in which most of us live. The government changes the rules of the game to try to align the profit motive with social good, because they are naturally not aligned. You haven't said why worker c

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