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by jlebar 9y ago
An "electronic SIM card inside". I don't think this means there's a physical SIM. Dunno how that's going to affect compatibility with carriers, which is OP's question.
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by jlebar 9y ago
I also don't want tons of screens and so on in my car. But automatic headlights? Where I live, I see (or, well, don't) cars driving at night without their lights all the time . Automatically turning them on when it gets dark s
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by jlebar 9y ago
(I work on GPU compilers in LLVM.) I'd say that the fact that compilers are designed with a "stupid" IR-generation pass (e.g. the C++ AST to LLVM IR pass in clang) is part of a broader design strategy, namely, designing compi
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by jlebar 9y ago
Well, but we Americans also say "where did you go to school?" meaning, in most adult contexts, what other English speakers mean when they say "where did you attend university?" I agree it's a weird synecdoche, altho
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by jlebar 9y ago
See http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/indep.ps
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The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore(economist.com)
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by jlebar 9y ago
It's actually all open-source in clang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHa-OSrZPGo . Try it out!
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by jlebar 9y ago
> but I think that it was one of those cases where it was "coached" (same as the creep blocking). What makes you think that? In the interview, they explicitly disclaim this.
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by jlebar 9y ago
> The author is either a total idiot or he just retired with a cool 10-30MM he would be paid by Google to be fired. I'm going to guess it is the later Um, that's one possibility I suppose. But I am reminded of this scene: htt
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by jlebar 9y ago
There is no way that that a survey indicating that 40% of employees agree with the document is representative of Google as a whole. Google has 75k employees, nearly all of whom are aware of this incident, and a comment below suggests that
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by jlebar 9y ago
> For machine learning Tensor Cores in the upcoming Volta GPUs seem much better idea, delivering 120 TFLOPS. Yes, but the real-world benchmark numbers nvidia published show a much smaller speedup than one would expect if one looked only
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by jlebar 9y ago
Because automated weaving makes clothes a lot cheaper. Put another way, when workers become more efficient -- one factory worker able to control many weaving machines, or a relatively small group of programmers able to control many cars --
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by jlebar 9y ago
"It’s going to take a lot of work to develop the training and discipline to treat smart contracts the way that banks treat their ATM software." https://web.archive.org/web/20160406115607/https:/&#x
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by jlebar 9y ago
I would actually have no problem saying that a podcast that stretches your critical thinking muscles makes you "smarter". But do any of the listed podcasts do that? To work a muscle or your brain, you have to actively...well, wor
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by jlebar 9y ago
Would "24 infotainment podcasts" be a better way of describing this list? Nothing wrong with infotainment. Maybe it will even make you seem more interesting at parties. Nothing wrong with that, either. But it's not the sam
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by jlebar 9y ago
I wrote this when the Pence story broke in March. >>>>>>>>> I wanted to write this yesterday, but thankfully I didn't, because Jia Tolentino did a much better job than I would have in the New Yorker. http:&#
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by jlebar 9y ago
Do you think 23% of women is not a "large portion"? Let's imagine that only 23% of women care about being called "she" instead of "he". Do you think it's "forcing identity politics down everyone
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by jlebar 9y ago
Other than the risk of taking home 1/4 their salary and working twice as long for years and finally leaving with nothing to show for it. Which is by far the most likely outcome.
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by jlebar 9y ago
I am genuinely confused why you think a large portion -- if not a commanding majority -- of women in tech would not self-identify with "geek feminism". Naturally that website doesn't (can't) speak for all women in tech,
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by jlebar 9y ago
The blog post also would have been more useful if it had been a full crypto textbook rather than a single post. One can always say, "X would have been more useful if it had included Y (or at least a link to Y)". This sort of cr
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by jlebar 9y ago
Why is the status quo a problem? I'm not saying it isn't; I don't know. I just don't see why should we assume that it is. Have a read-through on http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_W
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by jlebar 9y ago
> Are women really put off of computing because [people use male pronouns for programmers, assuming they're male]? This doesn't need to be a hypothetical question. You could find a woman programmer and ask her. (A woman might
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by jlebar 9y ago
What makes you think were the author's intended audience, exactly? It sounds like the author intended their article for people who know what an IV is. You don't, and, while there's no shame in that, it does seem to indicate
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by jlebar 9y ago
Explaining to you how to do it the right way is not an obligation of anyone that says X article is wrong? "This article on global warming could spend less time bashing governments for inaction and more time talking about how I can redu
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by jlebar 9y ago
My point is, there's a lot of talk of "Uber was revolutionary" and "before Uber there was nothing!", when the sad truth is these folks never bothered to look? I mean, anyone who's lived in NYC for some time
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by jlebar 9y ago
This textbook chapter has a good overview of the state of the art: https://cs.brown.edu/~rt/gdhandbook/chapters/hierarchical.pd...
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by jlebar 9y ago
Man, n-gate is going to have so much fun with this thread. "A rich Internet wants to kill people by sending them to Mars. A hackernews says this is his true life's calling. Hackernews then debates the meaning of love, rationalit
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by jlebar 9y ago
chandlerc had a similar initial reaction. I eventually badgered him into trying it, and now he preaches the gospel whenever someone talks about a bug they can't figure out. Maybe it's the kind of thing that is hard to get until y
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by jlebar 9y ago
> If you feel sorry for someone who purchased a $300k taxi medallion which had an intrinsic value [...] which is far less, you are enabling such behavior. Dude. Feeling sorry for someone else makes you a human, not an enabler.
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by jlebar 9y ago
Tangentially relevant, one of my favorite journal articles. "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials." https://www.ncbi.nlm.n

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