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by jolux 5y ago
Every citizen is supposed to be given an SSN.
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by jolux 5y ago
In hindsight it’s easy to say that, but would you have guessed in advance that they would succeed like they have? In the span of a year they have made x86-based products look obsolete.
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by jolux 5y ago
Apple still does things that other companies won’t even consider, though. I mean look at the M1 and Rosetta 2. Nobody knew what their plans for ARM were, and out of the gate they had a processor that was not only faster than anything Intel
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by jolux 5y ago
How do we judge that governments are not providing services at good value? How many other institutions in the US are tasked with ensuring the safety and well-being of 300 million people and do it for less? It's a bit of a cliche to say
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by jolux 5y ago
> I'm not optimistic on TypeScript for Python. That'd be great if such a thing existed MyPy exists, Python officially supports type annotations. I do think comprehensions are a weird feature for Python, particularly from the “o
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by jolux 5y ago
Neither PyTorch nor Julia run on the JVM.
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by jolux 5y ago
Probably not faster in an absolute sense but things like loops in Julia can be properly optimized and will sometimes be more readable than structuring your program entirely around NumPy constructs.
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by jolux 5y ago
Sure, I agree. I just think defense is a weird thing to pick. Our governments need a lot of help with tech, I think the DoD actually needs less help than most other parts.
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by jolux 5y ago
Sounds like they don't need any help from FAANG engineers then.
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by jolux 5y ago
when was the last time there was a credible threat against the United States that the defense industry was helpful in neutralizing?
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by jolux 5y ago
It says that we haven’t seriously needed to actually defend ourselves in an extremely long time.
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by jolux 5y ago
> They do not appear to have the best security program in the world. By what measure? That they don’t find all the security bugs? Have you seen what iOS exploit chains look like these days? They’re not exactly simple. I think there is li
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by jolux 5y ago
Yes it is, it’s buckling springs.
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by jolux 5y ago
It's not quite as simple as that. One of the reasons the suicide rate is so high in the US is because of how easy it is to access firearms. This suggests that peoples' propensity to commit suicide is at least somewhat dependent on
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by jolux 5y ago
Man, what. Psychiatrists have to commit you if they think you're an immediate danger to yourself. I'm sure shitty ones do it in situations where they shouldn't, but speaking as someone who has actually experienced being sui
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by jolux 5y ago
Reading the replies it seems like this law may have incentivized some companies to make themselves extremely difficult to contact in the first place. How does the law deal with this?
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by jolux 5y ago
Can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not but my point was that not even every CS major would have taken this course (and learned about these structures) by the time they had finished, so it doesn’t quite seem reasonable to expect it as c
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by jolux 5y ago
It seems the Harman/Kardon 730 was originally around $400, which in present-day dollars is around $2000. Do you happen to know if a $2000 receiver today might be closer in quality? I ask partially because I'm into this myself, and
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by jolux 5y ago
What algorithms courses are we even talking about? I dropped out after sophomore year but I still took data structures and algorithms, and a lot of the stuff I see people mention getting quizzed on at Google (I saw convex hulls in another t
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by jolux 5y ago
system-type is actually a symbol, so you can do (eq system-type 'darwin) for the same effect. here's my macOS section: https://github.com/bklebe/.emacs.d/blob/b0ca255032d1240942ff...
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by jolux 5y ago
I take the first view of transience, and I would be a lot more concerned about the current level of inflation if we weren’t seeing significant wage growth and job growth. What made the 1970s a nightmare was inflation without wage growth. I
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by jolux 5y ago
It’s clear that demand is up. What’s not clear is the argument at the end of this article, that this will lead to an inflationary cycle with no clear way out in the long run. This is what they claim is their opinion. It is not widely accept
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by jolux 5y ago
Nobody thinks inflation is a good thing ceteris paribus. The main questions are whether it’s better than the alternative, and whether it will be transient or not. “Any inflation at all is bad” is not a view held by any serious economist the
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by jolux 5y ago
Just a warning that this is an article by a hedge fund expressing a view of our current inflationary period that I would argue is heterodox among the economic mainstream. I suggest reading Paul Krugman and Claudia Sahm for dovish views, or
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by jolux 5y ago
It’s only “behind” relative to Chrome, the dominant browser which more or less sets the standards these days. Calling Safari “behind” is judging browsers by how similar to Chrome they are.
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by jolux 5y ago
> People's SSDs have already failed because of this, and obviously they're soldered. Any links to more info about this? I’ve had my eye on a 16” Pro with an M1 Max for a couple weeks now but want to make sure it won’t have issu
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by jolux 5y ago
My standards are high enough that I choose to use macOS and not Linux or Windows. I make no other claims about them.
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by jolux 5y ago
Not OP but I have extensive experience as a user of all three major desktop systems. Aqua, the macOS desktop, is by far the most stable and consistent, and in my experience the most usable and powerful as well. A few things that stand out a
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by jolux 5y ago
> The ones that don’t complain have low standards. > they haven’t experienced anything better. I don't want to gratify this pointless flame any more than to say that I have used all of Windows (XP, Vista, 8, 8.1, 10), Debian, Fed
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by jolux 5y ago
As far as I know you need to use Xcode to distribute the software, or to write macOS-native software. I have written plenty of Java Swing apps without touching Xcode at all.

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