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by kaashif 3y ago
And you don't have to simulate it in real time, maybe 1 second here takes years or centuries to simulate outside the simulation. It's not like we'd have any way to tell.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> All you have to do is "compare and swap" and loop through until you are done, this is way easier than Fizzbuzz. I think you have this wrong, Fizzbuzz is actually completely trivial to the point where the problem statement is
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by kaashif 3y ago
Mount Rushmore could not have been constructed with methods known at the time. American civilization may be millions of years old and could have had psychic rock forming technology.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Also you can buy a SPARC server for very cheap on eBay, less than a hundred bucks in many cases. Shipping is usually more expensive than the item itself. There are thousands or more of those things out there.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Yeah, back when I drank a lot of coffee, one cup would make me feel calmer, while going too far and drinking like 3-4 cups (which I did do once to see what it was like) makes me feel like shit, have a headache, be unable to sleep well, etc.
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by kaashif 3y ago
I prefer drawing with a pen, then a mouse, and only then my finger. When I lift my finger up and put it back down I don't know the exact point it'll register as! Sorry to go all Hacker News on you.
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by kaashif 3y ago
We're actually even at the point where Java has added language support for sum types and pattern matching! Java is also the most prominent example of a lack of null safety. Once Java gets around to fixing that in the next century or tw
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by kaashif 3y ago
Java actually does have pattern matching like this: int eval(Expr e) { return switch (e) { case ConstantExpr(var i) -> i; case PlusExpr(var a, var b) -> eval(a) + eval(b); case TimesEx
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by kaashif 3y ago
The sheer horniness of Chapterhouse Dune is crazy. The idea that sex goddesses from beyond known space were the antagonists is bizarre.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> I don’t have enough working memory in my head to store the compile-time type information about every relevant variable Neither do I, but I know the compiler will check that for me so I don't need to hold all of that in working mem
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by kaashif 3y ago
> As if writing in Typescript would produce less buggy, more stable or more maintainable applications than using Elixir. I have news for you. A lot of people, including me, do know that catching an entire class of bugs at compile time ma
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by kaashif 3y ago
If I have a green card I can donate to political candidates though. I don't know how many dollars is equivalent to one vote, that probably varies by candidate. So H1Bs are also competing against green card holders with more political p
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by kaashif 3y ago
The root cause is that he wrote most of the book before the fraud came out, so the tone is wrong. For the book to sell, he had to release it now, while the story is ongoing. But that means he doesn't have time to rewrite the whole thin
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by kaashif 3y ago
> there is vastly more economic inequality now than there was in the 60s Increased inequality doesn't imply the absolute level of welfare of anyone has decreased, I don't think you should include it in your list. If my life is
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by kaashif 3y ago
Somewhat weird comment...I thought it was obvious, I and others are occasionally interested in what e.g. Joe Rogan has to say because it's entertaining. I didn't think this was in any way confusing or surprising, and never thought
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by kaashif 3y ago
Unless civilization is destroyed after a nuclear war, solar event, something else. Knowledge could be lost in a handful of generations. Maybe a global pandemic makes everyone have constant debilitating brain fog and everything just stops wo
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by kaashif 3y ago
I don't think requiring everyone speak the same language is racism, necessarily. If it's "speak English to include everyone in work conversation" then it's fine. If it's "don't speak Hungarian on the
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by kaashif 3y ago
I used to collect old Sun, IBM, and HP Unix workstations. You know, the ones with weird architectures like SPARC, POWER, and PA-RISC. And the software to run on them, which was often very weird. Like you, this isn't the mass market con
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by kaashif 3y ago
Sodium definitely does explode on contact with water, although not as violently as potassium. Here's one of the search results for "sodium explosion": https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.16771 Un
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by kaashif 3y ago
What? That seems like it would vary from company to company. My company does scrum and developers choose which technologies to use, which seems like it's probably common...
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by kaashif 3y ago
The way you've phrased that, the good companies still put profit first, it's just that they have a different strategy - treating people well to build loyalty etc.
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by kaashif 3y ago
That might be right, but bear in mind the UK counts temporarily housed people (e.g. people couch surfing) as homeless, not just people literally on the streets. These stats may not be directly comparable.
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by kaashif 3y ago
"and spend" is the key part. Lots of the money from QE just sat around as bank reserves and was never in the real economy being spent. That's how you can print money without causing runaway price inflation - just don't s
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by kaashif 3y ago
> If you print 10% more dollars all dollars are 10% less valuable, all things being equal. Prices don't change immediately when the money is printed, prices begin to change when the money actually enters the market and starts biddin
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by kaashif 3y ago
Monetary inflation is an increase in the money supply, it usually results in price inflation which is just called "inflation". Maybe the person you're replying to is using the wrong terminology.
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by kaashif 3y ago
#1 reads like a like a line from American Psycho, every line is packed with brand names. Or maybe that's just because I'm reading it right now. I don't think I mention brand names that often in conversation or in thought, the
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by kaashif 3y ago
As someone from the UK, with friends who work as programmers in both the public and private sectors, I'm not sure what you're saying is true. It's definitely not highly paying to work for the government, although "relati
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Hollywood actors and famous football players are often very rich, but they sell their labor to get by. But there's a key difference. They don't need to continue to sell their labor, they can stop at any time and live on e.g.
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by kaashif 3y ago
This one is particularly interesting to me because there have been positive books written about her, and she gives interviews about he management approach where she says pretty standard stuff. Why would anyone buy those books or want to int
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by kaashif 3y ago
I imagine their ideal open source phone OS wouldn't include any proprietary driver blobs, but what do I know...

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