kuwze

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   by kuwze 9y ago

   I'm an idiot in this area. Why would you decode utf8?
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   Why is there never a comparison to Japan? They are 1/2 the size of the USA, have a privatized health system, and it's pretty damn awesome. They also have price controls which make things a lot easier to comprehend.
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   Somewhat unrelated, I recently discovered that monitor lizards can "count as high as six"[0]. [0]: https://www.earthsfriends.com/monitor-lizards/
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   Could there be a similar scheme for floats? Also, is there a penalty for using float16s for CPU centric code?
5. 215.▲
   by kuwze 9y ago

   Why would you use this over a logging framework?
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   Reminds me of the fastest JSON parser written in D[0]. [0] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/20151014090114.60780ad6@marco-...
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   Do you know anything new about the Radeon Pro SSG? I haven't read anything since the announcement.
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   For anyone interested, the back pain industry is considered worth more than $100 billion[0]. [0] https://qz.com/1010259/the-100-billion-per-year-back-pain-in...
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   by kuwze 9y ago

   I've read most of the book and I am confused by the fact that it completely skips artificial evolution (especially obvious in the domestication of cats and dogs).
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I have no clue if this works (I have not been diagnosed as dyslexic) but it certainly makes things more readable for me: https://opendyslexic.org/
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    GPLv3 and Apachev2 are the best in regards to dealing with patents.
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    The Economics of Garbage Collection (2011) [pdf](eprints.gla.ac.uk)

    72 points by kuwze 9y ago|3 comments
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    I'm an idiot in this area but you might find this relevant[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    Reminds me of svforth[0]. [0] https://github.com/ephsec/svforth/blob/master/README.md
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    Robotic roach creates order from chaos (2010)(nature.com)

    1 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    The FoundationDB people invented Flow to easily create multithreaded distributed systems[0]. [0] https://gist.github.com/Preetam/98e80cd17ecb8748c72b
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    Robotic roach creates order from chaos(nature.com)

    1 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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    Learning how the brain does its coding (2011)(arstechnica.com)

    1 points by kuwze 9y ago|0 comments
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    Graphs not Grids: How caches are corrupting algorithm designers (2010)(blog.ezyang.com)

    92 points by kuwze 9y ago|17 comments
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    This reminded me of mandelbulb[1] and on a somewhat unrelated note the original demo video of Euclideon[2]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuYZg8k-Zc [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4
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    by kuwze 9y ago

    There's also ydiff in case anyone is interested (it works well with lisp/scheme): https://github.com/JexCheng/ydiff