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by legulere 5y ago
> In fact, money was widespread and used on a daily basis at all levels of the population. I don’t know how they came to that conclusion. Cutting scrap in equal weight pieces pointing to use can be argued about. But how does daily use fo
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by legulere 5y ago
Arbitrary computation is just a subset of arbitrary code execution and one that is much less harmful. Arbitrary computation means that you can let the computer do any pure calculation you want it to. The worst you can do is to put it in an
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by legulere 5y ago
There’s some miracle chemical every few years that’s supposed to generally be healthy. So far none of them turned out to be generally recommended. I’ll try to stick to a healthy lifestyle instead, without any supplements.
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by legulere 5y ago
Why would that optimization not be possible with a simple const *? The problem I see with that proposal is that it introduces a new type of pointer, the immutable pointer. That seems like equal to a const pointer, but it's not. With a
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by legulere 5y ago
Callee saved registers kind of work like that. You either don't touch those registers, or you restore them before returning.
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by legulere 5y ago
How about those explanations: It didn't matter before, as compilers were not optimizing as much, code had a much closer 1:1 correspondence to assembly (if you are passing it by pointer and not register, you would want to make that clea
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by legulere 5y ago
In my work I have the opposite experience, that latency is favoured to throughput: People write messages and expect an immediate answer, for things that are not time-pressing. A lot of things are destroying both though: Starting several thi
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by legulere 5y ago
Central banks already have that kind of power and they're not even democratically legitimized
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by legulere 5y ago
I’m just leaving this link here again: https://www.darksky.org/new-satellite-study/
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by legulere 5y ago
Your wage is payed from that insurance, so it makes sense that you pay accordingly to what you earn.
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by legulere 5y ago
We have standardized health care billing in Germany, both for the around 100 public health insurances and the private ones. We still have a relatively expensive health care system when compared with other European countries.
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by legulere 5y ago
Jante lagen only applies to the individual. I don’t know about Finland, but at least in Sweden the opposite is true about society: they genuinely believe they are better than anyone else.
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by legulere 5y ago
Portability is complexity. Complexity is diametrically opposed to reliability.
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by legulere 5y ago
Germany is a net-exporter of electricity to France. Especially in summer when nuclear reactors have to be shut down, because the water temperature in the streams they use already is too high or when the tide is too low, or in winter when th
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by legulere 5y ago
The how does Denmark manage 60%, and Germany 50%? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewab...
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by legulere 5y ago
Rooftop photovoltaics alone could produce 40% of US electricity: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/eyes-on-environment/the... You don’t need to cover the whole planet.
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by legulere 5y ago
There are a few areas where I see carbon capture viable: - Catching CO2 of unavoidable CO2 emitting processes, namely burning trash. In Europe we decided that we do not want landfills anymore, and what cannot be recycled has to be burned. W
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by legulere 5y ago
> We're mostly SW folks here, I think, so we generally understand that interfacing components requires a well written contract and appropriate testing at the boundaries. It also means that we understand the overhead in doing so, com
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by legulere 6y ago
There are three main interest rates of the ecb: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...
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by legulere 6y ago
Don’t forget to talk about rockets! Although there weight is more important than volume.
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by legulere 6y ago
Hollow fiber would almost reach full light speed: https://www.nojitter.com/enterprise-networking/hollow-fiber-... https://www.rp-photonics.com/hollow_core_fibers.html
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by legulere 6y ago
In the video there's 15 seconds between the to Apples being thrown in the basket. The apple is dropped from enough height additionally to be damaged afterwards.
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by legulere 6y ago
Typical Passivhaus-Buildings are very airtight and feature air exchange systems often even with HEPA-Filters. That should do the trick.
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by legulere 6y ago
There are some hard usability limits that feel like the performance has stagnated or getting worse: when resizing Relayouting needs to be faster than the time for one frame (16ms usually). On Windows seemingly no software manages to do that
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by legulere 6y ago
Are we ready to just see satellites and no stars anymore?
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by legulere 6y ago
It’s important to have a good working environment with clear boundaries between work and private: - Work starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point with a pause or pauses. - Only work happens on the work computer, no work happens
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by legulere 6y ago
It wouldn’t, even traditional car manufacturers like VW are massively ramping up their electric car production. They just don’t have Elon musk for PR
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by legulere 6y ago
Only if other companies aren’t growing faster. VW tripled electric car sales in 2020 compared to 2021: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/2021/01/Volkswagen-bran...
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by legulere 6y ago
Widespread access to low-fee index-fonds is pretty new and alternatives were not as bad as they are now. You could at least get inflation back by just letting your money stay at the bank, which is not possible now anymore.
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by legulere 6y ago
A lot of people that invest simply lack better alternatives. On the other hand the people that could invest reasonably like homeowners in energy efficiency do not have the money to do so, with the current monetary policy. Even if they had,

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