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by lsd5you 11y ago
Memory lookup can be considered O(log(m)) where m is the amount of memory you are using. e.g. If the addressable memory space exceeds the word size then it would take two cycles to do a load from memory. In practice memory lookup is O(1) bu
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by lsd5you 11y ago
You may not agree with it, but I don't think the disbelief is warranted. There may be other less pure motivations but there is a pretty simple moral case - proliferation will all lead to an increased likelihood of nuclear war - because
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by lsd5you 11y ago
Not disagreeing with the premise (far from it) but how on earth can you be simultaneously completely sure about this and claim it is also something that is largely unknowable ('so deeply important in a way we still can only guess at&#x
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by lsd5you 11y ago
There is nothing wrong with signed java applets. There is no difference between that and downloading and running (a signed) application.
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by lsd5you 11y ago
Except ant colonies are really just big families motivated by kin selection. I don't think altruism comes into it.
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by lsd5you 12y ago
That's really insightful. So perhaps the 'objects of worship' are in some sense for the worshippers no longer just a piece of art or entertainment, and so cannot be held criticically by them without creating a certain amount
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by lsd5you 12y ago
If I was arguing for anything it was better argument! I think what I am looking for is not an explanation how technology results in growth, and how this gets measured, but rather acknowledgement of ways in which this is not the case. Especi
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by lsd5you 12y ago
Growth!=Technological progress. I'm not sure what else there is to say. Do you realise you made this logical jump? Does it not need expanding upon or justifying? Do you not think it might be the source of the difference other people ha
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by lsd5you 12y ago
We all have a super power or two (or none or, sometimes more than two ...). Do you not think what you wrote is just liberal dogma? I think there probably are people with few things going for them. Possibly removed from you socially due to t
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by lsd5you 12y ago
Also known as the enigma machine from that war! What a bizarre appropriation to make. (I mean I get it, the idea is to link the title to the recent film and make the article somehow more current and clickable. Maybe it is a cultural thing b
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by lsd5you 12y ago
It is far from given that Microsoft has had a positive impact on the world's economy!! It shouldn't have to be stated but you cannot measure contribution by the economic size of an organisation, or even assume it is a positive one
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by lsd5you 12y ago
Your first example is wrong. If you move to a more northerly latitude then it will increase the risk of accidents for you (i.e. there is causation). It is indirect causation, but then ultimately (almost?) all causation is going to be indire
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by lsd5you 13y ago
Isn't what you are saying is that if Make was better then it could be better than Ant? Ant and Maven both have plenty of issues, but being dissimilar from make is not one of them. At the end of the day 'file based' tools like
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by lsd5you 13y ago
It was Isaac Asimov I believe. http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
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by lsd5you 13y ago
Since we've established that less than half of the population are in work, it follows that the median for everyone is 0...
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by lsd5you 13y ago
I don't think all Americans are in work ... edit: Brief searching gives around 135 million Americans in work (this number maybe excluding farm work).
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by lsd5you 13y ago
It could be that the fact that urban single childless women earn more is a sign of things to come - a wave that with time will propogate to all ages and locations. Now it could also be that this is the point in their lives when society val
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by lsd5you 13y ago
This is widely reported size of the waste, but as I understand it, because the program was cancelled 'only' £2bn was wasted.
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by lsd5you 13y ago
I think there is a contradiction in one of the things that you say. You say that counter-factuals are speculative and not useful, yet later you say the bomb saved millions of lives - that itself invokes a counter factual. i.e. The millions
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by lsd5you 13y ago
I think this misses the point. Grouping ANT/Maven together because of XML is a very superficial association to make. ANT despite what it claims is essentially an inflexible programming language, which offers very few benefits over java (and
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by lsd5you 13y ago
I happen to think that maven is a good idea in principle, but poorly designed. One fundamental issue is that it does not distinguish between what I call 'products' and 'modules'. Modules have transitive dependencies and tend to have a commo
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by lsd5you 14y ago
Can 3000 years be even close to being true? What about, for example, aboriginals in Australia. Is it not believed that they were an isolated population for 40,000-50,000 years?
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by lsd5you 14y ago
In my opinion this is a superficial view of the problem which misses the fundamental point. The Unix shell tries to be 2 things and suffers as a result. It is a) an interactive shell, optimised for quick navigation and b) a programming api
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by lsd5you 14y ago
It depends what standards you hold the library to. Null pointer exceptions and other runtime exceptions are can be treated as errors - something which needs fixing in the code, rather than something that can be handled. A world of differenc
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by lsd5you 15y ago
Surely what he is really complaining about is the people who voted it up. We cannot blame everything on the system.
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by lsd5you 15y ago
For streaming a loop, the point is they have left that to programmers/library designers to implement these functions. Since there are a number of considerations, buffer size, error management ... etc. it does in fact make sense to not have
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by lsd5you 15y ago
What is more, the more barriers are removed the harder and more convoluted it gets to explain any such differences. If we assume there aren't any differences between men and women, but speculate on what the world would look like with signif
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by lsd5you 15y ago
Is it really 'grumpy' vs 'smart' and 'inquisitive'. You're rather close to making a value judgement here, to say the least. He is clearly starting from a conclusion and looking for the evidence and/or complicated logic to satisfy his own co
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by lsd5you 15y ago
I don't think you are giving enough credit to the companies and services that never were (because of Microsoft). Infact an uncharitable reading of what you've written would be that you assume no microsoft means some kind of industry void. I
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by lsd5you 15y ago
I'm not sure that this is enough as it is stated here and in the original comment. There may be a technical solution that allows it to be done in one go, but an alternative would be to do the count, have a window in which the count can be c

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