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by madez 9y ago
Trade is not a zero-sum game, in sum we gain. Cooperation leads to synergy. The sick and poor cost money. Having that in mind, I cannot understand why a country wouldn't give food and money and shelter to the poor. Without shelter, you
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by madez 9y ago
Please elaborate. On a side note, please don't make people ask for essential information, just state it right away.
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by madez 9y ago
Article 106 of the german Grundgesetz/constitution states that in Germany there is an ownership tax. It was used until 1997 when the former practice was ruled unlawful, but no adopted form of collection was introduced, while the govern
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by madez 9y ago
There are successful countries with very high taxes and other means by which the society takes from individuals. Just the amount of how much is taken is not an important metric. It does not matter how much is taken, but under what circumsta
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by madez 9y ago
I avoided focussing on the financial aspect, because even ownership of things/lands/rights can be, and is taken away from individuals by the society under certain conditions. It is intellectually lazy and moot to say everybody is
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by madez 9y ago
It's so trivially obvious and endlessly discussed that things are taken away from individuals by the society for the greater good, for example with taxes, that your comment has no substance and gives no insight.
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by madez 9y ago
Well, Android doesn't let you skip updates of specific parts. It's all or nothing.
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by madez 9y ago
Debian does the same. You are free to pick and choose what to update and even look what changed before applying the update. And the best is, you can change the update or create an update yourself!
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by madez 9y ago
I agree with your sentiment that not telling the full truth and not giving one owns full assessment is easily equivalent to lying, but the way you brought up that point is not okay . We don't know how the deal went down, so we shouldn
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by madez 9y ago
Richard Stallman is warning of the dangers of JavaScript since at least 2009 [0]. That is about 9 years ago. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/324835/
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by madez 9y ago
This is a good idea, but to make it fair I would add a fee for the applicant that is paid out as a bounty to the successful challenger, or returned to the applicant, if the challenge wasn't met.
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by madez 9y ago
My idea is that without added noise, knowing the model and the input allows crafting a pertubation that leads to an erroneous output of the model. With noise added there is less correlation between the input and the output. At the extreme w
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by madez 9y ago
The set of all mappings between an input set of N elements to some output set with M elements has M^N elements. If you wanted to be able to represent in some way any arbitrary mapping for given sets of input and output, then you would need
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by madez 9y ago
Yes, you are correct. Rusts safety does not rule out deadlocks. Guaranteeing data-race-freeness is however already enough to reject intuitive doubly-linked lists. Thanks for bringing that up, which I don't think is pedantic.
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by madez 9y ago
Do you know of any board that can run mainline Linux with support for all components?
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by madez 9y ago
I share both the views of the grandparent and that we should consider rewriting things in Rust. They are not mutually exclusive. We need ways to package and distribute software written in a variety of languages. Rust should play nice and co
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by madez 9y ago
I also thought foremost about standard libraries and other often used code, or say, critical code in some OS. We don't need to verify every single occurrence of unsafe, but whenever unsafe is necessary I feel the lack of some other gua
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by madez 9y ago
That is trivially obvious, but writing a performant vector implementation is not solving the halting problem. Let me restrict it to the faintly weaker "I hope we don't settle for unsafe being okay forever where we can prove safety
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by madez 9y ago
I hope we don't settle for unsafe being okay forever. Right now, sometimes it is the right thing to do and there shouldn't be any regret. But in the future, I hope Rusts compilers become better. There are two things I consider nec
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by madez 9y ago
It claims to run on mainline Linux but mainline Linux does not yet support CPUFreq, hardware crypto, HDMI, nor the GPU for the Allwinner H5. http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
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by madez 9y ago
That Rusts compiler fights against intuitive doubly linked lists is reasonable, because they wouldn't work when working in parallel on the list, while Rust by default also ensures safety doing that. Having that in mind makes it easier
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by madez 9y ago
> I'm not trying to invalidate the author's post but rather share some more insight. You don't need to excuse yourself ahead of time. If you wanted to invalidate anything the content of your comment should speak for itself
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by madez 9y ago
My experience is that you can speak about nearly everything here if you keep it civil, relevant, and substantial. Being nice and polite helps as well. There are exceptions of which I sadly have made my share of experiences (and my own mista
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by madez 9y ago
Indeed. Asking politely for what went wrong or for counter arguments usually helps. But it does not always. Two points I got downvoted for without much substantial dicussion was when I said that security through obscurity does work (to some
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by madez 9y ago
But what C code is running alongside the Rust code on the microcontroller that would make adhering to the C calling convention necessary? Is the hardware expecting the C calling convention?
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by madez 9y ago
Why is it necessary to mark the interrupt handler and the panic formatting function as extern C functions? Is the C way of doing that set in silicon?
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by madez 9y ago
GPU's and Google's TPU's are only capable of certain albeit very important aspects of numerical mathematics. There are other areas of mathematics that have numerical aspects and thus precision, but aren't linear algebra.
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by madez 9y ago
It was confrontational because you ridiculed a point of what I said by extremely overdoing it. Even the part you ridiculed — which wasn't the main point — is important. Learning and figuring stuff out by doing it yourself is very impor
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by madez 9y ago
While Rust doesn't promote a specific model for parallelism, it's stronger compiler helps a lot with that. https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/nomicon/concurrency.html https://doc.rust-lang.org&#x2
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by madez 9y ago
I have an A20-Olinuxino-Micro with a battery, so the device can cleanly shutdown when power is lost. I strongly recommend only buying devices that are compatible with Debian main, or mainline Linux at least. Usually I just check if it'

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