mehrdadn

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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Whether or not that's true, it's not "a fever and a cough".
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> TL;DR: He had a fever and cough and is fine now. "I lost my sense of taste, smell, and five pounds in the first four days."
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah, I don't have a lot of faith in UNIX-oriented tools in getting it right, because they just don't care. But at least it's possible to get it right if you care to; you just use relative paths instead of absolute paths, a
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Note I was explicitly talking about spaces in the current directory (which is only dependent on where the user clones the repo), not spaces in the workspace (which depends on what's in the repo). Your examples are about the latter. T
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Bazel is the least bad build system I've used too. Just wanted to note, though, it is not damn beautiful. Maybe its internal (idealistic) model is beautiful, but the outer parts are something else. It does have awesome features, but
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Related: see GoogleX co-founder Tom Chi's video on climate change, sustainable agriculture, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQvfaW54NU
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The independent repair program is designed to destroy independent repair businesses and mislead people in the process. It forces their customers to wait 1-2 weeks for any repair (even just a battery replacement) after being forced to prov
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> it's hard to imagine a use case where you'd want to use toLower() for displaying text to the user. Maybe for automatically changing the case of user input (auto-correcting capitalization, etc.).
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Has anyone here ever had a use case for toLower() where they actually wanted localization to apply? How do you lowercase without localization? Remember all text isn't English. Unless you're actually asking if anyone has eve
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I seem remember hearing this over a decade and a half ago too. I've been confused and frustrated how the message ever got lost.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> ssh -X $host -t "tmux -CC attach -t $session_name || tmux -CC new -s $session_name" or you could just ssh -X $host -t "screen -R"
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
There are 2 questions here: 1. Why should it use a stable ordering at all? 2. Why should that ordering be the insertion order? #2 isn't a particularly deep question. It has at least one fairly obvious reason: because it's the most
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
[Layman here] The Lorentz factor is 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = 1/sqrt(1-0.08^2) = 100.3%, so dilation effects would be obviously measurable but not particularly huge (0.3%).
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> A slab of granite would be fine as a bed. To clarify -- I assume you mean only with the blanket, right? Or are you fine sleeping on it directly too?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I won't suggest others are referring to the same issues necessarily, but try switching between branches(/commits) when you have submodules. Let alone rebasing etc... they simply don't "just work". You always get so
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
It's easy to laugh at them but I've had corruptions from Linux's existing NTFS implementation too.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
This is not an NTFS issue. You can verify it by trying a different file system.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> The average tenure of execs has gotten shorter and shorter over the last decades. "Reduced tenure" when you're making plenty more money than needed to avoid having to work the difference in the first place hardly seems
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
If you genuinely find that interpretation of my statement plausible then I don't really have anything to add.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Relaxed atomics translate to native loads and stores Native loads and stores with lock ... and that is on x86 . https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/asKna4 Definitely not the same as a native operation. > In theory ther
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
We don't know how many kinds of atoms there are, and infinite is pretty damn accurate all things considered. And it's pretty disingenuous to go out of your way to take quarks to mean what he called atoms just so you can claim he&#
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Hardware transactional memory. TSX-NI in Intel's case.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You're arguing for my point, not against it. (Though your basis for it isn't even true; HTM could avoid mutexes.)
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Despite the quote, it's just not true that relaxed atomics will give the same kind of performance. They may , but they may not, depending on the situation. The issue with them is that they're still atomic throughout the entire pr
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I see, thank you!
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Holy cow, he predicted way more than just indivisible constituents of matter [1]: > The theory of Democritus held that everything is composed of "atoms", which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> There's a world of difference between "we will notice it" and "we have to be worried about it". The phrase I was referring to was "have noticeable effects on Earth's biosphere", not "we will
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Is there really nothing though? Would some kind of a bunker not help? Like imagine 50m-100m underground? Not sure how much matter it might take to stop fast-moving particles (or all the dangerous forms of associated radiation).
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Total layman here but somehow very much not-comforted by seeing it's 724 light-years away. That we might not go extinct seems like a far cry from it being safe. And I have an incredibly hard time believing Earth will be unharmed at suc
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
No, but I didn't claim they would've actively embraced MIT/BSD either.

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