mehrdadn

83 ms·

781.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Question for any low-level optimizing compiler engineers here: I obviously realize these are all important, but in your judgment, how much of making an error-free compiler would you say is about having a comprehensive test suite, vs. having
782.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
They were not saying "it's ok". Those words are getting put into their mouth by other people. They were saying it's not an example of "police violence", which was the allegation in the lawsuit.
783.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
The common-signal would just be the general stock market performance. S&P is one way to approximate "the market". The idea being that you want a plot to show you how well they're doing in terms of market performance, not
784.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Okay, yeah, this was before the timestamp the earlier link started, so I hadn't seen this bit. Looking at this segment, I can't tell if the officers heard or understood what's going on properly with their masks on and with ev
785.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I personally find it hard to believe that the police believed they had probably cause after the journalists told them that they had been instructed to stand there by another cop. At what timestamp did the journalists tell the police of
786.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Press implies covering events and publishing about them. I don't think it implies that covering events has some kind of immunity. It's still subject to any general restriction on the assembly. The government can impose restri
787.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
But do you actually believe police didn't suspect there was a crime? The video doesn't suggest that to me at all. Like this other person wrote [1], it doesn't seem unlikely that they were ordered to disperse or something un
788.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Thanks! Yeah, so that seems potentially distasteful (and maybe with bad optics for the executive) but I just don't see what's illegal about it.
789.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm having trouble finding the clip you're talking about (the link next to CNN redirects to AP News and says "PAGE NOT FOUND" for me?), but in any case: the thing is, I don't think (though IANAL, please do correct m
790.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Man, this seems like such an uphill battle. I feel like unless they can show police were trying to deliberately target the press rather than just treating them like any other members of the public, they'll have that much more difficult
791.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Instead of just plotting S&P, they should divide by it to reject the common-mode signal.
792.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Wow that's disappointing. It seems really bizarre for them to claim it's tested to work if it doesn't work. Wonder what the issue might be...
793.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Where has this been all my life! I have something in the same spirit using GRUB, but it isn't remotely as versatile as this claims to be. You run into all sorts of funny issues, like UEFI GRUB not being able to run some boot loader, or
794.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Update: and it indeed seems things have now started taking a positive turn: > The eighth night of protests saw less violence, fewer police clashes and more acts of civil disobedience. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06&#x2F
795.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Do you see a fundamental difference between Zoom and telephone companies here? Or do you think how we've handled telephony over the past century has been a clear failure? If the latter, do you think most people would agree?
796.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Interesting... by "binary source code" do you mean "binary" (executables)? Do you mean you see distributing binaries as a not-intended use case for .debs, and that they should all result in builds straight from source? O
797.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> [...] then provided an interpretation using punctuation common here specifically to indicate text that is not a direct quote. When I see people see double-quotes following a block quote, they're there to indicate that the followin
798.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Huh, interesting. I was presuming the police department propose their budget and then the city alters/approves it as they see fit. If they lower it then that would be fairly accurately described as "cutting money from their propos
799.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
That's not what I was talking about?
800.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> "Before you get angry about police brutality, remember context is important!" Are you serious?! If you'd like to be angry, at least please don't misquote me. The sentence you put quotes around is a modification of w
801.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I don't know, maybe he's wrong about them being leaders. I'm happy to read more information about this; I just don't have more info unfortunately. Does it really matter if they're leaders or not though? It's no
802.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Just a heads-up: before you get angry, bear in mind the situation is evolving and that the context and the timing information are very relevant. Here's why: at least in NYC, I know the protest leaders and the NYPD police chief got toge
803.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8a43tp/myth_...
804.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> didn't anticipate the development of the two-party system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23398788
805.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> The tradeoff you get with other distributions being quick, is less quality assurance. I dare say, if Ubuntu is any indication, Pacman packages consistently feel higher-quality than deb packages. Unlike on Ubuntu, on Arch, you can actua
806.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I've read more than one complaint about Debian's packaging process being a nightmare. I have no horse in the race, but since you're here, I wanted to mention this because it sounds like you're not aware of it (and could
807.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Wait really? How do you unzip your files? I thought files unzipped inside with Windows's built-in unzipper still keep the attachment manager metadata that Windows stores?
808.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
It seems the results have been mixed and inconclusive, rather than conclusive that they don't lead to a reduction in violence.
809.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
It seems to me there are cities in that list with lots of red boxes that nevertheless haven't had significant problems with use of force by their police. I guess you can probably find room for improvement everywhere, but it seems poten
810.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
And he saw this coming without needing any game theory..

More ›