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by millstone 6y ago
I don't think safety is driving Rust's ascent. For example, WASM has more momentum with Rust than with C++. But WASM is already sandboxed, and does not support threads; so what is Rust bringing to the WASM table? I think it's
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by millstone 6y ago
But they didn't make a profit. TVs are sold nearly at cost.
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by millstone 6y ago
Life should be defined extremely narrowly, as in requires DNA or RNA. This frees us to consider equally complex non-living things (like AIs) on their own terms, without being hung up on whether they are alive or not.
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by millstone 6y ago
> Some of them are now in the "red" universe, and some of them are now in the "blue" universe and give matching answers. The percentage of them giving each answer is the same as in the situation above The objection is
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by millstone 6y ago
I agree with that. But it still does not explain how probabilities arise. What is the physical significance of "a universe with a greater measure than another?" What is the physical significance of the measure in MWI at all?
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by millstone 6y ago
The hope and appeal of MWI is that the Schrödinger equation is sufficient. What you describe is way beyond what may be found in it. "Many worlds" may arise naturally from the Schrödinger equation in this way: if you measure a syst
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by millstone 6y ago
It ought not to click, because it's a deep objection. In the ball example, the wavefunction is a sum of two components: there are two possible measurement outcomes. How do you get three worlds from two states? Say you have an electron
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by millstone 6y ago
Say there's a quantum bowl with two identical red balls, and one blue ball. You take a ball with your eyes closed. Probably your ball is red, maybe it's blue. You open your eyes, see a color - what happened! Here's three choi
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by millstone 6y ago
Ok, how does one derive the Born rule from that idea?
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by millstone 6y ago
> In MWI, the fundamental concept is that quantum objects expand into multiple dimensions. No it is not. The fundamental concept of MWI is that unitary evolution can explain all observations, without postulates like wavefunction collapse
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by millstone 6y ago
MWI makes the very strong claim that the Schrödinger equation is sufficient to explain observations that do not naturally fit into its framework, such as wavefunction collapse and the Born rule. You can simplify any theory by throwing out
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by millstone 6y ago
NPR's review headlines the book as "A Masterpiece", and the first line of its review is "This is unbearable." I read Never Let Me Go so I know what this means.
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by millstone 6y ago
Can you get the 5900X at all?
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by millstone 6y ago
Yeah, agreed. It's hard to draw the line between a normal political discourse and a dangerous one, and harder at scale, and even worse if your engagement metrics are at stake. So mostly they do nothing until it's too late. AWS pul
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by millstone 6y ago
Yes, this, in earnest. On Beyond Zebra! was a joy of mine growing up. EBay's 'witch burning' have surely breathed new life into these books. Go read it, it's great, its PDF can be found in a few seconds on google. Market
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by millstone 6y ago
The big platforms desperately want to be anodyne. They don't want to censor, they just want you to see a funny cat photo, click Like, and come back in ten seconds for the next one. Deplatforming is an extreme measure when they perceive
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by millstone 6y ago
But there was no government action here. Dr Seuss's estate made a decision, and EBay reacted to it. A dictatorial government would either prohibit or demand publishing the books. The US government has rightly done nothing.
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by millstone 6y ago
This is a fair point. memcpy will just be replaced by manual loops or std::copy_n or whatever. Don't know if that's better or worse.
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by millstone 6y ago
Can you say more? Lockless linked lists are unreasonably hard for an interview problem.
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by millstone 6y ago
I just can't see any connection between RAII and acquire/release. For example both C and the Linux kernel have acquire/release, neither have RAII. I think the terms "acquire" and "release" came from their
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by millstone 6y ago
acquire/release semantics restricts reordering of other loads and stores. That is, `a=1; b.store(2, release);` here the release operation on b affects the previous store to a. Rust's ownership model cannot express this, as it tr
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by millstone 6y ago
It doesn't seem right that the big players like Facebook and Twitter enjoy much better security. Is there really no open source offering that just gets this stuff right? A Twitter-in-a-box, like WordPress is a blog-in-a-box, but secure
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by millstone 6y ago
Which can be a good thing. If there's an activity with negative (positive) externalities, then there's a deadweight loss, which can be corrected by taxing (subsidizing) that activity.
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by millstone 6y ago
One proposal here is to eliminate the ordinary income tax, and keep only the AMT, which is much simpler. The political advantage is that nobody gets a tax increase, and nobody's taxes get harder. And the revenue loss is surprisingly sm
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by millstone 6y ago
Seems like a demoscene release. Any good examples of interactive apps with input, editing, etc?
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by millstone 6y ago
Steer clear of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. It is a fun read, and it does contain some good advice. But the author lies about his past, and the origin and quantity of his wealth, and the book also contains dangerous and illegal advice. I suggest The
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by millstone 6y ago
Chess GMs certainly prune better, but can also evaluate moves faster because they can easily hold multiple boards in their head. It's common for strong GMs to play 10+ blindfold simul games. Nakamura solving chess puzzles is a sight to
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by millstone 6y ago
Slay the Spire does not have subscriptions, loot boxes, etc. so it can optimize for balance, instead of engagement or play time. It's very much the exception. The risk of analytics is an erosion of your design and vision. You just do w
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by millstone 6y ago
nit: knit
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by millstone 6y ago
Any good tips for unmasking these restaurants, so you know what you're really getting? You can find their address and see what restaurant is listed there, but sometimes that doesn't work for large shopping centers with many restau

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