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811.
by moomin 2y ago
Students I knew who had him as a lecturer referred to it (derisively) as Martin’s Completely Perfect Language.
812.
by moomin 2y ago
Massively overpromising unachievable things. From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic:_The_Revolution Initial previews of Republic in 2000 focused upon the purported level of detail behind the game's
813.
by moomin 2y ago
Anyone remember how he marketed his computer games?
814.
by moomin 2y ago
I love the sound of Rid of Me, with one major exception: the radical volume changes on the title track and Highway 61. I 100% don’t understand what was going on there; it makes it impossible to listen to without riding the volume control an
815.
by moomin 2y ago
I _think_ the novel claim here relates to how easy it is to maintain the position, but the benefits of the position.
816.
by moomin 3y ago
Let me ask a different question: is AI a threat to StackOverflow? Because if it is, it will be like a parasite killing the host it depends on.
817.
by moomin 3y ago
Pretty good article. For the record, this centralised counterparty model is exactly how other derivatives exchanges such as the CME work. This requires careful risk management but is generally regarded as best practice by regulators. It fai
818.
by moomin 3y ago
Twitter couldn’t make Vine work. Trying to do it in the severely weakened form it’s in now strikes me as less plausible than his Mars plans.
819.
by moomin 3y ago
Between our knowledge of how much law enforcement abuses the powers they have, and our knowledge that algorithms really don’t care if you’re a good guy or a bad guy trying to break encryption, this is old, stale nonsense. Seriously, this ha
820.
by moomin 3y ago
I wonder if this is the case, or if the model just has year as a heavily weighted factor, because bluntly, Ella and Louis were vastly superior musicians to Frank and Tony. I honestly can’t hear the similarity. It’s like thinking “Oh. You li
821.
by moomin 3y ago
I think the main thing that reduces music discovery as a parent is sheer exhaustion, you just don’t have as many hours anymore. It’s not just that you’re listening to less new music, you’re listening to less, period. Meanwhile, having a kid
822.
by moomin 3y ago
The thing is, there were people who used the Mac 128K and loved it. They had a use case, and it fit that use case perfectly. The Vision Pro, on the other hand, has a serious returns problem. People are finding that it isn't the usabili
823.
by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, but all micro optimisations come with costs, from compiler time to maintenance overhead. Someone's still got to ask if it's worth it. And in this case, I just can't see many regular programs containing code likely to tr
824.
by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, one suspects this is a dumb micro-optimisation to make benchmark figures look better with little practical application.
825.
by moomin 3y ago
I mean, it doesn’t work exactly like that (the article describes it more accurately) but I consider that literally every cell in your body contradicts you.
826.
by moomin 3y ago
Not Australian, married to an Aussie. I think pokies are an obscenity. And they’re everywhere, they invade as many areas of life as they can.
827.
by moomin 3y ago
There is also the fundamental fact that the EU is a creature of law, while China is a monolithic governmental entity. Malicious compliance works pretty well when the courts that judge you care about the letter of the law.
828.
by moomin 3y ago
The author of this article clearly knows a lot about the subject, but I think this would have been better titled "Low Latency Trading isn't Going To The Cloud and Here's Why". Or to put it a different way, infra peeps wi
829.
by moomin 3y ago
So, are there any displays that do a decent job? How do you find them without investing a ridiculous amount of time?
830.
by moomin 3y ago
Glad you pointed that out, because literally all the “after” images look dreadful. But then im also of the opinion that most HDR content is too damn dark anyway.
831.
by moomin 3y ago
There are definitely science communicators who _are_ committed to getting it right. Dr Brian Cox and Bill Nye strike me as good examples. The late Patrick Moore was another. NDT, embarrassingly, often is just plain wrong. He treats “science
832.
by moomin 3y ago
You need to read down a bit, but the answer “ENIAC” is hilarious.
833.
by moomin 3y ago
I’m not sure what a mathematical approach _without_ structuralism would look like. Like, if you consider the operations created by combining the rotations and flips of a triangle, and the set of permutations of the letters A,B and C, it’s p
834.
by moomin 3y ago
Arguably git still does this: quite a lot of the implementation is exposed to the user. But, as someone who learned RCS: that paper was exceptionally clear and the whole thing was extremely comprehensible, right down to the ,v format being
835.
by moomin 3y ago
The New Atlantis is a journal founded by the social conservative advocacy group the Ethics and Public Policy Center. It is not peer-reviewed on scientific topics. Both of the previous statements are taken verbatim from Wikipedia. It’s very
836.
by moomin 3y ago
I remember when they were big. People signed anyone’s key, didn’t need to know them. Yes, sensible people thought this was an issue. Still happened.
837.
by moomin 3y ago
> Hopefully, Lasse Collin will consider these possibilities and address them in his response to the attack. Here's the thing: Lasse Collin was overloaded back in 2021. I've no particular reason to believe that isn't still
838.
by moomin 3y ago
Now that’s a good piece of writing.
839.
by moomin 3y ago
Bizarrely, there's a second sequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, but it's never been digitised.
840.
by moomin 3y ago
Ironically, Margaret Hamilton _was_ able to produce a bug free program back in the 60s. However, no-one is seriously considering replicating her techniques because they (some of them, ant least) are way too expensive for modern software.

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