mruts

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901.
by mruts 8y ago
If data is being transferred frequently between RAM, the CPU, or the GPU, it will kill performance anyways. So maybe a GPU is actually one of the better things to have over a socket..
902.
by mruts 8y ago
Fortunately my name isn't associated with this HN account. So I suppose I can comment about the situation. Me and a bunch of other people met online and talked about programming, hacking, etc. All of us were teenagers at the time. One
903.
by mruts 8y ago
He's probably right, it's not reasonable and dropbox is a shitty product. But the market has determined it's valuable, despite what we techies think.
904.
by mruts 8y ago
I've never used HipChat but I always hated Slack. My boss would always delete my comments without telling me when he didn't like what I said.
905.
by mruts 8y ago
Mine got me interviewed by the FBI. So there are some downsides :p
906.
by mruts 8y ago
2pi pops up in a lot of equations, which makes them a little less elegant (like the PDF of the normal distribution). Also it would be nice for area of a circle to have symmetry with things like the area of rectangles and triangles and such.
907.
by mruts 8y ago
Isn't this just the same as: $ command && tput bel
908.
by mruts 8y ago
This is what is normally called progress. Capitalism and markets trend toward efficiency. And while I understand, if I had a little family farm, why I might be upset, that doesn't mean it's not a net good for the consumer and the
909.
by mruts 8y ago
Are we talking about Plan 9 or Lisp Machines?
910.
by mruts 8y ago
That's a pretty good strat, I guess.
911.
by mruts 8y ago
Maybe 7 sad chickens are worth one happy fox?
912.
by mruts 8y ago
What's wrong with Google nowadays? They seem completely unable or unwilling to invest in anything besides search for longer than 3-4 years. Completely untrustworthy at this point. I would never buy another Google product ever again.
913.
by mruts 8y ago
The big problem with WSL is that I can't run a different window manager, which is probably one of the biggest benefits of Linux anyways. Personally, I can't live without focus-follows-mouse. That way, I can type and click on a win
914.
by mruts 8y ago
For vim? I'm not a vim user but most of them just rebind it to something better, right? I use emacs/intellij and almost never have had the need to use the Esc key for anything at all.
915.
by mruts 8y ago
People are calling this dumb, but it's a commercial robotics arm that could potentially go years without maintenance. A quick google search indicates that a barista costs $19,000/year. So it's not hard to imagine a world in w
916.
by mruts 8y ago
The dataset she assembled was in Russia, over 100 years or so.
917.
by mruts 8y ago
>Animals also take care of their young, they often mourn those who died Animals also kill their young on purpose, including people. Do your cells in your eyes and in your butt love each other? If so, you have a pretty flexible definitio
918.
by mruts 8y ago
Which is why it makes sense to spend more resources on boys than girls. Girls are less sensitive to resources in regards to reproduction. For every extra calorie given to a boy vs a girl, the amount that it will increase the number of offsp
919.
by mruts 8y ago
Of course you need one mother per dad. But I’m talking about the skew of the probability density function of the distribution. If I’m a sucessful man I can get more than my “fair share” of reproductive access.
920.
by mruts 8y ago
He’s talking about generics, you’re talking about streams. Though ML was invented in 1973, so the idea of map/fold is pretty old. The generalization into monoids/monads/functors didn’t happen until the early 90’s. If we want
921.
by mruts 8y ago
That’s a good point, but often a type signature constrains the possible programs to such a degree that there is only one nonsensical program that can be written with that signature.
922.
by mruts 8y ago
Mothering is about propogation of 50% of your genes. Your interests aren’t fully aligned. In many situations, it makes sense to kill or get rid of children, in order to improve the chances of future offspring. Moreover, if the child is a gi
923.
by mruts 8y ago
Well, we can look at evolution on other animals to understand where we came from at what the “natural” state of the world. And the answer is clear: the natural state of the world is suffering, sex, and death. I’m not sure how you could ever
924.
by mruts 8y ago
But people have been selling children forever. Maybe you have less children than the average of people in the past? Do you think you would be more likely to sell your children if you had 8+? Or if you were dirt poor? Homeless? Addicted to d
925.
by mruts 8y ago
I mean, this is just adoption essentially. Would it be more or less heart-breaking if they all starved homeless on the street instead?
926.
by mruts 8y ago
Over history, it seems like people disagree on the monetary value of children. Sometimes people get paid for their children, and sometimes they have to pay. Also the standard deviation of prices (in 19th century London and current day Russi
927.
by mruts 8y ago
I’m surprised that bencoded dictionaries haven’t ever become popular outside of bittorrent. They are expressive, fast, and easy to implement.
928.
by mruts 8y ago
I’m not entirely convinced that were will be a new generation of OS researchers. This, of course, is unfortunate.
929.
by mruts 8y ago
I think that’s a good way to put it. When coked out, you get all these grandoise plans and might start to rewrite the entire codebase. With heroin, it’s more like you can just keep on chugging for a long-time. This is in fact what makes her
930.
by mruts 8y ago
The problem with stimulants is that you get cracked out really easily and it is very hard to maintain. Physically it takes a toll: you can’t sleep, your muscles’ feel sore, you mind races. Heroin, provided you have the money, is much more s

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