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by namirez 7y ago
> they still turn it into SIMD or do other very drastic rewrites to it that are hard to reason about Maybe it's just me, but I haven't seen this being a major problem in C. Most optimizations are local and fairly easy to reas
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by namirez 7y ago
C is not a fad; it's an outlier among languages in the sense that basically it's a portable assembler very close to the metal. If you change the basic architecture of the machine, you can create a better language. For now however
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by namirez 7y ago
> Why pay for the energy to grow food when you can get the enegy for free by putting it out in the sun? For many reasons: 1) Using vertical space rather than surface area; 2) Producing closer to population centers; 3) Producing year ar
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by namirez 7y ago
> I feel like he exaggerates his contribution. After all he has was basically a sharepoint admin. I have the same feeling. I have not read his book but watched his interview with Joe Rogan and honestly he sounds borderline delusional.
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by namirez 7y ago
You're right; the expansion of the universe is not related to photons. It's caused by the pressure of dark energy. There are some hypotheses but no one knows for sure what dark energy is.
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by namirez 7y ago
You cannot travel faster than light in spacetime but spacetime metric can expand faster than light. There is no speed limit on the evolution of spacetime itself as far as we know.
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by namirez 7y ago
Well, it's an interesting question. Imagine a star that is 13B years old. Basically it means, the light from the star has been traveling for 13B years to reach us. You might say, then the star must be 13B light years away but that&#x27
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by namirez 7y ago
Yes, it's called Alcubierre Drive, where spacetime is compressed in front and expanded behind a ship to drive it through the spacetime like a gravitational wave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
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by namirez 7y ago
Also, despite the age of the universe (13.8B years), the diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light years. That's because the universe expanded (and probably still is expanding) faster than light.
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by namirez 7y ago
> Or, people enjoy Facebook and then rally their government for laws to be changed. It's not going to happen, because people can connect to FB easily using a vpn without giving FB the chance to monetize ads. It's already happ
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by namirez 7y ago
> If it's illegal, we'll take it down. Give us a court order. Otherwise we don't touch it. Interestingly the underlying assumptions in most analyses like this is that everyone lives in US and obeys US laws. What if China
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by namirez 7y ago
I think you are right.
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by namirez 7y ago
Most likely it is nonsense. The carbon and nitrogen composition of sedimentary layers will show anomalies in case of intelligent civilizations. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748.pdf
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by namirez 7y ago
It seems to me this person is missing the point. When people talk about Anthropocene, they're not talking about geological or fossil evidence left behind by humans in million of years. Anthropocene refers to the Holocene or the sixth m
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by namirez 7y ago
Does Twitter shadow-ban people whom you're following? I thought that's only for accounts that one is not following.
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by namirez 7y ago
"Stealing" in the context of intangible entities is equivalent to appropriation without permission. It has nothing to do with conservation of the total number of intangible entities. If you don't like the choice of word, use
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by namirez 7y ago
> developers who were (allegedly) wronged 30+ years ago I listened to it and didn't hear the story of a developer whining about being wronged 30 years prior. The guy says clearly that he wanted to move on from Emacs. On the other
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by namirez 7y ago
They got away in the sense the US imported $11B worth or goods from China in 1989 (the year of the massacre) and $539B in 2018. source: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
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by namirez 7y ago
> China seems to have played their hand too early (and too strongly) China got away with the Tiananmen massacre. Is this worst than Tiananmen? Sadly people have a short memory and dealing with China is profitable for Western companies.
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by namirez 7y ago
> you can perfectly describe the rules of Conway's Game of Life, and if you were an artificial intelligence living in the Game of Life you could presumably figure out the rules quite easily I'm not so sure about this. It remi
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by namirez 7y ago
It's not easy to define a gravitational acceleration for the milky way since for planets it's defined on the surface and the milky way has no clear boundary per se. That said, the escape velocity of our galaxy is 537 km/s; al
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by namirez 7y ago
I'm not sure about that. I still enjoy the long reads in the New Yorker and a few other magazines. But if you mean the 24-hour news cycle, I agree with you.
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by namirez 7y ago
Many years ago someone told me that we should care about our mental hygiene as much as we care about the hygiene of the food that we consume. I quit FB two years ago after 11 years of active use. For a few weeks after deleting my account, I
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by namirez 7y ago
Probably not! The 2nd law of thermodynamics is a statistical law describing the interactions of many particles, so it doesn't necessarily apply to microscopic scales. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2572-sec
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by namirez 7y ago
The only Thinkpads that I would ever consider are the T, X, and P (used to be W) models. Other so called Thinkpads are not worth the trouble. With regards to hardware issues, most of those are due to propriety drivers. Ubuntu has an edge he
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by namirez 7y ago
I've been running Debian on a top-of-the-line 4th generation (2016) Thinkpad X1 as my personal machine. At the time, I had to tweak the UEFI settings a bit because simply disabling it didn't do the trick. Everything else worked ou
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by namirez 7y ago
Well, they claim the citizens of other countries are not protected by the US constitution. Not that I agree with them, but it might be harder to challenge this in courts.
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by namirez 7y ago
I don't know the answer to your questions, but it is simply the law unless the employer voluntarily recognizes the union. Obviously employers don't have much incentive for doing so. source: https://www.nlrb.gov/rig
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by namirez 7y ago
You need to back up your claim with evidence. In order to establish a union, you'll need at least 30% of the workers signing a petition. Would you sign such a petition if your incompetent colleague put it forward to you in the hope of
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by namirez 7y ago
> And let's be honest, my salary won't change one iota if I get another few citations. The idea that this is somehow selfish is really bogus. Citations aren't worth that much at all. I'm not sure if this is true. Cit

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