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by nhaehnle 11y ago
ptrdiff_t is a signed type - after all, the diff stands for difference, which implies that it could be negative. size_t is an unsigned type - it is used to represent the sizes of objects in memory, which can never be negative.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
This is fascinating. Do you have any idea what might cause this? A shot in the dark: Their benchmarking uses a very simple "random" generation to choose the index to search for, which is actually just a linear scan (modulo the siz
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Such questions are messy and fuzzy, which means that technical people often get terribly hung up about them. The important thing to remember is that those questions aren't new . Laws about libel and slander, about insults, about a per
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
One aspect is that well into the 19th century, perhaps even in the early 20th century, people in the US could participate in the massive land grab in the west. Basically, whenever the social framework got too bad, people could leave and at
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
To be fair, most of the people who are excited about VR (including myself) have been that excited already about DK1 and DK2, so your comment feels like it's just moving goalposts without seriously engaging the article. Personally, I&#x
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
It does seem a bit backward. On the other hand, the auto manufacturers are perfectly capable of achieving this end result by themselves: Just subsidize the sale of electric vehicles by raising the price on non-electric vehicles.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I believe the fact that this factory economy is third world is very much besides the point that e12e was trying to make. Paraphrasing, I think the point is that writing a book and building an iPod are vastly different tasks, and immensely
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
It seems unfair to lay the blame for this situation on the US government. After all, I expect most US government spending goes to domestic recipients, not to imports. Asking for the US government to reduce its deficit is also not likely to
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
So, where is a great codebase for somebody who wants to learn?
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
It is possible to compute all outputs in parallel with a quantum computer, but what you'll end up is an unintelligibly entangled state. What you really want is a single output, and there's no generic way of disentangling the e
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
To be fair, there's a massive difference between an evolved circuit using electro-magnetic subtleties inside a chip, and an AI programmed for and running on a regular, binary CPU being able to exploit those to act as an antenna that
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
They're comparing $30/month to a one-time payment of $500, so yes, that's reasonable. Besides, if price is your argument, you should look beyond Apple anyway. Their devices mostly sell by branding. There are already smartwatc
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Honestly, I don't see myself buying a smartwatch any time soon, but then again, I don't see myself buying a watch any time soon, period. That said, it's obvious that the majority of watches sold will be smartwatches sooner or
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The 13 layers Retric was referring to are not layers of transistors, but layers of wiring. All chips currently manufactured only have a single layer of transistors. Above this single layer of transistors are many layers for wires which ar
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
> How to do this with lithographic processes is an open question You don't, for economic reasons: the latency of chip manufacturing, i.e. time from initial wafer to finished, is already on the order of weeks. Producing more layers l
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Don't forget the use of gold for jewelry, which dwarfs the other uses.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I would argue that your last version is actually the most readable. Obviously, opinions are going to differ as they always do, but my preference among your examples is 3 over 1 over 2 (I cannot imagine preferring 2, because the difference i
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Errata are usually caused by bugs in the logical design of the chip, not in the manufacturing or physical behavior of transistors. If you have a source for an errata that was issued due to systematically buggy transistors, I'd be curio
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
To be fair, if you don't use the latest and greatest manufacturing processes - which you don't really need to do in smart watches - chips can be very robust and long-lasting. Plus, given the battery requirements, you don't
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Any thoughts about debugger support on the Mill? It seems to me that this could be a bit of a headache. For example, the usual technique for breakpoints is to trigger an interrupt at the desired instruction, which then causes a context swit
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Thank you! I realize that you probably imitated GP's short style on purpose, but to elaborate a little bit: It's an accounting tautology that every (monetary) savings must be offset by a debt somewhere. Since private households te
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
And yet, it is one of the most common and powerful negotiation strategies, and hence frequently suggested also on this site, to be able to say "sounds interesting, but I need to check that with my spouse/family/boss/prim
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Maybe German and French politicians really are sufficiently pissed off not to want to negotiate. The referendum did have one important effect though: it smashed any illusions that Syriza is the problem. Heck, the No vote in the referendum w
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
We actually seem to agree :) After all, you write: "EU was created, among other things, to contain that country", while my post was in reply to somebody who claimed that peace-keeping was totally irrelevant to why the EU (and its
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
States are able to compete economically. Depending on the economic climate and regulatory environment, this kind of "competition" tends to be a race to the bottom. Those who have even a slight advantage anyway (i.e., the rich) a
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Calm the hyperbole :) GP is right that the EU is the result of a long process that started with the goal of preventing another big European war. You are also right in that a large part of what is happening is a result of power politics.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
That's a good point, actually. There was a fairly generous haircut, and if the Greek economy had been allowed to grow from that point on, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. As I see it, the problem was that the troika f
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Forgiving all the debt to Greece causes a worldwide financial collapse. No. Greece is too small for its default to be that important, especially given that the vast majority of debt is actually now in the hands of governments and governme
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Option 3 is to implement a proper fiscal union. It's not clear how best to go forward with that (and as much as I'm in favor, it looks politically unrealistic right now), but it is clear that it's the only option for long-ter
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
You really don't need the "./configure" there. make alone can obviously run arbitrary commands - but then again, so can the program whose source code you probably downloaded in order to run it. In general, all the hype a

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