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by nhaehnle 10y ago
The code is still incorrect, because the compiler is free to speculate and transform the code in a way that leads to availableData being loaded twice (as in the macro). That probably doesn't happen in practice, but it is an allowed tra
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
The original code may have had something like min(read_once(available), buffer_size) , with a suitably and correctly defined atomic read_once function. In that case, it would be fair to blame a bad min macro on problems.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
> On what grounds do you reject that? Do you have hard evidence that women and ethnic/sexual minorities in the US are not at increased risk of violence and mistreatment? Or are you basing this on "feelings > reality",
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Like so much of category theory writing, it lacks examples. Seriously, point me to examples where category theory is actually useful outside of specific parts of mathematics, and I'd be very happy. By useful, I mean that it allows you
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Some people are afraid that doctors will make less of an effort to keep you alive if you're an organ donor. Knowing doctors I find that fear extremely implausible, but it exists.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
To be more precise, there is no guarantee at all about textual IR compatibility. Compatibility of bitcode , which is a binary representation of IR, is meant to be preserved across a very generous range of LLVM releases (but not forever).
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
This is a good list, but it would be so much better with some (brief) pointers to counter-examples to the beliefs.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
You're thinking about the display code. That code is not that important for performance; it's about detecting and driving displays connected to your graphics cards, managing page flips and so on. It only interacts with performance
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I think you misread my comment. I wrote "more income that they can spend", not "more income than they can spend". As for the whole Keynes being wrong thing, you didn't actually address what I wrote about inflati
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Probably not, actually, but to recognize that you have to go into the details of how inflation works. Briefly, the only possible reason why there would be inflation is that the people given money for digging and filling holes now have more
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Examples? You probably only think you have some because you're over-extrapolating what the proposal really is about. Job Guarantee advocates usually advocate for it within a larger framework that is pretty much the same as we have toda
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
What I find best about these discussions is that when socialist or communist states fail, it's because of socialism or communism. When capitalist states fail, it's because of something else.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
(1) Min. days employment guarantee to people in rural areas: Build a kutcha (made of mud, temporary, no asphalt) road. And build the road again after it rains. Sounds like a good thing in my book if the alternative would be higher unemplo
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I think most of the problem with "one-euro jobs" is more that they're (a) "one-euro" than anything else and (b) treated as a temporary thing for people who are unable to find anything else. There's a school of
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Along the line of relevant analyses, there was an insightful post by Brad DeLong recently: http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/is-the-problem-one-of... Apart from the clunky title, the bottom line is this: Most
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
That's an interesting thought, especially with the addendum of the no-cloning theorem. This fits with a Hofstadter-like perspective that consciousness is about "strange loops", where we somehow repeatedly evaluate simplified
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
IANAP, but I think part of the problem with MWI is that popularizers of it wanted to sound cool by calling it the Many-Worlds Interpretation in the first place. The idea was originally known as the Theory of the Universal Wave Function, whi
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Motif and FVWM definitely benefit from GPU acceleration, even if it's just 2D acceleration in the X server.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
A good example for this is that AMD actually beats NVidia in graphics market share in the Firefox survey. Of course, Intel beats them both, which is clearly a result of laptops and low-end form factors. Similarly, just look at the absolute
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I've been using "car-sharing" (really an unfortunate mis-nomer) systems for some time now. Cleanliness has never really been an issue.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It's worth pointing out that apart from the display code (which is what this thread is about), the diff between amdgpu and amdgpu-pro is very small. Most of amdgpu (and hence amdgpu-pro) is actually very specific to Linux and shares no
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It would defeat the purpose of a content-addressable storage system. The fact that the same file and the same tree will always have the same hash is important for speeding up diffs, merges, and other operations.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I think we're getting into a region of subtlety where we'd have to actually look at data. I have no idea which countries you're referring to specifically, for example. On the "hot-potato effect", I found this part o
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
That's a bit of a cop-out, isn't it, because you're only talking about psychological needs which are inextricably linked with material needs, and there was never any argument about the fact that UBI does solve those. If tha
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
How does UBI solve any psychological needs at all?
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
That is absolutely a flaw, but I don't think it kills the analogy. If you look at other attempts at building some kind of social credits system, e.g. karma or points on sites like Reddit, you'll notice that people often benefit fr
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Taxes are not related to human rights. Unless you can point to cases where taxes have been so high in the past that people starved from it? But in any case, that's not on the table. Don't pretend that it is.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Well, we already have a form of "social credits". It's called money. We're just not used to thinking of it that way, but that's really what money is. So replace "social credits" in your line of thinking by
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Your response is kind of frustrating because I feel we're on the same side of this, but you're just not getting it. It's like you have a knee-jerk reaction about what a job is, and there's a blindspot where you don'
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
The rate of CO2 emission per GDP is already decreasing thanks to technological advances. There's no fundamental reason why the same couldn't happen to the ratio of energy use per GDP. So finite supply of resources is not a problem

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