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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Indeed, one has to be careful with the term "magical thinking". Using it can easily deteriorate to name-calling, and I'd say that the author fails because of that. I'm not a big fan of the prevailing belief in monetary p
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious if this isn't an effect of biased in favour of what you know (on both sides, possibly). I found Perforce to be terribly opaque. Perhaps this is because the good stuff is buried amidst enterprise nonsense, but
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
People complain, but what's the alternative? Non-distributed VCS clearly don't cut it for many use cases, and of the other DVCS I've tried, none were really better than Git in my opinion. Sure, it depends on your workflow.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It's not related to liberal or left logically , but it is related to the liberal left socially , because these SJW movements mostly arose from the liberal left (specifically, IMHO, from the part that somehow lost track of the scope
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
In most countries, the central bank is not privately owned at all. Even the Fed is only partially privately owned, and that's mostly a historical artefact. Regulatory capture by private banks still tends to be a problem, though.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
How can the AR-VR distinction filter down to most readers? I'd say the media also has a responsibility to broaden the scope of what the readers understand...
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It depends on the cash. I suspect that a lot of the cash-hate is supported by experiences in countries with badly designed cash. Compare e.g. the US$ and the Euro - the latter one is well designed, the former isn't. Other cultural fact
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Two points: First, the economic logic of negative rates is actually to try to incentivize the private sector to create more debt. This isn't completely absurd. Slow economic growth quite often boils down to a lack of spending. One wa
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Please, take those complaints from others seriously. There are plenty of tools that help people (including myself) to deal with compiler errors more easily, and they're not limited to emacs either. For most purposes, having at least _o
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
There was no talk of "idiots and fanatics" in the comment you replied to, hence the "not phrase it so strongly" part. > Why do you assume that "alternative voices" are better than the research consensus of a
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It's not a dichotomy. It's true that there are people who have an "if only people were nice" type of outlook on life, and that is indeed naive. The problem isn't that individual people are nasty, it's that the
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that only a minority of rich people are really in the ideas and creation business. If you live in Silicon Valley it might appear different, but globally speaking, the rich tend to fall into the categories of (a) inherit
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I don't think conspiracy theory is the right word for it. The world isn't ever that neat :) His statement, when you refine it appropriately (which is not always done in an online forum), only presupposes that most people of the fi
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
No, he's right, although I can imagine that the impact wasn't too bad for early ARM and Z-80. No matter how it is implemented concretely, decoding or "using" an address of N-bits needs N levels of logical circuitry. Each
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
The real question is, as usual, what's the counterfactual in the case of Argentina? If they hadn't defaulted, would they actually be better off today? It's possible that, had they tried to avoid default at all cost, the lacki
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Funnily enough, filling triangles pixel per pixel is so outdated that it's already misleading. In reality, all GPUs work at least on 2x2 pixel "quads", because pixel shaders must be able to approximate derivatives. The approx
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
It is common (universal?) on mobile GPUs because VRAM is slow. In some sense, you could think of it as manual management of the depth/color buffer cache (which all GPUs have). This is not directly exposed in any common API, although Vu
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
FWIW, if you don't have to deal with '\r' only line breaks (do those still exist?), successive calls to strchr or memchr can be much faster than a for loop over characters. The reason is that strchr and memchr are typically
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Just FYI, Statista is a private company. You may be thinking of http://destatis.de/ , which is the homepage of the German federal office for statistics.
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Actually, choosing an improving neighbor at random (the random edge pivot rule) also has expected exponential worst-case behavior, see Friedman, Hansen, Zwick, Subexponential lower bounds for randomized pivoting rules for solving linear pro
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I find it mildly amusing what you're calling "traditional git workflows". It seems pretty clear to me that the traditional git workflow is the one used by the Linux kernel, which is after all the reason why git exists in th
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Theft by force (or threat of force) is a subset of theft in the more general sense. Fair enough, but how do you reconcile that with my point (3)? Police returning an item as in the given example means the police are thieves according to y
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
If your definition of "theft" is "taking something by (threat of) force", then (1) private property at least of land clearly is theft, (2) one could even go further and argue that some forms of taxation aren't the
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
For very similar reasons as the ones for which we deny people the right to unsafe food and drink. What do you think would happen if supermarkets were allowed to have shelves with cheaper groceries that are not subject to the usual health st
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Probably. In addition, there's a lot of literature on optimizing hardware implementations of fundamental arithmetic operations like addition and multiplication. I recall seeing a paper a while ago which talked about reducing the number
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Some physicists are drawn instead to the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which observers in some universes see the electron go through the left slit, while those in other universes see it go through the right slit This
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
Your analogy doesn't really work because while there is all this outrage by some people here, I haven't actually seen evidence so far of the NYPD refusing to issue refunds. The thing is, there doesn't seem to be a cheap and
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
OpenSSH client private keys can be stored encrypted - that's what ssh-agent is for: it allows you to enter the key passphrase only once and then remember it for the rest of your desktop session. OpenSSH server private keys, on the
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I agree that the configuration story needs work and documentation. What you could try is to set the vblank_mode=3 environment variable to force V-Sync. If that helps, it means there's either a stale bad config file or a bug somewhere i
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by nhaehnle 10y ago
I'm sorry to hear that you're having issues with gaming on the open-source driver. May I ask where the issues are specifically? We're still working the rough edges of OpenGL 4.3 support, so some of the very latest games are g

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