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by nlitened 1y ago
Why would taxpayers fund art that is not appealing or somehow beneficial to them?
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Thank you for linking. In this case, as I understand, you switched from a local array which is re-initialized with values upon each function invocation to a global array that is pre-initialized before even the program starts. So my understa
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by nlitened 1y ago
> Just a few days ago I changed stack access to heap access in a larger generated perfect hash and got 100x better performance Link me the code so that I can show what you did wrong
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Isn't digital (binary) hardware literally optimized for 1-bit case by definition?
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> But if you are materially dependent on the job then you have battling imperatives that will stress you I would like to offer a different perspective for you. I’ve never been shouted at in my work life. And I also know a few people who
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by nlitened 1y ago
Russian economy is booming actually, thanks to continued purchasing of oil and gas by Europe and other parts of the world, and the sanctions that block capital outflow out of the country.
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> And I disagree, I think it would take me two days to clear out the house, but mostly lack the energy and motivation to do it Likely you’re psychologically unable to ever do it, but it’s comforting to have this convenient lie. There’s o
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by nlitened 1y ago
Profit is “how much your whole is more valuable than the sum of parts it consists of”. If your taste is what makes it valuable, then more profits reflect more taste.
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> it can't be true that it exists for us You're saying it as if you assume some external entity judging whether something exists for somebody or not. As an atheist you would acknowledge that the entire concept of "existing
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> nature existed long before humans and exists beyond humans and will exist long after us If this is true (and I believe it is), then it does not really matter much what humanity does in the big picture. Might as well drain some swamps a
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> Nature does not exist for humanity's comfort or aesthetic preferences To be fair, in most religions (including christianity and atheism) it kinda does
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100%. Hundreds of millions of people have been successfully using this visual programming environment with little to no CS education to solve real business problems for decades. What’s most important — the “visual” part is what actually all
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> 1 and 2 are about spending time with people It is true, and spending time with people over video calls or text chats is a very low-bandwidth, rather thankless job which is generally demotivating long-term. Not that many people are actu
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With WFH the following things become very difficult and/or ineffective: 1. Onboarding and growing junior employees. 2. Managing/coordinating people 3. Doing/coming up with something innovative 4. Making sure an employee is no
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by nlitened 1y ago
> Could you then say that this blockchain really provides nothing that a traditional centralized system wouldn't? Blockchains (in general) enforce not only open code, but open data. Technically, nothing prevents traditional banks to
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It is only a counterpoint if you claim that this compensation scheme works well. If you don't think it makes sense, then it actually proves my point that bonuses should only involve things that directly depend on employee's own pe
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You can’t make sales people responsible for the entire company, that’s CEO- and board-level responsibility. If you don’t give sales bonus for clients that later canceled due to engineering or tech support fuck up, do you expect regular sale
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This sounds like a viable first-order black-box approximation for beginners. More experienced and skillful sales people surely go beyond that understanding
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Everybody in mobile gaming and gambling industries acknowledges that “whales” are mentally sick people with addiction issues, but if you don’t capture and monetize whales, your competitor will. Your game dev studio will dwindle over years u
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Such people are called “whales” in mobile gaming industry, they pay all the game developers’ salaries, they are the reason for many private jets.
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> An yet in the current discussion, only the rich get to profit from it. In the current discussion, it’s about people who built their wealth from _zero_ by working overtime for years of sleepless nights, sacrificing their health and pers
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All people are greedy, not only rich ones, that’s human nature. However high taxes ensure that it’s becoming more difficult to become rich, and only rich can get richer. Personally I think it’s better when more people can become rich, not f
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> fair share Pretty sure “fair” means both sides agree that it’s fair. You can’t just say “I think it’s fair that I take a half of what you made”. You could say that people know what the conditions are before starting the business, so th
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Consensus is not a scientific thing, it’s a political thing
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I probably need to reconsider my assumptions, you’re right. I thought that taking naltrexone only manages addiction for as long as it’s being taken, and after it’s stopped the desire returns. If it just cures the bad habit without the menta
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> If it is a moral failing, how can a pill resolve it? It doesn't. If thievery is a moral failing, how can chopping off thief's hands resolve it? It does resolve further thievery, but doesn't resolve the moral failing of i
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Alcoholism is a moral failing, and the struggle and punishment are real, and come not only from outside, but also from within. One can try to rationally argue their way out of alcoholism being a moral failing, but then one notices that in a
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If Perplexity has millions of users, there’s no distinction between “mass fetching” and “mass crawling” — the snapshots of web pages will still be stored in Perplexity’s own crawl index.
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I only know the situation which touched dozens of my friends and acquaintances. Say, you’re a relatively successful software professional in Russia, who has a small apartment and a car in a big city. Then the war with Ukraine starts, and al
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Expensive relative to what? When people are rescuing their hard-earned savings of 200k USD out of a third-world country, they would be happy to pay even double-digit per cent commissions, and crypto is much, much cheaper, faster and safer t

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