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by nn3 6y ago
Such actions have a tendency to back fire. For example read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen This was a scientist who was forced out in the 50ies and he ended up founding modern Chinese rocketry, includi
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by nn3 6y ago
"Former senior writer" One idly wonders what must be going on at Quanta that she ended up with such a title.
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by nn3 6y ago
I bet it was something like - Do we do the experiment now (or in the next quarter at least), or do we spend a lot of time getting through ethics boards with new unique proposals that would likely take forever to get approved.
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by nn3 6y ago
Isn't that rant a bit over the top just for a large source file? If the source file size matters you're really not using your editor right. With a modern editor it shouldn't really matter where something is, you'll alway
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by nn3 6y ago
They're running it on VirtualBox. That's just a normal desktop VM, nothing cloudy. It happens to be owned by Oracle (through their Sun aquisition), but it's an open source product. Yes I know it's a strange thought. Some
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by nn3 6y ago
After all the bungling they did on Corona they should rather be happy if they survive as a organization. You had one job ... and everything. Clearly some major reforms are needed.
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by nn3 6y ago
The dependency problems he's describing sound like they could be relatively easily fixed with some new systemd keywords? Of course it would take some time to migrate existing unit files. It doesn't sound like a fundamental critiqu
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by nn3 6y ago
Wish more software would do that. Often we don't need it after all.
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by nn3 6y ago
"How can I learn an instrument without listening to music" "How can I learn to write stories without reading books?" Have you considered just reading the code? It's all available. Best way to learn is to look what t
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by nn3 6y ago
Strangely Delaware is not on the list
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by nn3 6y ago
Seems like a relatively standard test case reduction tool aimed for D. The tool reduces test cases to make them easier to debug. It removes pieces from input data and testing each variant to see if it still reproduces the bug. In the end yo
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by nn3 7y ago
In the current situation they probably don't have a lot of incentive to lower prices. But the question is: how much premium would you be willing to pay for a local supplier? If the american company was "only" 50% more expensi
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by nn3 7y ago
I'm idly wondering how today's "modern" Java* micro-service buzzword driven setups will look to someone who has to maintain it 40+ years later. Maybe COBOL and mainframe wasn't that bad after all.
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by nn3 7y ago
I was looking for the battle of Tollense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollense_valley_battlefield Trojan war would have been nice too
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by nn3 7y ago
The state of the earth The fossil scan is just a sentence or so, not really a significant part of the plot.
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by nn3 7y ago
There's a Ian Banks short story where one of the omnipotent Culture spaceships visits the Earth and scans it on its whole and sees all the fossils every fossilized. I always found this an fascinating thought. Imagine technology progres
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by nn3 7y ago
So they didn't monitor temperature of all systems by default to catch cooling problems? Sounds more embarrassing to me. That's fairly basic mistakes.
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by nn3 7y ago
I believe it's just the number of digits when the printing cuts off
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by nn3 7y ago
I doubt the modern GNU or BSD versions of it that you are likely using do. Noone uses the original anymore.
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by nn3 7y ago
>You need experienced engineers to create performance no >matter what your domain is. Actually the funny thing with HTML is that the simplest things are fast. If you just write a old school HTML web page without a bazillion frame work
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by nn3 7y ago
Function calls are very cheap on modern CPUs. The same ILP argument the author makes applies in most cases. And both vectorization and inlining works fine with a function with modern tool chains that do LTO.
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by nn3 7y ago
Nice. RNGs are getting better and better. Only minor nit: would be nice if they had ready to compile libraries. The ROTL macro is missing, and useful wrappers are missing too (like correct limiting to a smaller range) Of course it's tr
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by nn3 7y ago
It used to be possible to buy just the back covers of the full encyclopedia Britannica. Just for that reason.
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by nn3 7y ago
Yes it's always amazing how these new environment skimp on debugging support. After all that's the activity most of us doing real software spend the most time on, and no, no amount of "safe programming" will avoid debugg
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by nn3 7y ago
Interesting. Seems to be the first modern non trivial compiler that avoids using SSA internally. I thought SSA had cornered the market, but perhaps now there is an opposite trend (ok one example doesn't make a trend) <quote> No
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by nn3 7y ago
It's like human languages. They adopt useful words from each other all the time too. Why shouldn't programming languages do the same?
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by nn3 7y ago
It actually is not. The compiler has no problems turning your imperative code into SSA on its own, and PHI functions are no problem for optimizers. I guess it's just for readability and easier reasoning about the code.
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by nn3 7y ago
Yes the real problem is the police here. It would be interesting to know if this is even a thing in other countries with less militarized police forces.
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by nn3 7y ago
If you like these kinds of stories, Boris Chertok's memoirs have a lot more from the Russian early launches during the space race. He was in charge of electrical systems in many of the Russian rockets. NASA history has an excellent fou
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by nn3 7y ago
...which currently make up about 30% of the compute powering their non-production containerised clusters...the department paid approximately 80% less for cloud resources by using excess capacity services. Must be a weird pricing scheme if d

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