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811.
by not2b 4y ago
Not always. In C++ and Rust, in many cases the abstraction penalty is completely eliminated by inlining or by making an efficient concrete specialization. If this can be achieved the abstraction penalty is paid only in compile time.
812.
by not2b 4y ago
Oh, come on: he had numerous examples from all over the world where the political implications are quite different. The author's view was simply that old political boundaries have lingering effects, and he demonstrated that very well.
813.
by not2b 4y ago
My favorite is when a French colleague wanted to send some "demands" to a customer. He meant "questions", "demander" = "to ask", he didn't realize that "demand" has a very different imp
814.
by not2b 4y ago
I've done San Francisco to Hong Kong to Bangalore, then back via Frankfurt to SFO, but that's not fully around the world, and neither was your route, because we didn't cross the equator or go 20,000 km (earth's circumfer
815.
by not2b 4y ago
Nothing was posted in 1977. The web didn't exist until 1991; some sites might map to FTP archives older than that, but the first Sam's Club opened in 1983. and of course you know that...
816.
by not2b 4y ago
But in many areas (not everywhere) it's very good for hiking trails, thanks to lots of volunteer contributors.
817.
by not2b 4y ago
It's difficult to maintain a peg when it starts to become unsustainable and the big players start to bet against you. Reminds me of when Soros took on the Bank of England and won: they were trying to peg the value of the pound using th
818.
by not2b 4y ago
For Python libraries that do significant computation, the actual code is often in C, C++, or Fortran with the Python part just serving to tie the libraries together.
819.
by not2b 4y ago
I'm skeptical of this argument. It has a surface plausibility, but I find it more useful to think like a scientist. Assuming that the hypothesis is true, what would we expect to observe? The claim is that that low interest rates are ca
820.
by not2b 4y ago
Norway is in the European Economic Area, which allows for free movement of people, which is exactly the part that Brexiters hated the most. They aren't going to give that up. Switzerland is in the European Free Trade Association and pa
821.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, mostly. They aren't going to tear up their relations with the EU to go with the UK.
822.
by not2b 4y ago
Alternatively, parts of the UK could break off and rejoin the EU (e.g. Scotland). I can't predict whether this will happen or not.
823.
by not2b 4y ago
Norway is in the European Economic Area, closely tied to the EU. Switzerland isn't an EU member but is in the single market. That means both Norway and Switzerland are loosely attached to the EU bloc and play by most of the EU rules. T
824.
by not2b 4y ago
They made $2 billion in profit in 2021, so this is about 7% of that.
825.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I meant when I said that justices have switched sides before. I understand that there was a draft opinion overturning the ACA when Roberts switched sides, though I'm not certain how complete it was.
826.
by not2b 4y ago
The issue is that the decision was not final; Chief Justice Roberts was still trying to persuade other justices to adopt a split-the-difference decision (uphold the 15-week law but don't kill Roe v Wade). Justices have switched sides b
827.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, it was an issue before COVID, but people who are disabled, or people who have processing differences that make dealing with the distractions of an open plan office extremely difficult (that's the "neuro-normative" part),
828.
by not2b 4y ago
If you are experiencing cynical reading between the lines from your reports, you might want to ask yourself why. Why don't they trust you? Or maybe they think you're sincere but they don't trust senior management? I suspect t
829.
by not2b 4y ago
They use legal action as a tool to make that happen; in many cases you never hear about it because the company quietly settles and releases source code.
830.
by not2b 4y ago
It has 39.5 million people. And the budget currently has a surplus and it looks like some of that money will be refunded to taxpayers.
831.
by not2b 4y ago
They want violators to stop being violators and comply, by releasing source code when they fork a GPLed work.
832.
by not2b 4y ago
I assume that you're talking about this: https://wptavern.com/software-freedom-conservancy-takes-on-v... The GPL (version 2 or 3) says that if someone distributes a binary of a GPL-covered program, the person who recei
833.
by not2b 4y ago
I think the core concepts behind git are extremely elegant, but the complexity of using it effectively and the very large number of operations make it substantially less elegant.
834.
by not2b 4y ago
You need 957 more A's. Sorry.
835.
by not2b 4y ago
Blocking is sometimes necessary when someone is behaving as an abusive troll, or switches from normal conversation to hurling personal abuse. Yes, it can be abused by people who think that having the last word is "winning". One wa
836.
by not2b 5y ago
While it isn't directly applicable, here's a decent analysis of the costs of doing a custom ASIC to replace generic components, should provide an idea. https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-re
837.
by not2b 5y ago
ugh, typos: "hugely expensive", "even for chips that are simple compositions".
838.
by not2b 5y ago
The problem with your "mix and match" idea is that it's hugely expense to create masks for chip design, even for chips that simple compositions of predesigned cores, memory, and interconnect, and that expense only pays off be
839.
by not2b 5y ago
I think there's an assumption that the good looking, well put together person is from marketing/sales or a second level (or higher) manager rather than technical, which of course isn't always true. "executive style hair&
840.
by not2b 5y ago
Some countries are making manufacturers/shippers legally responsible for their waste, they can no longer pass on their externalities to others. Doing that can help shift the decisions on packaging.

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