onan_barbarian

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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
I think the 4-color teaches us that sometimes software has to be shit. A lot of people held out for an elegant proof but what they got was auto-generated spaghetti. I cannot think of a better demonstration of the fact that sometimes you j
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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
SKX = Skylake-X = Skylake Xeon, as distinct from SKL, which is the "client" die. The most important distinction is that SKX has AVX 512 and SKL does not.
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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
So... the big factor muddying the waters for AA is that it is, in many cases a state-sanctioned option where "anonymous" behavior modification (have you checked in with your sponsor?) takes on the force of law. It's possible
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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
Absolutely agreed. As I posted elsewhere on the thread these insane custom licenses guarantee that you can't use this code for anything serious. Even if you wanted to work on a project as a hobbyist, you can't redistribute this co
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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
Vc also looks rather more conventional in terms of license and distribution method (3-clause BSD and github respectively). Custom licenses are a headache and I always wonder whether the academics who promulgate them wonder why no-one uses t
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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
Amazing levels of ignorance here. Even this has become difficult and awkward thanks to an effort to close the door after Eduardo Saverin et al bolted. Hacker News seems to be a reliable place for people to holding forth on situations that
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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
This is incredibly stupid. A US citizen abroad gets very little additional protection from the "army and international protection" that the other citizens of the country in which they are generally resident get; i.e. a US citizen
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by onan_barbarian 9y ago
I'm going to guess that the logic behind your 'relatively attainable goal' here is 90% dependent on the fact that far more people can aspire to be a footballer than a professor, due to the general requirement for a PhD. I wou
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by onan_barbarian 11y ago
This seems plausible, but is the inverse of the traditional expectation of what grows and what stays the same. I refer only to a pragmatic experience of regex implementation (as opposed to a theoretical refutation of the point) - the size o
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by onan_barbarian 11y ago
This result has always been a bit of a head-scratcher for me, in that it seems to require that we increase the pattern size (specifically, the number of back-references). While the result is correct, it seems to run counter to common usage
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by onan_barbarian 11y ago
People with a "intermediate understanding of weightlifting and program design" have a long history of not having the faintest clue what they are talking about. Given how frequently fashions have shifted over the past 20-30 years,
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
I have a guarded respect for Jeff Vogel's games, but having played the Avernum series quite a bit, I'd say part of the trick here is being closer to "making the same game 22 times" (or the same 4 games 5.5 times each). C
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
> It also happens to be as hard or harder than most other types of software engineering. This remarkable statement is probably true if we correct difficulty levels to the average ability of the population of "web developers". D
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
Seriously. Our local burrito chain has a loyalty program where you get a little card, and so on, but you have a password . Right, because I really want to remember a Burrito Password.
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
In Soviet Russia, device roots you!
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
Calling the process of "accepting a SciGen-generated paper into a allegedly peer-reviewed journal" a "precision error" is a bit on the optimistic side. It implies that someone was making a decision after reading the cont
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." - Fran Lebowitz
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
I believe the snarky Inquirer take on this (after a previously touted splash of cash on life extension) was "because dead people don't click on ads". At least funnier than the standard flavor of Haterade.
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
> our obsession with certain abstractions (the poorly defined "real vs superficial", "honor", "the dignity of work"¹...etc) Let's conjugate together: "I understand X, you believe Y, they are obses
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
Yes. His sentiments here http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ are very close to mine: "It makes me wonder, when sitting in front of a crisp, 2.3 million pixel display (i.e. a laptop) why I'm telling those pi
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
I got excited to click on this, imagining that someone was modernizing less. Which is true in a narrow sense, but am I the only one to feel a lingering disappointment that we run shells in xterms (or slightly modified equivalents) that emul
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
My strong suspicion is that if everyone worked 11 hours, we would wind up in ferocious competition for: (a) positional goods (I can have a house on the best street if I just work 22 hours, not 11) and (b) the scanty resources now provided i
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
Attanasio's Solis also covers this topic without optimism; the protagonist's brain is used in a mining machine IIRC.
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
You know, it's quite possible that no amount of investigation will ever reveal definitively what happened beyond the basics of the matter, which appears to be that a cop shot an unarmed kid 35 feet away from the vehicle. It's po
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
see also: "A little bit naughty" There's always been a bit of ambiguity about the sort of rule-breaking ("hacking") that is and isn't encouraged in these sort of start-ups. One person's hack is another per
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
This is highly relevant to most startups in that it may establish a useful precedent on who owns code written by monkeys.
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
I've always been a bit nervous about those "speed is enforced by aircraft" signs (as opposed to "monitored"). I always get a mental picture of a aircraft strafing near my car until I slow down...
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
It's generic positive spin. Honestly, what would you expect to see? In other news, the guy who speaks to you on the way out of the superstore probably doesn't care whether you have a nice day or not. Also, when the CEO of that big
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
Confused that he doesn't list Posse on his LinkedIn page, if he's the guy you're talking about.
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by onan_barbarian 12y ago
Fantastic. Keeping the tutorial up-to-date with the language and of high quality is just about the best possible thing you can do for documentation. Nothing puts me off from a language or system quicker than clicking through to a tutorial t

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