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by phire 1y ago
The ESTA form explicitly includes "withdrawn your application for admission", as part of the refused admission question. So it's basically the same, and you will have to apply for a proper visa.
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by phire 1y ago
Oh, I see what you are saying. I don't consider it to be a heuristic because it's simply bruteforcing it. IMO a heuristic needs improve over brute force. > And 4 vs 8 is a pretty sizeable difference. True, but x86 was doing f
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by phire 1y ago
It's hard to find dates for that type of thing (especially with sourceforge, their website seems actively mess with the wayback machine). But I dug deeper, apparently Sourceforge got support for SVN in 2006, which is a few months befor
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by phire 1y ago
> I wonder if that was a limitation they just couldn't quite make as seamless? It's a fundamental limitation of CD audio. There isn't enough buffering to keep playing sound while the laser seeks to the next track, so the
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by phire 1y ago
> but one source[0] does allude that it was a real possibility That doesn't really suggest an intention to replace. To me that seems more of a hope that x86 would fade into irrelevance on its own, beaten down by superior RISC ISAs
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by phire 1y ago
This 2007 talk [1] of Linus Torvalds promoting git to Google was how many people were introduced to the concept of git in those days before GitHub, I remember watching it myself. Emails requesting other maintains to pull your branch was ver
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by phire 1y ago
People have forgotten just how bad centralised version control was in 2005. If you weren't connected to the internet, you couldn't do a thing. You couldn't checkout. You couldn't commit. You could create branches. The on
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by phire 1y ago
I looked around and couldn't find anything about Ryzen decoding power conniption. I'm only aware of one report for x86 decode power consumption, [1] and there are quite a few problems with trying to use it to justify that conclusi
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by phire 1y ago
> if I am not mistaken – Intel contemplated phasing out the x86 ISA and replacing it with i960, but there was a change of plans, I don't think there was ever any serious thought about replacing x86 with i960 (at least nothing pu
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by phire 1y ago
> having to emulate that through heuristically guessing at instruction boundaries and backtrack when you make a mistake Intel/AMD don't use heuristics-based decoding, or backtracking. They can decode 4 instructions in a single
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by phire 1y ago
We aren't talking about legacy instructions. Those have all been culled and replaced by microcode (in fact, most of them were always microcode from the very first 8086, they just never got non-microcoded versions thought the 286, 386,
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by phire 1y ago
> is they promoted the myth that ISA has no impact on performance IMO, Intel (and AMD) did prove the impact of a legacy ISA was low enough to not be a competitive disadvantage. Not zero, but close enough for high-performance designs. I
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by phire 1y ago
Exactly. There were many doubts about exactly how useful computers would be. But they were already proving their usefulness in some fields. The current state of quantum computers is so much worse than that. It's not just that they have
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by phire 1y ago
There was one video where she said she believed time travel was "probably possible"
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by phire 1y ago
The names are kind of misleading, as there appear to be both iOS and android ports of the "desktop version". I'm not sure which version you actually get if you buy the game on iOS/Android. The original desktop release in
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by phire 1y ago
Yes... there is a very interesting generational thing going on here. Bluetooth headsets were very popular among a certain market segment (business people who made a lot of phone calls), but saw very little adoption outside of that. At that
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by phire 1y ago
By "early days", I was more thinking about the 1999-2005 era, before low-end Nokias even got Bluetooth and the ability to play MP3s. The wireless headset was the killer app that drove bluetooth adoption within cellphones, driving
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by phire 1y ago
Bluetooth had some early success in cellphones, mostly to support Bluetooth headsets and car radio integration, starting from about 1999. It could do other things, but the wireless headset was the killer app in its early days. Bluetooth did
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by phire 1y ago
Yeah, maybe they should have, would have been a lot simpler. But C++ really wanted modules to be a more or less drop in replacement for #include (or at least a set of common use cases), which really pushed up the required level of complex
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by phire 1y ago
We aren't talking about just compile time function evaluation of ConstExpressions. C++ had that all the way back in C++11, and many compilers were doing CTFE long before that as an optimisation (but as a programmer you couldn't re
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by phire 1y ago
It’s a little oversimplified, but I wouldn’t call it misleading. There is little point to getting an app like perplexity AI pre-installed on a phone as a non-default. Changing defaults isn’t exactly trivial, and any user motivated enough to
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by phire 1y ago
Sure, migrations are bearable (especially ones that only add columns). But for the example of the "updated_at" column, or "soft delete" functionality, you only find out you need it because the operations team suddenly di
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by phire 1y ago
Good point. When reading, I kind of just assumed the "use of initialised memory" warning would pick this up. But because the whole line is parsed in a single sscanf call, the compiler's static analysis is forced to assume the
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by phire 1y ago
In many countries, the consumer protection laws are strong enough that consumers probably can return such appliances, as long as the facts about app requirements weren't made abundantly clear to them at the store. Though, it's usu
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by phire 2y ago
Depends on what you mean by “important”. It’s not like it will be a huge loss if we never invent AGI. I suspect we can reach a technology singularity even with limited AI derived from today’s LLMs But AGI is important in the sense that it h
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by phire 2y ago
I'm basing my "still growing" assessment off google trends, nobody thinks to bot that. The trends for Slashdot and Digg [0] more or less match up with when they died. While reddit [1] is still growing (at least up until 3 mon
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by phire 2y ago
It's really surprising how long reddit lasted. Slashdot lasted maybe 10 years (though still limps on). Digg lasted about 4 years before it started shedding users at alarming rates (and 6 years before it killed itself). But after 20 yea
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by phire 2y ago
Partly. But I suspect it's more that CGI was the way things had always been done. They didn't even consider doing a reverse proxy. They asked the question "how do we make CGI faster" and so ended up with FastCGI. Other d
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by phire 2y ago
It’s fraud when they lie to investors, or allow them to assume the wrong thing. Doesn’t matter what consumers believe, it’s more or less legal to lie to consumers about how a product works, as long as investors know how the sausage is made.
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by phire 2y ago
I do think an open source, distributed, content addressable VCS was inevitable. Not git itself, but something with similar features/workflows. Nobody was really happy with the VCS situation in 2005. Most people were still using CVS, or

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