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by pingyong 7y ago
I really, really like the idea of UBI. However, some napkin math: In the US, with ~250 million people being eligible, a $1000 UBI would cost ~$3 trillion. That's almost the entire budget of the US. How is this even remotely realistic r
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by pingyong 7y ago
Absolutely true, but they also tend to work in jobs where they have essentially full control over how much they work, when they work, etc. And in some cases, that might still end up being much more lucrative than a "normal job". B
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by pingyong 7y ago
Coming from Germany (not Canada, but maybe closer to Canada than the US in terms of spending): Housing absolutely , health care probably not for most people. But yeah, if you live on full time minimum wage here that's ~1200€ per month
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by pingyong 7y ago
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FloatingPointMath
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by pingyong 7y ago
>How do people deal with constructor errors in the C++ world? I have never seen C++ code where the constructor call is wrapped in with an exception handler. There are about 200 different ways to be honest, stemming from the unfortunate s
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by pingyong 7y ago
Well, in the case of C++, since the standard library uses exceptions everywhere not using them is a pretty big "cut". Basically either you don't use the standard library or you write all your code in a completely different pa
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by pingyong 7y ago
This is coming more out of a theoretical interest, but what are the advantages of Mumble over TeamSpeak 3?
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by pingyong 7y ago
Honestly the amount doesn't even matter. If we could make a baseball amount of negative energy but needed a Jupiter amount, sure, that looks solvable. But we don't even know if it's theoretically possible to create a baseball
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by pingyong 7y ago
tldr: Nothing changed, we still don't know if negative energy is even something we can generate.
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by pingyong 7y ago
>Now that I think about it, why did they even rush Stadia out? The reason for that is as you say, they're playing the long game here. They know it won't make money, not today, not next year, not in 3 years. But in 10 years it
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by pingyong 7y ago
Most people do have 10-25 ms latency to their servers. Ping isn't the problem here though, the problem is that you have to download the frame. That just takes a while. Input lag is like 150 ms. The reason some people think that is abso
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by pingyong 7y ago
It's kind of funny how often people end up using ECB. (Or not using a nonce with stream ciphers.) It's like so obvious that that can't work when you think about it, but I guess most people just don't think about it in th
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by pingyong 7y ago
Not only is it beyond obvious that WhatsApp stores that data, it's actually better than for example Telegram, which also stores all that data, but in addition to that can MITM all your "non-secret" (read: probably all, nobody
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by pingyong 7y ago
By that logic, a program that simply counts up from 0 (with bignums, as long as the machine has enough memory), is actually a compressed form of every single piece of data or information that has ever, will ever or can ever be created.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Over ~60 really, but schools are still amazing in terms of spread (to everyone), even if most of the kids would be fine after 2 weeks at home.
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by pingyong 7y ago
If you're ever wondering how much data Chrome sucks out of you, the amount of effort Google goes through to try to keep people from using even Chrome-Edge, let alone Firefox, should give you a rough idea. Microsoft probably won't
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by pingyong 7y ago
The thing is in common esport titles this will only ever really happen at relatively high levels (top ~0.1%) of play. Or at least, that's where it would actually matter. Below that, games are usually just decided by who is better at fu
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by pingyong 7y ago
In addition to 1) ideally the user can just choose here. Which the user currently sort of can, so I don't see a problem with it.
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by pingyong 7y ago
>Ok but I still don’t get why the op complains about it so publicly the same day (likely immediately) after submitting the ticket without even giving the company a chance to triage and resolve the issue. Well the blog post isn't rea
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by pingyong 7y ago
>The difference is how malleable the internet infrastructure is compared to the real world. Just put up cameras with facial recognition everywhere, require every citizen to have biometric IDs (face from multiple angles, fingerprints, DNA
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by pingyong 7y ago
>but you can train one agent/hero so the training scales in a somewhat linear fashion once they get beyond ~15-20 heros. No, you can't. The problem isn't training the AI to actually play all the heroes, that's the e
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by pingyong 7y ago
>it is obvious that it would do just as well at the full game excepting that OpenAI didn't have the stomach to try and tackle the engineering challenge for no reward. That's an interesting interpretation. My interpretation is t
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by pingyong 7y ago
I mean requiring an explicitly defaulted move constructor or something to that effect I wouldn't mind, but personally I also think it's beyond obvious that if you move from a smart pointer that it's going to hold a nullptr af
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by pingyong 7y ago
>ability to search for objects in your pictures on your phone This is pretty cool, can save a lot of time in some cases, and doesn't disappoint because object recognition (even by humans) is unreliable by nature. >use an online t
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by pingyong 7y ago
>there are no longer any well-defined tasks that a human can outperform a computer in. If by "well-defined" you mean "complete information", then yes. If by well-defined you mean... well-defined, then no. Humans are b
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by pingyong 7y ago
This misunderstanding could have been avoided by formulating your initial statement like this: >openssh makes the situation worse because +even+ if the key is already in your host file and it's just the ip/domain that changed i
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by pingyong 7y ago
Hm, I wonder what kind of questions that entailed. Because unsigned arithmetic in C seems very intuitive to me. I have a hard time coming up with a question that would be hard to answer. Certainly, if we're talking about the C standard
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by pingyong 7y ago
The problem is then you still have to go there and pretend to work - sitting in front of a screen for 8 hours while doing nothing probably sucks the life right out of you.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Oh, I might have misread that - in that case, I completely agree. But I guess "practice makes (almost) perfect!" isn't that controversial of an idea either, lol.
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by pingyong 7y ago
I don't know. The problem is that there is almost no way to evaluate software engineers. Have a degree from a decent university? Cool, but how do we know how many actual larger programming assignments that included, and if those were g

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