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by pingyong 7y ago
"Thousands of babies are killed every year through late-term abortions." The meaning of "babies", "killed" and "late-term abortion" (or even if that term has any meaning) is completely subjective.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Probably because everyone still has the numerous starting experiences in the back of their head where they thought their code must be correct and it couldn't possibly your fault only to realize the next day that it was absolutely your
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by pingyong 7y ago
>* Most developers start to learn at a time where they don't have the money for tools. There is even more to this point. Most programmers still like to work on some personal projects here and there, and they don't like to have
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by pingyong 7y ago
>why leave it out? Because he summarized the plot, not the paper.
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by pingyong 7y ago
One because memory allocations can be pretty expensive performance wise, two because you never want to manually allocate memory if you have the standard library accessible to you (you want to use smart pointers instead), three because the a
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by pingyong 7y ago
When you see this line auto values = new std::unordered_set<T>(); in their C++ benchmark code you already know it's gonna be a good article.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Hey, we don't have obsessive arguments over the true refresh rate of our 144 Hz monitors, we only have obsessive arguments over if you should enable or disable vsync on 144 Hz gsync monitors when you already cap your frame rate below t
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by pingyong 7y ago
Pretty sure this equivalence was more or less the first sentence in the regex tutorial I read during high school...
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by pingyong 7y ago
To be honest, yes, generally programs that don't start instantaneously do something very unnecessary and stupid that has nothing to do with actual CPU performance. As in they read thousands of tiny files or they decompress files or the
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by pingyong 7y ago
Eh, idk. Most programs that run like a giant turd do it because they load 15 megabytes of Javascript libraries to call two functions, or something to that effect. Computers are so fast now that you really need to be doing something unbeliev
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by pingyong 7y ago
Eh, Germany isn't exactly "piracy friendly" at all. If you torrent a popular song there's a decent chance you get sued for hundreds (previously thousands) of dollars. But region hacking isn't really piracy, and the
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by pingyong 7y ago
Twitch is running two kinds of ads, one type is "normal" and can be blocked by ublock, the other one is weird - it's definitely not just spliced into the video stream either, as far as I remember (I have Amazon Prime so I don
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by pingyong 7y ago
I'm not saying no one will try to do this, but YouTube had the technical option of splicing ads directly into the video stream and simply not sending the actual video content for the duration of the ad for several years now. They chose
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by pingyong 7y ago
I honestly wonder how people get this perception when both reddit and HN are so overwhelmingly pro-HK and anti-China. The only way you would ever see a pro-China comment on reddit is by explicitly searching for it, either by sorting by cont
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by pingyong 7y ago
Why do you want the poor Nutella to die? :(
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by pingyong 7y ago
I think if you have a framework that can produce arbitrary single-task solvers (which AlphaZero can't yet), you would have something indistinguishable from AGI, since communication between single-task solvers is also kinda just a singl
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by pingyong 7y ago
Interestingly, a couple months back I saw a reddit thread where someone collected data that showed that posts with small spelling errors will gain (in some cases significantly) more upvotes - for whatever reason.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Intel TDP always had the same meaning: "If your cooler can dissipate TDP, the CPU will run all-core loads at base clock speed, or a single-core loads at boost-clock speed." - Pretty sure that statement has always been true, within
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by pingyong 7y ago
It's a shame they didn't call the line EPYC THREADRIPPER though.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Contrary to what some people seem to believe I really don't think this has anything to do with trying to ban people who use adblock or the like. YouTube actively allows for adblock, if they didn't want people blocking ads they cou
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by pingyong 7y ago
It's definitely not trivial, but I think a solution would be to have tests that are, to a certain extent, subjective (I don't think they end up being that subjective in Math, and they'll always be subjective in English), an
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by pingyong 7y ago
Tbh if you can "teach the test" without imparting meaningful understanding of the material, the test wasn't good the first place.
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by pingyong 7y ago
>if they were, you wouldn't be able to access them from a new device after authorization with a password. Telegram isn't great but if your password was used to derive the encryption key, that feature would be entirely feasible.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Is it bad that I unironically like the first one, actually more than the second one?
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by pingyong 7y ago
>having smurfs that lost on purpose when their rank got too high Those still exist, but they are a tiny minority compared to smurfs who just decay. The simple problem is this: Losing on purpose is extremely boring and very time consuming
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by pingyong 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly what people do. Although the spending money part is kind of optional now, since the game is free to play. And it's not really "a lot", it's like 1 AAA game, for most likely way more hours of ente
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by pingyong 7y ago
The matchmaking system in CSGO almost makes a conscious effort to increase "smurfing". Back in 2013-2015, smurfing was actually a lot harder, because if you won every game, your rank would increase very quickly. This led to a situ
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by pingyong 7y ago
Margins are really, really bad though. You get like $1 for $10 of keys. Plus it takes a huge amount of time to open all those chests. Plus if you need that many chests you need to buy those from the market. I think it's not going to be
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by pingyong 7y ago
Just to follow up on this funnily enough, the Wireguard guys actually did call a kernel function: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21391308 And again, like before, the reaction to this is just hilarious to me. "It&
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by pingyong 7y ago
>That just changes the issue from "how do I get good quality random numbers" to "how do I get a good quality seed". This is completely true, but there is a property that your random numbers have to have that your seed

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