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by pjscott 4y ago
Certainly! It makes sense in processors that don't do SIMD or speculative execution. There are a lot of those, but mostly for embedded stuff.
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by pjscott 4y ago
That really depends on what you mean by "advanced". It's evidence of a larger, more organized, more hierarchical civilization than archaeologists had expected to see anywhere near its time period. This is either evidence that
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by pjscott 4y ago
There are options other than "no regulation" and "exactly the level and type of regulation we have now". For example, you could impose expensive liability for selling defective formula (retail or wholesale), and trust
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by pjscott 4y ago
> Other competitors apparently non-existent probably thanks to free market forces The article goes into the reasons for market consolidation. To summarize: there's a combination of steep regulatory barriers (which inherently favor b
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by pjscott 4y ago
If the global warming thing is as bad as some of the scarier predictions are predicting, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission might steal that title from them eventually.
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by pjscott 4y ago
The government has, in fact, been "dealing with Abbot" -- specifically, by imposing anti-competitive tariffs and locking out both foreign and domestic competition. You want them to do more of that? Because, empirically, that'
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by pjscott 4y ago
In what sense does capitalism require indefinite exponential growth? I recall, for example, that Japan did not collapse during their Lost Decade.
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by pjscott 5y ago
My personal favorite of theirs is Super 3D Noah's Ark. It's essentially Wolfenstein 3D -- they licensed the engine and everything -- but instead of shooting Nazis with guns until they die, you instead shoot food at animals with sl
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by pjscott 5y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. (And "math is not racist" is usually said by people who are claiming that racial differences in average math test scores are caused by something other than racism in the subject matter or teaching style,
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by pjscott 5y ago
I'm confused by a few of your reactions. > Bad - this sentence is telling part of population should just kill themself since they don’t exist. Which part of the population are you referring to? People with intersex conditions like K
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by pjscott 5y ago
"Assume positive intent" doesn't mean to never update your priors; that would be ridiculous, as your examples illustrate. It just means to start out with an initially charitable view of someone's behavior that can shift
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by pjscott 5y ago
From what little they've said, it's a pretty safe bet that their propellant mix is: * Safer to handle than traditional hypergolics, which are crazy toxic and therefore difficult and expensive to work with. (This is what they mean
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by pjscott 5y ago
In most cases swapping two variables with a temporary variable will be either zero-overhead -- because you've just changed the names you're referring to those variables by, and the compiler knows it -- or very, very low-overhead.
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by pjscott 5y ago
I’m curious: what was the issue? I’ve used python 2.7 with Unicode pretty extensively, in a wide range of languages, and have never had problems that weren’t my own fault.
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by pjscott 5y ago
> Recapture is good, but not nearly as good as not emitting the carbon in the first place. That's not necessarily true -- it depends on the marginal costs of each. Right now carbon capture is pretty expensive, but I can see that pot
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by pjscott 5y ago
Market failure is real, but this is a situation where I wouldn't expect to see it happen naturally.
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by pjscott 5y ago
That's the thing about seeing a problem coming and working to fix it before it happens: an adequate reaction looks the same as an overreaction from the outside, and the "lol overreaction" narrative is way more viral.
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by pjscott 5y ago
You might be interested in the library underneath, called Camelot: https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/ It's usable from Python or via a CLI.
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by pjscott 5y ago
It’s on the front page of HN; I think it’s a safe bet that Radars have been filed — though I’m not sure what can be done about this. The fact that they were using os_unfair_lock indicates that someone has looked at the relevant code and tr
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by pjscott 5y ago
My big problem with SQL is that I want to do the query planning. Sure, the database can often do a better job -- but I want to be able to guarantee upper bounds on things, damn it! I've seen so many weird edge-case performance proble
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by pjscott 5y ago
It's interesting how similar most of this is to more modern advice. The main differences seem to regard humane treatment of your servants, and of women upon whom you've brought public disgrace for 'wanton behavior' -- ne
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by pjscott 5y ago
Yes, that's the implication of Sagan's quote! Nobody can be trusted to always be right; there are only people with different probabilities of being right on various subjects. Their words are Bayesian evidence of finite strength.
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by pjscott 5y ago
I agree, of course! But I'm trying to get at a different question: what sort of processes can be expected to give better or worse answers to the resource allocation problem? This probably can't be answered at HN comment length. Or
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by pjscott 5y ago
It's a cute idea, but I see two obvious issues. First, spending priorities tend to be pretty similar among politicians, with each differing only in small details, so approximately all of the pie charts would look more or less like this
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by pjscott 5y ago
This didn't affect satellites that were in their final LEO orbits; it affected part of a batch of newly launched satellites that were lower down, on their way up toward their final orbit, and therefore susceptible to the temporary thic
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by pjscott 5y ago
Also, if you want O(1) indexing by grapheme cluster you can get that with less memory overhead by precomputing a lookup table of the location in the string where you can find every k-th grapheme cluster, for some constant k >= 1. (This r
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by pjscott 5y ago
Once they get the inter-satellite laser links working, there are probably better places to put ground stations. Right now they're going with Fiji as the location because it has internet connectivity and is close enough for Starlink sat
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by pjscott 5y ago
The ability to suplex a ghost train while running away from it is probably the most important core functionality of FF6.
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by pjscott 5y ago
You shouldn't expect voting to yield good decisions even if voters are individually rational [1], which they mostly aren't [2]. However, voting does have a big civil rights benefit: it lets minority groups protect themselves fro
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by pjscott 5y ago
Why is that? Your assertion looks shockingly true when I eyeball the map of percentage Catholic by country, but I can’t find anything in Catholicism itself that would cause this.

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