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by praptak 6mo ago
> Heck you could build some large bodies of water and boil them from time to time. Some suppliers already do that. When a power plant also supplies the city heating, it makes sense for them to put the power surplus into pre-heated water
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by praptak 6mo ago
I remember playing a version of this game on ZX Spectrum but I cannot find it on the internet. I remember it had bees that you had to avoid and a boat which you were able to untie so that it floats down a stream. Anybody remember this one?
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by praptak 6mo ago
A regime driven by a weird religious cult and murdering their own citizens is battling a regime which is driven by a weird religious cult and is murdering their own citizens. I think in this situation it is okay to cheer on both sides.
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by praptak 6mo ago
You can't go back. When Trump goes away, the conditions that let him rise to power are still there.
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by praptak 6mo ago
EUBRICS, but it also includes Canada but not Russia and it's really more like "sane countries readjusting their politics against a mad ape".
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by praptak 6mo ago
Nothing wrong with going for the low hanging fruit first.
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by praptak 6mo ago
When I see a corporation taking moral high ground I immediately assume their motives are nasty and 99% of the time I'm right.
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by praptak 7mo ago
I wonder if they DMCA the versions re-implemented from the leaked code using their own tool.
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by praptak 7mo ago
> There isn't even a defined victory condition. It's even worse if you consider what rational options the mullahs have. Yes, they are a murderous dictatorship and enemies of US - no question about that. But they did nothing to
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by praptak 7mo ago
There's no incentive to find a better fuel as long as the price of oil doesn't have the externalities priced in.
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by praptak 7mo ago
The Serbs successfully used a similar tactic to down an F-117A, so yeah.
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by praptak 7mo ago
Oil is still underpriced wrt to its environmental cost. It is good to see at least the political cost being accounted for.
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by praptak 7mo ago
This isn't incentivized in corporate environment. Noticed how "the talent left after the launch" is mentioned in the article? Same problem. You don't get rewarded for cleaning up mess (despite lip service from management
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by praptak 7mo ago
Speaking of winters; there's a good article about Cyc, a successor to Automated Mathematician. Cyc was the last big project in symbolic AI: https://yuxi.ml/cyc
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by praptak 7mo ago
Automated Mathematician is a historically significant step in the evolution of classic AI based on evaluating symbols and rules. This branch of AI seems to have hit a dead end although one can never be certain of such things. Obviously stuf
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by praptak 7mo ago
In a similar vein, to drive a black taxi in London you have to pass The Knowledge of London exam which requires becoming a human routing database for over twenty thousand streets and landmarks.
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by praptak 7mo ago
Attaching payouts to events skews the incentives. A baseball player gets the incentive to fuck up on purpose. Fortunately politicians are much more honest and would never make a decision to profit from a bet in a similar dishonest way.
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by praptak 7mo ago
I don't see how this matters. Whoever thinks I'm horrible is 100% allowed to say this after I'm dead.
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by praptak 7mo ago
A good chunk of great advice is obvious things that people still fail to do . That's why a collection of "obvious" things formulated in a convincing way by a person with big street cred is still useful and worth elevating.
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by praptak 7mo ago
The stack size is just mmapp-ed address space. It only needs backing memory for the pages actually used by the stack.
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by praptak 7mo ago
Yeah, so I believe that this proposal kind of petered out at proof of concept phase but the author of the one being discussed references it.
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by praptak 7mo ago
It's on the devel mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/p/sbcl/mailman/sbcl-devel/thread/CAF...
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by praptak 7mo ago
SBCL seems pretty actively developed. A proposal for coroutines implementation appeared recently and AFAIK it is being actively discussed and improved upon.
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by praptak 7mo ago
I also set create-lockfiles to nil. I think you can theoretically keep the lockfiles and the clean directory by using lock-file-name-transforms to place the lockfiles somewhere sensible but I didn't bother. Without this I had to be car
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by praptak 7mo ago
SBCL uses a single zero bit to tag integers. This trick means the representation of n is just 2n, so you can add the values directly without any decoding. It obviously also means that all the other tag values have to use 1 as the last bit.
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Americans Especially Likely to View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad(pewresearch.org)
10 points by praptak 7mo ago|2 comments
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by praptak 8mo ago
There is no base to compare against.
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by praptak 8mo ago
The point is the interviewers are sometimes obtuse. Sometimes the point of the interview is to see if the candidate knows an existing solution and "just use postgres" is the good answer. Sometimes it's to test the technical c
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by praptak 8mo ago
Yes, I should have added "...this way" because I meant that to address GP's claim of the metric-based numerical measurement. In general, I agree that you can and should judge (not necessarily measure) thing like simplicity an
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by praptak 8mo ago
You can't measure the impact of not creating a steaming pile of complexity.

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