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The plan to build an island using only electricity [video](youtube.com)
3 points by pxeger1 3y ago|0 comments
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by pxeger1 3y ago
From https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho... The company name is a bit of hacker sleight-of-hand… or as some astute people have put it, it’s ‘wrong’. Of course it’s wrong - I’m not a &#x2F
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by pxeger1 3y ago
I can't exactly remember but I think there are a few rare circumstances where you still have to quote things. Inside ${} maybe?
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Perhaps GP meant that you can't fruitfully have cars advertised to you if you don't want to buy one
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by pxeger1 3y ago
But many systems will never need to run at that kind of scale, but could still benefit from better threading performance, so it's good to have an "intermediate" choice, if that's what you consider it.
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by pxeger1 3y ago
I, broadly, think the House of Lords is a good thing in principle. Having a board of experts who can trounce things like the Illegal Migration Bill's potential for human rights abuse is a good thing. FYI, the House of Lords can't
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by pxeger1 3y ago
From what I can tell, it sounds like the lawmakers have the right intentions here. So I'm not too worried that this law will get passed in its current problematic state. Am I naive?
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Note: only tracking-based ads, not targeted ads in general.
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Preserve? Conserve? But colloquially, probably just jam. Or "jam with bits of fruit in it"
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by pxeger1 3y ago
I'm aware it's not nearly universal, but it does happen a lot.
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by pxeger1 3y ago
It's interesting that the author feels the need to justify why this would be useful in practice. I can imagine this could be useful in many contexts - and regardless, I'd be content for this to just be a purely academic exercise.
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by pxeger1 3y ago
In engineering, lives are often on the line, but there are also plenty of areas of engineering where most of the work is also band aids and balling wire. For example, lots of product design isn't safety critical and doesn't need
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Even if you're in the mindset that everyone should study a "real" (pure and academic) subject, I'd say CS fits that description fine. It varies by university (probably unlike maths), but there are still plenty of highly
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by pxeger1 3y ago
It's interesting how common it is across different cultures that there are different names for boys and girls. I wonder why this happened?
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by pxeger1 3y ago
I'm 99% sure you're confusing this with V. This is Vale, which is not the same. (And V is controversial but I wouldn't say it's a scam either)
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Reference counting involves an increment every time a reference is shared. That's a lot more overhead than just on alloc and free - in particular, it involves going to main memory (or using part of the cache) a lot more in order to cha
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by pxeger1 3y ago
You can buy nitrite-free bacon - doesn't that mean it's not essential?
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by pxeger1 3y ago
I wouldn't say those are 2000 failures, because the point is that you learn from them each time. Also building a light bulb that doesn't work is really not an error, that's the whole idea of iteration.
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by pxeger1 3y ago
The assumption is that Facebook doesn't want to allow non-targeted ads as they don't make enough money. If they could force you to pay them or accept the target ads, (either of which would make them more money than non-targeted ad
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by pxeger1 3y ago
I think the context was perhaps more important than I'd considered to explain the significance of "five-y". The implication was that the fiviness gives something of an intuitive explaination for why some shape had 5 sides. Th
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by pxeger1 3y ago
He seems to exaggerate the importance of things when they make for a good story and sound interesting. This is a classic flaw in popular science but I think he's got a lot more egregious with it over the years. The worst example I reme
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Not that it matters, but that's a colon, not a semicolon
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Donkey Sentence(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pxeger1 3y ago|0 comments
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by pxeger1 3y ago
If we could communicate emotions effectively through speech alone, we wouldn't have invented art.
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Typescript's type system is already undecidable (except that they limit recursion depth). I don't know much about dependent types but I'd guess it similarly doesn't matter much in practice that in the general case they&#
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by pxeger1 3y ago
Indeed, it's easy to prove that any sorting algorithm that works by comparing elements (unlike e.g. radix sort) requires Ω(n log n) time in the worst case.
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by pxeger1 3y ago
There are a fairly large number of basic grammatical errors in this paper, which seems unusual for a paper of the quality normally expected by Nature .
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How to Cheat at the Lottery (Or, Massively Parallel Requirements Engineering)(cl.cam.ac.uk)
2 points by pxeger1 3y ago|0 comments
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by pxeger1 3y ago
I think the !! operator is redundant. If your language has a "never" type, then exit/return/break/panic should have a return type of never, so those expressions would be acceptable on the right hand side of !? anywa
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by pxeger1 3y ago
"it" = Datadog

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