rancur

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by rancur 11y ago
the ability to grasp is more valuable than the knowledge though-- this is why my alma mater didn't really worry too much about making the material digesting us. not joking. Frankly, it makes my degree more valuable
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by rancur 11y ago
lol
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by rancur 11y ago
hey would have sold it as a memory upgrade if it had one. additionally, the phone has enough other features to get people to upgrade that more RAM would be giving something away for nothing. When they run out of ideas, they'll add more
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by rancur 11y ago
Someone please make someone stop using large fonts on my phone that are hard and slow to read
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by rancur 11y ago
>specs I'm just glad I can still laugh at Apple users for only having 1GB RAM. and they can still laugh at me for even needing more than 1GB RAM.
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by rancur 11y ago
next is iMortgage
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by rancur 11y ago
ok, so in the next software update when it slows way way down
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by rancur 11y ago
good points, thank you for the clarification
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by rancur 11y ago
yes. I'm suggesting the capacity trained and required to write safe-C is the same capacity applied to, e.g., higher level functions of your mind-- such as conceiving of, not developing, but conceiving of some of the performant optimiza
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by rancur 11y ago
proofs are different from unit testing, right?
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by rancur 11y ago
do you know enough about low-level computer architecture to speculate if mild-to-moderate changes would be warranted in things like, e.g., cache sizes on CPUs? Branch prediction was implemented on generalizations drawn in research papers an
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by rancur 11y ago
> while not exploding in your face like C not a fan of C++ but I personally think having to wade through the building blocks of C was an immensely valuable reverse turing test (ability of human to exhibit human-like behavior? apparently
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by rancur 11y ago
one of the design goals of rust is to design the language in such a way that they're simply not possible. I thought it was a new FOTM language but after reading a bit more about it I'm very excited for its future. That said, I wis
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by rancur 11y ago
> proofs do I need to have functional experience for exposure to that? Only thing you listed that I haven't heard of.
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by rancur 11y ago
> "programming in Rust" * what kind of animal should it have on the front? * will it tell me 8 different, confusing, obsfucated ways to do something that would be much faster with printf? * will it do that in chapter 1? * ??? *
46.
by rancur 11y ago
haha. sigh...
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by rancur 11y ago
prejudice like this is, I feel, a little easier to filter, because it's so obvious and in your face. Much more dangerous is the subtle, nonchalant shrug of the shoulders at the suffering of other members of humanity; the faces with mus
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by rancur 11y ago
can you open that up more? I'm skeptical. Which instructions?
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by rancur 11y ago
might be 5.0 mem leak issues and general bugs
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by rancur 11y ago
> Still, Samsung is here to samsung things up 3rd time I've laughed with more than 60% intensity at something I read on the internet in the last 2 years. thank you!!! hahahaaha for reference, my last 100% laugh that returned me to t
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by rancur 11y ago
you know, considering I manage with 300GB / month I don't see why I should need 200MB for each website. Just keep it serialized and compressed until I need it.
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by rancur 11y ago
it's too late. I have 32GB now
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by rancur 11y ago
> potentially dangerous worldview those tools are the same freaks that make Chrome take 150MB-200MB per Tab and ruined my perfectly usable 8GB-RAM system in a matter of 2 years.
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by rancur 11y ago
I'm really surprised this is so new. I'm only beginning to enter the field and falling asleep the other night one of my thoughts was 'why doesn't the GC happen piecemeal?' AKA 'who said we have to collect every
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by rancur 11y ago
any benchmarks on this? this will be the next game I upgrade my GPU for
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by rancur 11y ago
> might have to mingle with kids from less fortunate upbringing considering how much damage this has done to my own vision, focus, and inspiration; I don't have the slightest bit of problem with this. I'm well out of university
57.
by rancur 11y ago
so does this mean in a year I can make use of my free upgrade and then install a nice prepackaged something that will kill it's capacity to spy on me?
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by rancur 11y ago
subpoena?
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by rancur 11y ago
> the plaintiff had suffered any harm from the data collection so you have to prove you've suffered harm from the removal of your rights? They're called rights and the country was founded on protecting them because they're
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by rancur 11y ago
well, like most apps, I'd rather use a webbrowser, than something specific than something that takes memory to run it's own instance of. lol

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