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by rf15 9y ago
Can I contribute without being an US citizen? It seems to be an US-internal issue, but considering that most of the net belongs to the US, this might actually be a far more global question than is legally coverable/definable by US law.
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by rf15 9y ago
Actually disagreeing with the author here: As someone who did a bit of OpenGL/GLSL in their spare time building a game engine, I think it's not that arcane. You will have to come across the basic rendering pipeline pretty quickly
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by rf15 9y ago
No, the point is: The sphere doesn't care if you can prove if it is a sphere or not, it stays a sphere. If you CAN TELL if it is (or not) is a different matter entirely, so it doesn't work that you say "if and only if it is p
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by rf15 9y ago
There's also a hurdle in having to work through the wildly varying notational and structural views/tastes of the individuals who created their specific categories/theories (biggest problem at least for me - while programming
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by rf15 9y ago
No, it's like saying it is round "if and only if" we can prove that it is round.
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by rf15 9y ago
Remember that getting medication doesn't necessarily mean that there's actually something wrong with you when prescribing medications has a positive effect on your doctor's income.
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by rf15 9y ago
Seems too abstract to be of value to people who are looking to improve themselves.
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by rf15 9y ago
don't remind me that people actually believe that you can infer the existence of a simulation only with data points that are created and controlled by it.
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by rf15 9y ago
good comparison, sure sounds like entanglement in parts
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by rf15 9y ago
True. I also like the implication that we have another proof against T-symmetry.
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by rf15 9y ago
This would allow us to predict the future and potentially allow for time travel as well. Seems unlikely from the implications alone, but let's see what peer review of the details will tell us.
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by rf15 9y ago
Counterpoint: Breadth. (...Don't polarize on one end of the Specialist vs Generalist debate.) Since improvement of experience and quality of output is roughly logarithmic, it is (depending on the specialisation of the task at hand) bet
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by rf15 9y ago
> You assume a company should be all serious. Except nothing about this is funny, and if you think it is, it only shows how detached you are from reality and humanity. It's like casual racism.
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by rf15 9y ago
You should not operate a linux server without great familiarity. (well, at least not one commercial success/survival depends on)
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by rf15 9y ago
hmmm, I somewhat agree. Also probably plays on a similar line as "good programming tools have to be cli-based, and GUI is for lowly users"
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by rf15 9y ago
Fair criticism. On the other hand, if we're going down this road of argumentation: I am renewable.
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by rf15 9y ago
My entire joke is unnecessary layers of interpretation/abstraction that is either run live (THREE INTERPRETED BYTECODE STAGES!) or transpiled/compiled through. i.e. too much bullshit that is guaranteed to slow down your app sign
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by rf15 9y ago
Well, it's always a tradeof, isn't it? Manual memory management gives you greater freedom and performance, with added risks. That being said, performance is what you want when it comes to low level layers that other layers have to
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by rf15 9y ago
I feel your pain, learned with NeHe and then went on to GLES/Android graphics...just to learn that everything is different. Now though, I see why: while the "old" way was to talk to the statemachine with loads of tiny CPU ins
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by rf15 9y ago
I know. It just has so much potential to create awful endless abstraction stacks.
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by rf15 9y ago
you could do something like V8 in wasm, sure, but.....think about this for a bit: in chrome, you already have V8 as a native implementation, without the overhead of wasm -> cpu instructions. nothing would be gained. You would need to do
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by rf15 9y ago
Can we all solemnly swear that we will never port the JRE to webassembly? Please? I mean, it's ridiculous to have Java Assembly -> WebAssembly -> CPU Assembly. Actually.... this is missing some more abstraction layers, like a pre
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by rf15 9y ago
I don't think it is that easy. These languages rely a lot on the underlying Javascript features and how they work, like objects, strings, etc. - browsers had a long time to optimise JS interpretation on the level beyond primitive value
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by rf15 9y ago
point taken
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by rf15 9y ago
> reconsider They will not reconsider unless it hurts them more than when they don't act this ruthless. Therefore: needs a heavier fine still :D Crime and exploiting monopolies must not pay.
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by rf15 9y ago
> ~9% to ~13% from 2002 to 2013[1] that's 4% in 11 years, basically flatlining compared to other countries.
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by rf15 9y ago
I wish this would actually do something, though I am happy that another verdict has been passed. (cue "the market will regulate itself")
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by rf15 9y ago
> It has changed from a high-level language to an assembly language just like C and Java. Neither C nor Java are assembly languages. What are you trying to express here? > No matter how much you like C or Java or Javascript, it is alw
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by rf15 9y ago
Suffering from the same problem, though it happens to me even in written exams - doing something for the sole purpose of being judged makes me incredibly uncomfortable, and I'm happy to be out of school/university and just have a
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by rf15 9y ago
> 9. Make decisions based on max skill, not average or min skill This is a strict specialist search - here, too you should make a decision depending on your requirements and future outlook: Do you need a generalist that can branch out an

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