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by samhw 5y ago
That's fair enough - my bad. I wouldn't perceive it as an insult, but I can see that it's widely treated as such.
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by samhw 5y ago
And what exactly did he post on Twitter to 'try to overthrow the country'? I'm not a Trump supporter in the slightest – I think he's a ridiculous buffoon – but I loathe even more the politicisation of truth, and the idea
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by samhw 5y ago
Likewise, I'm also not a Trump fan and also not American (I'm British), but the American centre-left perspective on the Jan 6 riots is utterly ridiculous. It's yet more predictable histrionics from the bored suburban housewiv
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by samhw 5y ago
Ahhh, mea culpa, thanks for the correction. I can't edit my comment any longer - it looks like HN limits edits to a ~2hr window – but I would have if I could.
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by samhw 5y ago
> Remember, if you call something crap, you're probably doing it close to the person who is responsible for it being crap. I got bitten by this once. It turns out there's a variable φ(crap) representing the amount of time you h
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't think anyone can doubt that it's likely to be predictive of success. There are sheafs of papers on that: e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/ , though that paper also di
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by samhw 5y ago
Hmm, I don't think that's true. I score incredibly highly on the 'verbal IQ' segment of the test, and anecdotally I seem to give people the impression of intelligence, but in the mathematical segment of the test I score
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by samhw 5y ago
It doesn't always mean what it looks like it means, FWIW. The dad of one of my close friends defaulted on a £600m loan, essentially 'strategically' in order to play hardball, and it got reported by lots of newspapers as if he
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by samhw 5y ago
> If they don't have access to the accompanying source code, it is an inferior product. I agree with the overarching preference for GPL over MIT, but this point is one of the most insular HN-bubble comments I've seen since the
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by samhw 5y ago
> I'm not even slightly convinced they care at all about most of the people in their empire either (unless said empire is excluding non-apple devs) I'm not quite sure they care about Apple devs either: https://news.y
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by samhw 5y ago
It's not exactly much when DaoCloud Network Technologies Co. Ltd., a company which doesn't even have a website , beats them by almost 2x. For them to put it above WebKit - an incredibly important technology which they did build
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by samhw 5y ago
It's ridiculous that this utterly obvious joke is being downvoted. I'm amazed -- and I say this kindly, as someone with Asperger's -- at the aggregate autism level on this site.
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by samhw 5y ago
As someone who once did the same thing to attempt to strengthen the type system in Go, I offer you my endless sympathy...
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by samhw 5y ago
What I especially detest is the implication that if you disagree with Twitter's banning Trump, then you must be a Trump supporter. It's the epitome of the "first they came for X" strategy. I can disagree with Trump, and
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by samhw 5y ago
> Unless otherwise expressly permitted in writing by Cloudflare , you will not and you have no right to: [...] (f) perform or publish any benchmark tests or analyses relating to the Services without Cloudflare’s written consent This - I
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by samhw 5y ago
It's worth adding that I agree with the main point that software should be fun, and Easter eggs should be allowed. I'd just prefer to argue for it on the grounds that (a) it's possible to make software fun without making it d
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by samhw 5y ago
I really dislike this ubiquitous attitude: > My X broke while doing Y. > Well, you shouldn't be doing Y with X. That's the real problem. What does it matter? If people are doing Y with X, and you as the author of X can impro
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by samhw 5y ago
I think the issue is exactly that: 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ). If you don't specifically optimise for Lighthouse, a
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by samhw 5y ago
> To be a monopoly, your industry has to matter a lot. This is not a part of anyone's definition of 'monopoly', ever. Monopoly means dominance in a particular market - nothing more, nothing less: https://en.wiki
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by samhw 5y ago
My point, again, is about having a compiler that can produce more optimal code than existing compilers (and whether there's a theoretical upper bound preventing them from more closely approaching the handwritten assembly in this case
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I'm so tired of this trend. Vanity Fair has gone absolutely mad - the tone of some of their articles is wild: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/ivanka-trump-jared-k... And it's not even
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, thank you for a really interesting reply. I appreciate it. > One of the primary optimizations is using vm_splice to avoid memory copies. vm_splice only works if the file descriptor is a pipe. Thanks - I hadn't actually read the
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by samhw 5y ago
> Nobody has ever taken the "god's eye view" with the intent to be nice. I second what the other guy said: this is an interesting point. But I'd also second the point about not knowing their intent (more with Bretton
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by samhw 5y ago
It's entirely dumb. She was fired by the company she contracted for, not by Google. No Google employee had any involvement in that decision. The sole reason that the word 'Google' is attached to this article - and to her comp
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by samhw 5y ago
100%. This reminds me of the Google AI kerfuffle with whatshername. For a certain kind of person, "I just questioned company policy" tends to mean "I was an insufferable sanctimonious raging asshole to everyone involved, beca
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by samhw 5y ago
Thank you. I totally agree. It's absolutely exhausting to read journalism which is endlessly hammering you with the value judgements you're meant to make. Just give me the facts, and I can do the opinions myself.
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by samhw 5y ago
Eh, I find this tone policing more aversive than the actual comment. As a lighthearted joke it's fine IMO - preferable to reading a whole thread of everyone telling each other off, as though we were on Twitter.
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by samhw 5y ago
Well akshually... Gell-Mann amnesia is the opposite of what they described (though it's probably still what they had in mind). It's the tendency to read reportage about something on which you're an expert, realise how wildl
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by samhw 5y ago
I second this - thanks for building this. It's an unbelievably inspiring achievement. It's my default search engine, and I'm really glad it exists.
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by samhw 5y ago
> You get different machine code using different compilers on identical pieces of source code. Ah, right - well I'm certainly not denying that. (I'm familiar with the topic, to be clear: I've written compilers. I just wasn

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