samhw

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by samhw 5y ago
If you genuinely understood me as saying that, then I should clarify, to be absolutely foolproof: That is not what I'm saying. I'm talking about having a compiler which could produce more optimal code in any given case, or most gi
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you were placing the emphasis on what the code was doing, rather than where it was being piped. But why do you think that most of the possible optimisations would only be relevant if the output were
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by samhw 5y ago
> none of the participants in the financial system have ever been interested in designing a financial system I agree to some extent with the view that we should see systems as emergent phenomena arising from countless participants none o
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by samhw 5y ago
And so what? That's what this code does, and so a compiler should be able to generate the optimal assembly. Why would a compiler need to consider something that the code in question is not doing ?
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by samhw 5y ago
> Compilers, as long as the machine code is equivalent to the source code their output can be wildly different I don't understand what this means: the output of a compiler is the machine code from the source code, no? Also, Rust u
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by samhw 5y ago
I think their point is that C is sufficiently close to assembler that you know exactly what assembly any given line of C will produce. This is an old canard which is not really true ( https://zenhack.net/2015/08/02&
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by samhw 5y ago
For the record, it's not the anti-Rust sentiment which people find annoying, it's the treatment of programming languages as though they were football teams. If you want to make a case against Rust, then let's get concrete: w
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by samhw 5y ago
> It's fully capable of answering 98% of exam questions. What does this even mean? Is there some dataset of all exam questions? And to what standard is it capable of answering them? Do you have a source to substantiate any of this?
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by samhw 5y ago
GPT-3 (and almost certainly also GPT-4) is not going to be capable of solving exam questions. I think you've got a radically exaggerated view of what it's capable of. It's a tool for generating roughly coherent text given a p
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by samhw 5y ago
> Since when was a single digit of 3% (and declining) a 'sizeable share' of the market? That site is counting mobile browsers too, which eat up a lot of market share. It's 3.9% (so more like 4% than 3%) counting mobile, an
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by samhw 5y ago
I can definitely see her as that specific type of insecure person who chooses someone like that because they feel they deserve the punishment. It reminds me a little of Nastasya Filippovna, from the Idiot: > No, no; we'd better say
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by samhw 5y ago
> Firefox isn't very stable for non-tech people What does this mean?
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by samhw 5y ago
This kind of response is just mystifying to me. You can see for yourself that Firefox has a sizeable share of the market, so clearly it is "a serious alternative" and is not "irrelevant". What's the point in makin
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by samhw 5y ago
It's not viable to maintain an open source browser without a large team of engineers. Chromium would likely die if Google abandoned it.
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I found it quite sweet. I usually hate Intercom-style 'conversational' popups, but props to the author - he's made it unique and endearing enough that I would definitely have signed up if I were a front-end dev.
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, I'm sorry, I hadn't heard of this. I don't necessarily agree with your political opinions, but I agree that it feels inappropriate to spend Mozilla Foundation funds (which I gather are 98% donated money) on anything other
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by samhw 5y ago
Fair enough, I didn't mean to be too nasty. He has a right to his opinions, even if I consider them by turns a menace to society (in the vax case) and not terribly enlightened (in the gay marriage case, considering I'm gay myself)
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by samhw 5y ago
> Mozilla, which is super steeped in SF social justice culture (see the antics of their CEO) Who do you mean? The only Mozilla CEO I can remember being involved in any controversy was Brendan Eich, and that controversy was over his fundi
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by samhw 5y ago
> On average if I was charged 20$ a month for anonomised technical search services then I am fairly confident that they would be making more money than if I just ad-block everything like I currently do. You should check out Gigablast ( h
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by samhw 5y ago
> Actually, the source can lie since the compiler could be buggy. The disassembly won't ... ...unless the disassembler is buggy.
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by samhw 5y ago
> What about the practise of Civil forfeiture? That's not a feature of a particular monetary system, it's a US-specific legal doctrine governing any kind of property.
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by samhw 5y ago
I think the problem is that the current nature of Bitcoin and its community is so silly, and so far from what it was intended to be, that it blinds people to its real potential. It is a good implementation of digital cash which could solv
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by samhw 5y ago
And his comment was referring to: > in the golden crypto universe that every follower dreams of, every text, transaction, breath, thought, all exists on the blockchain Bitcoin is necessarily, explicitly inefficient, by virtue of being an
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by samhw 5y ago
Vitess is basically a sharding layer on top of MySQL nodes, so yes, it will almost certainly retain whatever MySQL warts you dislike. It's clustered MySQL - not simply a different database speaking the same dialect, like CockroachDB is
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by samhw 5y ago
I suspect you're probably right about this. I'm not suggesting that the people in those positions are impassioned white supremacists or anything like that - they may well be liberals or even anti-racists, but still retaining an un
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by samhw 5y ago
Sorry, I was joking: 'in my personal understanding of the descriptive facts', referring back to that second definition of 'opinion' earlier in the comment.
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by samhw 5y ago
Personally I think the mistake is to see it as a layer on top of HTTP, in any sense other than as a hack to make it work with web browsers (using POST /graphql as a poor man's plain old IP address or hostname). In conceptual terms
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by samhw 5y ago
> Also yes, overdraft fees are truly disgusting. What's worse is that there are transactions that can bypass "overdraft protection". Totally agree. I used to work in the lending team at a UK bank. Someone on my team was on
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by samhw 5y ago
In fairness, 'opinion' is a horrendously vague and ill-defined word. It does double duty as (i) 'normative value' and (ii) 'personal understanding of the descriptive facts', which two senses are constantly conf
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, this 'blameless' ethos has definitely trickled down from FAANG to decently-sized decently-reputed places I've worked at - and certainly to #EngTwitter. I think it's a bit over-applied in some cases. Does it not c

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