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by sedachv 10y ago
> As you correctly outlined, V8 is indeed transitioning to a world with an interpreter+optimizing compiler only. ECL and CLISP both settled on this model. CLISP started out as a bytecode interpreter and added GNU Lightning for native cod
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by sedachv 10y ago
+1. Someone mentioned the Los Angeles Staples Center elsewhere in this thread as a positive example. I live in South Park (the neighborhood that Staples Center is part of) and it is either empty or gridlocked. Same thing with the Coliseum,
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Not enough realistic businesses - there is no legitimate reason to be on the street, other than wanting to 'hang out' in public spaces. What's wrong with that? "Hanging out" is what public places are for.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> As another anecdote, I personally posted a huge list of AWK one-liners 20 years ago to Usenet (comp.lang.awk) and I can't even retrieve that message. That's just pure ASCII text (probably less than 2k) and even the Google Gro
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by sedachv 10y ago
Who is advocating for this besides you? Current Apple displays are some of the worst computer displays ever when it comes to fingerprints and grime - they would have to get rid of glass. I have been using an X60 for about five years and hav
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by sedachv 10y ago
+1. Direct compilation is simpler and faster than layering everything. Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote a great tutorial to "show that building a compiler can be as easy as building an interpreter": http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago
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by sedachv 10y ago
Matlab/Octave is an array programming language. You are supposed to use array and matrix operations. If you are using a for loop you are writing Matlab code wrong.
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by sedachv 10y ago
A friend of mine pointed out that Reagan's administration had attempted to shut down the EPA using the same tactics as Trump's administration is doing now: http://www.cleanairwatch.org/2016/12/scott-pruit
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by sedachv 10y ago
> In terms of keytravel Lenovo laptops and Macbooks <2016 are much better. This is such a sad statement about the quality of today's laptop keyboards. Of the laptops I can remember using the keyboard on the Thinkpad 701C "bu
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by sedachv 10y ago
Replace "doctors" with "US health insurance companies" and you have a true statement.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> the results were negative so it was clearly a scam Great use of logic. I still do not understand why you are blaming the general practitioner clinic for referring you to a specialist. If you want same-day STD testing there are a lot of
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by sedachv 10y ago
> We have single player in Canada and it's even worse. Do you have any experience with the US medical system? I lived in Alberta for 7 years and in Quebec for 3 (important to note because it is hard to take you seriously since you d
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by sedachv 10y ago
Insurance companies trying to avoid paying doctors is exactly the problem - today, in order to get reimbursed to even break even doctors in the US are forced into overcharging: https://www.youtube.com/user/davidbelk46&#
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by sedachv 10y ago
That is the kind of prediction that people will look back on and say "I can't believe the hubris." MYCIN had better diagnostic performance than infectious disease experts by 1979 ( https://jamanetwork.com/journ
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by sedachv 10y ago
That is the fault of the United States health insurance industry blocking attempts at universal single-payer healthcare and turning Medicare into a privatization scam. Blaming the AMA for that is completely misguided.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Oh, absolutely. But they were unusual. Often kind of grumpy and a bit misanthropic. Stop projecting. Animal conservation was a hugely popular movement in the late 19th and early 20th century in the United States. John Muir and Guy Brad
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by sedachv 10y ago
> With recent developments in net neutrality and data plans, p2p could drastically impact my data plan and cost me money. The solution is to pressure your government to make net neutrality a law and vote with your dollars and use ISPs an
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by sedachv 10y ago
Cheap short-term (nightly to weekly) housing used to be all over the United States in the form of dormitories (YMCA was huge), SROs (single room occupancy), cage hotels, flophouses, and boarding houses. Because of zoning and building code c
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by sedachv 10y ago
I think it is valid to think in terms of expected value here, where value is negative (a loss), since there is a large volume of transactions so the law of large numbers will apply. Set a threshold of expected loss below which you will not
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by sedachv 10y ago
As Seen in Production™
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by sedachv 10y ago
Also fun are left-to-right and right-to-left marks.
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by sedachv 10y ago
There is also ses-mode (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet) that started shipping with Emacs since version 22.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> We're talking about getting paid something on the scale of millions of dollars here. I don't know about you, but most people I've met wouldn't keep working if they came into that kind of money, at least not the way
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by sedachv 10y ago
> i'll ignore rest and focus on 2x the body weight via deadlifts. for me this would mean doing 180kg (400 pound) deadlifts which most people simply never ever achieve with 2-3x/week routine (I am lean 188cm tall sporty guy). Mo
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Making your employees too prosperous can really hurt your company, because everyone will quit when there is no longer a financial imperative to work together. This is not a problem for law firms, medical practices, consultancies, inves
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by sedachv 10y ago
I see $100k USD being thrown around as a large salary in discussions, and compared to the median US household income it is. But people have been using this figure as a convenient anchor point in arguments for decades now, and if you look at
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by sedachv 10y ago
To provide some references for my assertion that "3d user interfaces are just not that effective for most applications," there are a lot of systems that have been tried in the 1990s and 2000s, most of which you can try out today t
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by sedachv 10y ago
The current crop of companies can experience something similar to the video game crash of 1983. I also agree that the "VR will change everything" hype is baseless - 3d user interfaces are just not that effective for most applicati
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Why do you think that VR requires Linux support to succeed? Virtual Reality systems need to support Linux because they need to be built around Free Software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-i
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by sedachv 10y ago
Right, and how many game developers are recommending to "never use virtual functions because they are slow" in 2017? I remember seeing statements like that in Usenet posts and articles from the 1990s.

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