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by sempron64 3y ago
I think the pushback against Voter ID laws is ridiculous, but not allowing the disenfranchised to use a computer is ridiculously dystopian.
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by sempron64 3y ago
A lot of pain comes from OS apis which are not supported in the standard library, like graphics, audio, and media. These inevitably need libraries and frameworks to work cross-platform.
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by sempron64 3y ago
Particularly regarding parsing: Here's an excerpt from an interview with Anders Hjelsberg I heard recently. He's the creator of the Turbo Pascal compiler and later on of the creators of C#. https://www.aarthiandsriram.c
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by sempron64 3y ago
I’d be very upset if my dishwasher broke every 5th time I used it. And in that scenario I’d much rather wash the dishes by hand. Probably the same for my clothes vs. the washer. If it takes 10 minutes to boot my computer, log into 10 SSOs w
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by sempron64 3y ago
The problem with a careful but non-methodical approach is that it requires the programmer to correctly determine the stability value of their design. We often overestimate the importance of architecture on stability, or worse, architect som
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by sempron64 3y ago
krunker.io has done something really impressive in this space. I’d love to learn how their engine works and how it loads so fast.
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by sempron64 3y ago
It’s not backwards, high speed rail was invented in the 60s with the shinkansen, about the same time as the modern airliner.
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by sempron64 3y ago
Who pays the moderators of all the major subreddits?
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by sempron64 3y ago
There is no direct bridge or tunnel between Manhattan and Staten Island, only a ferry. Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn via the Verrazano Bridge.
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by sempron64 3y ago
I wonder if the apple vr headset is just a way to get people to visit their stores and buy something else
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by sempron64 3y ago
I remember when I was a kid and someone's mom worked at a book store when Harry Potter came out...
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by sempron64 3y ago
(Before you talk about homeowner’s associations restricting decoration: they are the problem, not the homes. I live somewhere without one)
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by sempron64 3y ago
Having lived in an affordable apartment and a house I don’t understand how living in a rented box in a building which you have no right to significantly modify is less cookie-cutter than owning a home which you can renovate and decorate to
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by sempron64 3y ago
The notion of shutting down all improvements due to fear of induced demand is ridiculous. Let's also stop building sewage systems because of induced demand and all defecate on the ground. It will reduce water use and be good for the en
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by sempron64 3y ago
The first tunnel of this kind is of interest also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloam_tunnel
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by sempron64 3y ago
I do! Do you know someone who's hiring?
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by sempron64 4y ago
New York is going backwards on climate by shutting nuclear generation. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/nyregion/indian-point-pow... For context, the South Fork wind farm in this article is slated to
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by sempron64 4y ago
The question is how do you fix that situation?
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by sempron64 4y ago
Is this enough to reconstruct the brain for simulation?
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by sempron64 4y ago
Anecdotally, their actual search results have sucked for me. For example, I searched for “narrowest cars with 6 or more seats”, and Bing’s results were terrible and irrelevant. The AI version gave me some acceptable results but very few. Go
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ChatGPT can compress its own prompts(twitter.com)
2 points by sempron64 4y ago|3 comments
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by sempron64 4y ago
Yes, I know talented engineers from several companies that were laid off simply due to being unlucky enough to have ended up on the “wrong” project
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by sempron64 4y ago
Apologies for the lack of clarity, I was addressing just this sentence in the parent > That would require greater than 50% taxation, which isn’t realistic at all in the United States. My point is that higher than 50% total taxation on a
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by sempron64 4y ago
The top federal income tax bracket is 37% and the top California tax bracket is 12.2%. This is for income exceeding 500k. So disregarding local taxes and property taxes, in California most of this income would be taxed at 49.2%.
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by sempron64 4y ago
What about a dangerous situation like a criminal trying to enter the vehicle where the right response is to avoid them and drive away?
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by sempron64 4y ago
I would say that “normal” people are doing very well compared to last year as labor demand and wage rises at the low end are high, energy prices and food prices have come down, and housing is crashing in many areas. The upper middle class (
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by sempron64 4y ago
ChromeOS was a game-changer too.
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by sempron64 4y ago
Classic case of the pot calling the kettle black re: the Binance/FTX feud
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by sempron64 4y ago
All this requires to be true is that basically all Americans who are in a car weekly turn on the radio when driving, which is very believable. Some people also still have a radio in the kitchen of course.
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by sempron64 4y ago
It’s hard to say it’s a failed policy when we have no evidence against the null hypothesis, which is global nuclear war.

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