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by seppel 7y ago
> Discuss the result with a few cryptographers he trusts, to check whether he didn't make a mistake Well, what kinds of mistakes can you make? Either it works or it doesnt. You (and everyone else) can verify that easily. (It might n
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by seppel 7y ago
> With TDD, writing unit tests accompanies writing code - which in itself necessities thinking in terms of testability I, as a user of your software, only care about the feature, and that the feature works. I don't care about testab
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by seppel 7y ago
While I agree that this is hard to implement with a type system, I never want to see this implemented as a unit test. What you describe is a real use case that I personally want to have tested on a real system with all the stuff in place (b
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by seppel 7y ago
I'm referring to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20224097
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by seppel 7y ago
> That being said, I don't think it takes that much energy to remember that the right is the good value. And then clever guys come and use left as the good value, because then want to retry on error (as you can see in this thread).
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by seppel 7y ago
Which are errors that you don't expect but you think you still can handle gracefully? I'm not a fan of exceptions but curious where you draw the line.
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by seppel 7y ago
I totally get where you coming from, and even in non GC'd languages such as C++ lifetimes are extended (or not...) when you break down expression. However, I also strongly perfer to give these subexpressions names. That tremendously he
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by seppel 7y ago
That a good point. But a huge part of the GDP increase is an increase in efficiency, i.e., you can do more with less energy. A 2019 computer would cost a totally different price in 2009, and would be infeasible expensive in 1999. But if you
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by seppel 7y ago
> Or maybe you're saying that if we trace back costs into the economy, from the workers, to the grocery stores where they buy their food, to the farmers, etc. etc., it all eventually comes back to energy. Yes. Of course, this is gre
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by seppel 7y ago
My personal pet theory is that the energy consumption is more or less equivalent to the price. So as long as the solar panel is not economically viable, it does not provide an energy surplus. 20MWh is not much, it's $500-$3000 worth of
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by seppel 7y ago
I find this page very annoying. Instead of presenting the core of the theory (maybe some maths?), it has happy pictures and fell good text. But even after reading the Wikipedia article, I'm no wiser.
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by seppel 7y ago
He seems to be somewhere on the schizophrenia spectrum, or at least susceptible to conspiracy theories. But he presents his theories in a logically consistant way, or lets say at least in a way that it can be checked whether it is logically
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by seppel 7y ago
In Germany, free lunch is a taxable income. It might explain the difference between full and part time employees. How does it look like in your payslip?
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by seppel 7y ago
There are many CS conferences where you can/should submit a VM image to reproduce the results. See, e.g.: http://cavconference.org/2018/artifact-submission-and-evalua...
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by seppel 8y ago
Bahn.de is remarkable. You can search for Paris->Beijing if you want(202h with one change or 173h with three changes). Or you can look up the train schedule of a remote Scotish villages.
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by seppel 8y ago
$38 billion sounds like a big number, but there are a couple of sources online that claim that Americans eat about 50 billion burgers per year: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-hidden-costs-of-ham... So ev
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by seppel 8y ago
> And the price per square meter in Zurich is twice higher than in Berlin, making the difference in salary neglectable. Housing is more expensive in Zürich than in Berlin. That's accepted but already was factored in: You will pay a
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by seppel 8y ago
> And again, assuming people are spending their entire income is completely ridiculous. Indeed. This only applies to low income households. If you are a software engeneer, COL no longer matters that much, because you only spend maybe a t
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by seppel 8y ago
> How? Because everything costs twice as much in Zurich. Electronics/Computer stuff does not cost twice as much in Zürich, cars do not cost twice as much, and your vacation does not cost twice as much. Saving money cost the same as
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by seppel 8y ago
> The same will go for robots. the form factor of improving human strength doesn't really benefit from changing the strength to weight ratio, it benefits from scaling both. Yes, to lift 10t, you need the material and support to lif
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by seppel 8y ago
> Do games really rely on the rounding behaviors of floats to not break? Seems like there should always be plenty of margin around that. But maybe something does a loop with these instructions over and over and the error compounds? I rem
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by seppel 8y ago
European salaries are also before taxes (which are higher), retirement saving, healthcare, and other deductions. In Germany, e.g., you have to deduct from 60k EUR salary roughly the following: 13k taxes, 4k healthcare (your employer has to
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by seppel 8y ago
> So rarely do you hear them say "Dammit, yet another S curve! Why is it always an S curve in the end!?!" Kurzweil's books and articles are full of this, see, e.g.: http://www.kurzweilai.net/seeing-the-s-cu
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by seppel 8y ago
They are claiming this, because there are some hard evidences that this is the case (and also it makes logical sense): Each technological breakthrough accelerates (quite often) research in all other areas. Think about the invention of speec
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by seppel 8y ago
> Nature prefers sigmoids over exponentials anyway, so it’s basically always unrealistic to predict things getting exponentially different unless you have really good priors to let you predict when that sigmoid necks over. I'm prett
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by seppel 8y ago
Gaming consoles have encrypted RAM for more than a decade.
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by seppel 8y ago
No, in fact they had two self-cleaning cupboards.
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by seppel 8y ago
My sentence did not end at the point. You cannot change the ratio without specifically looking at the gender, that is, specifically hire more of one group (because of their gender) and less of the other group (because of their gender).
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by seppel 8y ago
> It has mass, so it by definition interacts with anything with mass? Yeah, but the only interaction is gravity. And nothing that clumps these particles together (such as the electro-magnetic force for ordinary matter). > Are these pa
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by seppel 8y ago
> You just need to increase the size of the funnel. If you were going to interview 100 people, interview 150. Then you are not in the "lowering the standards" part but in the "discriminating against men" part. You ca

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