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by sgift 2y ago
For someone not from the US: From the second point I understand that the SAT is not the only thing used to decide who gets in? So, it's not "we have 100 slots this year, the 100 best get in"? What else is used?
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by sgift 2y ago
The preprocessing that you need is (in Lucene nomenclature, but it's the same principle for search in general) an Analyzer (the component, which knows to prepare the plain text that gets inside for storing it in an index and the corres
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by sgift 2y ago
You make it sound as if being logged in to github is somehow a big hurdle. It's free and it's easy, so why should one care if it's only available to logged in users?
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by sgift 2y ago
Personally, I'd rather vote 120fps and 4k as gimmick. If I had to choose between Raytracing or 120fps? Always Raytracing.
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by sgift 2y ago
"Full RT" means the game uses 100% raytracing for rendering (in some mode), which currently needs still far too much power to be a mainstream thing and is only added in a few games to show the prowess of the engine (IIRC a review
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by sgift 2y ago
It's his name. Which other name should they have used?
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by sgift 3y ago
Embarrassing. I really thought we had incorporated Unterschleißheim into Munich ages ago. And I live here .. oh well. Thanks for the correction!
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by sgift 3y ago
They always stated that it won't be cheaper. That was not the intention. The main point was that Munich saw an opportunity to leave a monopoly for an option with competition. When the LiMux decision was made Munich had to change their
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by sgift 3y ago
The link is just about a move from one part of Munich to another (MS German HQ has always been in Munich). From what I remember it was more that we had a coalition with the CSU for four years and unsurprisingly, the moment conservatives wer
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by sgift 3y ago
> Those data centers are easily converted to green energy. Energy which could be used for other things. I don't say it's bad to use power for AI, but just saying "well, it's green energy anyway" is short-sighted
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by sgift 3y ago
Yes, but gangs mostly hit normal people and normal people don't pay big bribes. The entertainment industry does.
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by sgift 3y ago
> The complaint alleges that Bechtolsheim "knew or was reckless in not knowing" that the information he was given was non-public There is a (small) possibility that he really didn't know (the second part of the complaint),
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by sgift 3y ago
> To go into opinion, I'm heavily leaning towards the "ideology" explanation Yes, it's that. The usual slogan for that can be roughly translated "The government is not the better entrepreneur" ("Die Pol
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by sgift 3y ago
> You cannot dismiss something as "propaganda" or with a reason "Putin said so". If provided without evidence? Yes, you can. What's presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. > Everybody kno
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by sgift 3y ago
And the US (and other countries) authorities which allowed Mercedes Self-Driving Level 3 did too? Sounds more like reddit bullshit to me.
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by sgift 3y ago
IMHO there's reason to believe that was what was discussed here plays a role in that decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592689 - namely NVidia trying to forbid such APIs.
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by sgift 3y ago
I didn't link a video, I linked an article.
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by sgift 3y ago
Why Tesla? Why not Mercedes, who have shown real self-driving (e.g. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/future-driving-hands-off-eye... ) in specific environments, unlike FSD, which cannot self-drive? Or Waymo with their se
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by sgift 3y ago
"known-bad" ... defined by you? Cause if the best & brightest did it (in this case SETI@Home) it seems they disagree with that categorization.
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by sgift 3y ago
None of that is jailing for a political belief . You mix beliefs and actions .
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by sgift 3y ago
> You can be jailed for your political beliefs throughout most of Europe. Uh ... since when?
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by sgift 3y ago
Agreed. Sure, you can expand it with PACELC, but the important part is that you have something which starts the conversation/thinking about the fact that distributed systems have specific requirements and challenges. And CAP is suffici
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by sgift 3y ago
"Want to tell how to live" - what a bullshit way to read the GP comment. People starved, others tried to help them not to starve. They didn't "tell them how to live". If Mongols want to live like before and starve,
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by sgift 3y ago
> And instead of helping to build a place for Palestinians to live, they kept them under direct military occupation until 2005, then under blockade plus air raids (in retaliation for Palestinian attacks, but usually ending up with a 10:1
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by sgift 3y ago
Yes, and if you look up the rules of war you will see that if you base your operations there the enemy is allowed to attack it. Besides a desire to not kill your civilian population that's another reason countries don't do that. B
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by sgift 3y ago
It's quite simple: If you want something which is a part of me - especially one that's uniquely identifying - you better are a) part of the state of my country and b) have a pretty good reason for it. Neither of these two is ful
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by sgift 3y ago
I find it good that no one until now provided this bullshit lie as context. The "we need it to be closed for it to be safe" claptrap is the same reasoning people used for feudalism: You see, only certain people are great enough to
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by sgift 3y ago
Yes, but you are arguing against something I never stated. My point stands: The communist countries had aspects which worked better. And I haven't seen anyone (besides tankies) seriously stating "let's go back to the UDSSR an
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by sgift 3y ago
Romania is also a highly biased example based on Ceaușescus personal decisions on how a country should be run. Which shows my original point: Even within the communist countries you can find difference and things which worked better or wors
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by sgift 3y ago
Same reason why it took companies very long until they were ready to accept OSS. "But who can we sue if something doesn't work?" - at the end of the day it's always about someone being responsible. And if people can make

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