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by shakow 5y ago
> Land mines seem to me to be terrorism Depends what you do with them. If you drop them everywhere for the fun factor, sure. If they are but a part of a fortification complex, they are neither better nor worse than other military ordinan
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by shakow 5y ago
Please don't quote me on that, as it was academic work in a given language and a given library and might not be representative of the whole ecosystem. But in a nutshell, on OK-ish CPUs (Xeons a few generations old), we started seeing p
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by shakow 5y ago
> Or is it lacking scalability in practice? Only speaking from my own little perspective in bioinformatics, lack of scalability above all else, both for BNNs and GPs. Sure, the library support could be better, but that was not the main h
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by shakow 5y ago
I'd rather argue that poverty only exists in societies developed enough to exhibit stark contrasts between individuals' estates. There was what we would perceive as poverty in e.g. the Roman Empire or Middle-Age Europe.
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by shakow 5y ago
> it seems they’ve done the heavy lifting The heavy lifting is the not-yet-done fine details in the 3D-models. Vaguely car-shaped blobs not even respecting the original general shape of the car (e.g. the Cobra or the Toyota SUV) but wit
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by shakow 5y ago
> they had been indoctrinated by propaganda that indicated horrific treatment by Allied POW personnel. Sources? I have never heard of that yet.
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by shakow 5y ago
But x86_64 ISA is smoke and mirrors; proof is the large increase in performances that can obtained when one is aware of these tricks.
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by shakow 5y ago
On modern CPU, byte-level addressing is but smoke and mirrors for what is a fetch of a line-sized memory chunk followed by a mask-and-shift.
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by shakow 5y ago
> and we're still using byte addressing most places Which is a masquerade in itself, as in the silicon, addressing works at the memory line level.
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by shakow 5y ago
> Was there something in particular you were looking for and didn't find? Unicode handling. Treating a string as a byte array is all fine and dandy if you're only processing english latin alphabet data, but it's a PITA as
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by shakow 5y ago
> As a consequence your website makes no money. At that point why run the website at all? Many European websites are now proposing users to either accept cookies or buy a subscription to the website. This looks like a very sane way to ad
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by shakow 5y ago
> then the banner isn't helping you avoid it. That's just plain false. I know many people, especially in the older, less technically literate people, who now systematically disable such analytics thanks to these banners – peopl
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by shakow 5y ago
> You need to have a cookie banner to have a third party provide ads No, you only need a cookie banner if those third parties collect data.
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by shakow 5y ago
> Want to have ads? Cookie banner. That's just wrong, you don't need a cookie banner for non-tracking ads.
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by shakow 5y ago
*tracking cookies First-party, non-tracking cookies do not require a cookie banner. I'm always flabbergaste how good the propaganda machines of ads agencies is that people are actively fighting protective measure on their behalf. Nihi
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by shakow 5y ago
I don't understand the hate toward cookie banners. It's like if the citizens of a surveillance state complained if civilian-dressed informants had to carry a big ugly sign. Sure, the sign is ugly and everywhere; but maybe the actu
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by shakow 5y ago
Why would they be designed toward women; don't millions of men buy their own underwears in your country?
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by shakow 5y ago
I disagree: video games do not have to converge on a single genre. Sometimes I feel energetic and ready for a brain challenge and I fire up Factorio, sometimes I want to play super-chess and I launch a Gary Grigsby game; sometimes I want to
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by shakow 5y ago
Don't read only the examples, but also the text between them ;)
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by shakow 5y ago
For me, as a mainly Linux user : - build quality ; - general characteristics (screen quality, weight, size factor, build materials); - power/battery life balance (the M1s are amazing); - can be mostly handled like a Lin
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by shakow 5y ago
I have my own system ( https://domovik.app/ , https://github.com/domovikapp/ ), which displays shared reading lists and remote tabs/bookmarks from all my browsers. It does not integrate other data so
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by shakow 5y ago
> I should note that in theory there is a gesture I saw referenced in the onboarding materials to go to the "next" page, but I never could figure out how to make it happen Either the author or their device has a big problem, be
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by shakow 5y ago
Yeah, I have no idea where the author found that. I have one on my desk right now (but no ruler unfortunately), and it stands somewhere between A4 and A5. Edit: according to A4/5 standards and Remarkable promotional content, it should
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by shakow 5y ago
Ah yes, Fermat articles, I hate them.
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by shakow 5y ago
Especially after de Perl5/6 debacle. The two separate languages solution let them have fun on Raku, all the while ensuring that Perl 5/7/... will preserve retrocompatibility.
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by shakow 5y ago
> Arguing that generics are in "the basics" is a little disingenuous, don't you think? Not really. Type polymorphism exists since the 70's, it still blows my mind that people consider that they are ‶too hard to unders
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by shakow 5y ago
You know, in sports, if you finally can complete the basics known for 5 decades after years of training, no one will praise you.
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by shakow 5y ago
CL is not really highly practical. The stdlib is not very coherent and lackluster in general (do I really need to import external code to split a string?), the commonly accepted package manager is in an eternal beta limbo, the whole QL&#x2F
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by shakow 5y ago
Says the guy talking about “idiopathic priapism” when referring to a language's adepts.
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by shakow 5y ago
According to your comment, there's reasonably no reason to replace our old asm/fortran codebases with better, more modern alternatives. Well, science goes forward one burial at a time, same goes for IT I guess.

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