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by simiones 3y ago
Not sure if you intended it this way, but it sounds like you believe that it's not a great thing that almost all traffic on the Internet is encrypted today, or that you think it would/will be good to have all computers on the Inte
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by simiones 3y ago
I don't think this is how these rulings worked. Most importantly, the only reason the courts decided Google wasn't in violation was that Google's purpose, providing a compatible re-implementation of Java for Android, constitu
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by simiones 3y ago
For all its size, Microsoft is generally horrendous at making their products available globally. For example, Xbox Live Gold / Xbox Game Pass only became available in all EU countries in February 2023 (previously, you could only access
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by simiones 3y ago
Has Wolfram ever done a short form interview?
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by simiones 3y ago
Even if HTTP/3 had gone the route of registering QUIC as a new transport protocol instead of UDP, I think it would have still been at least one or two orders of magnitude easier to deploy than IPv6 was (though still much harder than go
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by simiones 3y ago
Thanks for looking into the history! Interesting to see that this wrong-headed behavior has now been around in GCC for longer than the status quo before. Other compilers are different though - MSVC only seems to have started optimizing arou
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by simiones 3y ago
Compared to implementing the equivalent Iterator in Java, yes, the Go code is much simpler. But there are better solutions than Go's in several other languages - C#, Python, TypeScript, C++, even in Rust (experimentally). They all use
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by simiones 3y ago
Oh, now I understand what you mean - you're thinking of this as a way to do `for (T x : collection)` in Java. I see this as more like the `yield return` functions of C#, which I definitely wasn't expecting. That can of course also
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by simiones 3y ago
You find func Backward[E any](s []E) func(func(int, E) bool) { return func(yield func(int, E) bool) { for i := len(s)-1; i >= 0; i-- { if !yield(i, s[i]) { return } } }
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by simiones 3y ago
range-over-functions is the experimental new feature where a function can generate a sequence by executing a bit at a time, i.e. s := []string{"hello", "world"} for i, x := range slices.Backward(s) { fmt.Printl
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by simiones 3y ago
> We call this challenge 'the hard problem of consciousness'. The challenge for idealism is to explain (or explain away) the physical. However, there is no analogous 'hard problem of non-consciousness' (but the expla
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by simiones 3y ago
> it is impossible for naturalism to explain (or explain away) consciousness, and consciousness is real, therefore naturalism is false. That's my position. There isn't even the seed of an explanation given naturalism, and I thi
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by simiones 3y ago
> (side note: there is absolutely, undeniably, a correlation between brain states and mental states -- but that does not entail that mental states reduce to or are explained entirely by brain states) How does this make sense? There is so
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by simiones 3y ago
All languages that keep evolving get more complex over time. The changes are always intended to make programs written in the language simpler. Go moves at a pretty slow pace, adding only minor new features (and thus minor complications) in
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by simiones 3y ago
Even if the current INT_MIN were redefined to be a NaN or a trap, that would do almost nothing to prevent signed integer overflow bugs. Sure, INT_MAX + 1 would be an error, but INT_MAX+2, INT_MAX+100 and so on would still be equal to INT_MI
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by simiones 3y ago
I think most people log in to YouTube specifically so YouTube can see what they look at and show them more content like that and sync across their device, even when they don't have Premium. Yours is a tiny tiny niche use case, even amo
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by simiones 3y ago
To be fair, there were plenty of 3rd party YouTube clients on Windows Phone that they didn't block (I even payed for one). They only really didn't want an official YouTube app to exist on Windows Phone, and the same will likely be
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by simiones 3y ago
Conversely, if I spent $3.5k on a device, I'm not paying a cent more to watch YouTube on it.
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by simiones 3y ago
> It is crucial to a healthy democracy. And yet democracies predate the existence of digital anonimity by quite a few centuries (or at the very least decades, depending on how many slaves you accept in your definition of a "healthy
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by simiones 3y ago
It was fraud to write a letter without signing it?
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by simiones 3y ago
Sure, the actual difference in probability is minute, so it essentially has 0 predictive power. That is, statistics also tells us that P(n>50 | first ball is red) ~= P(n>50) ~= P(n<50) ~= P(n<50 | first ball is red). Of course,
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by simiones 3y ago
There are 9900 possibilities for the state of the urn after the first ball is picked: 1. n = 1, you can pick any of 99 green balls 2. n = 2, you can pick any of 98 green balls and a red ball 3. ... 100. n = 100, you can pick any of 99 remai
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by simiones 3y ago
You don't need to think in terms of information to get the right answer, you just need to be careful of the setup. You can easily apply frequentist probability reasoning and still get the right answer. You have to start from P(n > 5
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by simiones 3y ago
Honestly, I think VR games are already a bigger market than VR streaming apps. So I see more reason to invest in a VR game (even if this one turns out to be shitty) than to invest in polishing a VR streaming app. At least with the game, the
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by simiones 3y ago
Even for travel, most people travel in groups, even those who live alone or with non-friends. So, media consumption while traveling is even less likely to be happening alone (except on the plane) than at home. I'm not saying your own u
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by simiones 3y ago
So you think it's likely people will get a new Netflix subscription for their Vision Pro? Also, even if Vision Pro owners spend 70x more than Android users, with 500k VP users vs 2.5 billion Android users, there's still not that m
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by simiones 3y ago
Probably because VR glasses are barely even a tiny drop in the bucket for Netflix. And the amount of people who are only watching Netflix on a VR glass (and thus would cancel their sub if it's not nicely viewable on the glasses) is t
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by simiones 3y ago
> Or if you're both into the big screen VR experience, you can both wear headsets. For the low low price of 7000$, vs 1000$ for a TV.
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by simiones 3y ago
Interpretations of QM and measurement have very little to do with whether space-time is discrete or continuous. The simple fact is that no common QM formulation uses discrete mathematics for space-time, and it's unclear if any that doe
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by simiones 3y ago
Discrete here means "non-continuous" - i.e. there is no smooth transition function between ideas/thoughts/rationalizations. For example, a formal proof is a discrete process: it follows step-wise rules that you can assig

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