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721.
by slashdev 3y ago
That just goes to show that people will complain about anything instead of applying their brain. There are plenty of valid objections to hydrogen as a fuel, but water use is a total non issue. Not only does it use so little, but when you g
722.
by slashdev 3y ago
I think I made it clear that it’s my opinion, when I used the words “in my opinion”. Your comment is a passive aggressive way of saying you disagree. I expect some people will disagree. I’m one of those dangerous people not afraid to break
723.
by slashdev 3y ago
And while you’re doing that, get a few more titles from the same publisher and don’t pay for them. Vote with your wallet that this is not acceptable behavior. That’s also fair in my opinion. You ought to be compensated for your trouble and
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by slashdev 3y ago
You’re usually prohibited by the PSP from gathering or storing the CC details directly. You’ll notice you often don’t give the merchant the details directly. Some large merchants do take the details directly, but they typically have to go t
725.
by slashdev 3y ago
With “proven” in quotes, since nothing is actually proven in the scenario you’re talking about.
726.
by slashdev 3y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Can you point me at it?
727.
by slashdev 3y ago
As a software engineer and a huge fan of technology in general, I think electronic voting machines are the devil. Digital information is too easy to alter. Good old-fashioned paper elections are a well vetted technology that we know how to
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by slashdev 3y ago
To me the biggest revelation was how enmeshed the Twitter executives were with the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, local and state governments, etc. The reporting on the left was very dismissive, so if you don't also read any right leaning news
729.
by slashdev 3y ago
It was eye opening to see how Twitter was moderating things behind the scenes. These companies can be trusted about as much as you’d trust a wild bear to share the trail with you peacefully. Why the downvotes? Asking for a friend.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Fascinating. Have you considered open sourcing this without your algorithms ( empty buy/ sell loops)? I’d like to play with something like this but I couldn’t be bothered to build it all from scratch.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think you misunderstand me. What I’m saying is that price inelastic demand for the stock through buybacks puts upward pressure on the stock price, no matter the current price, preventing the normal market process of price discovery from w
732.
by slashdev 3y ago
Stock buybacks create a steady demand that’s price inelastic. I think one side effect of that is it suppresses natural price discovery. Another part of it is passive investing in indices and etfs cause money to flow disproportionality into
733.
by slashdev 3y ago
I really love playing with vector instructions, especially AVX2, which is the most limited in my opinion. You get a whole bunch of oddly shaped legos, and it’s very challenging to build something beautiful from them. But also very fun and r
734.
by slashdev 3y ago
Mmmm. Cheesy scalloped potatoes. I haven’t had that for a long time. One of my most treasured possessions is a folded piece of paper on which my mom hand wrote her cheesy scalloped potatoes recipe for me.
735.
by slashdev 3y ago
Honestly I don’t think the government is sufficiently competent to cover up something as big as intelligent aliens arriving on earth. That’s the most exciting news ever. There’s just no way in my mind they could keep that quiet successfully
736.
by slashdev 3y ago
Sorry, what war has been fought over cobalt, lithium, or nickel? I think that’s just not true.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Because renewables are intermittent and unevenly located. This could potentially solve those problems. There could be a space for it. Or maybe batteries will just always be better. Depends on the full costs of each and the use case. Burning
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by slashdev 3y ago
Refugee boats go down in the Mediterranean all the time. At this point it’s hardly news. That’s not in any way to detract from the tragedy, just pointing out one reason why it’s barely covered. Once something becomes common, it’s not news a
739.
by slashdev 3y ago
Lifetimes are managed at runtime, somewhat like Arc, just without the ref counts. If implemented well you get an assertion if you misuse a reference (eg use after free.) I’m fine with the trade off, but yes, it can be a source of difficult
740.
by slashdev 3y ago
Maybe that’s a case of the wrong design? The index tables shouldn’t need global locks. It gets a little hairy if you need to be able to reallocate or move them (I.e grow them) but that happens at most a small number of times and there are w
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by slashdev 3y ago
It's awesome where performance considerations are paramount. It's awesome in databases. It's awesome in embedded software. It's awesome in operating system kernels. The fact is sometimes it's good. Saying it's
742.
by slashdev 3y ago
Thank you for sharing your ideological views, but this is not the appropriate venue for that. If you want to have a software _engineering_ discussion about the trade offs involved in sharing global mutable state, this is a good venue for th
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by slashdev 3y ago
While this is true, the masking is more important for control flow in the loops. You can sometimes replace if/else statements with the masked registers allowing loops with simple conditionals to be vectorized.
744.
by slashdev 3y ago
My parents recently got starlink internet in a developing country with measured 70mbits down and 12mbits up. It costs about the same as wired internet, which is available where they live. But the speed is higher and they can run it on a bat
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by slashdev 3y ago
I left Vancouver. The combination of high home prices, high taxes, and low salaries chased me away. I solved the last problem by working remote, but that just really made me think hard about why I was still living in Vancouver. I was born i
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by slashdev 3y ago
This is not Canadians making babies, which they do below the replacement limit as in other developed countries. This is massive levels of immigration. Canadians do have a bigger per capita environment footprint, but still it’s really just m
747.
by slashdev 3y ago
You could boot Windows XP or Linux in that comfortably. Even run an older web browser or computer game. That’s crazy!
748.
by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, that would probably change the calculus. There were major frequency (heat) issues on older Intel cpus when running avx512.
749.
by slashdev 3y ago
So Rust's ipnsort is actually one of the better sorting implementations across a variety of input sizes. Faster than avx512 sort on small arrays, slower on mid sized arrays, and almost the same on large ones. The avx512 sort seems like
750.
by slashdev 3y ago
I don't know much about AI, but I think one reason you might do that is to learn which variations are preferred (which are committed unmodified) so you can tune the model in the future. I don't know if Github does that, but given

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