socialdemocrat

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by socialdemocrat 7mo ago
Apple should have made a modern Smalltalk on top of the Objective-C object model as a replacement for Objective-C instead of Swift. I want to love Swift, but the funny thing is that as they solve more problem with Swift they also add so muc
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
Think you are a bit quick to judge what people in Europe think. Juries have also been widely used in Europe. They are not unknown. It depends entirely on where you are. Britain famously use juries. That is where the US gets it system from.
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
In Norway we long had two systems to determine guilt. One was a jury system. A careful examination of the performance of both systems over many years concluded that the jury system was the worst. All serious miscarriages of justice we have
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
I have long been skeptical of AI/AR because I also don’t feel like being strapped in like that. But I can see this as being useful for dedicated tasks: surgeons, building or repairing a PC, inspecting a buildings. It will be more of a
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
People are increasingly running out of reasons to not use Julia. It really is the future for data science and machine learning. No let me correct that. It really could replace anything R, Python, Perl, Ruby etc is used for today. Not right
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
That is not really true. People think that because they have spent time with Java which is excessively GC dependent. More modern GC languages such as Go and Julia have opted to use GCs in a far more conservative manner. They don't prod
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
A clear complexity cost difficulty in extending these libraries. This separation force libraries to become huge complex monoliths. In Julia the equivalent is done with absolutely hilariously tiny libraries. In fact they are so small that ma
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
Julia 1.0 was released in 2018. That is just 5 years ago. I would say that is very young. Especially since a language today needs more than in the past. Julia has package manager, virtual environments, version management. Stuff that tends t
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
Not sure why you restrict this observation to UK and commonwealth countries. This is reality for many of us in Europe. Legal documents in Norway also refer to the king as the one deciding stuff. But that doesn’t literally mean the king. It
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by socialdemocrat 3y ago
You can just look at a map over the US and see quickly how the grid pattern exists at almost any zoom level. You also notice it in how people think about directions. As a European I found it tricky to deal with but I saw the opposite when A
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The Big Rocket Showdown: Falcon 9 vs. Neutron(erikexplores.substack.com)
1 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|3 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Extensive comparison of engines, design of shape, choice of materials, performance and strategies for reuse.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
So Rust force you to do waterfall design? Sorry just had to tease about that as a dynamic language fan. I am much more in the LISP school of thought, believing in growing software through iteration and exploration, for much the same reason
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Not at all. Nobody doubted this could be done. So there is no countdown as that would imply we didn’t know if fusion can be done. We do know. The problem is primarily engineering a working fusion power plant and this milestone didn’t advanc
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
It will never be cheap and limitless though. Is solar power isn’t free even if you don’t have to pay for the sunshine. It is the capital costs which gets you and those will very much apply to something as complex as fusion.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Why not a company running the garage seeing it as a way of making money? Cheap solar should make it an attractive position to sell power during peak hours.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
What issue? Lots of us live in apartments in Norway and I see plenty of upgrades happening to get charging going at apartment complexes. Does not seem like an insurmountable problem. I got asked if I needed charging installed at my garage s
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Writing Code Without Plain Text Files(erikexplores.substack.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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Handling Side Effects in Unison Programming Language(erikexplores.substack.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
No, that is not the case. RISC-V was designed to work both in embedded systems, workstations, supercomputers and specialized hardware. That is why the instruction-set is made modular. It is allow you to tailor the chip to very different typ
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The Esperanto system with lots of RISC-V cores is built with localized memory for small clusters of cores. It is programmed akin to a graphics card and plenty of workloads are done on graphics cards. That means it screams on machine learnin
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The core count of Tilera CPUs is totally normal today, so not exactly a failed idea. AMD Ryzen thread piper has 64 cores and if you count number of hardware threads you got 128. That is more than Tilera had. AMD is a very successful company
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Grokking RISC-V Vector Processing(erikexplores.substack.com)
5 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Interesting to see John conclude like me after reading Patterson that RISC vs CISC was always about a philosophical difference in how you approach chip design. This is what I argue in this article as well but I reach a different conclusion
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Mazda has tested a synthetic fuel in an unmodified MX5 on a 1000-mile road trip(wkk.usa.mybluehost.me)
111 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|201 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Viking ships are often portrayed as primarily an advantage in warfare, but they played a significant role in trade. People tend to forget about Scandinavia after the Viking age, but those rich shipbuilding traditions did not remain unused.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The right thing to do, and I also don't really think reparations should be coupled to this as that opens another can of worms and probably isn't the solution needed.
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Breaking big applications into small applications(erikexplores.substack.com)
1 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
That is sad to hear. You hear criticism of public IT stuff here in Norway too, but it mostly works. Like I got e-receipt since 2013. Can order new prescriptions, book appointments , look at test results online online. Well the latter doesn’
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
It is always puzzling to me with how Germany has many cultural similarities with us Nordics and is an advanced science nation, yet is always so much slower in adopting new technologies. In Norway we have used electronic receipts since 2013.

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