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by swolchok 10y ago
> every single one of those cost growth curves is a close match for the early part of the exponential growth curves The early part of a logistic growth curve ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function ) also lo
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by swolchok 10y ago
The article doesn't say: what government is doing the charging? I thought the arrests were D.C. police, not Feds.
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by swolchok 10y ago
Related reading: Fooled By Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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by swolchok 10y ago
> the theoretically infinite lifespan of an AI Infinite? Why isn't AI subject to the heat death of the universe?
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by swolchok 10y ago
> If a decision heuristic often leads to the correct conclusion, then it's a good heuristic (if you are under time constraints, which we are). So, is it a good heuristic to conclude that since crime is related to poverty and minorit
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by swolchok 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruschetta
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by swolchok 10y ago
I feel like I've seen a lot of articles about people who can't find jobs or who are worried about their increasingly-outdated jobs going away in the short term. This article says we also have a lot of jobs that can't find peo
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by swolchok 10y ago
A text editor will always be with you, no matter what you're working on. IDEs tend to be for a specific host platform, language, and sometimes target platform. For example, Xcode only runs on a Mac, understands a limited set of languag
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by swolchok 10y ago
It's not built into the ROM. iMessage got a huge update with iOS 10. If it was built into the ROM, that wouldn't be possible, because the old version would be, well, read-only.
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by swolchok 10y ago
salary or salary + bonus target + equity?
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by swolchok 10y ago
> An equivalent but faster variant that the compiler generates is "xor r9d, r9d". Can you explain why this is faster? I assumed the ALU would be 64 bits wide, and 32-bit operations would just leave half of it unused.
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by swolchok 10y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, so I'll note that the code presented is Windows-specific. Windows uses a different calling convention ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#Micros... ) from
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by swolchok 10y ago
I would like to see in the article a discussion of the assembly the compiler produces, how it differs from the assembly the author wrote, and perhaps why the differences are worse.
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by swolchok 10y ago
> get down to the platform's assembly language layer which for IOS is ObjectiveC The assembly language layer for iOS is assembly language.
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by swolchok 10y ago
probably an outdated heuristic for distinguishing a "real computer" from a "calculator".
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by swolchok 10y ago
As a cheap extra layer of protection, you could install the version of Linux Mint you've got installed on your real machine in a VM and then run the exploit in the VM. You could also do it from a VirtualBox installation on EC2 to get e
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by swolchok 10y ago
sizeof(char) has to be 1, but char doesn't have to be 1 byte in size. It's more correct to say that sizeof(foo) returns a result relative to sizeof(char).
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by swolchok 10y ago
Really? do they all use the same CPU socket? no updates required to motherboard? EFI? Apple's custom SMC firmware? power management? kernel work? etc.
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by swolchok 10y ago
Even Unix signals are delivered as Mach exceptions first. If the process doesn't have a Mach exception handler set up, the kernel's exception handler converts them to Unix signals and tries delivery that way: https://gi
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by swolchok 10y ago
Why would you pay to carpool to/from work instead of arranging carpool with a coworker, paying for your share of gas directly, and cutting out 1) the (future) middleman 2) the tax man?
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by swolchok 10y ago
However, running a consumer-facing actively managed fund and taking a percentage fee becomes less profitable if demand shifts from that product to index funds, because there is less money to take a percentage fee out of.
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by swolchok 10y ago
The article seems to assume that food that is now wasted by consumers would instead be distributed to needy folks. I don't see why this is the case. From a business perspective, why do food producers care whether the food they sell is
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by swolchok 10y ago
> But when we exec a child, the kernel resets any signal not set to `SIG_IGN` to `SIG_DFL`, so all our children, atomically, get their `SIGCHLD` handlers set to `SIG_DFL` at the moment of creation. Consequently, when either our process
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by swolchok 10y ago
Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) has (or at least had a prototype of) p2p search. I wrote a paper on building a torrent search index quickly using the DHT records that this feature emitted at the time. http://static.usenix.org&#x
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by swolchok 10y ago
You could argue that autoconf sucks and clearly everyone should use your favorite build system, but you need something to do the job. Not even two systems running the same release of the same distribution are going to have all the same pa
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by swolchok 10y ago
> The only reason to delay selling for tax reasons What about if you live in a state with high income tax and no capital gains relief from said rate, and you think that maybe at some point in the future you might leave that state for one
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by swolchok 10y ago
> don't force them to build-out to neighborhoods where people can't pay $70+ per month. That...won't fly in San Francisco. https://fiber.google.com/cities/sanfrancisco/ Google Fiber is coming to
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by swolchok 10y ago
It's by no means guaranteed to last, 1M is not enough to retire in Silicon Valley, and 1M pre-tax is ~0.6M after tax.
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by swolchok 10y ago
Nethack does have a lot of ports to weird systems (and compilers that might not special-case strdup on a string literal to avoid the strlen, which I didn't think of when I brought this up in the first place), so this seems like a fair
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by swolchok 10y ago
case OPTTYPE_KEYMAP: str = malloc(1 + sizeof "submenu"); strcpy(str, "submenu"); return str; There isn't a good reason for this not to be return strdup("submenu");

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