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by tgma 1y ago
> but the companies operating it certainly are Which ones in particular? Is your belief all that are companies are inherently malevolent? If not why don't you start one that is not? What's stopping you?
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by tgma 1y ago
> Because I'm a ICPC medalist (not this year though) but not a IOI medalist. Isn't getting a medal a function of your ranking, not score, in both cases? If so, that does not prove much about the difficulty of either.
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by tgma 1y ago
> plumbers I have received free advice that reduced future need from such actual plumbers (and mechanics and others for that matter) > we should really stop giving free advice and training to these robots People routinely freely give
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by tgma 1y ago
> valued at $300 billion Irrelevant really. Invoking this in the argument shows the basis is jealousy. They are clearly valued as such not because they collected all the data and stored in some database. Your local library is not worth 3
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by tgma 1y ago
Not sure by what metric you compare the difficulty, but regardless of the hardness of the problem, IIRC, ICPC requires 100% correctness on test cases to score a problem (even failing one means you don't get the score,) but IOI would ad
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by tgma 1y ago
Why the AI hate? How is it different from sharing your knowledge with another individual or writing a book to share it? > AI companies are not paying anyone for that piece of information So? For the vast majority of human existence, payi
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by tgma 1y ago
> Being able to look at JSON and understand it as a human on the wire is huge advantage I don’t think this is a given at all. Depends on the context. I think it’s often overvalued. A lot of times the performance matters more. If human re
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by tgma 1y ago
You have to take into account the fact that iPhoto app has had many iterations. The binary plist stuff is very likely the native NSArchive "object archiving (serialization)" that is done by Obj-C libraries. They probably started u
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by tgma 1y ago
Sure you can look at it[1], but you're not expected to look at Apple Photos database. The computer is. Write a correct JSON parser, compare with protobuf on various metrics, and then we can talk. [1]: although to be fair, I am older th
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by tgma 1y ago
> And I know the article says no one uses the backwards compatible stuff but that’s bizarre to me – setting up N clients and a server that use protocol buffers to communicate and then being able to add fields to the schema and then deplo
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by tgma 1y ago
> This could have been a simple JSON string. There's nothing "simple" about parsing JSON as a serialization format.
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by tgma 1y ago
Indeed. Discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281561 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Protobuffers+Are+Wrong
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by tgma 1y ago
There are observable differences. For example, under HT, TLB flush or context switch will likely be observable by a neighboring thread whereas for in a full dedicated core, you won't observe such things.
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by tgma 1y ago
I did not read the patent (do not read patents as a matter of policy.) Was simply responding to the second paragraph that kind of reminded me of FX Bulldozer chips.
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by tgma 1y ago
There was the dreaded AMD FX chip which was advertised as 8 core, but shared functional units. Got sued, etc.
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by tgma 1y ago
May be true for FMA or AVX2 or similar stuff. Outside vector units that sounds implausible. Obviously multi core thermal throttling is a thing but that would by far dominate. Hyperthreading should have minimal impact there.
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by tgma 1y ago
It has a lot to do with your workload as well as if not moreso than the chip architecture. The primary trade-off is the cache utilization when executing two sets of instruction streams.
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by tgma 1y ago
The way they refer to cores in their system is confusing and non-standard. The author talks about a 5900X as a 24 core machine and discusses as if there are 24 cores, 12 of which are piggybacking on the other 12. In reality, there are 24 hy
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by tgma 1y ago
Indeed. Frankly, that would be a nice standardized solution to your machine register itself on a Bonjour Sleep Proxy and can be cheaper than Pi with a used AppleTV off of eBay.
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by tgma 1y ago
I think L5 Manager at Google is EM1 which is what Facebook calls M zero. So L6 manager (vast majority of line managers) would be EM II at Google.
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by tgma 1y ago
> Mac is significantly more secure than any Linux distro. Citation needed.
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by tgma 1y ago
Yes, in a way FSF has succeeded beyond their wildest imagination and they are facing a new world with new challenges. > The problem includes the actual control of how services are provided. FSF has opinions about SaaS which they call Sa
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by tgma 1y ago
I would argue he's had unimaginable success in the context the movement started. Even Microsoft is fully on-board with that. It's just that the industry has grown beyond the original stakeholders to billions of people and the prob
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by tgma 1y ago
If they were really the same, you should flip the question around. You do realize the Open Source folks invented that phrase explicitly to avoid using (and dare I say to undermine) the term Free Software?
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by tgma 1y ago
Some context re that matter: https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...
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by tgma 1y ago
I used to 100% feel the same, but at some point I realized the problem was me, not him, in not viscerally understanding his goals. His stated goals are very clear, but the audience usually has somewhat overlapping, but nevertheless distinc
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by tgma 1y ago
It is possible, sure, but I have a feeling it goes unrecognized how prophetic and precise his concerns were, and that this is very similar to his original issue with the closed-source printer software he was not allowed to fix, and he does
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by tgma 1y ago
The funny thing is Stallman started his fight like half a century ago and on regular days Hacker News shits on him eating something off of his foot and not being polished and diplomatic, and loves practical aspects of Corporate Open Source
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And has the upside of not having to force an antivirus or Crowdstrike or similar corporate spyware.
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by tgma 1y ago
Google issued Chromebooks are not crap with 2GB RAM and Celeron. There were even engineers who voluntarily preferred them. From a security standpoint they are superb.

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