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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't think that's really the case anymore. You have to separate three things: 1. Using the JVM for its capabilities, like the JITC and GC engines, which are very powerful. 2. Using the JVM for Java interop. 3. Using the JVM for
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by thu2111 6y ago
This clearly isn't true, though. Lisps do have a lot of syntax. In the Clojure samples in this blog post alone we have: • Parens • Curly braces • Square brackets (why are they here, if Lisp is just s-exprs?) • Colon-prefixed symbols •
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Ahaha. Reminds me of when I worked there. One day a large service tanked in some datacenter because BigTable replication in that location just stopped. Digging in, it turned out the BigTable should have been replicating from YQ but had star
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Wikipedia is constantly running ads. They're just "charity" donation ads so you don't think of them as such, but turn on the TV and you'll notice that charities advertise themselves to get donations all the time. It
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Google's yearly revenue
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Rubin's career-ending stuff was being accused by a woman he had been in a relationship with and was in a custody battle with of something that could never be proven and which he strongly denied. It was career ending only due to the
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't think that's true. If you look at the computing industry, virtually all basic research is done by companies or academics who are grant funded by companies. AI? Basically all funded by the private sector and has been for a
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The latter two are perhaps good for employees but are definitely a problem for startup founders who need everyone to give 110% of the company is to survive at all. As for chlorinated chicken, the EU likes to come up with bogus safety issues
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He's not talking about hiring, but motivating people who were already hired.
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Research of most important technological inventions of the past century was funded by beaurocrats Important defined how? The car wasn't. The mobile phone wasn't. Computers in their post-WW2 form basically weren't, for the l
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by thu2111 6y ago
there is a long history of such government initiatives laying the starting seed for high tech industry development However, not in the EU. The EU has been engaging in massive subsidisation for decades and has little to show for it. In som
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's a deep question that is asked nowhere near enough. And when it is asked, my experience has been it's mostly been Americans doing the asking. Here's a story. I was once visiting Silicon Valley for work and getting dinne
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ARM will be owned by NVIDIA soon anyway so it's all swings and roundabouts.
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It's a much deeper problem than sending a message. Teachers are systematically sexist: they give girls better test scores than boys and treat them differently. This effect is so strong it's been studied and shows up statistically:
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The EU doesn't really need to legislate this stuff at all. The relevant bodies that need to exchange data are quite able to figure it out and coordinate upgrades. But the EU commission has no notion of this type of decentralised decisi
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by thu2111 6y ago
This is EU law, transposed into the agreement to just avoid arguing with the EU about it when there are more important things. The whole point of Brexit is that if wanted such rules can be diverged from now, or better, just repealed entirel
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EU law is full of stuff like this. There's no philosophical conception that law should be minimal or regulation a last resort, so they pass huge laws all the time that specify precise details of things and which get very out of date. A
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by thu2111 6y ago
Sweden quite obviously has not "suffered for it" by any reasonable definition of suffer. Look at the graph I linked to. That is not suffering, it's not even something that'd be noticed normally. 2020 will come in death-w
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by thu2111 6y ago
Either that, or they understood exactly what they were doing and simply needed to shut down 911 services for a while - perhaps so they could commit some sort of crime without the authorities being able to be summoned or coordinate.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Some of the benefits of this come from separation of values from the keys. This is an increasingly widely used technique: it is described in the WiscKey paper [1] and is also used in the PingCAP fork of RocksDB. It seems Chinese companies l
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by thu2111 6y ago
So is he. QALY analysis is used to allocate all treatment in places like the UK, realistically in other places too. Basically a very expensive treatment that is only expected to increase your lifespan by a few months if you're alread
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by thu2111 6y ago
No. The article even says this; US deaths (unlike most other places) climb every year: U.S. deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is expected. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's surprising how many people are asking why it's a story. It's a story because people's perception is that COVID is a hugely deadly, once in a lifetime disease that justifies wildly extreme measures. Yet, when put in
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think you mean they are lockdown deaths.
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Again, placing a gurney in a closet doesn't make it an ICU bed. You need specialized staff, which are in short supply. You use non-specialised staff, which is what they were willing to do earlier in the year. I think there's a h
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think they aren't technically billionaires. Rather, JetBrains is valued at over a billion dollars. So if they sold their entire stake, then they'd be billionaires. I'm sure they pay themselves well but I don't thin
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Gradle isn't their product though. They just have to interop with it.
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Almost always when a JB IDE is being reported as sluggish the problem is you're running out of heap space. Go to Help | Change Memory Settings and give it some more, see if that helps.
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That doesn't mean anything. If base images still need to be updated it's no different to traditional app deployment. If you deploy without containers, the program you've deployed is "immutable" in the sense that run
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Realistically a lot of Java apps are shipped as fat JARs that do in fact include the (Java) world. Hot-patching apps to use newer versions of JARs because of security bugs, outside of the update stream of the actual app itself, is not reall

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