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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Was that the story they wrote about themselves?
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
But it’s sold as keeping you informed about the world. When it actually is just about what journalists think. Like you said, that can be valuable, especially in politics, when one hopes they aid your messaging. But it’s not a moral or even
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
> by looking at me Your presented person is very different from an amalgamation of clues which are not meant to disclose public information and are not you. But this is easy to solve. Instead of rationalizing call up a customer and try i
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
libNSFB, the library being discussed and accused of being low quality because of this range assumption
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Does this library serve Amiga developers?
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Do you suggest branching after every operation? a = b + c if err { // … }
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
This is not what happened in C vs C++.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
It’s a register based computer problem, not a C problem.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Do you prove that every line of arithmetic in your program will not overflow for all possible inputs? Are you aware that no screen is 64k x 64k?
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
A girl next to me on the plane was studying for med school interviews. I tried to imagine what questions they might ask, I looked over and the first question on her sheet was “why do you want to be a doctor. This is not an intellectual inte
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
> rip people off I pay 99 cents/month for a well integrated system that has never lost my data. What alternatives provide that convenient service? Yes, I could buy a giant HD. No I do not want to run a backup service.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Make sure you have an ad blocker before clicking that link.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
You can’t have an opinion about whether a flaw bothers you?
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Literally confusing syntax for semantics.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
What definition takes up fewer components in a digital circuit is a terrible reason. The whole point of math is we can reason about the most conceptually simple idea, rather than with engineering constraints. Sets existed before circuits! A
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Yes. This caveat is most clear. I am wondering about the question of performance raised in this thread,
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
(Naive question) then is it really a big hurdle for a company who knows how to make arm chips to try making riscv chips?
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Who does the government listen to when making decisions? Influence and power follows a power distribution. This is an age old problem.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Is it slower by design or just because it’s implementations have not been aggressively optimized?
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
What if we applied the simple test that the book was originally published on paper and no other printings have occurred (digital or paper).
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Then that sounds like a management problem, not a fundamental problem with the concept of patent lawyers and clerks which this poster claimed was a “brain drain”.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Working engineers are not the only audience.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
They demand more commands
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
- Documenting and classifying inventions is valuable - people choose to become a patent clerk/lawyer because of the stability. It enables them to take care of family, pursue hobbies, etc (see Einstein). - the alternative for some is b
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
But if you notice the people who are in administrative positions are the people who are “well rounded” not those who are good at one thing. Even within academic stem fields you have people who know how to promote and speak and they have the
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
No. Professors want students that don’t cheat so they never have to worry about it. This is an ethics problem (people willing to cheat), this is a multi cultural problem (different expectations of what constitutes cheating) this is an incen
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Yep. The solutions which actually benefit education are never expensive, but require higher quality teachers with less centralized control: - placing less emphasis on numerical grades to disincentive cheating (hard to measure success) - op
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
And they trust them more than people.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
I’m not even sure if they can make a website that takes text input to an executable and dumps the output.
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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
Yeah and using byte buffers isn’t JavaScript array access. But it is for C. The n-body looks most like canonical JS to me. It’s a small array, but’s it’s accessed many times. Unfortunately the c++ version is simd optimized, so I don’t think

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