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601.
by tines 4y ago
> Not the GP, but I think that the interests of the general public are actually much more closely aligned with those of "the elite" far more than people would like to believe. If for 90% of the issues the elite are just as like
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by tines 4y ago
> The authors of that study started by filtering down a giant list of survey responses to those where there's a significant difference in responses between the "donor class" and everyone else. I forget exactly how often th
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by tines 4y ago
> It's the C++ standard that requires two's complement I looked into this and you're totally right! But it actually didn't until relatively recently. Other representations were explicitly permitted by the standard at
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Energy Is Not Conserved(preposterousuniverse.com)
3 points by tines 4y ago|1 comments
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by tines 4y ago
The underlying architecture of the machine defines the representations of the integer multiplicands (two's complement in the case the author is referring), so the bit pattern that results from doing the multiplication is interpreted as
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by tines 4y ago
> Do you know that in MSVC uint16_t(50000) + uin16_t(50000) == -1794967296? This is pretty basic C++/computer architecture stuff. > They just don’t give you a competitive advantage over C++. Or, for that matter, even over each ot
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by tines 4y ago
I think his point was that it's the job that you signed up for, so either do the job, or don't work there. > You can "well that's your job" all day long, and you're technically correct, but you're ...wr
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by tines 4y ago
> parts key word :)
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by tines 4y ago
The "brain in a vat" concept only really makes sense if you are willing to draw a distinction between the conscious part and other parts of the body, i.e. if you are willing to admit that some parts of the world are mechanistic (t
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by tines 4y ago
A $25 burger is more expensive than a $20 burger with a 20% tip ($24). But maybe that proves your point? :)
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by tines 4y ago
I think what you're referring to is called "nominative determinism."
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by tines 4y ago
When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Dev
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by tines 4y ago
You misread every line of my reply so I'm not going to take the time to reply to you in detail, have a nice day.
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by tines 4y ago
> The disagreement with MWI and the general disdain for QM are separate issues. Fair point, I guess I didn't sense any disdain from the conversation so I didn't intend to comment on that. > there's also been a general d
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by tines 4y ago
> you're assuming that QM is in invalid description because it doesn't satisfy how you want the world to work. That's an uncharitable interpretation. People have an objection to speculations like many-worlds because they a
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by tines 4y ago
I haven't used Zig at all, but doesn't the fact that Zig supports from-what-I-understand pretty powerful metaprogramming facilities already put it way ahead of Go in that regard?
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by tines 4y ago
There is no way, in any language with any type system or any amount of tests (except maybe in a pure language with tests that cover the entire domain of the function, in which case you're just reproducing the entire function in the tes
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by tines 4y ago
Language researcher here, would you be willing to list out some of those reasons you mentioned? Always interested in hearing these perspectives!
619.
by tines 4y ago
I mean, yes? People will be doing math as long as there are people around to do it. It'll look different, sure. But there will always be problems, and math/programming is problem solving par excellence.
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by tines 4y ago
Big languages are optimized for copy-and-paste; the more built-in features your language has, the fewer characters you need to steal from a StackOverflow answer. This meshes well with the copy-and-paste culture of web development, so it&#x2
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by tines 4y ago
> Honestly, for an organization as big and important as they are, 300 staff still seems ridiculously tiny. Important, sure, but is an encyclopedia supposed to be big? What are all those people doing?
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by tines 4y ago
Sorry for the critique on form instead of content but man, this is hard to read. Putting periods where commas belong or where a sentence should be rewritten for clarity is an obstacle to easy comprehension.
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by tines 4y ago
You don't in principle have to put any nop's at the start of each function for this kind of function "hooking" to work. The Microsoft Detours library does the same thing with no special compilation needed.
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by tines 4y ago
Any idea why it was forked?
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by tines 4y ago
That's not really how things work in a modern context. Today we have to distinguish between the people making the stuff, who really may "believe" in their product, and the people advertising those same products, who don'
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by tines 4y ago
I think the difference is in what the two are trying to manipulate you to do. His comment is trying to manipulate the reader into believing something that he believes is better for mankind. He doesn't materially benefit, and the reader
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by tines 4y ago
GP needs to fix their comment, it's completely inaccurate and presents to people who don't read the article an entirely wrong conclusion.
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by tines 4y ago
I believe the gp is correct, the closer you get to the speed of light the slower time passes. If a particle travels at the speed of light, no time passes for it.
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by tines 4y ago
Pretty sure it's been proven that no deterministic theory can reproduce all the predictions of quantum mechanics. That's the essence of Bell's theorem isn't it?
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by tines 4y ago
Not quite; if this were true then any javascript would be valid webassembly, which isn't the case.

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