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by tomp 4y ago
For-profit piracy is questionable (there’s pros and cons, it could unleash a ton of creativity) but what we’re discussing here is non-profit, personal use piracy.
602.
by tomp 4y ago
At best you could claim “pirated”, definitely not “stolen”. IMO piracy should be morally encouraged
603.
by tomp 4y ago
TL;DR: some people want to use Macs that they “legally acquired” under the pretence that they’ll be destroyed.
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by tomp 4y ago
> but the best returns that business angels, VCs and YC have had is in the order of magnitude of 10000x Aren't those equity returns? i.e. when you sell (your shares of) the company to the public... the reason people still value th
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by tomp 4y ago
Not sure, but if you replace AC with a weaker axiom, Axiom of Dependent Choice, you can construct a model in which all subsets of reals are measurable (called the Solovay model ), which precludes the Banach-Tarski paradox (which requires
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by tomp 4y ago
This is not intuitive at all. I have a masters in math. Concrete numbers are irrelevant to me, and their explicit representation is even less relevant. Any number can easily be described by x . Btw this is just the standard reason for th
607.
by tomp 4y ago
Given the choice between non-processed food (meat) and ultra—high-processed food (fake meat), the former is the much healthier option.
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by tomp 4y ago
But if we're looking in the direction of a galaxy far far away (i.e. 14bn ly away) (which we don't know it's there, but let's assume it is, because likely some galaxies must be there), how come we see the CMB, which
609.
by tomp 4y ago
Interesting, but this only admits 32-bit floats. The original idea behind NaN-tagging is to overlap pointer representation with 64-bit floats.
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by tomp 4y ago
Burying plastics in the ground; returning carbon to where it came from.
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by tomp 4y ago
There’s nothing wrong with one-time-use plastics, in countries with good waste management systems. Paper straws suck.
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by tomp 4y ago
Or getting annoyed at people who are constantly trying to think of new woke dogwhistles, trying to find "hate speech" in anything (remember Pepe, the OK sign or donglegate?)
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by tomp 4y ago
Citation?
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by tomp 4y ago
> Can you eat an entire pizza and still be hungry except it's physically painful to eat? Yes. Except that it’s not physically painful not to eat (that would happen probably at 1 1/2 pizzas, but I almost never go there). I’ve
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by tomp 4y ago
There is 0% chance that human genetics changed this much in the last 100 years (3-4 generations). Look at photos from 100 years ago, people were mostly thin. So no, we’re not genetically predetermined to be hungry. There’s something in our
616.
by tomp 4y ago
Wow, what a vile human being!
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by tomp 4y ago
The idea of logging in is that you're no longer anonymous. You can, of course, always use a private browser window if you want to limit everything to just that one tab.
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by tomp 4y ago
Why cannot load balancing be implemented without cookies?
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by tomp 4y ago
I'd be very nervous if I was Cloudflare. They pretty explicitly say that the cookies are not strictly necessary for using the websites. > cookies are strictly necessary to provide the services requested by our customers Cloudfla
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by tomp 4y ago
Technically, a `session_id` in query parameters is just like a cookie (can be used to track you), except that it doesn't persist. I'd consider it a basic feature that if I reload a website, or open it in a new tab, I'm still
621.
by tomp 4y ago
Most software I install isn’t distro software, but Python binaries (python, mamba, numpy, pytorch) and packages via pip/mamba/conda.
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by tomp 4y ago
> Installing software by piping from curl to bash is obviously a bad idea and a knowledgable user will most likely check the content first. I’ve yet to hear a coherent explanation why this is any worse than installing software from the
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by tomp 4y ago
Because iPhone’s aren’t expendable. My iPhone6 still works. I’ve moved on for other reasons (more space, better camera) but the product still works better than most Androids. I even had Apple replace the battery!
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by tomp 4y ago
The government and media can also just lie to people to influence their actions. E.g. due to propaganda, people thought that Covid is 100x as deadly as it actually is (people estimated on average that infection fatality rate was 10%, when i
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by tomp 4y ago
I wish it wasn’t! Borne out of experience.
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by tomp 4y ago
Alternative viewpoint: This enhances collaboration to the standard of the Apple ecosystem. Many people want to avoid "the Android/Windows/shitty third party app experience".
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by tomp 4y ago
They didn’t ban her on the basis of face recognition. She just got flagged by security, after which they asked for her ID and banned her on the basis of her real identity. So the chance of false positives is minimal.
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by tomp 4y ago
There’s also (4) dependence on other, potentially hostile regimes on “national security” imports/products like steel, chips, oil, energy, …
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by tomp 4y ago
Do you mean section 2 of the paper? It only contains C-like pseudo-code, no machine code. The results section of the paper only compare the performance of Multicore OCaml with plain OCaml, not OCaml vs C++ / Java.
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by tomp 4y ago
How does "bounding races in space and time" impact the generated machine code? Do you have some interesting examples of how it's different from the code C++ or JVM JIT would generate? What's the performance impact? Thank

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