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by tonysdg 8y ago
Such an awesome show -- thanks!!
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by tonysdg 8y ago
So glad to see Simone back on her feet. The sh y robot nation needs its queen! As for that bill -- I'm curious: is there any resource I can look up to see how much of that the average Medicare/Medicaid/private insurance plan
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Off-topic, but I have to thank you for your amazing blog posts and Stack Overflow answers regarding LLVM internals. As a grad student in systems software, I can't even begin to account for how much time, energy, and loss-of-consciousne
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I didn't need a BBC article to tell me that coffee reduces mortality -- the odds of coworkers dying drops significantly after one has their first (or third) cup ;-)
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Maybe a typo for RISC-V? Still doesn't make a lot of sense though...
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Maybe a Pentium IV then? I don't think RISC-V -- or any processor really -- gets taken seriously in the desktop/laptop space unless it can compete with one of Intel's earlier chips.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
You yourself repeat a very common misconception and false analogy. Intel and AMD start new microarchitecture design work every 2-3 years because (Intel, at least) base their sales on offering the latest and greatest. They seek peak performa
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by tonysdg 8y ago
"...be real shame if someone was to acquire it, force it to produce twice as many eggs on half the feed, create a half-baked digital platform on which you could watch it lay eggs in real-time, watch as its health slowly declined in the
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by tonysdg 8y ago
May be of interese (see "See Also" for James Madison stuff too): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selected_Papers_of_John_...
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'd argue that it's because (true/hard) AI represents, in many ways, the "final frontier" of scientific research. Not in a literal sense -- they'll always be something else to study. But the notion of creating
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> we as American's have been brainwashed to believe that we are all just 'down-on-our-luck millionaires' I'm not sure I'd say "brainwashed" -- this is a founding mythos of the United States. It's
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If Faith in Democracy Ebbs, Danger Rises(wsj.com)
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'm aware of the fact that you don't use floating point math for finance -- for exactly the reason you described -- but the academic in me wonders if you could formally specify a high-enough degree of precision -- and all the corn
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by tonysdg 8y ago
For financial transactions, it would certainly allow for fast high-precision floating point math. Imagine IEEE 754 4096-bit floats. Not sure anyone would actually use this, and you'd still have to standardize the rounding precision,
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Switch to DDG as your default, and you can search using Google semi-anonymously in even fewer keystrokes by just typing "g! <search query here>" (or just using DDG as-is).
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Ahem I believe you mean to say that it's a decentralized donation that uses cutting-edge, game-changing BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES that will REVOLUTIONIZE the world as we know it. /s
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Andy Weir (author of The Martian) wrote a fun little sci-fi novel titled Artemis, which depicts almost exactly that -- the first lunar colony (largely) dependent on a single company. Great book with a fun heist plot.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Hey, I've heard of worse retirement plans.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Yeah, they dropped the ball a bit on SWTOR. I'd have loved to see a single-player KOTOR 3. Ah well, Bioware's slowly dying, so it's up to new companies to innovate on the stories.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (another Bioware IP) might be an even better example -- the story swings rather dramatically on how you play the game, with the potential to kill (or save) multiple characters. You get 30+ hours of ad-
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Fake News Proliferating Across WhatsApp in India(m.timesofindia.com)
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by tonysdg 8y ago
My issue with bundling of news specifically is that it becomes bland and generic. The bundler starts trying to guess what I want -- which defeats the purpose of why I read the news. I subscribe to the NY Times and the WSJ separately precise
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'm curious -- does she use that newfangled Windows Surface Knob thingy? How does it work if so? And what's her setup if not (e.g., does she use a separate drawing tablet)?
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Someone get this girl a scholarship, stat.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'm not sure I saw any signs that they're "reconsidering" on this ticket -- just that they're now aware of how many corner cases they have. I can easily see Google saying, "eh, that's your problem, learn t
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by tonysdg 8y ago
IIRC, part of the argument against is that you're allowing biotech/pharma companies to test on vulnerable populations. Here's a story on NPR about the pros and cons: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-sh
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by tonysdg 8y ago
That minority controls a non-trivial portion of the nation's political power -- just look at the 2016 presidential election for evidence. I'm 100% for clean energy and reducing/eliminating fossil fuel use, but I also recogniz
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Technical arguments aside, props for the Avatar: The Last Airbender reference.
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Personally, I'd argue there's only one concept -- pass-by-value -- with a whole lot of language-specific syntactic sugar as to what is getting passed by value. But I'll call myself out on that being even more pedantic than
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'll second this. As someone who spends most of their time flipping between C and Python, the details of how parameters get passed between functions is intimately related to each language, and keeping it all clear meant having to under

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