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811.
by tovej 5y ago
It's great seeing Livius getting some attention, and on hackernews of all places. Ab Urbe Condita is really much more of an epic tale than a proper history book by modern standards, even though, as Deveraux notes, the later bits are pr
812.
by tovej 5y ago
Right, and it's not the tobacco industry's fault that people die of lung cancer, people should just know better than to smoke in the first place. And if you didn't know, children will eventually start using computers by thems
813.
by tovej 5y ago
Do you know _any_ parents that want their kids to consume ads?
814.
by tovej 5y ago
The C compiler people and the C++ compiler people are the same people.
815.
by tovej 5y ago
I agree in part that it's a C thing. More accurately it's an offset from the array base thing. The first element is at index 0 because its address is base + 0 * sizeof(element) The second element is at index 1 because its address
816.
by tovej 5y ago
I think it's a fair assumption that every soldier is equally likely to die. Zero bias is the easiest one to qualify here. If the greek were less likely to die, how much less likely would that be exactly? I don't see how that could
817.
by tovej 5y ago
OTOH freenode sounds like freedom fries to me, like American political talk.
818.
by tovej 5y ago
what evokes it for me is the con- prefix, which means "together" or "with". Concise should mean something like "together-cut". I did look it up, and the latin dictionaries give "fallen together" or &q
819.
by tovej 5y ago
I always thought concise was about resolving multiple things at once. Cutting two birds with one slice so to say.
820.
by tovej 6y ago
The windows phone experience was terrible, don't kid yourself.
821.
by tovej 6y ago
Look around Europe and you can see it. The reason US city development is a money hole is because you do city-level urban services in sprawling communities. The tax-payer density is just not high enough to economically support the cost of th
822.
by tovej 6y ago
vi/vim/neovim has a very consistent interface. It does have a learning curve but it is very pleasant to use once you've learned it. A bonus is that you can now edit text on pretty much any machine without installing anything,
823.
by tovej 6y ago
That's not the alternative at all. The alternative is sensible city planning with mixed zoning neighborhoods that create comfortable centers all around the city. Add metros, bike lanes, and parks and you have a pleasant city instead of
824.
by tovej 6y ago
Chess books, maybe. Chess sets? I'm sure most people playing chess on lichess are aware of chess sets and could get a hold of one without an ad.
825.
by tovej 6y ago
I agree, and what better way than to impose a tax on consumption after X dollars. Or perhaps even a general luxury tax for goods that aren't absolutely necessary for your welfare. Still better would be to start taxing natural resource
826.
by tovej 6y ago
They still aren't decoupled from emissions. IIRC Emissions actually grow faster than GDP, so it's actually worse than a simple coupling: it's a feedback coupling. All studies that have looked at seeming decoupling of emission
827.
by tovej 6y ago
No credible way to decouple production/consumption from emissions has been found. So no, we do need to start curbing consumption, especially among people in the top wealth quantiles (because they consume the most).
828.
by tovej 6y ago
I take it back, I was too hyperbolic. The export is substantial though: https://www.acea.be/publications/article/eu-us-automobile-tr...
829.
by tovej 6y ago
This is just modularisation though. You can modularise without microservices. Microservices solve a scaling problem, not a design flexibility problem.
830.
by tovej 6y ago
Competition is good, Amazon's practices are bad for competition. Inviting Amazon to NYC with tax incentives is similar to planting a great white shark in a small lake, injecting the local fish with sedatives and the shark with a mix of
831.
by tovej 6y ago
I'm sorry, Europe has missed out on the last three generations of technology? I live in Europe and have visited the US. My impression has been the opposite. When I was visiting (5 years ago): - The trains didn't work - People prin
832.
by tovej 6y ago
We're talking about competing businesses not workers. And funny enough, more jobs at Amazon also means less worker supply for competing businesses. So even that is anti-competitive in a roundabout way. (Even though, yes, high worker de
833.
by tovej 6y ago
I see, it looks to me like you've replaced one false dilemma with another false dilemma. Why would a war with China be inevitable?
834.
by tovej 6y ago
Compiler compilers are great, I love writing DSLs for my projects. I usually use yacc/lex, or write my own compiler (typically in go these days). However (and this is just me talking), I don't see the point in a javascript-based c
835.
by tovej 6y ago
I believe this is how it typicaly works. At least the few laws I've read (Finnish law) voids the offending clauses, not the entire contract.
836.
by tovej 6y ago
IMO, attack the message, not the messenger. Pointing out flaws in an argument is good, but assuming malice hurts the discussion. Now we are suddenly talking about the morality of the poster instead of the issue at hand.
837.
by tovej 6y ago
From Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a Machine". A note left by a resigning engineer: "I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
838.
by tovej 6y ago
I assume they are convex, typically cuboid. This is the type of space you get when each parameter is searched for a certain range. Surely there could be search spaces that aren't convex. In that case the range of a variable would depen
839.
by tovej 6y ago
As far as I can tell, this is a relevant proof when searching through high-dimensional parameter spaces (e.g. machine learning). This would mean that overall geometry is not a (big) factor when it comes to getting stuck on local optima. Dep
840.
by tovej 6y ago
"Formalize a rule of thumb" is one of the definitions of "prescribe"

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