tux1968

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by tux1968 5y ago
With respect, a lot of people disagree with you... even a lot of people posting personal testimonials on this page. Seeing something can have a much more profound impact than simply being told about it.
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by tux1968 5y ago
Google is judge and executioner. There is no presumption of innocence, you're guilty if they say you're guilty.
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by tux1968 5y ago
No, I say that facing such a serious life-threatening situation puts things in perspective and you stop worrying about things that don't really matter.
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by tux1968 5y ago
Thanks. Still unsettling that while both perspectives are equally valid, Newtonian physics is so much more convincing than what came before (clockwork/earth at the center of the universe). So while both relative views are equally true
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by tux1968 5y ago
> but I think you're mixing the everyday definition of "relativity" Well, yes.. because Einstein's theory beautifully makes all the math work out, explaining one interpretation of motion as the real one. But what it
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by tux1968 5y ago
> A planet orbiting the sun is accelerating toward the sun. How do we know that the sun isn't orbiting the fixed earth, and accelerating toward the earth? Everything would look _exactly_ the same to everyone. Yes, the math works ou
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by tux1968 5y ago
> Remember that everything is relative and perspective is key. This has always bothered me a bit, everything being relative. You can validly say that we're the ones moving at near light speed and those stars we're talking abou
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by tux1968 5y ago
I suspect people with cancer have bigger and more real-life issues to worry about than other people's word choices.
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by tux1968 5y ago
> it's really hard for a professional tennis player to describe exactly how they know where an opponent is going to hit a ball Andre Agassi explains one exact way in just under three minutes: https://youtu.be/57BMzCM
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by tux1968 6y ago
> failing birth rates are such an important factor in the economy IMHO, falling birth rates in the west are a good thing. The world population is in the process of levelling out, it can't just keep growing. There are more than eno
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by tux1968 6y ago
That makes a lot of sense, thank you.
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by tux1968 6y ago
I must be really missing something obvious, since I don't know why so many replies are talking about debugging. We're talking about the speed of production code (aren't we?) that already elides a lot of debugging features. T
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by tux1968 6y ago
Are you saying that the achievement outlined in the article is making sure that this optimization is turned on in debug mode? Because I thought the entire point of the article is that they have made a marked speed up in production mode, not
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by tux1968 6y ago
If you're interested in this optimization for performance reasons, why would you want an otherwise non-optimized build? It seems that the only important case is the optimized build... where for some reason you're not getting this
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by tux1968 6y ago
This is a really great result, but i'm curious why this isn't a very common and standard compiler optimization, at least as an option you can enable? It seems like the conditions where it can be applied are pretty easy to identif
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by tux1968 6y ago
My sister plays a lot of scrabble so I am happy to be able to share your site with her. If I can be so bold as to offer one criticism of your site though, it was a bit confusing when I first clicked to look at it. The first page is a barra
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by tux1968 6y ago
Should be okay inside the car though...
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by tux1968 6y ago
From the thermal imaging results given in the article, i'd say your conjecture is correct.
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by tux1968 6y ago
There are devices you can buy for a few hundred that place the image of the person you're talking to directly in front of the camera. That way you can look at who you're talking to while also looking directly into the camera. ht
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by tux1968 6y ago
Interesting article from November 2011
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by tux1968 6y ago
And the other thing they do right is put a date prominently at the top of the page. So frustrating trying to figure out when the information on a page was actually relevant without knowing when it was published.
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by tux1968 6y ago
180 Euros for that? That doesn't seem right.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Well there were a lot of problems with the X protocol actually, having to do with latency and multi-threading support at the very least. So much so that Xcb was developed as a replacement protocol; so applications were already having to be
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by tux1968 6y ago
I tried to give a hint about the basic reason of trying to get out from under the weight of a huge code base that had become old and crufty while the very architecture it was designed around was becoming moot since things were shifting to c
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by tux1968 6y ago
I'm no expert in the X11 codebase, but I have lots of respect for the guys who were working on it at the time the Wayland direction was undertaken. So I don't feel in a position to second guess their opinion or tremendous contrib
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by tux1968 6y ago
Trying to shoehorn proper security into X11 would be a formidable effort and still be quite disruptive to client software. Back when Wayland was just being proposed there were not a lot of developers working on X. They almost-unanimously a
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by tux1968 6y ago
You have (almost?) no way to verify how the transistors inside the computer chips are wired. And even if you design your own chips, you can't really know if the design you specified has been faithfully followed at the fab facility. I
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by tux1968 6y ago
Yes, that all makes sense. Will just note that there was a time not so long ago when just as large a majority of people thought homosexuality was a horrible abomination, or worse. Attitudes change and in my view it's time to stop bein
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by tux1968 6y ago
Buying the time of a Nasa engineer and buying the time of a day labourer are different classes of activity. Just because it costs more for one than the other does not change the ethics of the situation. You feel differently about someone c
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by tux1968 6y ago
Lifting a pen to write a cheque for 10,000 is identical in effort to doing the same thing to write a cheque for 10. Physical effort is not the only criteria we use to assign value. I don't believe that it's ethical to enforce m

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