umanwizard

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by umanwizard 5y ago
Presumably the manual says that because that’s how Americans pronounced it, not the other way around.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
That has always been the normal pronunciation in American English — at least where I’m from. It’s not something Bush invented. I am sure there are also plenty of countries whose names are pronounced differently in Iraqi Arabic than in those
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> there was an attempted coup in the US No there wasn’t. A rowdy protest is not “an attempted coup”. All actual institutions behaved according to the law.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
True, but in this particular context the IPs would be unique, as Facebook has been IPv6-native for many years.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> i thought cellular you get a unique ip? In the US at least, yes, because most cell providers switched to IPv6 long ago. In other places, carrier-grade NAT is widespread.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Well, of course. But there's a free-rider/tragedy-of-the-commons problem here: people might reasonably think the monetization of their eyeballs is an acceptable cost to be able to use something like Facebook, even if they choose n
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Simple text and image ads can't provide enough revenue to keep something like Facebook running. (Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on your perspective.)
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Indeed. I should have said illegal _and actively prosecuted_, unlike small-scale trade at the Amsterdam coffeeshops that most foreigners are familiar with.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Large-scale manufacture and trade in drugs is still illegal in the Netherlands. The retail coffeeshops are tolerated, but they all still have to buy from criminals.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
You are correct. To expand a bit: French pronouns have four possible cases: as the subject, direct object, or indirect object of a verb, or not an argument of a verb at all. The declensions are: je/me/me/moi nous (colloquial:
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by umanwizard 5y ago
There's a flag for that: -O0. What you seem to want is "do all the optimizations, except the ones that contradict what I 'obviously' mean", which is just not possible with current technology.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I’d be curious to know what benchmarks you’re using on which O0 is only 5% slower. I suspect your program must be almost entirely IO-bound, if this is the case. In that case, Python, Ruby, or shell probably wouldn’t be much slower either.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Another (modern) example: SIMD instructions.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Every optimization changes the observable behavior of a program in some way. How is the compiler supposed to know which changes you deem acceptable? Eliminating dead stores (including calls to memcpy whose result is never read) seems like o
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by umanwizard 5y ago
If you work on a (self-hosting) compiler, those are the same.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Then they can compile with -O0 and get basically that. What’s the problem?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Clean air and water have nothing to do with climate change. Climate change is caused by relatively tiny concentrations of CO2, which is perfectly safe to breathe, and not “dirty” or a pollutant in any traditional sense. If you think of clim
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> If we can convince countries to stop killing their own people We haven’t actually been able to do this. Not even close.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
It’s also a tragedy of the commons problem. If one country does the right thing, it doesn’t stop everyone else from carrying on as usual. There are debates right now in Germany about how German steel producers could become uncompetitive int
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Investing in renewables and mandating efficiency is great, so I’m not picking on those parts of your post. But why do people talk about things like recycling, banning plastic waste, etc. in the same breath as discussion of CO2 emissions and
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Yeah, historical linguistics distinguishes between a language being influenced by another vs. descending from another. For example, English is descended from Old English (a Germanic language), but was very heavily influenced by French (a Ro
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I downvoted you because it’s just not true that being against covid lockdowns means one is scientifically illiterate or doesn’t care about climate change, so it’s a bad analogy. Covid is much less serious than climate change. I believe the
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Most people would be worse off under such a scheme, because such a tax would be regressive, or at least less progressive than income tax.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> why would it be a bad idea to reduce the level of pollution in the environment For the record I do believe in climate change, and think we need to deal with it. But to answer your question, if climate change indeed _weren’t_ caused by
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Because it is descended from Sanskrit which has been known to be an Indo-European language since the very beginning of comparative linguistics. It is genetically unrelated to Dravidian languages, but it does have a lot of Dravidian loanword
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by umanwizard 5y ago
fn put_string(array: &mut Vec<String>, input: String) { array.push(input) } fn find_string(array: &[String], input: &str) -> Option<usize> { for i in 0..array.len() {
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by umanwizard 5y ago
If you are joining an early enough startup then your cash salary is very likely to be below-market, at least when compared to FAANG etc.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> every single country
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> Describing the covid pandemic as simply a small decrease in life expectancy is a little on the nose. How so? The first result I could find[1] estimates that life expectancy decreased by 1.18 years in the US due to the pandemic, which
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> if every country simply locked down for 3-4 weeks This is an absurd fantasy that couldn’t have been possible in the real world. > But no, muh freedom, and but the economy! Your mocking tone is out of place. I do in fact think freedo

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