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by veqq 4y ago
A bit tangential but: > While the 750W power unit does present a pretty hefty environmental consideration, Ampere will offer an optional liquid cooling assembly. In discussions of new CPUs, GPUs etc. I often see people comparing consumpt
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by veqq 4y ago
Where's the optimal boundary between transparency and privacy? To coordinate against threats or e.g. the formation of 19th century style political machines etc. privacy is essential, but we also want transparency. At first glance, larg
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by veqq 4y ago
This is a very interesting insight although aesthetically awful to me. Some friends have discussed audio only UIs, totally starting from the ground up (with AI input/use). I'm skeptical about the required resource usage though. Bu
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by veqq 4y ago
This is a welcome improvement! While I'm however not sure how many future features would be needed to gain more BSD adoption, I doubt this is enough a drop in that bucket. That said, efficiency is a drag for running it in production, s
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by veqq 4y ago
In the past, most people would say they never bought anything based off of an add. Once, I personally did want to by a product from an Instagram add (a suitcase insert expanding to a full closet hanging rack) but it was a misrepresentation.
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by veqq 4y ago
> They want to teach their son both, but can’t. Yes, they can. It is very easy. Each parent only speaks to the child in their own language. That is all. ---------------- The children of immigrants lose languages because their parents are
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by veqq 4y ago
Opinions don't really matter in the face of amazing progress like this. Aesthetically, I am against this. But who cares? When your development velocity goes 10x, it's selfjustifying. Perhaps or probably you'll run into some a
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by veqq 4y ago
OP did a 3 day task in 2 hours.
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by veqq 4y ago
> we have engineers, scientists, and physicians driving Uber Why do you believe this?
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by veqq 4y ago
> It has been on a hiring binge, adding more than 230,000 staff since August 2020.
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by veqq 4y ago
In 40k, the old ones made the eldar, orks and such for just this purpose.
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by veqq 4y ago
Honestly it very much looks like that. With current technology, we just need feasible integrations to disseminate and we can remove huge swathes of knowledge workers. This will enable many new business models, but the amount of paying custo
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by veqq 4y ago
Does anyone know what the edge cases SVG concentrates on are?
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by veqq 4y ago
Chomsky's approach to language killed traditional philology and real engagement with other languages in linguistics. If all languages can be reduced to a universal grammar, you can just look at English and learn about all languages! Th
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by veqq 4y ago
> C++ Do you literally mean 1) C++, 2) just a lower level language with control over those or 3) reading the relevant libraries or system code implementing IPC etc. (isn't it in C not C++?)?
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by veqq 4y ago
A lot of it is due to different conversational contexts. "The most interesting" or "funnest class" vs. "the most useful" or "relevant at work". The liberal arts ideal has not been relevant for college
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by veqq 4y ago
Which words?
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by veqq 4y ago
No. Things like Greek fire or Roman cement aren't possible - because we don't know the precise mixture or formulation involved. Many old descriptions mean we don't know how to do it, because they are very vague. But we can te
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by veqq 4y ago
That was very bad for the weavers. Well earning middle class jobs were replaced by toiling in the mills, It then took a few generations for the work act to put a 10hr maximum workday etc. The luddites were trying to defend their livelihood
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by veqq 4y ago
The best I've found by far: Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs https://archive.org/details/plan9designintro
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by veqq 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... > 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action ... Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay had collude
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by veqq 4y ago
Esalen's a retreat for the human potential movement, which centers on selfactualizing yourself, through New Age spiritual things, alternative medicine etc.
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by veqq 4y ago
Although we all know GoDaddy's subpar, this is massive: > credentials that gave it access to a “small number” of employee accounts and the hosting accounts of roughly 28,000 customers. > obtain login credentials for WordPress adm
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by veqq 4y ago
This is horrifying. Clearly the answer to: "Does a falling tree make a sound if no one's there to hear it?" is: Yes, the trees will act like humans and hear each other. They will also simulate a city, celebrities and everythi
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by veqq 4y ago
My circles (slatestarcodex etc.) were worrying in January 2020, stockpiling etc. an advocating for masks when the government was still saying they weren't necessary. I remember the heroic effort in the Czech republic to hand make milli
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by veqq 4y ago
> you absolutely should not be "handling" an error: you should merely propagate it so it gets closer to code that has actual intent Why?! There are 2 types of errors: - an error in your program logic, which you need to fix - an
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by veqq 4y ago
Checking the library the book implements can help: https://github.com/themetaschemer/malt
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by veqq 4y ago
But you can't run the code on your own machine.
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by veqq 4y ago
Thanks for this link, I'll give it a go!
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by veqq 4y ago
> If you're cutting my pay but still maintaining a shareholder dividend, I am gone. After 1-2 years in any big tech company your equity surpasses your salary.

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