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by voldacar 5y ago
Our ruling class is extremely moralizing. They aren't relativist at all. They only seem that way to you because their morality isn't identical to yours (though they are genealogically related)
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by voldacar 5y ago
The difference is that Apple made actual computers that worked, while Theranos' whole product was just literally a lie
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by voldacar 5y ago
"Constexpr" is possibly the most hideous keyword in any programming language. My eyes vomit a little each time I read it. They could have just used "pure" like in D, but this is C++, so that would be too sane and obvious
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by voldacar 5y ago
I was referring to performance of the compiled program, not the time it takes to compile it.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I have to disagree. Anytime my computer does something I disagree with, or tries to prevent me from being completely in command of it, that's a bug at best and malware at worst.
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by voldacar 5y ago
clang wins on some benchmarks, but gcc wins on over 50% of benchmarks, at least this always seems to be the case whenever I look it up. If I were writing a program that needed to be really fast I would just compile with both on max optimiza
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by voldacar 5y ago
GCC with max optimization still generally produces faster binaries than clang, but clang is constantly improving and in a few years they will probably be very similar.
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by voldacar 5y ago
You could let a program create an API for manipulating a new type of data and inform the system about it so that other programs could use it. This is more or less what AmigaOS did; you installed a datatype for e.g. a PSD file, then all your
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by voldacar 5y ago
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" An OS facilitates communication between programs running on a computer. Unix lets those programs communicate by sending characters of text
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by voldacar 5y ago
In TempleOS you can mix text, images, hyperlinks, and 3d models in the terminal. This is true for the whole system: you could literally have a spinning 3d model of a tank as a comment in a source file. That's right, it took a literal s
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by voldacar 5y ago
No thanks. If I can't cheat without a program knowing, I'm not really in control of my computer.
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by voldacar 5y ago
You might be able to order it from some chemical supplier. It's a niche molecule so I wouldn't expect it to be cheap
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by voldacar 5y ago
Superhero movies, and hollywood in general
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by voldacar 5y ago
I didn't say they were geniuses, just that they were more familiar with the tech and its implications than the average person. Smart contracts have been around for a while and we basically know the scope of the catastrophes that can re
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by voldacar 5y ago
People who interact with non-bitcoin crypto tend to be a lot more knowledgable about the tech and its implications than an average person. So I would say the answer is probably yes.
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by voldacar 5y ago
not a fan
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by voldacar 5y ago
I sometimes wonder where we would be without the UN. Such luminaries.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I will not eat the bugs.
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by voldacar 5y ago
What bothers me most isn't the malinvestment (though that sucks) or a faliure to calculate costs and benefits, but the fact that they're moralizing zealots. A zealot can justify anything in the name of The Common Good (naturally,
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by voldacar 5y ago
It feels like we are headed into a new medieval era of sumptuary laws and moral decrees promulgated by a decentralized international clerical-academic class. I don't think I like it very much
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by voldacar 5y ago
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this planet has finite entropy
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by voldacar 5y ago
Fukushima was old, and by 2008 the IAEA was warning them that the plant could have serious issues during an earthquake/tsunami.
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by voldacar 5y ago
>What is your evidence that the tech "becomes safer with time"? Sorry but this just comes off as an extremely ignorant comment. Modern reactor designs (gen3/gen4) are very different from the old Chernobyl/Fukushima re
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by voldacar 5y ago
Interesting findings from this map: - Guam is a significant data/telecoms hub for the western pacific region - There are some short cables installed in areas that don't seem to make much sense, Such as the one in the gulf of Mexic
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thanks. Yeah a lot of what the BCH people were saying at the time made sense to me, the fact that BCH flopped notwithstanding. I'm always suspicious of attempts to transact crypto in a way that isn't "on-chain" because i
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by voldacar 5y ago
I've been out of the btc loop since around 2016 but I remember a lot of people were very negative about lightning network back then. The main contentions were that it was not actually trustless and it would create a semi-centralized hi
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by voldacar 5y ago
a lot to unpack here
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by voldacar 5y ago
You have to learn to read NGO/thinktank language. Freedom = people do things we approve of Democracy = people vote for policies we approve of
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by voldacar 5y ago
I bet any argument you could give for that statement could be equally applied to dollars. Bitcoin is valued because it functions as an [imperfect] form of money. People value it (aka are willing to exchange their dollars for it) because it
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by voldacar 5y ago
Economic value is not an objective phenomenon. It isn't like mass or energy or charge or fluid flow. It follows no conservation laws. It's a subjective, often ephemeral phenomenon that emerges from the interactions of buyers and s

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