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by w0utert 7y ago
Sustainability is not just about CO2 emissions. Countries that have low per-capita greenhouse emission or pollution have their own ecological problems caused by e.g. deforestation, depletion of fishing grounds, depletion of water sources, e
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Fair enough, that statement may indeed be overreaching a bit ;-)
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I always wonder why it sometimes seems that any kind of animal behavior that resembles human behavior needs to be rationalized away as anthropomorphism. Is it really that far-fetched to assume animals share at least some emotions and behavi
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>> where the exact result depends on when intermediate results are written to RAM and when they are kept in the FP stack, which might depend on intransparent things like compiler optimisations. One thing I've never really been
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This is very much true. Especially for private travel like city trips etc, I wouldn't mind at all if the trip took a little longer, for me the trip itself is part of the experience. But the prices for long-distance train trips are just
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by w0utert 7y ago
My experience is it isn't really. I used the web version to plan a trip across Mojave National Preserve once, and it came up with a totally innocent looking route using some unpaved roads, which was supposedly faster than going around
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by w0utert 7y ago
In that regard, AlphaGo is a lot more impressive, not just because it is a vastly more complex problem to find a loss function for playing Go (compared to chess), but also because AlphaGo basically learned to play the game by itself without
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by w0utert 7y ago
Well last time I checked the Linux kernel was C and not C++, so that might explain why ;-). I don't know anything about kernel programming, but I assume that there's some very, very strict conventions about how the various parts o
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by w0utert 7y ago
The assertion was that Apple does not have any computers for professionals that need a powerful machine, but not as powerful as a Mac Pro. This is obviously assuming they need or prefer macOS over Windows or Linux for whatever reason, other
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I would argue that for the vast majority of use cases you are describing, even the non-pro iMac would perfectly fit the bill. Any iMac from the last few years that has TB3 for eGPU and fast external storage even. Name one professional use c
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by w0utert 7y ago
I like this idea, except for the fact that the extra parametrer pollutes the method signature and method calls, for something that really should only be a compile-time directive. I'm actually curious why something like this has never b
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That's not how software development works in e.g. companies where multiple people use the software (framework, libraries, API's) at different levels/roles. For example, if we develop some framework to be used at multiple site
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by w0utert 7y ago
I think there’s a lot of exaggeration in the comments about SCONS being slow. We use it for a 300K LOC codebase, and while it is not as fast as cmake, it’s still perfectly serviceable. To be honest, for me the flexibility to do non-trivial
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by w0utert 7y ago
I don't disagree with what you are saying, though I do think it's a little harsh for what's seems to be just a book to get kids going when they want to draw animals. Everyone needs to start somewhere, and I think this is just
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by w0utert 7y ago
>> The demand here isn't for your social media history, it's for your account IDs. If they want your (non-public) posts, they still have to get a warrant from a judge and show cause, just like they do now. So what does thi
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by w0utert 7y ago
I really don’t see what point you are trying to make here, and how it is connected to anything the person you were replying to was talking about (which is industry politics). If you want to take the discussion into that direction we can go
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High-tech is similar. Where I work there are literally 100s of insanely bright people with backgrounds in math, physics, etc. who struggle for years to get their ideas into results and (ultimately) products. Usually things get stuck on simp
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by w0utert 7y ago
On the one hand this is great, it's hard to argue that it isn't a good thing to have a very fast CPU-based AV-1 decoder built into Firefox. On the other hand, I'm wondering how long this decoder will be relevant, especially c
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by w0utert 7y ago
Yeah, reminds me of the time I had to write a BSP tree builder as a course assignment, and ending up spending 2 months writing an OpenGL renderer + an importer for the Apple QuickDraw 3D API instead (hint: don't try to do that, it&#x27
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by w0utert 7y ago
Define ‘rare’... I remember reading plane autopilot ‘disengagements’ aren’t actually rare or uncommon but happen 1000s of times every day worldwide. Also, this is completely ignoring that a) autopilot doesn’t work at all without lots of inf
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by w0utert 7y ago
Traditional radar is bad at spotting stationary or slow moving objects, and to avoid false positives at every traffic sign or other stationary object above or next to the road, any radar-based object detection has to be tuned conservatively
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by w0utert 7y ago
You're really grossly overstating the effort to port a typical full-screen OpenGL/Metal application over from iOS to macOS or vice versa. It's literally a 1-hour job at most to get a drawing context initialized and up and run
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Only if you deliberately unwrap the optional, which means you either don’t know what you are doing (in which case no programming language feature will be able to save you), or that you’ve considered your options and decided you want to e
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I haven’t checked the code, but I’m also hugely surprised Lua did so poorly. Even the default non-JIT interpreter should be way faster than Python.
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In terms of generated coded, it is exactly the same. But that's not the point of optional types. The point of optional types is to force you to write checks for undefined values, otherwise your code will not compile at all. In the old-
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>> I think that people underestimate the cost for most people to switch to another system. I've been using all three major OS-es extensively for years, so for me switching wouldn't actually be that much of a problem. The s
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by w0utert 8y ago
I think Bill Gates was brilliant leading Microsoft. I hated about everything Microsoft did, I hated their software, and to this day I hate their history of crushing alternatives/competitors that were much higher quality than whatever M
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by w0utert 8y ago
Very interesting and useful, but when I read the title I was hoping it would be something different. I would love to find some kind of stripped-down vector graphics engine that is fully geared towards real-time rendering of path-based graph
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by w0utert 8y ago
Not sure if you are thinking about sick leave because open-space office plans are worse for spreading contagious diseases, or because people are simply less motivated to come into the office if they feel a little weak or tired. I would not
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by w0utert 8y ago
I'll believe it when I see it. Much more likely they will just fix the plane as they have already communicated they will do, airlines will continue buying it, and people will happily board the airplanes. I'm pretty sure the percen

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