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by wbl 2y ago
That is closely related to autonomy. And the service academies are serious academic institutions. Inviting speakers on military history is very valuable to cadets and midshipmen. Why wouldn't they do it to give their students a broader
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by wbl 2y ago
If you own a paper money isn't the point. Just like in a hospital or a law firm or even a bank. You do the right thing because society trusts you and making money comes from that. Do the wrong thing, and your business will vanish.
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by wbl 2y ago
All the more reason to endorse his opponent!
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by wbl 2y ago
Lisp macros can make their own control flow: it's like the relation of LinQ to F#.
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by wbl 2y ago
So Hamas is authorized?
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by wbl 2y ago
So much is relative: on a giant OoO core it's barely noticeable. In the case of x86 the range of lengths is extreme: a simple two or four choice is much simpler.
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by wbl 2y ago
Most people would regards Standard ML as having some very sophisticated ideas in this regard.
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by wbl 2y ago
Careful: the function definition doesn't remove the records but the call site does. You could transform into a type erased "access at each offset dynamically" form.
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by wbl 2y ago
It does however maintain a bunch of wilderness.
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by wbl 2y ago
Depends on the kind of deposit. Some they leech in situ.
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by wbl 2y ago
Cryptography functions are much safer than parsers or complex protocol logic.
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by wbl 2y ago
What will impact on engineering productivity be?
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by wbl 2y ago
And how do I know you think?
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Factorio: Space Age Is Here(factorio.com)
2 points by wbl 2y ago|0 comments
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by wbl 2y ago
The SF Sierra Club literally fought to save a garage.
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by wbl 2y ago
Temperature measures entropy as a systems energy changes. This is a system where the high energy state is less entropic.
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by wbl 2y ago
The goal when writing unsafe blocks is that no calls ever lead to a violation not let's silently load all the footguns.
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by wbl 2y ago
The process that owns the lock is never heard from again.
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by wbl 2y ago
Yeah but you don't need to worry about your data existing. MySQL has been known to silently fail the one job of a DB.
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by wbl 2y ago
The difference is every line of C can do something wrong while very few lines of Rust can. It's much easier to scrutinize a small well contained class with tools like formal methods than a sprawling codebase.
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by wbl 2y ago
Nobody is entitled to customers
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by wbl 2y ago
You notice that Analogue Devices puts their (incredibly useful) information up for free. That's because they make money other ways. Ad supported content farm Internet had a nice run but we will get on without it.
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by wbl 2y ago
Could be an arbitrary permutation or worse have multiple equivalent characters. Fonts can do a lot.
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by wbl 2y ago
Probably three years
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by wbl 2y ago
US steel very infamously did not do any R&D and stuck to outmoded technology.
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by wbl 2y ago
I'm reminded of college in Hyde Park: the older black people wanted the UCPD in the neighborhood because they saw it as a force of stability, while young white students who wouldn't be affected by shrinking the patrol area critici
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by wbl 2y ago
Not all goods are nontradeable. Flights and lodging at a destination cost the same to everyone as do iPhones etc.
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by wbl 2y ago
The quoting of something exotic like this is not well defined to the penny. It's transactions where people really care about pennies.
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by wbl 2y ago
So if I want to price a barrier in Bermudan rainbow via Monte Carlo I should take the speed hit for a few oddball double rounding problems that are pennies?
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by wbl 2y ago
I think I'm not doing a great job of explaining it. There are three states of the mutex: locked=1, unlocked=0, and sleeping=2. A thread comes along to a locked mutex, and atomically moves it to sleeping and sleeps via futex. The freein

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