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by whyever 9y ago
"Tera" is an SI prefix and "Watt" is the SI unit of power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_SI_prefi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
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by whyever 9y ago
> AFAIK nuclear so far has the smallest fatality per kWh ratio. Does that include the uranium miners?
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by whyever 9y ago
> but the bounty is only $100. This is the minimal bounty.
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by whyever 9y ago
> A lot has changed. Could you please give some examples?
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by whyever 9y ago
There is also a Lisp dialect: https://github.com/murarth/ketos
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by whyever 9y ago
It's not so easy. You might have to give up a big part of your social life, depending on how much of it happens via the box.
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by whyever 9y ago
> Benchmarks are about finding representative results across a variety of tasks. > And you can construct cases where the JVM is infinitely faster than C/C++/Rust, because the JIT optimizes through a virtual call and detects
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by whyever 9y ago
If you have to document it, you might as well have type annotations and let the compiler do the check for you.
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by whyever 9y ago
It does not help you as much if the standard library and the whole ecosystem don't have type annotations.
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by whyever 9y ago
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/binarytrees.htm...
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by whyever 9y ago
> Unless you're using order of magnitude to mean 2x, it's not the case that Java/Go/Haskell are an order of magnitude slower than C/C++/Rust. It depends, in some benchmarks they are 10 times slower.
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by whyever 9y ago
After trying this, 113 == 4 is still False for me.
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by whyever 9y ago
I think the company is a bit bigger than one person by now.
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by whyever 9y ago
I don't think it is just your users vs. all other users. Why are other vendors not patching as quickly? In this case, it was not a short time.
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by whyever 9y ago
I'm not convinced 4G is more secure.
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by whyever 9y ago
> OpenBSD was notified of the vulnerability on 15 July 2017, before CERT/CC was involved in the coordination. Quite quickly, Theo de Raadt replied and critiqued the tentative disclosure deadline: “In the open source world, if a pers
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by whyever 9y ago
I think LuaJIT is generally faster, not only because Python is harder to optimize.
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by whyever 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_(driving)#Germany
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by whyever 9y ago
It already happened in Germany. We use different IDs for social security, taxes and ID cards.
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by whyever 9y ago
The thing is that errors at compile time get reported almost instantly, but errors at runtime might be reported hours after you started your program if you are unlucky.
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by whyever 9y ago
No, you don't have to write tests for invariants enforced by the type system.
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by whyever 9y ago
In most countries, being a professor is the only way to have a permanent position as a researcher in academia. You can be a researcher without being a professor, but it may involve changing your position (and country) every few years.
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by whyever 9y ago
Possibly infringing, is not illegal, infringing is.
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by whyever 9y ago
Germany has what I would call a better healthcare system, but how much you pay for it is coupled to your income. So it is not independent of work. In Germany the employer has to pay about half of the social security for their employees (thi
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by whyever 9y ago
They are not providing that service. The reviewers are other scientists working for free. All the publisher is doing is coordinating the work.
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by whyever 9y ago
You can already sell votes, see this start-up: https://www.votebuddy.de/
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by whyever 9y ago
> Hardware has always been a story of reliably operating unreliable parts. It was eye-opening to see the same concepts applied to software. Walter Bright has been advocating this for some time: http://www.drdobbs.com/arch
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by whyever 9y ago
I can think of the following reasons: 1. It is less profitable to develop exploits targeting a minor OS. 2. Minor OS may have some specific features that the major OS don't.
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by whyever 9y ago
It's a lot faster. See http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep . > Notably absent from this list is ack. We don’t benchmark it here because it is outrageously slow. Even on the simplest benchmark (a literal in the Linux k
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by whyever 9y ago
This is how making the constants available could look like. Currently they are available via a module, and they are implemented like above: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcore&#

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