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by woofie11 6y ago
It depends on the type of economic power. US is a bigger market, by virtue of bigger real GDP. Chinese can produce more by virtue of bigger PPP GDP. I agree that for TSMC, market size is more important, but the blanket statement about globa
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by woofie11 6y ago
... and pneumatic tires. I'll admit I threw AC, airbags, and power windows in for comedic value, but as for the rest of those, my car definitely does not have them. It's not just which gizmos, but also the specific gizmos. If your
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think one of the questions is gizmo factor. My car doesn't have an infotainment system, so I can't have problems with it. A premium car with premium luxuries like bluetooth, air conditioning, GPS, self-driving, power windows, he
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by woofie11 6y ago
Thank you!
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by woofie11 6y ago
Can you please explain the last bullet or post a link? "~ long-term immunity is questionable for covid and you can get only two shoots of this type of vaccine in lifetime while maintaining it efficiency" This suggests some fundame
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by woofie11 6y ago
This is the way to do it. Done well, a 5-year deep dive can make you a world-class expert in most things. Do that, and then move onto the next thing, bringing that skillset along. It goes faster every time too. It turns out there are lots o
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by woofie11 6y ago
Mine works fine. If Amazon discontinues, I'll want a major refund. That's how I read eBooks. Without a big screen, textbooks are useless.
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by woofie11 6y ago
I want a short HOWTO linked from this article.
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by woofie11 6y ago
And all you lose in the process is hard-earned trust from people like me, who switched to DDG years ago for privacy concerns. This is troubling.
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by woofie11 6y ago
Not all Apple computers. iPads are growing up into computers, and have a 4:3. It's odd, but it's really hard to find high-quality computers these days. Everyone skimps corners by giving things like 16:9 instead of 4:3. That makes
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by woofie11 6y ago
I don't have a lot of cash for this project. I also don't want a lot of size or watts. I am streaming educational materials live. Since it's a livestream, I don't need to capture or store anything, and output resolution
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by woofie11 6y ago
Does anyone know where I can find good benchmarks? Especially how the CPU compares (I don't expect to be GPU-bound). A projects page would be neat as well, to see if anyone has done anything similar to what I want to do (simple process
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by woofie11 6y ago
1/2) I stand corrected. I will reread about what happened. To answer your questions, though: In the generic case, the MIT administration lies or at the very least badly misleads in these reports (see the Epstein report, for example). I
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by woofie11 6y ago
> Perhaps you spent way too many years in high-level languages that you have started believing magical properties about their compilers. > It does sound like you were abusing C++ thinking you were "optimizing" code without a
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by woofie11 6y ago
> If you are writing a system where performance does not matter, then performance does not matter. It's not binary. Performance always matters, but there are different levels of value to that performance. Writing hand-tweaked assemb
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, if you wanna go that route, in the general case, code will be structured differently. On one side, you have duck typing, closures, automated memory management, and the ability to dynamically modify code. On the other side, you don&#x2
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by woofie11 6y ago
> Prosecuting someone for breaking into your network and using it for illegal activities is attacking them? It depends on where you draw the boundaries between "yours" and "ours." My family can walk into my closet. A
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, I think you missed part of what I said: "at least in the typical case" (which is fair -- it was a bit hidden in there) There's a big difference between normal code and hand-tweaked optimized code. SQL servers are extrem
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by woofie11 6y ago
A few corrections: 1) Saying Aaron had no affiliation to MIT does not reflect the reality of the situation. MIT, at the time, had an open door policy. There were a lot of people who hung out at MIT -- accepted, participating, contributing m
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by woofie11 6y ago
... I never meant to imply that performance was the reason for the switch. We've had a track record of technologies which: 1) Automated things (reliving programmers from thinking about stuff) 2) Were expected to make stuff slower 3) In
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by woofie11 6y ago
Cooperative multitasking came out slower than preemptive in the nineties, so this is unsurprising in the generic case. I think my question is whether async Python is slower in the case it was designed for -- many, long-running open sockets.
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by woofie11 6y ago
There are two pieces here: How the legal system behaved, and how MIT behaved. What you're saying makes 100% sense for an aggressive prosecutor. On the other hand, MIT was behaving in a way which was pure evil. To go back to the Robinho
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by woofie11 6y ago
Turns out I've fed my family just fine working on free software for most of my life (sometimes as a software engineer, but more often as a researcher, entrepreneur, executive, and otherwise). Probably 75% of my jobs. Even in an extreme
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by woofie11 6y ago
It turns out Google isn't as good as talking to people. If you'd like a confirmation, e-mail a one-line question to him: "Hi. I'm interested in how elite schools hire people. Would MIT hire someone like you (as you were
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by woofie11 6y ago
No. It was an excellent analogy. Free software is like physical goods with Right to Repair. In the olden days, if you bought a radio, it came with a service manual and a schematic. It's how many people learned EE, and it was a huge los
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by woofie11 6y ago
Your question is missing the point, but to give an answer: Sussman taught the first edX course, 6.002x. Agarwal took credit for it (since he shot the videos and was the face), but Sussman did the plurality of the work, followed by Terman, b
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by woofie11 6y ago
... and MIT became famous for work during the AI Lab days. ... MIT is going down the tubes. ... And people like Jerry (correctly) say MIT would never hire someone like them today.
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by woofie11 6y ago
Not really. (1) Genetic diversity increases with both time and size of the infected population. You'll get a lot more diversity if it's mutating in 4 million individuals than in 4000. (2) For a virus this young especially, genetic
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think consensus is that it depends on the code. There's a consensus against pointless rewrites, but that's different.
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by woofie11 6y ago
I live in an area with a bad police department. I've never seen our police care about crime. To be frank, I'm not sure how I'd be any worse off without them. I suspect we need some of the higher-end investigative units (e.g.

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