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by wzdd 7y ago
"questionable business model => may collapse during a pandemic" is not equivalent to "may collapse during a pandemic => questionable business model". (No comment on whether these things have a questionable business
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by wzdd 7y ago
One of my favourite programming books for its anyone-can-get-into-programming optimism and for including the timeless advice "Remember, when you are trying to work out a game, not to include anything which your computer won't be a
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by wzdd 7y ago
Thank you for the explanation. It has solidified my view that Brave's actions are unethical. The ethical problem with ads is that they are distracting, overly promote particular things over others for reasons of questionable buyer bene
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by wzdd 7y ago
Multi-stage container builds are also not exactly unusual. You would generally not want an entire C build system sitting around in your container.
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by wzdd 7y ago
I worked for a while at a company which did this and, while it worked, everything was slightly worse (for me as a programmer -- I'm sure support was much easier). Noticeable latency while doing normal things like scrolling through code
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by wzdd 8y ago
Babbage fairly clearly knew this and was playing up his public persona of "irascible genius who must have everything precisely quantified" for laughs. His autobiography is full of this kind of self-aware self-mockery; another funn
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by wzdd 8y ago
Might be time to plug my very orgmode-esque Vim plugin: https://github.com/nfd/disorganiser I recently came to the same conclusion as the article but was dismayed by the performance of the popular Vim plugin (and wasn&
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by wzdd 8y ago
Yes. Irrelevant ads are less likely to influence me to buy something.
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by wzdd 8y ago
The OP's point is: 1. The "superintelligence" crowd are capable of making very convincing arguments which he simply cannot refute on their own terms (I guess he'd say your example is one of them) 2. Since he can't r
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by wzdd 8y ago
I'm afraid I found this a rather confused discussion of whether C will teach you "how the computer works". Yes, C is designed for an abstract machine -- all programming languages are, with the arguable exception of assembly l
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by wzdd 8y ago
Just wanted to let you know that I worked through this, and I agree, it's cool... ... but no neat hack can justify the existence of BCD. :)
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by wzdd 8y ago
"God of the gaps" is a derogatory term, and the idea of believing in a God just because some things cannot (currently) be explained is intellectually unpalatable. So I wouldn't expect most Christians to claim to believe in Go
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by wzdd 9y ago
> The point is that the human brain is just as vulnerable to the adversarial attacks that people are claiming will be the downfall of ML That may be the point, but it's not proven by this study. Cats and dogs have many structural si
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by wzdd 9y ago
> if you support byte-addressing you'd better as well be happy with byte-alignment All ARM processors do this. The concept is called "natural alignment" and it's pretty common on non-x86. See e.g. http://in
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by wzdd 9y ago
Just because it's in your operating system rather than your apps doesn't mean it's any less of a backdoor.
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by wzdd 9y ago
How do you think the government will access end-to-end encrypted data without making use of a backdoor? (Or alerting the user.) Brandis said warrants should be "sufficiently strong to require companies, if need be, to assist in respons
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by wzdd 9y ago
> Boy, what a useless measure. The article makes the perfectly-reasonable observation that "CPU usage" also includes the time spent waiting on memory, that this time (as a %) has increased significantly in modern processors, an
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by wzdd 10y ago
> Creating more threads won't make context switches happen more frequently This is generally wrong in practice, but for a slightly subtle reason. 1. You can force a context (or thread) switch whenever you like by performing a blocki
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by wzdd 10y ago
Odd -- JavaCard smartcards are available for under $5, have crypto co-processors, and certainly support general-purpose code. See for example my project for KeePass, http://code.lardcave.net/2016/08/06/1/
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by wzdd 10y ago
> No actual (automatic) syntax highlighting system would ever highlight the code as it is shown on the page. Not true: my actual automatic syntax highlighting system (Vim) uses the same colour for reserved words and for labels. So I thin
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by wzdd 10y ago
What? That doesn't follow at all.
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by wzdd 10y ago
I didn't find this article very convincing. 1. "You must trust the VPN." This is true, but you must trust something (your cafe, your ISP, your computer). In fact the entire article really hinges on this point -- the VPN provi
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by wzdd 10y ago
Quite the opposite -- there is some evidence that disfluencies are good. Here is a study hinting that disfluencies improve recall: Study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X11... > t
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by wzdd 10y ago
The '"rogue engineers" myth' comes from the CEO of VW USA. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/an-engineering-th... Edit: The rest of your comment is false. The day the news came out, Wi
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by wzdd 11y ago
Maybe you were downvoted because that is K&R style, not ANSI style. ANSI requires the type declaration next to the name in the parameter list.
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by wzdd 11y ago
> If the charging device can use more current, nothing happens. That's not true -- if you put a power supply capable of supplying, say, 10 amps at the end of a wire rated for 0.5A, and then you connect a 10 amp device to that wire,
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by wzdd 11y ago
This is not entirely true. Gmail (and other big email providers) blacklist blocks of IP addresses belonging to hosting providers who are perhaps not as proactive as they should be at detecting and removing spammers. If you unwittingly sign
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by wzdd 11y ago
I upvoted you. The pitch doesn't reflect reality. The computer actually consists of an offline reader for popular Wikipedia articles and some parts of Khan Academy. It also has some open-source music and a couple of games. This is only
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by wzdd 11y ago
Your quoted text actually justifies Amelius' assertion: the functional category is the same, but the implementation differs, and the judgement (and the law) hinges on implementation. All this means is that the definition of taximeter (
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by wzdd 11y ago
Right -- all the predictions that mention specific percentages, or include specific dates, are wrong. The ones which are actually correct are the vague ones ("A new internet community-hangout will appear", "Someone will make

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