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by yosefk 3y ago
What procedure mitigating the supposed risk of this change was skipped due to management pressure according to TFA? The way I read it, the original change of the constant "3" to "4" was tested, it was observed to have th
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by yosefk 3y ago
These aren't even bugs, they're "UI problems." For something experimental, I think it deserves some slack even for actual bugs. UI-wise and even bugs-wise, eg 40 years old C++ debugging experience in 35 years old gdb wil
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by yosefk 4y ago
I never worked for Google nor worked with anyone from Google who said something like "you should move to Bazel" even once. I also did lots of work on in house build system migrations and optimizations. Do you think that the proble
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by yosefk 4y ago
You mean humans traditionally drew hands with 7 fingers and other such? I have a hard time remembering a single human drawing "sucking" in the way AI-generated hands do.
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by yosefk 4y ago
Technically correct is the best kind of correct! Anyway, it sort of depends on the definition of "left" and "right"; not sure how allsides.com defines them. Reason seems to be "libertarian", which is a mix of p
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by yosefk 4y ago
Isn't Reason, niche as it might be, closer to the center of society than The Guardian, which is somewhat closer to the left side of society?
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by yosefk 4y ago
I think the notion of "privilege" and the habit of accusing people of being "privileged" are so off that if someone "uses the word against you", you might as well give up since the chances for a reasonable disc
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by yosefk 4y ago
How many threads would it take to hide 100ns of DRAM access latency and what serial performance would we get?
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by yosefk 4y ago
Protocols Not Platforms - like Bitcoin which is mostly traded on a few exchanges, or email which is mostly handled by a few giant services? Mastodon will be no exception with high likelihood. Choose it over eg Twitter if you prefer where it
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by yosefk 4y ago
I feel like the really interesting part of "The Twitter Files" isn't the arbitrary moderation decisions made (we sort of knew what they were thru their implementation and it's hard for moderation to be "not arbitrar
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by yosefk 4y ago
Dead - no, dying COBOL-style - quite possibly.
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by yosefk 4y ago
The best way to find out the best strategy for Human Chess is to train AlphaZero to play it, and learn from its example. Then we can make a Human Human Chess variant where you lose the game by playing the top move suggested by this newly tr
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by yosefk 4y ago
Everybody who works with Maya, Flash (now Adobe Animate) etc. knows that they crash all the time, and often corrupt files so you back them up every hour or so. Carmack insists, in a gaming context, to run heavyweight, high-false-positive-ra
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by yosefk 4y ago
It's even worse. The majority, not of all bugs, but all vulnerabilities (of all severities) do come from memory safety bugs. TFA: "For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65%
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by yosefk 4y ago
Chess deals in perfect information which you cannot fully process in time to make a move, which is not functionally different from lacking perfect information, and similar to most life decisions. What it doesn't have is asymmetric info
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by yosefk 4y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by yosefk 4y ago
Sure, I wrote some myself. Q is what libraries you can use on top of the userspace thread package that are aware of the userspace threads rather than just using OS APIs and thus eg blocking the current OS thread.
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by yosefk 5y ago
Isn't Snowden alive because the US decided not to kill him? Doesn't sound like killing him is that hard
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by yosefk 5y ago
$350K per year? 2 more years, and they'll cross Dr Evil's One. Million. Dollars. mark! Divide this between the several US medical professionals involved, and we're looking at life-changing payouts.
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by yosefk 5y ago
It depends on the customer. Apple and Nvidia indeed license just the ISA and build their own CPU implementation from scratch. At the other extreme, you can make a complete chip just from ARM IP - they have way more than CPU and GPU IP, they
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by yosefk 5y ago
BTW it's not obvious that an OS is harder to debug. A logical error in an accounting package can probably often only be found by a checking tool that has the equivalent of all the functionality of the package under test. OS bugs are mo
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by yosefk 5y ago
I doubt your compile times were due to pattern matching which TFA demonstrates to be NP-complete, any more than C++'s compile-times are due to the undecidability of template metaprogramming. (Though I guess one might argue that slow co
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by yosefk 5y ago
Very possibly you don't want the US to be an empire and to spend money on the "security" of Israel (eg preventing us from developing fighter jets - for our own security, no doubt) or eg Germany which can't even give asyl
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by yosefk 5y ago
...and then Israel can build its own fighter jets? Count us in! It's not "aid." It's fiscal transfer to vassal states (though 75% of it really goes to US corporations' pockets - aid isn't dollars but vouchers t
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by yosefk 5y ago
If you essentially have one live version of your program, like you do when it runs on your servers, coupled documentation is probably a good idea. If you have multiple active versions, like you often do with software released to run on some
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by yosefk 5y ago
This CFI implementation makes &func be different values in 2 different loadable kernel modules. C says they should be the same value. What do the language lawyers among the compiler writers, who explain why the execution of an entire pr
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by yosefk 6y ago
As a Russian speaker, I LOVE these things. Both ways (Russian letters abused to spell English words and vice versa.) In fact I miss old phones with just English keyboards where abuse to spell Russian words (eg CCCP) was an art form, for a b
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by yosefk 7y ago
First of all, this is an excellent comment thread. Secondly - I think technically they said "used as a textbook," not sure if the link demonstrates this extent of reliance on the book.
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by yosefk 7y ago
I think this quote basically says that "a parent's self-control correlates strongly with the parent's perception of a child's self-control" and this somewhat undermines the conclusion wrt heritability.
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by yosefk 7y ago
The trouble with technical skill is that you can't measure it with anything like an ELO rating, and it's not easy to prove that knowing a given bit of technical trivia really helps you be productive, or that a given non-technical

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