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Exactly, the context in which the object is found is more informative that the object itself. The moment this context is disturbed, e.g. artifacts being pillaged from the site and sold on the black market, the object loses almost all archeo
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Timezones ;)
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Alan Kay silently weeps.
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Logic programming is one of those paradigms where if you haven't learned it you're doomed to repeat its mistakes. As with Lisp, Prolog makes you a better programmer even if you never end up using it.
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Indeed. HR has incentives to side with the employer, where a union rep has incentives to side with the employee. In Belgium, every company of a certain size is required to have a union rep. They provide a lot of services you would expect HR
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by yvdriess 6y ago
Yes, last-hitting is indeed one of the more important mechanics where execution is important in DotA2. However, there are a ton of tools to stack that deck in your favor such that a weak last-hitter can still do better than a strong last-hi
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Most precompetitive research in the semi industry also happens at Imec in Belgium. The ASML litho machines are a single step in even just the wafer production process, there are several companies involved in making and processing masks, doi
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Yep, this cannot be repeated enough. Government funding is how a lot of innovations happen, but it's not as visible as a private company bringing that innovation to market. To put in optimization terms, private companies are good at fo
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There is a saying from game designers (e.g. Zachtronics) that the UI always has to have some element of frustration to it. The most elegant easy to use interface to a game is a 'push this button to win' button. This might be one o
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What are guard-bands?
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A frustration I heard a lot from PL researchers is that popular languages today seemed to have gotten that way /despite/ their intrinsic values rather than because. My stab at explaining that is some kind of take on a 'progra
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In some regions with strict insulation building codes, balanced ventilation with a heat exchanger for recovery is mandatory. Well, almost mandatory, it can get complicated.
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I agree. Dlang already has scope guards (Appendix C in the OP) https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#scope-guard-statement , and does so at block scope. For some code it's a more elegant solution (keeps acquire and
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guard/defer is semantically and syntactically as explicit (or implicit) as C's automatic storage class ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/storage_duration ), which is the default storage class
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The shipping container only has the reactor, it does not produce the actual power. You would still need turbines etc for that externally.
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Yep, I used the wrong term there. s/etching/lithography/
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I stand corrected, I mistakenly thought that was part of the lithography machine.
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The consensus on HN (search for Intel 7nm, cobalt, ...). It's all speculation at this point. I doubt that Intel would publish details on their processes and its defects so soon. Intel buying some TSMC capacity does not mean it is going
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RISC-V bleeding edge?
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> It does make it baffling why Intel is unable to produce 5nn chips with the same ASML machines TSC is using. It must be management failing Boeing style. ASML machines do not produce chips, they're just ones doing the etching. There
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I personally would love to see a frontend architecture that more closely resembles the backend: dataflow execution. It's been researched in the 80s/90s, with some hybrids popping up in literature from time to time (TRIPS, ADAM, et
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In short, pretty much all of them were either established or sustained by the government. Even to a greater extent than in the US, as a several of the EU giants descent from privatized national companies.
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ASML and Imec are still firmly in the heart of Europe though. In a sense, the bleeding edge/precompetitive part is already firmly leading in the EU.
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> I wonder if graph processing might be more broadly applicable than matrix processing as done on GPU's. Ultimately, yes. Graph processing is slow on traditional architectures because it's a very sparse compute problem, which d
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Intel’s Piuma Graph Analytics Hardware(dmccreary.medium.com)
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They get payed for the work, not the training (with some exceptions). Not being payed for training is a barrier for people who are not in a good financial situation.
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Can you clarify the point you are trying to make, because at the moment I can only interpret your post as: "It's all overblown, these measures are not necessary".
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Technically, a function is a named lambda. There are subtle implications for both in PL design, so it's important to keep the naming distinct.
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That's the more likely explanation. Altera vs Xilinx isn't just the hardware, it's an entirely different toolchain. It would be insane of Intel to demand third parties to move all their technology over to Altera's.
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The very origin of the word meritocracy is to satire the very concept it has taken now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology

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