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by yyyk 4y ago
I never had any sympathy to that spy. He hitched his ride to Russia and in a way, he is already being punished by living there. Now that he's a citizen, he better hope he can avoid mobilization. Russian IT Joke: I program in Fortran, P
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by yyyk 4y ago
IMAP is an ancient behemoth in strong need of modernization. JMAP is the replacement we have. Could modernization have been done with a dedicated protocol? I guess so. But no one (including you) did the work to get it done, so JMAP it is.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>There is no such version recorded on the GNU project website. It's sort-of recorded. It's not in the version list since there wasn't a release, just distros making a mess: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
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by yyyk 4y ago
In addition, there was an explicit push by the Biden admin to make drilling less profitable (less permits, increased oil royalties, increased investor reporting requirements, and a PR push). It's not politically useful anymore - even t
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by yyyk 4y ago
Rust is rather lean - you'd have to give up something to simply. e.g. most simpler languages are GC languages. That said, GC shouldn't be a problem for 90% of apps. Now, it's not unlikely that eventually Rust will accrete eno
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by yyyk 4y ago
I understand that V8 JIT is way faster than raw python. The proper comparison is against python+FFI though. My point was that rewriting mere glue code is apparently not considered cost effective by the community.
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Taliban Bans PUBG and TikTok: Says Its “Too Violent and Immoral”(otakukart.com)
4 points by yyyk 4y ago|1 comments
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by yyyk 4y ago
If you're doing all the interesting bits via FFI, Javascript JIT does not give you much aside from a lot of extra work. Why should we reimplement the glue code for marginal improvements? If you are doing stuff without FFI, than JS&#x27
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by yyyk 4y ago
Correction: Data science .
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Why not just build models in JS? Because ML/Data source has particular numerical requirements. JavaScript has poor mathematical defaults and still misses useful datatypes like float16*. * Yes, this can emulated. Emulation is slow.
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Toy Models of Superposition(transformer-circuits.pub)
2 points by yyyk 4y ago|0 comments
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by yyyk 4y ago
The actual context here is a thwarted attack on Boston's Children's Hospital. The FBI is angry , and they intend to hunt these 'hackers' down: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/3-i
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by yyyk 4y ago
>It seems to me this is part of a strategy to get intel and AMD This announcement weakens EVGA's leverage since now EVGA doesn't have the NVidia option. Also, if EVGA were willing to work with Intel, Intel would have jumped on
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by yyyk 4y ago
Technically yes, but it's doesn't force voters to get a nonexistent score out (I also don't mind the tactical voting implications). 0/1 is pretty close to a ranked choice which allows equality - which is a problem... but
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by yyyk 4y ago
>This is a pretty strong claim that needs strong evidence to counter. Especially considering there's lots of works demonstrating the usefulness of this information. My claim: "Data X does not exist". Your reply: "Data
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by yyyk 4y ago
>This is stronger than plurality or ranked? Much stronger and more damaging. In a non-score system, a candidate does not care if their supporter ranks the other side as a 1, 3, 5 or 9. They voted for the candidate and that's what&#x
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by yyyk 4y ago
Another thing to note is that in cardinal voting systems the candidates have a big interest in strong negative advertising against the opposition. If the Republican candidates want to avoid Biden getting 2 or 1 from Republicans expressing t
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by yyyk 4y ago
>In an ordinal perspective Romney would have a larger edge because you've given a higher weight to him. Perhaps. Is that a necessity of ordinal voting? I'm not so sure. Trump could have been dropped in the initial round, and th
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Voters don't know which candidates they prefer? They know which candidates they prefer, they don't have a score for it. One voter may prefer A over B and B over C. There's an argument to give A 10.0 and C 0.0 (it's n
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Wow, that zip file of JSON is 6.5MB, but when you decompress it you get a 382.MB CvrExport.json file! Not only is it so small, but it's easy to improve while remaining compatible with zip: Infozip -9 -> 5693Kb zopfli -> 5437K
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by yyyk 4y ago
Cardinal voting systems ask for information few voters really have, and we get GIGO. We arguably shouldn't want to receive the cardinal info if they did have it because that mainly helps ultra-partisan voters. They allow candidates t
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by yyyk 4y ago
I don't agree about the thread topic. IRV is general should be fair enough to discuss here. Also, by the same 'logic', you could say the thread is only about Alaska politics and ask everyone not from there to shut up.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Lots of places have been using RCV for some time. It is not hard to understand. >These concerns about the importance of the "perception of fairness" are never brought up when it comes to issues like voter ID laws, elections
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by yyyk 4y ago
Modern printers usually work one of two ways: You can feed them directly a typical printer language (PostScript, PCL or PDF), or you work with CUPS PPD files. Both are userspace. It would be easiest to see if there's a PPD for closely
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EU court largely upholds $4B Google Android antitrust fine(apnews.com)
1 points by yyyk 4y ago|1 comments
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by yyyk 4y ago
Some people actually have a different workflow than old style mailing lists.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Yea, I wrote that no country was as anywhere strict as China. However, quite a few countries had curfews which elicited fines and possible jail time (fines happened, but I don't think jail was used in practice). One example: https:&#x
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by yyyk 4y ago
Not uncommonly, the provider/program through which the email was sent.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Plain text is plainly unusable for a significant amount of people. Mobile? Have fun with a small font size to accommodate 80 chars. Ultra-wide? Same flowing problems. Right to Left language? Learn to 'work' with zero-width charact
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by yyyk 4y ago
Your statement is categorically false. No country is/was as strict as China, but plenty of countries had mandatory restrictions ('lockdowns' if you will), upto mandatory stay-at-home, or stay-near-home. Just look at the (very

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