Chai-T-Rex

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by Chai-T-Rex 2y ago
If a Rust function can panic, there's generally a non-panicking alternative. For example, `Vec` indexing has `vec[n]` as the panicking version and `vec.get(n)` as the version that can return `None` when there's nothing at that ind
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by Chai-T-Rex 4y ago
I'm a bit lost on how the bitcoin supply isn't in the hands of the rich. Do they give out free mining equipment and electricity to the poor to equalize things?
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by Chai-T-Rex 4y ago
Based on your own standard, I'm wondering why people should take you seriously when you use terms like 'rabid'.
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by Chai-T-Rex 4y ago
They didn't say discrete GPU, they said GPUs, which includes integrated GPUs.
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by Chai-T-Rex 4y ago
The author doesn't give the impression that they understand what they're reading. > But she gives the game away when she writes: “Maybe my relationship with dreaming wasn’t like everyone else’s.” Not like everyone else’s, no.
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by Chai-T-Rex 5y ago
Why would a person who did what they did stop for a bit? It's just not part of their personality.
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by Chai-T-Rex 6y ago
You can't support a point about private companies in the US in general with a point solely about powerful global corporations that are US companies.
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by Chai-T-Rex 7y ago
I'm not sure that's down to Venezuela's power companies. That's right about when the US was trying to coup their government, right? Stuxnet's origin story can tell us a bit about what kinds of sabotage they pull.
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by Chai-T-Rex 9y ago
>The volunteers recognised cloned speech as such only half the time (ie, no better than chance). That's incorrect. It's like saying that one lottery ticket has a 50% chance of winning. If they're fooling people half the ti
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by Chai-T-Rex 9y ago
There are already things like SCTP.
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by Chai-T-Rex 9y ago
See also https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily/issues/294
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by Chai-T-Rex 10y ago
One thing that shouldn't be discounted is survivorship bias. The machines from the 1960s that broke early on aren't around anymore. The only machines from the 1960s that are left are those which last a long time.