SassyThrowaway

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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
Look, while I am sure what Musk says is very important, what is also important it's that many millions of people live (used to live?) on territories Russia claims. Ukraine cannot just give up on its citizens. Certainly not because Musk
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
What sort of difficulties those might be? If Russia overcomes those difficulties, should Poland get worried?
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
The point is that a famous name gives an edge in peer review to a (potentially mediocre) paper written primarily by somebody else with the famous name appended.
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
People in charge of Russia likely care little about Ukranian civillians and care deeply about appearing strong to Russian war supporters.
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
> You clearly haven't ever bought a ticket. £30 please, unless you want to travel after 10am, then it'll be 25, oh wait you want to go via Reading that'll be 40. Haha, you got through the barrier tapping your oyster card?
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
Isn't there a difference between not hanging out with drunk people and not drinking alcohol? Some people have a glass of wine with their meal, for instance.
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
Perhaps, surprisingly, it might go both ways: when I know who is on the PC, I think I can tell which person wrote which review, because I both know their work and met them personally. In fact, those people on the PC is why I am submitting t
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
I think your question makes a lot of sense in the general case, but in case of NASA it very well might be that they scratched their heads, came up with requirements and found that they don't care about there being an ecosystem of any k
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
> Especially if an open ISA means that our systems will be more portable and faster to develop. So I understand that RISC-V does not immediately impose licensing fees, but how does that translate into portability and speed of development
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
What is superior about RISC V technically?
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
It's a "collateral" damage to lives of 40+ million people, which I suspect many people find a tad too high to treat it just as a statistic.
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
The distintion between Rust and C looks interesting. Are there any formal (or formal-ish) grounds for saying that only authors of unsafe code need to be aware of Undefined Behaviour in Rust? With MiniRust, would it be plausible that some so
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by SassyThrowaway 4y ago
Are changes to everyones model of computing actually radical? I mean, I understand that taking advantage of the fact that memory actually persists is actually somewhat non-trivial when done via byte-addressable accesses, and that even with
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by SassyThrowaway 5y ago
Importantly, you have to be a permanent resident in the UK to host your family. I respect the UK's immigration policy, and very much appreciate the chance to pursue an exciting job opportunity in the UK that I took a year ago. And yet
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by SassyThrowaway 5y ago
I am not Dutch (much like many people here), so your rhetoric question is difficult for me to understand. What happened? What did you expect to happen? What was the purpose of that referendum in the Netherlands in the first place? Was it a
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by SassyThrowaway 5y ago
Tangentially to the topic of discussion, I have seen analogies of the following phrase so many times by now: > I’d also formed a hypothesis, based on a certain bluntness and lack of social tact he exhibited, that Daniel might be on the a
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by SassyThrowaway 5y ago
In another tab I have a Meduza article open listing how the rhetorics of President of Kazakhstan has shifted from using words like "a demonstration" to "an international terrorist group". Assuming that Meduza's comp
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by SassyThrowaway 5y ago
Historically, Israeli computer scientists have been able to apply and win ERC grants. That said, I have not checked if anything has changed for the UK in this regard, hence why I am curious.
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by SassyThrowaway 5y ago
I did not understand that point at all. The author writes: "The loss of this funding and scientific exchange is a major loss for British and European academia — and innovative companies who need to hire the best scientific and technica
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by SassyThrowaway 5y ago
> Check if your hardware supports your OS before you buy it. Guess what? Then it all works great. What a waste of time. Say, I am buying Thinkpad T480s and Thinkpad X1 (2018). What would you suggest that I check?