aristidb

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by aristidb 3y ago
Since the spelling reform of 1996 both are spelled Föhn
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by aristidb 3y ago
GPT 4 gave me this answer: In this variant of the Monty Hall problem, since all the doors are transparent, you can clearly see what is behind each door. This changes the nature of the problem entirely. The element of uncertainty, which is p
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by aristidb 4y ago
Curious that they translated it to German based on my phone settings for a product that only supports US banks? (I don’t mind that it is US banks, just… why did they pay a human to translate it?)
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by aristidb 5y ago
The game has an end, and you can get there in a much more reasonable amount of time.
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by aristidb 7y ago
Seeing this made me donate a small sum to the Internet Archive, maybe you (dear reader) want to do it too? https://archive.org/donate/
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by aristidb 8y ago
Also noteworthy that on Intel at least, using AVX/AVX2 reduces the frequency of the CPU for a while. It can even go below base clock.
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by aristidb 8y ago
I've never quite understood the appeal of Dependency Injection. What's wrong with just using constructors?
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by aristidb 8y ago
Pardon my ignorance: How did Solaris solve this?
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by aristidb 8y ago
There is in fact a DPDK related project for NVMe storage: https://github.com/spdk/spdk (I have not had reason to use it yet, unfortunately)
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by aristidb 9y ago
The fact that it showed me a pop-up advert for an Ayn Rand book was also indicative.
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by aristidb 9y ago
In 1517174122 daylight saving time is so obsolete...
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by aristidb 9y ago
A quick google says: <<According to Title 3 of the US Code, the US President "shall earn" a salary of $400,000, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainmen
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by aristidb 9y ago
The article spends 4 paragraphs on them. Just one example: Although AMD’s response in the forum was that these were isolated issues, phoronix was able to reproduce crashes by running a stress test that consists of compiling a numb
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by aristidb 9y ago
In a five party system, it is quite common for voters to not feel too much allegiance to any party in particular.
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by aristidb 9y ago
The very article mentions at the bottom that AMD has its fair share of nasty bugs recently, too. If anything, I would expect AMD to spend even less effort on validation (because they are not flush with cash).
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by aristidb 9y ago
Fun fact: Berkshire Hathaway (Buffett's company) now has a huge stake in Apple. So it's not really true anymore that he avoids IT.
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by aristidb 9y ago
True, but Cmake has a lot of users already familiar with it and who have it pre-installed. So I applaud this change to use Cmake!
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by aristidb 9y ago
The article indirectly says it's using special MRI machines with much better than millimeter resolution. So I think your first analogy is likely better than your second.
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by aristidb 9y ago
I for one find this GROẞARTIG. Maybe not using umlauts or writing nouns in lower case is more efficient, but sometimes it feels good to have something like this.
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by aristidb 9y ago
You could just make a new clean checkout in a different directory?
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by aristidb 9y ago
You can install a devtoolset[1] to get a newer GCC which keeps ABI compatibility. I'm using gcc 6.2.1 on CentOS 7 that way. [1]: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset...
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by aristidb 9y ago
Try indenting your code section by 4 spaces. :)
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by aristidb 9y ago
"protocol buffers which have zero backwards compatibility" Either I misunderstand you, or this is _remarkably_ wrong: Protocol buffers were designed to make it easy to define protocols which are both backward and forward compatibl
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by aristidb 10y ago
I see three main failed predictions: - 10 GHz - long pipelines, I think we're currently at around 14 stages, which is more than P6 but less than Netburst (Pentium 4) - EUV lithography is still not a thing at 10 nm Die I miss
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by aristidb 10y ago
SMS is not very secure, there have been quite a few stories of people losing digital access due to an attacker just calling Verizon and taking over their phone account.
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by aristidb 10y ago
Type aliases have been useful in many languages for many reasons. I also don't understand why the author is so upset.
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by aristidb 10y ago
Why will it give you sleepless nights? Are you planning on moving to Japan and you're worried about that now?
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by aristidb 10y ago
It's still really cool just for the low-level hardcoreness!
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by aristidb 10y ago
Google actually quickly directs you to the needed information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9171356/how-do-i-exit-fro... (first result for "quit git editor" for me)
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by aristidb 10y ago
Revenue and net income are standard, and (relatively) precise terms. Using "income" in place of revenue would only make it confusing to people who know the standard terms, while only marginally lessening the confusion of people wh

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