elementalest

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by elementalest 2y ago
This. Its been around for over a decade and has all the features mentioned.
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by elementalest 3y ago
Isn't that whats happening to a certain extent with wasm?
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by elementalest 4y ago
> What is the alternative? If cheap labour is no longer possible/desirable, then near fully autonomous factories driven by next-gen AI and robotics becomes significantly more viable.
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by elementalest 4y ago
From Mozilla's point of view its probably that people might get confused between the old and new themes and wonder why all the highly customisable themes we use to have no longer work. So we have to have a new the colourways name so Mo
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by elementalest 4y ago
I don't think its about best practices, its about good design and communication. Even if we are just talking about PhD students, the majority of them are fresh graduates. They are no different than fresh grads in a company. Those grads
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by elementalest 4y ago
RSE's can and often absolutely should be involved at the PhD level. In my experience, collaboration between the scientist and engineer in the process of research iterations almost always produce better results. Each has insights the ot
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by elementalest 4y ago
As I mentioned in my other comment, the gun related deaths halved 2 years after the gun laws [1]. Furthermore, in 1996, the gun deaths per capita were 2.84, the homicides were ~650 per capita. So of course you will barely see a difference w
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by elementalest 4y ago
Yep, my mistake its 25 years, not 35. Though the difference doesn't negate the point that its been decades since a gun related massacre. That linked source is for all massacres, most of which are not gun related and have < 6 deaths.
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by elementalest 4y ago
Interesting. When compared to places like Australia, where guns are highly regulated and barely anyone owns a gun, such that there have been no mass shootings for 35 years, the solution really is obvious.
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by elementalest 6y ago
Decoders are notoriously harder to support than encoders due to the various internal formats and encoding/decoding options. Until it supports all the different formats (a lot of effort), it will only be able to play back a few videos.
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by elementalest 7y ago
Then you get things like this: https://youtu.be/syiSYMPwFck
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by elementalest 9y ago
> I get that the most direct way of learning is to make mistakes and learn from those. But there's an easier way too. Read books, talk to people, get the benefit of others experience without needing to make those same mistakes again
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by elementalest 9y ago
You misunderstand, I'm saying that if Telstra were properly separated right from the start (when the Howard government privatised it), the Rudd government could have easily gotten Telstra wholesale to do what Chorus in NZ is doing now.
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by elementalest 9y ago
When the Liberals privatised the government owned monopoly telco (now called Tesltra), they didn't properly structurally seperate it in the first place. The government, like NZ, could have gotten the wholesale part of Telstra to start
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by elementalest 9y ago
Yep, and try getting the government to pay the billions required to get public transport up to standard to be able to just provide adequate transport for the majority of people in those cities.
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by elementalest 9y ago
I worked for a BLDC company in their research division for a few years and there are many things that can still be improved. At the time we were working on reducing the size of motors without sacrificing torque or efficiency. This was parti
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by elementalest 9y ago
Due to the publication requirements/incentives, academia greatly favours those who take on short term low risk research that will likely result in a few quick easy papers. Furthermore, due to the limited positions available in academia
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by elementalest 9y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, if you're using smart pointers, the memory wont be freed until the destructor has executed its code. Use after free should only be an issue if you're using raw pointers.
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by elementalest 9y ago
Whilst I agree it is hard to consistently write safe/secure code in C for increasingly more complex code bases, and that C is no longer the best tool for the job in these cases (there are better tools/languages out there), I think
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by elementalest 9y ago
Even when only part of a system/process can be automated and it looks like the rest is too hard to automate, doesn't mean there wont be ways around it, or ways to cheat. Just look at how automation in factories has developed. Some
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by elementalest 9y ago
In the second last paragraph the author agrees what you argue in your comment is possible: > Finally, it’s conceivable that the ostensibly tranquil and low-turbulence economy is masking something more disruptive underneath the surface. R
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by elementalest 9y ago
> I think the term artificial intelligence is incorrect. What we're currently building is, IMO, artificial intellect. The rest of your comment contradicts this statement. Dictionary definition of intellect is "the faculty of re
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by elementalest 9y ago
One has to wonder if its actually just an AI doing web scraps looking for 'news' and posting a summary or just direct excerpts from the source. Then changing/adding a few things it knows are clickbait/headliners. If this
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by elementalest 9y ago
Maybe its not so much that nobody learns, but that its something that is generally best learned through experience. Its hard to self assess and self deception is easy. So society keeps repeating the same mistakes, even though those who have
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by elementalest 9y ago
> Instead, preserving it to study and learn things about game development at that time would be far more valuable for the common good. Given the game recently went free to play and many people still play it, its not surprising blizzard a
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by elementalest 9y ago
I followed reference [2] and the highest voted answer (not the selected one) concludes: > I think the results speak for themselves and demonstrate unequivocally that LLVM is perfectly suitable for JIT compilation.
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by elementalest 9y ago
On windows I can chance the scroll speed so its one line per tick, on ubuntu its stuck at 3 lines per tick. I have a logitech 'spinny wheel' and this makes it very frustrating as the screen zooms by and I lose precision.
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by elementalest 10y ago
My experience with spideroak has overall been very poor as I discussed in a previous thread on HN [1]. I have since moved away from spideroak and am using duplicati [2]. Honestly, things have been much better since then. I have not had any
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by elementalest 10y ago
I'm just curios, disregarding performance aspects, what is there to like about w10 over, say w7? Two things that have put me off upgrading to w10 is the inconsistency of the UI, and the fact the user has less control over the system in
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by elementalest 10y ago
Adaptation can take a while (particularly if its generational). Many things have to go right for it to happen smoothly. While society and people are adapting, there will likely be many workers who are unable/unwilling to re-skill to co

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