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by faceplanted 1y ago
You said that's not really true and the described exactly how it's true, what did you mean?
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by faceplanted 1y ago
I see what you mean now. The way you phrased it came off as much more a critique of the language used and/or the developers using it, rather than the simple fact of it being a rewrite of a complex tool. Also does `sudo` not have a spec
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by faceplanted 1y ago
Transpilers in general tend to be significantly less well maintained and optimised than direct APIs
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by faceplanted 1y ago
> I am pretty sure the Rust version has a lot of logic bugs What makes you say that? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm genuinely interested.
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by faceplanted 2y ago
It makes sense that a very popular language would be being used to make one of the most popular projects.
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by faceplanted 2y ago
You seem to think the issue is noise, but have you considered noise might just be the most noticeable symptom of general city living? i.e. having much less personal space, nature, privacy, and free time to spend in them?
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by faceplanted 2y ago
No no, maybe he's right and there are only 8536 ways to sort a deck of cards, the casinos have taken us all for fools!
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by faceplanted 3y ago
Well, 0 isn't really possible, but assuming you're just asking "What would the impact be on the world if me made matrix multiplication trivial" in the same way that people ask what making a room temperature superconducto
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by faceplanted 3y ago
> Most real world buttons are elevated off the surface to let us know it is pressable, but digital buttons now just have a white or colored pill shape around it. I can't recall the last time I saw a pill shaped button in the real wo
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by faceplanted 3y ago
Microsoft teams doesn't load slowly because of the animations, you can turn all of them off if you mess around with the settings and your windows registry enough. It loads slowly because MS have a huge incentive to keep adding features
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by faceplanted 3y ago
I'm skeptical of the idea that anything is going to derive intelligence from the bottom up, but I'll be super impressed if that's how it goes.
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by faceplanted 3y ago
In theory that would work but compilers and toolchains are far too clever now and always liable to change, so there's no way to know that in the future it won't be optimised back into shortcutting and revealing the timings.
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by faceplanted 3y ago
A friend of mine has a literal heapmap, i.e. an infrared thermal camera, and that actually displays obvious outliers in striped red and white like digital camcorders show overexposed areas. It's really useful because it works both as a
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by faceplanted 4y ago
Most of them are bullshit, and the ones that aren't are ripe and ready to be used to bullshit people. Every new kind of forensics is treated like it's going to be the solution to solving crime, when what it really is, is yet anoth
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by faceplanted 4y ago
Complete noob question, but if it never goes away how does it get into chickens? It sounds like your point and this article combined are implying that having chickens (whose eggs you don't eat but who do eat the bugs) would actually be
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by faceplanted 4y ago
> The question is whether we can recognize and want to solve the problems imo. Today our media seems incapable of highlighting issues. The media pushes a narrative to effect social change (ie political); rather than presents the issues.
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by faceplanted 4y ago
> Keyword here is "once", kids love it _once_ they're there. The point is that -at the time when the parent is asking the kid to stop what they're doing and shower- they (don't want to / don't understan
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by faceplanted 4y ago
> I think the authors just need to find an easy way to say something new, and what is more easy than going against something "common"? I'm sure some of them do, but having seen first hand the damage to productivity and hap
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by faceplanted 4y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear about what I mean. I don't mean the ends, I mean the means. like exercising, or studying, or even brushing my fucking teeth have never in my life stopped being a manual decision. I want the ends obviously, lik
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by faceplanted 4y ago
I've heard this explanation so many times but it feels like it has an enormous missing piece, like, maybe I just have fucking ADHD or something but never in my life has doing things and going places I don't want to ever gotten eas
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by faceplanted 4y ago
> On a side note : am I the only one who is tired of the current (decade(s)-long...) trend in blogs/articles of "deconstructing" positive/common-sense behaviors? "The dangers of tidiness", "Embrace your
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by faceplanted 4y ago
> Kids refuse a bath usually not because they’re rebelling against themselves or the parents, but because they don’t get the concept of delayed gratification yet I'm confused by this thought because there _isn't_ any delayed gr
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by faceplanted 5y ago
Is that a solution though? unless you send your ship instantly after those bullets another objects could still just come in from the side after they've passed, unless these bullets cover significantly more than the front facing area of
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by faceplanted 5y ago
> There's a weird sense of internal entitlement where some (likely a small, but still substantial) number of people work there, are well paid, and yet act internally as if it's some terrible place doing terrible things (yet sta
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by faceplanted 5y ago
The Deja vu sensation of this conversation happening almost identically 2 days ago (everything from wondering how >100% efficiency works, someone explaining it's from the environment, and then someone else explaining efficiency is i
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by faceplanted 5y ago
Didn't you mean to say "where I _can't_ easily see and move things around"? or are you making a different point I'm not understanding, because it looks like you're negating yourself and I'm not sure what y
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by faceplanted 5y ago
If you compare people to apartheid murderers and _don't_ specify how you mean, you can't exactly claim he's jumping down _your_ throat taking that the wrong way. "Oh, these leftists seem like Adolf Hitler" "Fuc
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by faceplanted 5y ago
There's no objectively "fair" number, but there are far better approximations. No-one really cares if it's perfectly equitable between every employee, but they _can_ see obvious inequities harming people's lives.
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by faceplanted 5y ago
This made me actually laugh out loud, it feels like some of the things I came up with as a teenager wanting to do robotics and automation but having no money or way to purchase things online, water bottles were actually a good way of poweri
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by faceplanted 5y ago
Are you talking about alignment or whiteness here? I'm just confused as I thought even government dental would allow for braces, and it would be weird to whiten a child's teeth. I'm not from America and lucked into never need

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