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by hackingthenews 3y ago
What is the chance that someone saves them from bankruptcy?
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by hackingthenews 3y ago
Not really. Watch: "Are We Really 99% Chimp?" https://youtu.be/IbY122CSC5w
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by hackingthenews 4y ago
Hanlon's razor never applies when politics or money is involved. Best to just suspend your judgement instead of giving politicians the benefit of the doubt.
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by hackingthenews 4y ago
This is explained in the talk he gave. One of the benefits is that with new syntax the semantics can change without breaking backward compatibility, e.g. [[nodiscard]] can become default for all functions written in the new style.
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by hackingthenews 4y ago
I am curious about companies who survived/flourished despite seemingly key employees quitting or employees quitting en masse.
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by hackingthenews 4y ago
My impression from reading about chess engines online is that drawing is far simpler if that is your explicit goal. Several comments online on different websites claims that they are able to end games in draws against stockfish.
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by hackingthenews 4y ago
I agree. My guess is that institutional malice is fully explained by economic incentives 99% of the time. Which the version from the other comment cover: "Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be adequately explained by economic
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by hackingthenews 4y ago
Yes, thank you, I was in fact primarily (but not exclusively) thinking of economic incentives! I will use your phrasing from now on.
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by hackingthenews 4y ago
I personally find this saying extremely overrated and damaging in many cases. Especially considering the pacifying effect it can have on attempting to undo certain injustices. Best use of it is in your personal life with family, friends, re
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by hackingthenews 5y ago
Successfully? The last line from the AI indicates otherwise.
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by hackingthenews 5y ago
Yup agreed, commented the exact same below.
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by hackingthenews 5y ago
Agreed. But if you could maintain a system that avoids a very unlikely scenario with possibly huge disastrous consequences, then why not?
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by hackingthenews 5y ago
You are correct of course. The 3 children per woman limit is still the smallest number that accommodates for the 2.1 average required for replacement level. To achieve equilibrium and avoid rapid growth the limit must be set to 3 and then
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by hackingthenews 5y ago
It could also be that they see no scenario ahead where they want the average number of children per woman to be above 3. I don't think China wants back to exponential growth ever. They probably want to find their equilibrium. Consider
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Concurrency/Parallelism is the number one reason I move a project from Python to any other language. It's one the few areas where Python can't provide a gracious frontend or an acceptable runtime, but it is very impressive ho
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
New version bumps after 8 are not necessarily major.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Agreed. Just gonna drop this here: Nicolai Josuttis “The Nightmare of Initialization in C++” [0] [0] https://youtu.be/7DTlWPgX6zs
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
The problem is not just complexity, but complexity with tons of pitfalls.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Kind of ironic that I would agree with you. The reason I still wrote it is that my opinion just recently changed from liking C++ but understanding the pitfalls to a more pragmatic this is not worth the time or effort.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
But that is not inherently a bad thing. If we look at programming languages as tools, it makes sense for them to get out of date and new ones taking their place, with all the lessons learned. So its possible that programming languages like
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Even as a C++ programmer with too much spare time, it has become obvious that learning and using all of C++ is beyond impractical. To the point where I find that my C++ code more than ever before looks like C. Nowadays I am using C++ mainly
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
I can see how solving for perfect cooperation can leave people irritated. That's why most algorithms used in OSs takes latency, fairness etc. into account. Algorithms in between might work better in real life, e.g. people routes can be
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Completely agree. Unapparent effective price fixing is standard. The modern governments has dropped the ball on trying to understand the modern markets.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Honestly heard it more than once from smaller players. I can see how the bigger players gets away with this based on all the other things they get away with that we know about.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
What Apple and Google is doing is in many ways effectively price control and inhibits free market dynamics. For example Apple demand that app developers price their apps in the app store similar to the same service in other stores (website,
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
I tried with Chrome and it worked.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Anyone else have trouble with the page on firefox? I get a giant "kowainik" written on the forefront of the page, and I don't know how to close it.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Thanks! I haven't really experienced the image feature, as I used Scheme. It doesn't sound like it would be consequential to how I program, but that might just be my ignorance of it. My experience with the macro stuff is that they
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Can someone direct me to some code where I can see the full potential of Lisp? I have programmed in Scheme before while taking a course using SICP. Final project was a Scheme interpreter. But I didn't have any epiphany/awakening l
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
That's fair. Here is another example where it eliminates since 5.1. https://godbolt.org/z/3oGc3P

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