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by initplus 4y ago
I really dislike the "fire in a crowded theatre" analogy - it was originally used in a court judgement where the accused had spoken out publicly against the draft. It's honestly madness that this "fire in a crowded theat
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by initplus 4y ago
Products don’t come with a label measuring how much oil was burned in their production. Even if the manufacturer wanted to know, tracing that detail through their entire supply chain is really difficult. Preventing fraud is also very challe
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by initplus 4y ago
It's not as easy as just filing a correction, there are different timelines for when large share acquisitions must be disclosed. It's intended to make financial markets fairer. If he wants to join the board he needed to have filed
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by initplus 4y ago
It's impossible to spend any time tuning Go's GC parameters as they intentionally do not provide any. Go's GC is optimized for latency, it doesn't see the same kind of 1% peak latency issues you get in languages with a l
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by initplus 4y ago
Look I really don't want to be a hater, but please look at the way your words are perceived publicly. This doesn't read as open comments about trademark law, it reads as defensive and oppositional. This wasn't a huge PR chall
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by initplus 4y ago
Do you see how comparing your company to Oracle is not the most flattering? Oracle owns the Javascript trademark because it was originally owned by Sun, who trademarked it under an agreement with Netscape who are the original authors of Jav
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by initplus 4y ago
It's hard to escape the feeling that Wasmer is trying to hijack Webassembly for their own commercial advantage. Bytecode alliance is a non profit organisation whose members involve some of the tech giants involved in promoting WASM dev
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by initplus 5y ago
You still pay capital gains tax when you sell the shares. Buybacks don't let investors avoid taxable events, they just allow investors to control when the taxable event happens. Whereas with a dividend, you pay tax immediately when the
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by initplus 5y ago
I'm most curious about whether there is an actual difference on the die between the performance and efficiency cores? Or is this just fancy binning? If you get a die with 10 working cores, assign the weakest 4 as E cores and the best 6
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by initplus 5y ago
Higher tier chipsets have more PCIe lanes and allow overclocking. I would be very surprised if there is a large performance difference outside those two scenarios. DDR5 prices are inflated, and 16Gb is sufficient for use cases this CPU is s
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by initplus 5y ago
Not being fundamentally different to the N64 purchase model from 1996 is the problem! And in fact it’s actually worse given that many titles are available digital only.
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by initplus 5y ago
Every pointer you can replace by a pass-by-value optional or a non-nullable reference is one less opportunity for errors. Providing more restricted types that can replace raw pointers for many use cases makes languages safer.
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by initplus 5y ago
It's meaningless to us as software developers but I'm sure ARM likes having customers to buy their low spec designs. Every product doesn't have to be a top tier high performance CPU design.
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by initplus 5y ago
ARM's less open platform also comes with some advantages though. It's easier for ARM to prevent ecosystem fragmentation and non-standard instruction set extensions. Or to push for migrating to newer platforms like the move to 64bi
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by initplus 5y ago
I think much of the confusion around nulls stems from the fact that in mainstream languages pointers are overloaded for two purposes: for passing values by reference, and for optionality. Nearly every pointer bug is caused by the programmer
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by initplus 5y ago
I'm not sure focusing on the instruction set is the right angle. x86 would be more competitive in the mobile space if Intel had offered efficient chips. Is the instruction set the biggest blocker that prevented this? Or is it the licen
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by initplus 5y ago
Perhaps I've misunderstood but my understanding was that suspend/resume on the deck itself is recording some low level state (locally). So you can reopen the deck and be right where you left off with no loading. But they also prov
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by initplus 5y ago
Nobody in such a combat situation has ever held their camera as steady as that footage.
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by initplus 5y ago
Ultimately, you have to trust some photographer or organisation. The camera sensor is not a trusted input. Nothing can prevent somebody pointing their camera at a high resolution screen displaying a manipulated image. Or a staged scene. No
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by initplus 5y ago
Maybe that's helpful today, but by remaining (relatively) standards compliant the kernel codebase has a more long-term resiliency. The more tightly wedded to a single compiler implementation the greater the long term risk for the proje
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by initplus 5y ago
Note these are seperate issues, caused by the same underlying issues with float precision. Some game engines solve the jittery rendering issues by moving the world relative to the player/camera, rather than the opposite (though it may
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by initplus 5y ago
Curious why there is a derailleur, but seems to be only one fixed gear at the back? Guess you trust that motor to have enough torque to not need any rear gears?
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by initplus 5y ago
Well the whole point is they didn't have permission to use that spectrum. The interference the FAA is complaining about is explicitly outside of the radalt allocated spectrum. FCC has allocated radalt's 200Mhz, with another 200Mhz
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by initplus 5y ago
Sure, but these concerns do not apply so much to turn based games. In a turn based design all clients move in lockstep by virtue of the core game mechanics. Clients that send invalid commands will have them ignored by the server, and the cl
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by initplus 5y ago
I want Google to allow me to specifically include/exclude mirrors from my search results. "Only show my the original source of this content", or "only show me mirrors of this content". I don't want to see the s
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by initplus 5y ago
Sommeliers are professionalized, with courses & exams. But I don't believe they are actually judged on their ability to taste wines and detect flavours. Designing such tests would be simple - rate of successful flavour identificati
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by initplus 5y ago
Great example of this presentation style is in an old version of the Extreme ultraviolet lithography wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Extreme_ultraviol... One of the most chaotic wikipedia pag
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by initplus 5y ago
If we have the government to weigh in on which transactions are legitimate or not, why do we need a distributed ledger? Cryptocurrencies are trustless, but if we can trust the government to rule on ownership fairly why do we need a trustles
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by initplus 5y ago
Modern LED street lighting is more directional than traditional sodium lamps, and results in less overall light pollution.
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by initplus 5y ago
Apple's moat is much larger. The costs involved with hardware manufacture, and the need for a deep software ecosystem are challenging. Meanwhile Facebook is "just" an app. It's pure software, and doesn't have the sa

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