jarpadat

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by jarpadat 1y ago
My theory is that is what is latent in the terrain of human psychology is a propensity to view misconceptions about which problem it is, as evidence there isn't one. When I stop to think about it, I realize that the misconceptions are
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by jarpadat 1y ago
I tend to agree with your general intuition that presupposing modern understandings creates all kinds of problems understanding ancient texts, some of which is in translation. But the specific case of "apokalypsis" it is kind of
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by jarpadat 1y ago
I suppose a different claim strikes me as false. "should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent" is one thing, "there was, in fact, confidential stuff in there" is a different thing. I think a decent case
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by jarpadat 1y ago
In case you are interested, here is some data on how scholars view apostolic authorship: https://thesacredpage.com/2024/12/13/the-2024-survey-of-paul... To me, it is apparent that the data cannot support any
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by jarpadat 4y ago
Consider an alien which subsists on photons, which is a form of life that exists today. We know from heseinberg that the sensing of this food "here" or "there" is nonphysical. Presumably our creature's civilizatio
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by jarpadat 4y ago
I am also writing a game engine, also because of the gameobject issues, also doing tens of thousands of simulated AI agents. In my case they are GPU-accelerated and I'd guess you are doing something basically similar even if it's
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by jarpadat 5y ago
So, one answer (not necessarily the right one!) to how you can use software without copying it is that "the license says you can". In other words the license definitely views "running" and "copying" as distinc
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by jarpadat 5y ago
The main problem with the interpretation that the GPL sets conditions for use of software is that it specifically claims it does not: > Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they ar
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by jarpadat 5y ago
OED gives the following usages, the first of which suggest users predate computers: 1950 Science 112 732/1 Analog machines..are enthusiastically supported by their users. 1959 E. M. McCormick Digital Computer Primer x. 139 The
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by jarpadat 5y ago
In general, a retained object is deallocated on last release. However ownership of some objects somewhere may have been given to an autoreleasepool, in which case “the last release” for those objects will come from the pool. To what extent
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by jarpadat 5y ago
That discussion is a bit strange. In that example Foo is implicitly #[repr(Rust)] meaning it has an undefined layout. In particular, a,b is unordered, and even if you don't care which order you get, there is the question of padding (
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by jarpadat 5y ago
Concurrent memory safety is definitely a goal. Try the new ‘-warn-concurrency’ flag to see what I mean, it is comparable to rust and quite different than thread sanitizer. There’s also a new runtime sanitizer this year with swift intrinsics
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by jarpadat 5y ago
I think it boils down to the fact that time isn’t reversible, so the “reverse problem” isn’t like the “forward” version. Let’s take some new problems. Suppose you have 100 doors and no switching. Your probability is 1/100, even if the
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by jarpadat 5y ago
It’s an interesting conjecture but I don’t think the data makes a compelling case. When you compare 2 points in time you have a lot of alternative hypotheses, like the 2016 languages just being historically unpopular for some reason. A bett
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by jarpadat 6y ago
I’m affected and have been stress-reading every report ever about this since it began. The short version is, to a first approximation power generation requires power first. For many of the same reasons your house with solar panels is itself
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by jarpadat 6y ago
Queues are a dynamic concept; which queue you’re on is a runtime property. For this reason you may be familiar with assertions to check if a function is running on some queue. Actors however are a static concept, we know at compile time whi
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by jarpadat 6y ago
I freely concede that I'm doing a poor job of defending it, because it isn't my view to defend. The part of it that I don't understand is limited to how it is self-consistent, which is not something I see addressed in your r
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by jarpadat 6y ago
It's pretty simple, although it may not be obvious. There are 2 different views about "what freedom/democracy is" that are presently doing battle in america, at least among inteligentsia One, the worldview embedded into
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by jarpadat 6y ago
We do have a secondary form of capital: what we charitably call ethics/guidelines, or uncharitably - peer pressure. This is the currency that dominates FSF language like the “harm done” by proprietary software, the free software “mani
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by jarpadat 6y ago
A lot of this disconnect has to do with values. Please understand I don't in any way mean to pick on you. The comment has 8 paragraphs that are mostly a description of how property rights work. Analogies to how they worked in other m
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by jarpadat 6y ago
The median educational attainment is "some college". In my state we require teachers to hold a degree and do some postgraduate work, so by definition it isn't a "median" position. That's before we get into
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by jarpadat 6y ago
While I agree with all this, I think a lot of the frustration around "cancel culture" is a general frustration about the politicization of everything. Without denying the reality that much of this is just privileged people living
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by jarpadat 6y ago
SML, D, etc., are compiled GC languages but not in wide use. These days you can make a good argument for .NET/Java, although the traditional implementations are not compiled. The compiler does “guide you” in memory management in Rust,
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by jarpadat 15y ago
I'm an iOS developer and I have 3-4 location-based products. Maybe I'm just not in your target market, but this component doesn't solve any problem I have. Seeing a bunch of dots that change places every time I zoom in is visually jarring
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by jarpadat 15y ago
The joke's on you if your interview process consists of asking googleable questions. Asking "Define X" questions is a really bad proxy for assessing development skill. If you think developers are winging it by c'n'p--any interviewer who as
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by jarpadat 15y ago
Look, I am a libertarian too and I'm 100% with you that government coercion is bad. But running fiber totally depends on a lot of unrelated people agreeing to have their land dug up, and in any practical circumstance that requires coerci
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by jarpadat 16y ago
I have a 6Mbit DSL line but I checked Speakeasy's availability for my address and no dice.
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by jarpadat 16y ago
It depends on what is meant by "burst". With a 250GB cap, you can use your 24Mbit UVerse "burst" speed 3.2% of the time. I don't think it's unreasonable to look at something that is true 3% of the time and call it an unfair claim.
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by jarpadat 16y ago
I think instead of being able to advertise "up to" speeds, ISPs should have to advertise the overall average speed you can use in a month taking into account usage caps. 150GB/month works out to .47MBit/sec sustained throughput. If AT&
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by jarpadat 16y ago
> Those "meetings" you seem to disdain aren't just for people to bitch. Yes they are. If you read through the posts in the actual mailing list, consensus has been built--the consensus is "move to github". See several developers' commen

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