lasagnaphil

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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Wow, that's illuminating. I naively thought the overhead of converting between datatypes would not make this worth that much (in favor of saving cache misses). Though does this also have anything to do with the AVX512 instructions?
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
How is a storage format that's not used for math important for speeding up actual computations? I'm curious.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
To make things worse, the site doesn't work unless you disable Ublock Origin (and even when it works it's goddamn slow), and for some reason you get a location access request from your browser right when you click an entry (is the
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I’ve already mentioned how to do this with metatables. But you still need to wrap this in a function and call it every time, it’s quite cumbersome. And the whole thing falls apart when you start using other people’s libraries (For example,
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Nah, he’s more of a hobbyist in AI. I don’t necessarily think you need to be explicitly in academia to produce good academic work (independent researchers do exist), but he hasn’t really produce anything (in terms of actual theoretical&#x2F
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
A question: would it be too much work to port Love2D to a different embedding language? (I'm currently having looks at Squirrel ( http://www.squirrel-lang.org/ ) I always thought Lua was tightly coupled with the framewor
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Lua is a language that I started programming with, and has a special place in my heart even if has some crappy parts. The main issue I have with the language is with table accesses and 'nil'. Tables in Lua are the most fundamental
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
To be honest, that document is a prime example of what a manifesto shouldn't look like. I can't understand what you're trying to say from the beginning sentence: > No other re-ligion (lit. “back-binding” [one etymological
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
No, if you're just an owner. If you're a miner though... that's a whole different story.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
If it goes to nobody, is it really "gone forever"? Did it even exist in the first place? The confusions arise from thinking cryptocurrency tokens as material things (like gold). Money is just a numeric representation of the social
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
To be honest, even without the actual 51% attacks happening, it would really suck to live in a world where just one entity had more than half ownership of a currency used by the people.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I really wish the current global monetary system based on the US dollar would be this simple to change as just creating a fork. Wait, it's actually the US military (which is still the largest in the world) that's backing the whole
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
The incredibly illuminating thing about cryptocurrency hard forks, is that it reveals that money is just a numeric measure of the social relationships people have towards each other, and as a result the ledger and its rules can be dynamical
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
> Honestly, I think the PRC's hubris is more than matched by the US's (and Western world's). Yes, I still definitely agree with that one. US’s hubris is the undeniably the largest in the world. > I think it's ultim
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I thought these were also already explained in Graeber's book... A paragraph from Chapter 8: > Why? The single most important factor would appear to be war. Bullion predominates, above all, in periods of generalized violence. Ther
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I think that's the hubris China is currently having: as they've grown stricly because of the reliance of export-led growth, they are now dependent on the global economic order as much as the US is (for its import-led growth). And
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
In counterpoint, many people in the US will never forget when the political leaders have transformed an mainly industrial country which gave stable jobs for their households, into a deindustrialized husk of a country led by greedy bankers,
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
It's illuminating (and equally harrowing) to see how much of the fundamental technology we have today has been researched and invented by the military (the Internet is one prime example), in stark contrast to the widespread belief amon
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
The real problem is that when the basic infrastructure that maintain the entertainment industry is gone, then the whole thing breaks down in shambles. For example, someday there might be a global shortage of electronics due to geo-political
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Maybe the headline's a bit misleading, but what you're saying is almost exactly what the article is talking about. (The article immediately refutes the notion of "smashing its tech industry" right away)
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
And the alliance countries you've listed are also suffering from those exact same problems (climate change, Covid lockdowns, capital flight, demographic crisis, deindustrialization, widespread unrest, a hopeless young generation). And
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
You can get close-enough ballpark answers on the angles between (0, 30, 45, 60, 90). (If the questions are multiple choice, then you can design it in a way that you don't need a calculator) And this is actually quite an important handy
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Yeah, but I really don't get that you need to be "educated" to use a calculator - it's just something that's just too banally simple. It's definitely not a skill that needs to be explicitly prepared for high sc
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
To be honest, I really don’t get why the SAT board allows using calculators anyway. They can certainly make the numbers in the math questions easier to calculate (make it divisible without any weird fractions/decimals). And to be hone
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Graeber clearly explained the process of how gold currency appeared in his book (I recommend you to reread Chapter 8: The Axial Age for this). It’s because states needed some convenient medium to provide resources for the military to contin
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Why do you think donations will solve this problem?
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Exactly, the essence of farming is actually complying to the harsh physical realities of the world (which doesn't give a single fuck about you.) You have strict deadlines on when to plant and harvest crops, too late and you're fuc
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I think the problem with this debate isn't about how much people have worked in the past, but more about what actually is work. For example, in today's society we do not think of basic chores like laundry as work, but in the pas
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
You can say anything you want, but only in the guise of anonymity (private). You can choose to reveal yourself, but then you cannot say anything substantially radical (public). The more important thing that is happening isn't all the f
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
It's not that the work is never done, it's just that most of what we really work on computers is actually made-up bullshit and doesn't really connect to producing actual material things. (You earn money for it though, but mon

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