melkiaur

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by melkiaur 7y ago
> No effort to make other chips perform [...] worse is expended. I don't know about nowadays, but it used to be that the intel libs and compiler would specifically disable SIMD instructions if they found that the CPUid returned a no
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by melkiaur 7y ago
Serious question: how do you think Home, Alexa, Siri, etc were trained before coming to the market ? Another serious question: couldn't you ask ME to fix the data every so often (like the "improve this traduction" feature of
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by melkiaur 7y ago
> What exactly is the human bringing to the table? He can see the big truck 200 yards in front of him, and recognize that it is indeed a truck, and not an overhead traffic sign. Apparently, Teslas don't bring that to the table. Alte
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by melkiaur 7y ago
Wait. I thought their hydrogen cars were hybrid cars, just like the prius. Why do you say they gave up on batteries ?
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by melkiaur 7y ago
You missed the part about the trusses in the bell tower that didn't burn. If they burnt and the bells fell (13 tons for the biggest one!), then the whole building would have collapsed. They had guys in the tower, protecting that.
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by melkiaur 7y ago
Apparently, a significant difference between American and French firefighters is that the latter prefer to fight the fire from the inside (e.g.: avoid the heat and steam to accumulate inside). Apart from the video aspect, wouldn't the
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by melkiaur 8y ago
This post shows some false-positives and present them as bugs. It is mildly disingenuous for the casual observer.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
I disagree strongly. It looks obvious to me that they can be equal and that this is a special case. The comparison is done only after checking for A<B, and only if a boolean called "ActiveIfEqual" is true. I mean, I don't
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by melkiaur 8y ago
It could be solved, but is it really ? Shall I remind you of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal#UK_Inv... The blockchain doesn't offer a technological solution that couldn't be done w
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by melkiaur 8y ago
No, I think you "only" need to trust the veterinary, and make sure that all animals are tracked (which is the case in Europe, which is why the Lasagna scandal came to be a scandal). Both things are already true here. The anti-doub
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by melkiaur 8y ago
There's one I like: the farmer has a veal and introduces its date of birth on the blockchain. The veterinary that comes to check it posts a validation mark on the blockchain. If you trust the veterinary, you should trust the birthdate.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
I hate the blockchain hype. I think most uses can be solved by a simple database hosted by a trusted authority. Yet, just reading the first two samples, I already disagree with them. Re the 1st one: it's true only if the transporter do
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by melkiaur 8y ago
We had a big teletext offering in France too at some point. Minitel is not it. Minitel was a modem+terminal in your house. So, it was bidirectional, secure, and had incorporated billing. You were able to do all kinds of things with it: ente
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by melkiaur 8y ago
Maybe they needed to get a bigger marketing budget. Now, if only the majors could predict which movie need to be marketed how...
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by melkiaur 8y ago
And I'm sure you've heard of the taskbar.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
For your information, Jesus Christ never wanted us to argue about mobile phones on the internet.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
It's even better than that. They key mentioning that the crap you buy gives you no competitive advantage, it's cosmetic only. In an age of loot-boxes and pay-to-win, this is super refreshing for a 100% free game.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
It's not just the salary. It's often about personal growth and wanderlust. Let me try an odd comparison: after graduating, would you choose to live with your parents if they fed you even more and offered you an even bigger room wi
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by melkiaur 8y ago
I've only been once in Washington, and it was ages ago. But they have this incredible system where they put you in a massive bus (At first I didn't even realise it was a bus, it looked more like a room), and the bus goes to the pl
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by melkiaur 8y ago
> Yeah, I don't understand why they aren't doing something like this But... Uber was planning to do exactly this ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-4uWmuESQ
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by melkiaur 8y ago
In France, Polytechnique is probably the most sought after. There's an oral exam to get in, and guess what ? Only 25% of student from Paris are eliminated, versus 40% of kids from la province. 7% of girls are eliminated in the Computer
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by melkiaur 8y ago
It was probably proofread before they inserted the ad just in the middle of that paragraph.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
I picked that one in the article: > The origins of albur are as hard to pin down as the quick tongues of its users.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
I have one for two reasons: a bad knee prevents me from cycling, and a bike doesn't fit in the train I take to go to work, whereas even the bulky m365 does.
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by melkiaur 8y ago
> My guess is that Uber simply wants to maintain some hope of future growth, particularly with their autonomous car program in shambles. They also benefit from future free advertising. Everytime you'll see a bit of news talking abou
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by melkiaur 8y ago
Ok, let's use normal right-sided driving method. Imagine you're vulnerable (on a bike, or worse: on an electric scooter), and you want to turn left. You were going northbound and want to go westbound. In "normal" fashion
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by melkiaur 9y ago
I understand perfectly well how my car works. I know I could change the oil if I wanted to, yet I also know that I have never and will never do so, because it's messy, time-consuming the first couple of times, and you still have to dis
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by melkiaur 9y ago
> it does take about 30 seconds As long as there's nobody in the queue, and the "scannette" (yes, that's how they're called) still has enough battery, and you haven't tried to buy razor-blades which require
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by melkiaur 9y ago
the static analyzer, along with all the other checks available from clang-tidy: https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/list.html
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by melkiaur 9y ago
I can't speak about other European countries, but in France, an employment contract gives you an insane amount of security. If you're made redundant, you get paid 60-70% of your salary for up to 2 years, you get loads of paid mate

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