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by q-big 4y ago
> The average HN reader is highly overrated for other reasons. Possibly ... ;-)
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by q-big 4y ago
> Don’t show me the random code you built that makes a users like history load 500 milliseconds faster, talk to me about how to make the product better/more engaging/monetized! Honestly, if I were the CEO, I would ask for the f
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by q-big 4y ago
First: there is of course an incentive not to admit this. Second: I do believe that many people on HN really deeply care about technology/hacking topics and have detest for office politics. On the other hand, the people that the articl
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by q-big 4y ago
> I think you are vastly overestimating the willingness and capability of volunteers and underestimating the effort needed to coordinate such an effort. > And having any kind of manual intervention required will almost certainly reduc
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by q-big 4y ago
> Although some kernel driver developers have testing clusters with real hardware (like GPU drivers devs), there is no effin way Linux could be effectively tested without someone paying a lot of money to set up real hardware and people
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by q-big 4y ago
My experience differs. Perhaps the reason is that the scientific textbooks that I love to buy are often "long-tail business", i.e. textbooks about very specialized topics. The situation is even more biased towards Amazon if we are
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by q-big 4y ago
> Enough people say it wrong it eventually becomes right. There's nothing definitive about language except for usage... This is a view that is common among English speakers. Among many German native speakers it is instead common to
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by q-big 4y ago
> Amazon is unusable at this point, and I don’t get how they have so many customers. At least in Germany, using Amazon is often the easiest way to buy copies of foreign-language (often, but not always English) textbooks about scientific
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by q-big 4y ago
> Should I try to build my own car? Or my own CPU? Become a hacker and learn how to crack this kind of DRM.
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by q-big 4y ago
> This happens in other markets just fine, one that springs to mind is oscilloscopes. Often you will find that a the hardware in one model is the same as the hardware in scopes in the same "family", what differs is software &#x
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by q-big 4y ago
> and so that begs the question why not make twice as much working as a software developer and not have to sort out these types of messes? You partly answered your own question: perhaps you pay the librarian/documentation writer too
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by q-big 4y ago
He is influenced by multiple feedback loops: one that is encouraging this behavior (from the respective website) and one that does discourage it. In this case, the former one was stronger. > Well, even from that perspective, "societ
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by q-big 4y ago
> If I search for flights from February 24 to February 24 I don’t expect the empty interval. The expectation depends on how you define "from" and "to" :-D Since the HN community is quite mathematically-minded, I'
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by q-big 4y ago
> You have the same predetermined behavior you'd have all along - the care is incidental, would have happened or not happened anyway. This is correct, but this does not mean that, say, education is useless. It is just predetermined
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by q-big 4y ago
> In a world without free will "care and education" don't matter. The fact that care and education cause change in the behavior has nothing to do with any "freedom" as in "free will"
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by q-big 4y ago
> You can't disprove free will and still be concerned of what you should do morally or strategically etc, as if its your own mind to make about it. The same as for free will can be said about God and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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by q-big 4y ago
Why do most people what they do? Because their are conditioned/brainwashed by school and society to believe in specific morals for their behavior. Similarly, as bilekas suggests, the fact that "'trolls' are seen as cool
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by q-big 4y ago
> Philosophers have been talking about justice and morality for æons, something so small isn’t going to turn our thoughts on justice on their head. Theologists have been talking for æons about the essence of God and what the role of Jesu
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by q-big 4y ago
But this is a minority view among investors.
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by q-big 4y ago
> If a factory increases efficiency resulting in idling of the machines for 2 hours thus decreasing costs, yet at the same time keep the prices of its output same - that would never ever considered stealing. I disagree: the shareholders
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by q-big 4y ago
> You're kidding right? Having a desktop PC in the pre-internet days was a scary experience. My smartphone and iPad are both cute and work unblinkingly every time all the time. I beg to differ: - no scary golden cage - no fear of b
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by q-big 4y ago
> My theory is these designers dont have family members or they dont care about them. Or they don't have family members with bad eyesight. Or they actually do have family members with bad eyesight, but those are not active smartphon
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by q-big 4y ago
kllrnohj already wrote that Vulkan has no predefined source code language for shaders. I can imagine that the SPIR-V code of these shaders could have been hand-optimized by some team at AMD, so a textual reprsentation of this binary code i
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by q-big 4y ago
> I hope they improve ROCm, and add support for normal GPUs, instead of only 6800xt+. Also, AMD should finally support ROCm under Windows. Currently, the only application known by me that uses ROCm under Windows is Blender, and they use
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by q-big 4y ago
> This argument is applicable to all digital things, but for some reason it is usually only applied to books. It seems that a lot of software being free would be much more beneficial than free access to Harry Potter. The problem with dis
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by q-big 4y ago
> Doing actual rigorous proofs a computer can verify is enormously tedious and many Mathematicians dislike it for that reason, because the inherently subjective "elegance" and "beauty" gets lost in translation. Couldn
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by q-big 4y ago
> What's the utility of being able to disable virtualization ? I consider the option to disable (or rather: enable this function manually if you need it) virtualization to be quite useful because if this feature is disabled, malicio
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by q-big 4y ago
A geek reference for visual novel fans (Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward): MEMENTO MORI, IF THE NINETH LION ATE THE SUN.
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by q-big 4y ago
In my personal opinion: The reason is that there exist so many ways of programming. Programming is not a single skill, but a multitude of different approaches to get the computer do what it should. To give an example: what an ABAP (SAP) dev
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by q-big 4y ago
> You would think a message board called "hacker news" would be more open to blue sky thinking. On the other hand: a site called "Hacker News" will likely point out business scams involving technology. ;-) If you desi

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