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by queuebert 1y ago
> Like that physics guy who can also write good sci-fi. Stephen Baxter? Or someone else?
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by queuebert 1y ago
I agree with this. We had multiple windowing environments, all arguably superior in various ways, and we had multiple office suites, all with better technology than the Microsoft versions. Then I wonder how much worse off are we because Win
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by queuebert 1y ago
I didn't realize Xerox had so many employees.
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by queuebert 1y ago
> ... big bag of mutable data that lives for relatively unknown amounts of time. This is the antithesis of Rust. I'm sorry, but I still don't understand. There are myriad heap collections and even fancy stuff like Rc<Box<
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by queuebert 1y ago
> The ownership model of Rust can not represent the vast majority of allocations. What allocations can you not do in Rust?
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by queuebert 1y ago
I agree with this. For the completely uninitiated, taking the most critical code paths uncovered via profiling and asking an LLM to rewrite it to be more efficient might give an average user some help in optimization. If your code takes mo
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by queuebert 1y ago
For the ultra-wealthy, buying these types of cars is more or less free, since they usually appreciate in value, and he already has copious garage space.
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by queuebert 1y ago
What were their reasons?
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by queuebert 1y ago
It probably wouldn't hurt for languages to steal more ideas from APL.
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by queuebert 1y ago
This is really cool. As a high-performance computing professional, I've often wondered how much energy is wasted due to inefficient code and how much that is a problem as planetary compute scales up. For me, it feels like a moral imper
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by queuebert 1y ago
If it's any consolation, a sinus CT is tuned to have a very low radiation dose compared to typical body CT scans.
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by queuebert 1y ago
The "almost certainly" that you brush off is the entire point of the calculation. Is it 95% certain or 99.5% certain? The exact balance between benefit and risk in medical procedures is exactly how it is determined when to use th
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by queuebert 1y ago
Same here. When I hear people talk about how awful some platform is, knowing that it optimizes for their engagement, it feels like an accidental admission of their secret desires.
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by queuebert 1y ago
My private employer requires us to login with our credentials to view communications from our CEO. Seems shady to me.
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by queuebert 1y ago
You would think, but Word has some serious efficiency problems that I can't explain. For one, it is an order of magnitude slower at simply performing word counts than tools like wc or awk. Besides that, the problem does not paralleliz
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by queuebert 1y ago
Text wrapping is actually a difficult optimization problem. That's part of the reason LaTeX has such good text wrapping -- it can spend serious CPU cycles on the problem because it doesn't do it in real time.
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by queuebert 1y ago
The residents of Flint, MI, might disagree with you.
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by queuebert 1y ago
Maybe Bill has really taken an interest in Javascript. /s
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by queuebert 1y ago
They must have a bug, because my System76 laptops drain way less with the lid closed than my Macbooks.
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by queuebert 1y ago
As a former Mac user, I'm really happy with my System76 linux laptops. The only tradeoff is the terrible built-in speakers. My Lemur is lighter and has better battery life than my Macbook Air and has been bulletproof despite my ill tre
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by queuebert 1y ago
Oops, my read was that you can opt out of systemd with OpenSUSE without much trouble.
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by queuebert 1y ago
I just realized this today. When trying to upgrade an EOL-ed Ubuntu machine using 'do-release-upgrade', it completely shat the bed. Now I'm in search of an alternative distro that has good GPU support, rolling releases, no sy
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by queuebert 1y ago
I think one issue is less extant Rust code to train on. As more Rust is written and published, LLMs should in theory get better.
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by queuebert 1y ago
> Even twenty years ago getting an NIH R1 was considered an important career accomplishment. R01
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by queuebert 1y ago
You (and others apparently) applied an incorrect emotion to my unemotional comment. Typical text only communication. The whole point of the "genuinely asking" part was to show I wasn't trying to "gotcha" anyone. I h
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by queuebert 1y ago
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1897470032612851893 (Note: I don't know anything about the X account. It was just the first result I found.) Edit: Also it sucks that I can't ask a genuine question on thi
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by queuebert 1y ago
No, I meant religiosity: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/04/26/in-america-d...
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by queuebert 1y ago
If that's true, why did the astronauts confirm Musk's version of the story in an interview? Genuinely asking ...
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by queuebert 1y ago
Technically, that's not what the separation clause is about. That was not, however, professional behavior for a nurse, but I see extremely religious nurses on the reg. Much less so with doctors, but then again religiosity is inversely
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by queuebert 1y ago
> Why the fuck would anybody with any amount of dignity cause it upon themselves willingly? Presumably because their home country treats them even worse? At least that's the point of the refugee program.

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