rainbow-road

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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Please just explicitly enumerate the benefits of blockchains in voting. That would make it much easier for both you and everyone reading.
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Interestingly, all of those either use cryptocurrencies as an investment, or merely provide cryptocurrency-based tools (of questionable utility), and leave the problem-solving to their users. Why mine (fool's) gold when you can sell sh
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
The same physical infrastructure that is also used for transporting just about everything else? Anyway, most currency transfer these days is digital, so even that doesn't hold much water.
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
A few months ago, I disabled all of that stuff, so that YouTube only recommends videos based on my subscriptions and liked videos. I guess it's still personalization, but it's personalization that I have control over, which seems
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Over C#: * Garbage collectors often scare game developers since they can lead to hard-to-fix latency spikes. * Rust has some cool libraries (specs, rayon, etc.) that let you safely parallelize computation. Over C++: * It's a memory-s
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
English is neither a programming language nor a formal logic. When we see an "if" statement that would otherwise seem irrelevant, it is common to interpret it as an insinuation. @hu3's misunderstanding is entirely understanda
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Well one alternative representation really took off, that one where code is is a dataflow graph, whose nodes are all one-liners on a massive grid. I wonder what led to its success, where so many other interesting ideas have failed?
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Yes; the Mill architecture's (I'm beginning to think it'll never be released) answer to that is to make compiling the code from an intermediate representation either just before runtime or at install time a normal part of the
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
> Apart from you question not being in good faith Never attribute to malice that which… > there have always been business models to support publishing and providing services that do not rely on adverstising and these models are well k
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
You have made broad, sweeping remarks about the ethics of dairy farming and it's only here that you considerably narrow the scope of your statements to farms that you deem ethical. Yes, some farms may operate in line with an acceptab
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Yes, the web browser can be used as a client. https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9598981?hl=en
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
> Videos are not games. Literally different words. Well yes, but this is a game streaming app. It just captures input from the user and sends back a video of the game, running in the cloud. > It's a private company and they can
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Does anyone know what Stroustrup is referring to regarding "better concurrency"? It sounds interesting but it's way too vague.
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
> That's dick, though, not Dick. The origin of "dick" is, nevertheless, the name "Dick". Would you be satisfied if we went from "Karen" to "karen"?
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
> Bitwise hacks There's nothing hacky about this — it's a very simple procedure. > the interviewer is definitely not going to get it, I sure hope any interviewer for a software engineering position would get it. But this has
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
I assume the idea is to do some profiling and throw in some machine learning to select the perfect mix at compile time.
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
> What about immigrants that arrived to the US with a suitcase and $100 in pocket? What about them? You haven't given the reader anything in the way of argument yet; you've just pointed at another group.
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Could you point me to some examples of what you mean by a "REPL-based workflow"?
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
> It's a parrot, and I remain unimpressed. What's unimpressive about a stunningly believable parrot? I think, at the very least, that GPT-3 is knowledgeable enough to answer any trivia you throw at it, and creative enough to wr
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
I see this "175B parameters" figure tossed around a lot: what does that mean? Does the model literally consist of 175 billion 32-bit floats? (Sorry for the very basic question.)
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Fair enough, but I inferred the "all X is Y" bit from the first sentence, in which you said "I don't think you missed the mark" regarding a paragraph which, IIRC, did essentially imply that cargo shorts are by natu
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
To be fair, the first sentence on the Rust implementation's GitHub repo is > A straightforward Rust implementation (emphasis mine) and the implementation in the article is heavily optimized.
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Yep. I'm pretty sure that even with unsafe shenanigans, you can't access the value without being very explicit about it. You'd need something like: let value = unsafe { match result { Ok(value) =
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
Most of the listed assumptions are bad, but some of them, to me, seem essential. In particular, dealing with cyclic build graphs sounds like an absolute nightmare , and I doubt that any build system that allows for such a thing can be easy
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by rainbow-road 6y ago
For the people who want a ton of pockets on their pants, cargo pants are pretty much the only option. Do you earnestly believe that all of these people "just like military cosplay"? Edit: Or maybe I'm wrong, and there are oth