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by saynsedit 10y ago
I don't see being critical of people in power as a bias, unless you're saying that they don't spend enough time being critical of people not in power.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
My original point said nothing on the media's involvement with polling, outside of simply reporting it. As for the pollsters, whether it was ideological bias or simply mistake is also irrelevant to my original point. My claim is that t
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by saynsedit 10y ago
What is The Intercept's bias?
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by saynsedit 10y ago
It seems kind of predictable that "real news" sites would run stories on how "fake news" is an epidemic. Maybe this is too much speculation but it seems like deflecting. Fake news sites weren't responsible for &quot
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by saynsedit 10y ago
I don't necessarily disagree that they went too far though I assume they probably had good reason at the time in most cases. I'd prefer it if the decision to trap or not were an option to the compiler. It would be nice if there we
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by saynsedit 10y ago
It's not convoluted. It's actually clear and well-defined making it easier to reason about. I'd call compiler specific alignment attributes more arcane, convoluted, and susceptible to future bugs. Vectorization isn't a
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by saynsedit 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand your deal breaker. For the platform he was targeting it produces optimal code, for other platforms it's merely slower (but not specifically slower, since the compiler is likely not a great optimizer acros
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Nah, correct solution is simply to use memcpy(), works on all compilers, all platforms, all versions, with SSE and with any flags specified: #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdint.h> uint64_t sum (char *p, size_t nwords)
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Undefined behavior is one of the most intelligent things the C designers did when designing the language. It's a fact of life that not all syntactic forms will have meaning. What's sqrt(-1)? Trick question, There's no meaning
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Who wrote this?
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Usually the case as in usually never the case.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
What's preventing there being an AI with hardcoded desire to regulate values like hunger level, boredom level, etc.? I could imagine a problem solving AI dedicated to continuously solving those problems.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Only if you release it.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
The point of the 0-day black market is to not reveal these attacks publicly. If there were public proof of this in the past it would have been fixed in the past. Take my word for it when I say there are upper echelons of black hats that are
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by saynsedit 10y ago
The sad reality is that black hats have been exploiting this class of bugs for years .
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by saynsedit 10y ago
I've been provably shadowbanned by Twitter before so it is something they practice. N/s what happened in his case.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Never said violent revolt couldn't happen. It just seems very improbable. I'd bet that the vast majority of those people who believe Obama/Clinton are evil wouldn't be willing to risk their current living situation on th
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Nothing is going to get out of hand. That whole idea just seems like media sensationalism. There may be a minority of people who won't accept the results, but the vast majority of people are going to feel bad or good for a week or two
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Happy to a see this trending on HN.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Well it could be near, like 2x slowdown, instead of the 10x slowdown I saw.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
at the time, I preferred to write it completely in C++ than have a mixed Python/Cython codebase.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Re "not even close": At least 10x slower This was tweaking Nagle, using edge triggered epoll, using sendfile(). Not just Python-optimizations.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Your PyPy point is fair. A PyPy-oriented optimization effort could have improved performance. N/s by what magnitude though. I did extensive benchmarking until there were no more hot spots, didn't help. Dropping into C or Cython wa
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by saynsedit 10y ago
I've actually written a highly optimized asyncio-based Python web server in the past. I meticulously optimized every component, using all the standard CPython optimization techniques (heavy use of stdlib, minimizing method lookups). In
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Centralized: Facebook, Twitter Decentralized: xmpp, email, gnu social Distributed: bittorrent
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Yes Kenji... You put new/delete in constructor/destructor so that you don't have to call new/delete manually.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
RAII can wrap heap-allocated data. Also bss-allocated objects are common.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
RAII in Rust comes from C++. If you're using new/delete in C++, you're doing it wrong.
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by saynsedit 10y ago
Dropbox has been modifying the Finder since 2008, nothing new here.

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