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by sddfd 6y ago
Some companies have a commit queue that takes care of actually merging a PR as part of their CI that mitigates this problem.
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by sddfd 6y ago
The article mentions the key problems: - once private information is leaked, it can never be undone - being treated differently by some party because that party had knowledge of private information about you is difficult to prove The ultima
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by sddfd 6y ago
The western economic system cannot deal with lockdowns, and more generally, any kind of stop-the-world scenarios. What will be most important now is how the west will be able to deal with this crisis in comparison to China. If the Chinese s
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by sddfd 6y ago
I feel uncomfortable at the ubiquitous, silent assumption that what is marketed as AI is a computer implementation of a brain. I see how the term neuronal network reinforces this believe, but we (especially the researchers among us) should
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by sddfd 6y ago
I've followed Bitcoin for a while. What seemed to happens there was the deliberate manipulation of the price using all means available (ads, etc.) The result was a few winning big. I have no reason to believe the same doesn't happ
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by sddfd 7y ago
Oh I love the idea that you need to pay to leave a review. This way it becomes harder to fake a large number of reviews.
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by sddfd 7y ago
Could someone explain what this means? I read it as proof that quantum computers cannot compute more functions than Turing machines, is that correct?
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by sddfd 7y ago
This is why the world is acting so sluggishly to climate change.
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by sddfd 7y ago
Tldr: privately funded research is not working. I don't understand why antibiotics research can't be done at (publicly funded) universities?
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by sddfd 7y ago
The German voter is against coal (the young climate concious), against nuclear (the old green party supporters), against wind (everyone when it appears in their backyard), and the government killed solar in 2015 which resulted in approximat
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by sddfd 7y ago
Let's also talk about why LTS is a dangerous idea: It provides an excuse not to update. Many tech debt traps start with relying on an LTS version of OS or libraries. The philosophy behin that is, that software behaves like a chair: You
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by sddfd 7y ago
That is not the only way technical debt gets introduced. Often, teams cut corners to release a feature earlier/on time, and only make it work for the MVP use case without restructuring the codebase to fully accommodate the change. In t
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by sddfd 7y ago
Suárez' work also develops a utopian/dystopian (you decide) vision of society, which is an aspect of science fiction I really enjoy.
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by sddfd 7y ago
Jetstream, and even octane, are not relevant for most users. JavaScript performance is good enough and has been for quite some time. (Server side node is another story) If a website is slow, it is mostly because the website is shipping too
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by sddfd 7y ago
The US sanctions and the effect on Huawei just made it very easy for Chinese companies to justify expenses that increase technological independence, on all levels (not only hardware).
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by sddfd 7y ago
That is what I would have thought, but apparently the controllers at Boeing thought otherwise.
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by sddfd 7y ago
I don't have a problem with the requirements. I'm just saying that if passing the requirements is so time-consuming and expensive that companies start cutting corners to get around the approval process, the approval process just b
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by sddfd 7y ago
It is not pilot training. The root problem is that Boeing and Airbus are currently retrofitting larger engines into old airframes at the cost of pitch stability, when what they should be doing if safety was their primary concern is change t
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by sddfd 7y ago
No, they don't. New variants enter the market, such as the 737 MAX, which are easier to certify. Boeing introduced the last new airframe for commercial passenger transport on 2009 (the 787). Before that, it introduced the 747 in 1994.
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by sddfd 7y ago
The elephant in the room is that we made requirements for getting a completely new plain design into the market so expensive and time-consuming, that Boeing cut corners and reused an existing design to get around the process.
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by sddfd 7y ago
This is great! Many dev hours are spend waiting for the compiler, every second counts! The second order effects are even worse. After a minute, the programmer will start thinking about other things, running flow. If compiles regularly take
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by sddfd 7y ago
That is all fine and good, but is it necessary at all (even if some people are willing to pay for it).
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by sddfd 7y ago
In before "genetically modified microbes induce auto immune disease in cancer patients".
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by sddfd 7y ago
2050 is way too late. Also the discussion doesn't only need to be carbon neutral, but it must be about how to get carbon negative. I hope that the US get behind this ASAP as well, and that China and India follow.
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by sddfd 7y ago
I think it is clear that electric is the future, mostly because of better energy efficiency, simpler manufacturing, and falling battery prices. What I don't know is how quickly this future will come, and whether CNG/LNG (to which
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by sddfd 7y ago
I thought Tetris was pretty easy for a computer to play: to decide where to put the next piece, just maximize flatness of the surface while penalizing holes. I'm hence surprised about the hardness of approximation result.
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by sddfd 8y ago
The city of Munich tried to develop a Linux distribution "Limux" that was used for some time, but political considerations ultimately reversed the decision. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
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by sddfd 8y ago
What is the problem with nipples? I thought it was about porn.
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by sddfd 8y ago
The real problem is that our current economic system cannot deal with climate change. In our current system resource depletion is not priced-in. We are producing thousands of tons of goods that are pure crap, not fit for any purpose. The on
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by sddfd 8y ago
How is this different from lit-html? https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html

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