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by std_throwawayay 7y ago
An employee wants more than money. If I have the feeling that I grow, I stay longer. If I get the feeling that they want to keep me down, I leave sooner. Simple as that. If you increase the skillset of your employees you get back something
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by std_throwawayay 7y ago
Forgetting about the enormous heat sink is a typical rookie mistake. Those things produce lots of heat when you try to cool something. They are much better suited for heating something to a specific temperature than cooling.
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by std_throwawayay 7y ago
One advantage that they have is that they can pump the heat in both directions and change direction very quickly. This means that you can keep temperature very precisely with a closed regulation loop.
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by std_throwawayay 7y ago
Would he use C++ or Rust?
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Providing base technology doesn't seem to lead to financial success. You have to provide more concrete solutions for companies and people instead of the abstract infrastructure. I wonder if protection of the base technology through sof
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
It could easily be replaced by an electron app running a QEMU in JavaScript emulating an virtual machine running Windows 3.11 on an Rasperry PI terminal connected to a cloud server located at the edge for maximum performance paid for by rea
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
One of the reasons why the prohibition of alcohol failed but cannabis is illegal has to do with the DIY-supply. Everyone could brew some alcohol at home. Growing a hemp field is not so easy to do undetected and therefore much easier to enfo
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
> I don't think it changes until the next generation comes. The next generation of professors.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
GNU/Octave has a great strength and weakness that it uses the Matlab language. This is great for many who are educated with Matlab but don't know much else. After some time I found Python and the ecosystem around numpy/scipy&
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Yes, the fish we catch will die out. Bad for us because we don't have any good fish left over. What I'm also saying is that I think that other fish (or lifeforms in general) will take their place.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
I agree that taking one specific animal out of a complex system that had a long time to adjust will produce big changes. Killing the wolves allowed the deer to thrive. We wanted lots of deer, so that was good for some time. Now we don'
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Doesn't the extraction of fish have a positive impact on the O2 balance? I thought that overfishing the kinds of big fish we like to eat will just lead to a growing population of smaller fish and other marine life.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
> MacBooks are worse now than they were since 2015. I won't upgrade until they get rid of the TouchBar. I would rather go back to Windows than use that stupid TouchBar. For me, the keyboard kills it. It feels cheap. It almost feels
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
They are probably the fastest dicts and lists we can imagine today. If you really need lists and dicts for your data, you need them and won't gain much. But if you don't need them and instead could use something simpler, an array
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Right now you have one mutex for everything (the GIL itself) and everything else doesn't need locking. In order to achieve similar convenience without the GIL you would have to trade this for one mutex for every single data structure.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
> CPython is really quite slow by design. The data structures are slow by design. The way we use these data structures is quite inefficient. Having a fast interpreter only about doubles the execution speed in most programs leaving anothe
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
The GIL comes with great convenience as you don't have to worry about a whole host of data races. It's no silver bullet but it's mighty convenient if you only do some multi-threading like in a web-server. Many libraries are n
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Do we have any reliable information if this is just Apple or if Chinese consumption is down across the board?
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
That [1] was what I remembered. They were preparing for C++. But obviously it didn't get as far as actually including C++ code in the mainline kernel. Maybe it was a preparation in order to allow experimenting with C++ in the kernel.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
I could swear that I read that they start allowing some C++ contributions. But with a search in the kernel source I could not come up with any evidence. If there is any C++ code in the kernel they hid it well.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
I think none of your points are really set in stone. * The kernel already contains some C++ which (if you ask C programmers) is not C. And many C programmers are more likely to accept Rust than having to deal with C++. * AFAIK there is not
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Both sides have convincing arguments and research to back it up. They have good answers to the seemingly contradictory research that the other side uses. They both provide a consistent picture. One or both of the theories has to be wrong bu
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
I have used Matlab and GNU/Octave in parallel for some years half a decade ago. Octave can do most things that I needed but was slower to run for many things. With Octave you didn't run into licensing problems as those floating li
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
It lacks blockchain technology. Given the development cycles in play for such consumer products the blockchain support will probably come two weeks after bitcoin disintegrated.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Yes, but this time it's different. That's what everybody inside the bubble thinks. That's what they must think. It's what makes the bubble work. The bubble must always contain some forgotten ingredient that makes it spec
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
I've come to believe that we'll adjust our numbers in time. That time has not come yet but it will come.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
TDP doesn't mean much at intel. Expect any performance chip to consume way more than TDP when fully loaded.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
I believe that there are lots of professionally-run science scams. It starts with an idea that looks good on paper and a bunch of scientists investigating it. At one point it gets picked up by the management of a company and commercializati
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
Using Matrix[i,j] is the most intuitive way for most people. It's what you'd use if you don't know anything and it's what you'd understand immediately. That's the benefit for the user.
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by std_throwawayay 8y ago
It's one of those many tiny things that add up. There's good reasons why C++ gets so much hate and there's good reasons why it's used in so many applications. I see no good reason to not have multiple array indices.

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