xiphias

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by xiphias 8y ago
benchmars game is great, but sadly not well maintained anymore. Rust has it's flaws, but it's not runtime speed (much more compilation speed, IDE support, distributed compilation support).
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by xiphias 8y ago
The Rust - C++ speed comparison is sadly quite bad. On a modern machine, some of the benchmarks from the benchmarks game ran faster in Rust than in C++. It usually depends on the explicit / implicit vectorisation support, and a lot of
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by xiphias 8y ago
Sounds interesting, thanks! I had a few informative but controversial comments in the past... that may be the reason.
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by xiphias 8y ago
It looks impressive, I just don't understand why computer games don't use these techniques to feature realistic human bodies/faces.
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by xiphias 8y ago
If by PBKDF2 you mean PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, it should die as it's so much less secure than using Argon2 as a password hash function.
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by xiphias 8y ago
Adding other tents are probably easy, the hard part is slashing the cost of manufacturing to be profitable with $35000/car
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by xiphias 8y ago
Even if Rust becomes almost as complex than C++ (which may be necessary to be able to move all low level code base from C/C++ to Rust), the world becomes a safer place by not having so many memory corruption bugs while being CPU/m
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by xiphias 8y ago
I can't speak for Italy, but as one of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians who could easily get a job outside Hungary _because_ of Hungary joining the EU, I'm deeply thankful for the fact that EU is trying to control the damag
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by xiphias 8y ago
At Google priority based meeting cancellations were implemented to solve this problem for important people. The only problem was that I wasn't important enough.
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by xiphias 8y ago
The problem with this combination is that it may reduce the number of crashes/injuries, but increase the number of deaths at the same time
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by xiphias 8y ago
Coinbase still didn't implement transaction batching. Whenever Bitcoin's price drops for a few months the company forgets that its system needs to be solid and scale 10x for the next bull run. They should be already be preparing f
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by xiphias 8y ago
It sounds interesting, can you give a concrete example?
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by xiphias 8y ago
It's quite hard if you take into account that machine learning needs 10000x the training data that a human needs, and Tesla is sold in 30+ countries (and used in much more). I think 3d mapping the surrounding world correctly using mult
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by xiphias 8y ago
It's not always true. Waymo is a clear exception: their car was at current Tesla's level 5 years ago, but they chose not to run into production. Many Google engineers left from the team because they wanted to see their work in pub
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by xiphias 8y ago
all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination. It would be a PR nightmare for Google if they stopped redirecting existing links, but they won't do that as they're a huge user of the web graph as well.
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by xiphias 8y ago
i8 is a hybrid car with a very small electric range and small cargo space.
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by xiphias 9y ago
,,HIP is not intended to be a drop-in replacement for CUDA, and developers should expect to do some manual coding and performance tuning work to complete the port.'' It's a great start, but I'm sure a lot of cases are no
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by xiphias 9y ago
,,Fifty-eight percent say that ethics are the responsibility of upper management'' With the same reasoning management could say that ethics is the responsibility of investors who decide about how ethical a company should be and cu
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by xiphias 9y ago
Thanks for the answer. When I was implementing a language learning program (who hasn't? :) ), using logistic regression was working quite well to quickly find my vocabulary level in about 10 questions in the top 10000 most frequently u
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by xiphias 9y ago
Hi, I just went through the interview questions, they were fun (they said that I did exceptionally well, but nothing concrete, like percentage). I'm not looking for job, just though I try it out. What I was interested in is whether the
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by xiphias 9y ago
I don't think so. Being able to go home drunk together with friends at night without a taxi sounds like a feature everybody would love while there's no better solution than having an ugly LIDAR. Elon Musk is probably right that in
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by xiphias 9y ago
The operational transforms were integeated into Google Docs later for multi-person editing (the Wave team was merged into Google Docs), and it works quite well.
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by xiphias 9y ago
The world is teamed up more than ever: as soon as there was result it was published on internet. The ongoing study was published on a U.S. website. The lots of interesting trials that are going on is the opposite of what was happening in th
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by xiphias 9y ago
Another option is using a bloom filter (just like how Chrome does it for malware URL detection)
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by xiphias 9y ago
I'm happy that tech companies are open sourcing basic research all the time, and thinking a lot about what would have happened if large pharmacy companies did the same thing. I'm just hopeful that with new biotech companies the sc
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by xiphias 9y ago
Link to the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
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by xiphias 9y ago
At this point Rust is the clear winner, as it's providing higher safety for similar run-time speed.
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by xiphias 9y ago
Not just innovating, but all browsers are fixing bugs. IE 6 was full of positioning bugs, which meant that it was extremely hard to make something look the same in 2 browsers. Nowadays browsers achieve pixel perfect positioning and compatib
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by xiphias 9y ago
Nobody, as they now make sure that they have nothing to do with altcoins. They put an enormous amount of effort to keep Bitcoin decentralized, at the same time trying to improve fungibility.
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by xiphias 9y ago
You don't have to, as Tokio is just a building block for people who're implementing protocols. But those implementations will have great safe, zero-copying characteristics.

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