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My pet peeve is people claiming "literally" is now being used to mean the opposite. It is never used that way. When people use "literally" in the weakened and figurative way, they are not using it to mean…
> if you have 32 bits of fixed, you get way more precision than with a 32 bit float You get 7 more bits for the most extreme numbers. Which is a good portion of 32, but not crazy. By the time you hit double precision…
Okay, put up some numbers. What percent do billionaires actually own, if you're calling every source of these numbers wrong?
> Nestlé Still motivated by profit and not control. They'd probably be happier if there was twice as much water where they bottle, so they could make the same products but without people being mad at them. > Then you…
Procter and Gamble doesn't want to enslave humanity, it wants to make money. And the stock holders are mostly retirement funds. And billionaires control less than 4% of the world's money. (Let alone already being able…
If we do a survey of stories about AI from the last 50 years, it seems like it's a worry everyone knows about, and that people generally take seriously in proportion to how much they think an AI will actually exist.
> as if this might be close to reasonable estimate of the profit off these farm repair contracts. I took the math you proposed but I used revenue instead of profit. "Last year was 5b net profit on 44b revenue.…
I'm going to do one reply to all of yours: > I don't think people's intuitive concept of minutes and seconds is that they vary according to the time of year or the tidal effects on the Earth. But if you asked people to…
Making comments against layoffs is "activist" "drama" now? If you don't want to be a "victim" here simply don't fire people for making those comments.
I completely disagree. The intuitive meaning is that a day is 24 hours and you can divide that by 60 twice. But that makes the second vary by some parts per billion, so we nailed down the second to make the technical…
No, they handle totally different things. Leap seconds handle the earth spinning at a varying speed. They would be a problem even if the sun didn't exist. Leap years handle the fact that earth spins don't evenly divide…
> Um, because it's the prime meridian and that's how UTC is defined? That's an explanation of how it is, not why we should care to preserve it. The definitions of hours minutes and seconds have changed before, and in…
If you're relying on system time for subsecond precision, you're already screwed on every other day that doesn't have leap seconds.
Well CLOCK_MONOTONIC was a bad name for anything that's supposed to do more than be... monotonic, so I'm not surprised things became unclear. But it is just a basic system clock. Being the wrong speed by 15 parts per…
> The models for this are IIRC trigonometric polynomials of fairly low order, so even if we could model the unpredictability perfectly, truncation error would limit our ability to distribute the model at super high…
> 0x7ffffffffffffffff. The typical argument is that such a value would be “pathological”. Not only is this argument incorrect, it’s even more dangerous which we will see later. The only later thing I see that's somewhat…
...nonsense? Their average revenue for the last dozen years is reasonably close to 40 billion. 4% is a tiny fraction. Those are the only numbers I used.
Okay, interesting. Also to be clear I do think Z2 makes sense in a lot of situations, but I suspect that it's not very dependant on drive size like a lot of people think. If I wanted high reliability I'd use Z2 even…
> This is based on the data I had available 10 years ago when I set up this array Data you collected or data you found? Any idea where it was? I've only seen oversimplified math, not real data, and different versions of…
> They don't install updates very often (if at all). The average person with zero tech savvy has their browser updating itself regularly with no input from the user. Are they escaping that?
Only a couple percent of websites benefit from being "modern web applications". Yes that is the fallback. That doesn't make it a bad example. Your core functionality should work on almost everything even if it's laid…
Why would it be a "tiny fraction" of profit in particular? If they broke even, would we say they couldn't have made any money off of these practices? Even a tiny fraction of revenue, on the other hand, could easily…
This argument makes sense if learning the language is the default and you require an excuse to get out of it. But I don't think that's true. If you don't want to learn, that's not a big deal. There's no cherry picking…
My favorite parity trick was how the N64 was designed around ECC RAM chips but didn't bother using ECC, so it has a ninth bit at every address that the CPU ignores and the GPU uses as extra storage.
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My pet peeve is people claiming "literally" is now being used to mean the opposite. It is never used that way. When people use "literally" in the weakened and figurative way, they are not using it to mean…
> if you have 32 bits of fixed, you get way more precision than with a 32 bit float You get 7 more bits for the most extreme numbers. Which is a good portion of 32, but not crazy. By the time you hit double precision…
Okay, put up some numbers. What percent do billionaires actually own, if you're calling every source of these numbers wrong?
> Nestlé Still motivated by profit and not control. They'd probably be happier if there was twice as much water where they bottle, so they could make the same products but without people being mad at them. > Then you…
Procter and Gamble doesn't want to enslave humanity, it wants to make money. And the stock holders are mostly retirement funds. And billionaires control less than 4% of the world's money. (Let alone already being able…
If we do a survey of stories about AI from the last 50 years, it seems like it's a worry everyone knows about, and that people generally take seriously in proportion to how much they think an AI will actually exist.
> as if this might be close to reasonable estimate of the profit off these farm repair contracts. I took the math you proposed but I used revenue instead of profit. "Last year was 5b net profit on 44b revenue.…
I'm going to do one reply to all of yours: > I don't think people's intuitive concept of minutes and seconds is that they vary according to the time of year or the tidal effects on the Earth. But if you asked people to…
Making comments against layoffs is "activist" "drama" now? If you don't want to be a "victim" here simply don't fire people for making those comments.
I completely disagree. The intuitive meaning is that a day is 24 hours and you can divide that by 60 twice. But that makes the second vary by some parts per billion, so we nailed down the second to make the technical…
No, they handle totally different things. Leap seconds handle the earth spinning at a varying speed. They would be a problem even if the sun didn't exist. Leap years handle the fact that earth spins don't evenly divide…
> Um, because it's the prime meridian and that's how UTC is defined? That's an explanation of how it is, not why we should care to preserve it. The definitions of hours minutes and seconds have changed before, and in…
If you're relying on system time for subsecond precision, you're already screwed on every other day that doesn't have leap seconds.
Well CLOCK_MONOTONIC was a bad name for anything that's supposed to do more than be... monotonic, so I'm not surprised things became unclear. But it is just a basic system clock. Being the wrong speed by 15 parts per…
> The models for this are IIRC trigonometric polynomials of fairly low order, so even if we could model the unpredictability perfectly, truncation error would limit our ability to distribute the model at super high…
> 0x7ffffffffffffffff. The typical argument is that such a value would be “pathological”. Not only is this argument incorrect, it’s even more dangerous which we will see later. The only later thing I see that's somewhat…
...nonsense? Their average revenue for the last dozen years is reasonably close to 40 billion. 4% is a tiny fraction. Those are the only numbers I used.
Okay, interesting. Also to be clear I do think Z2 makes sense in a lot of situations, but I suspect that it's not very dependant on drive size like a lot of people think. If I wanted high reliability I'd use Z2 even…
> This is based on the data I had available 10 years ago when I set up this array Data you collected or data you found? Any idea where it was? I've only seen oversimplified math, not real data, and different versions of…
> They don't install updates very often (if at all). The average person with zero tech savvy has their browser updating itself regularly with no input from the user. Are they escaping that?
Only a couple percent of websites benefit from being "modern web applications". Yes that is the fallback. That doesn't make it a bad example. Your core functionality should work on almost everything even if it's laid…
Why would it be a "tiny fraction" of profit in particular? If they broke even, would we say they couldn't have made any money off of these practices? Even a tiny fraction of revenue, on the other hand, could easily…
This argument makes sense if learning the language is the default and you require an excuse to get out of it. But I don't think that's true. If you don't want to learn, that's not a big deal. There's no cherry picking…
My favorite parity trick was how the N64 was designed around ECC RAM chips but didn't bother using ECC, so it has a ninth bit at every address that the CPU ignores and the GPU uses as extra storage.