I think the 4-color teaches us that sometimes software has to be shit. A lot of people held out for an elegant proof but what they got was auto-generated spaghetti. I cannot think of a better demonstration of the fact…
SKX = Skylake-X = Skylake Xeon, as distinct from SKL, which is the "client" die. The most important distinction is that SKX has AVX 512 and SKL does not.
So... the big factor muddying the waters for AA is that it is, in many cases a state-sanctioned option where "anonymous" behavior modification (have you checked in with your sponsor?) takes on the force of law. It's…
Absolutely agreed. As I posted elsewhere on the thread these insane custom licenses guarantee that you can't use this code for anything serious. Even if you wanted to work on a project as a hobbyist, you can't…
Vc also looks rather more conventional in terms of license and distribution method (3-clause BSD and github respectively). Custom licenses are a headache and I always wonder whether the academics who promulgate them…
Amazing levels of ignorance here. Even this has become difficult and awkward thanks to an effort to close the door after Eduardo Saverin et al bolted. Hacker News seems to be a reliable place for people to holding forth…
This is incredibly stupid. A US citizen abroad gets very little additional protection from the "army and international protection" that the other citizens of the country in which they are generally resident get; i.e. a…
I'm going to guess that the logic behind your 'relatively attainable goal' here is 90% dependent on the fact that far more people can aspire to be a footballer than a professor, due to the general requirement for a PhD.…
This seems plausible, but is the inverse of the traditional expectation of what grows and what stays the same. I refer only to a pragmatic experience of regex implementation (as opposed to a theoretical refutation of…
This result has always been a bit of a head-scratcher for me, in that it seems to require that we increase the pattern size (specifically, the number of back-references). While the result is correct, it seems to run…
People with a "intermediate understanding of weightlifting and program design" have a long history of not having the faintest clue what they are talking about. Given how frequently fashions have shifted over the past…
I have a guarded respect for Jeff Vogel's games, but having played the Avernum series quite a bit, I'd say part of the trick here is being closer to "making the same game 22 times" (or the same 4 games 5.5 times each).…
> It also happens to be as hard or harder than most other types of software engineering. This remarkable statement is probably true if we correct difficulty levels to the average ability of the population of "web…
Seriously. Our local burrito chain has a loyalty program where you get a little card, and so on, but you have a password. Right, because I really want to remember a Burrito Password.
In Soviet Russia, device roots you!
Calling the process of "accepting a SciGen-generated paper into a allegedly peer-reviewed journal" a "precision error" is a bit on the optimistic side. It implies that someone was making a decision after reading the…
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." - Fran Lebowitz
I believe the snarky Inquirer take on this (after a previously touted splash of cash on life extension) was "because dead people don't click on ads". At least funnier than the standard flavor of Haterade.
> our obsession with certain abstractions (the poorly defined "real vs superficial", "honor", "the dignity of work"¹...etc) Let's conjugate together: "I understand X, you believe Y, they are obsessed with certain poorly…
Yes. His sentiments here http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ are very close to mine: "It makes me wonder, when sitting in front of a crisp, 2.3 million pixel display (i.e. a laptop) why I'm telling those pixels to draw me…
I got excited to click on this, imagining that someone was modernizing less. Which is true in a narrow sense, but am I the only one to feel a lingering disappointment that we run shells in xterms (or slightly modified…
My strong suspicion is that if everyone worked 11 hours, we would wind up in ferocious competition for: (a) positional goods (I can have a house on the best street if I just work 22 hours, not 11) and (b) the scanty…
Attanasio's Solis also covers this topic without optimism; the protagonist's brain is used in a mining machine IIRC.
You know, it's quite possible that no amount of investigation will ever reveal definitively what happened beyond the basics of the matter, which appears to be that a cop shot an unarmed kid 35 feet away from the…
see also: "A little bit naughty" There's always been a bit of ambiguity about the sort of rule-breaking ("hacking") that is and isn't encouraged in these sort of start-ups. One person's hack is another person's…
I think the 4-color teaches us that sometimes software has to be shit. A lot of people held out for an elegant proof but what they got was auto-generated spaghetti. I cannot think of a better demonstration of the fact…
SKX = Skylake-X = Skylake Xeon, as distinct from SKL, which is the "client" die. The most important distinction is that SKX has AVX 512 and SKL does not.
So... the big factor muddying the waters for AA is that it is, in many cases a state-sanctioned option where "anonymous" behavior modification (have you checked in with your sponsor?) takes on the force of law. It's…
Absolutely agreed. As I posted elsewhere on the thread these insane custom licenses guarantee that you can't use this code for anything serious. Even if you wanted to work on a project as a hobbyist, you can't…
Vc also looks rather more conventional in terms of license and distribution method (3-clause BSD and github respectively). Custom licenses are a headache and I always wonder whether the academics who promulgate them…
Amazing levels of ignorance here. Even this has become difficult and awkward thanks to an effort to close the door after Eduardo Saverin et al bolted. Hacker News seems to be a reliable place for people to holding forth…
This is incredibly stupid. A US citizen abroad gets very little additional protection from the "army and international protection" that the other citizens of the country in which they are generally resident get; i.e. a…
I'm going to guess that the logic behind your 'relatively attainable goal' here is 90% dependent on the fact that far more people can aspire to be a footballer than a professor, due to the general requirement for a PhD.…
This seems plausible, but is the inverse of the traditional expectation of what grows and what stays the same. I refer only to a pragmatic experience of regex implementation (as opposed to a theoretical refutation of…
This result has always been a bit of a head-scratcher for me, in that it seems to require that we increase the pattern size (specifically, the number of back-references). While the result is correct, it seems to run…
People with a "intermediate understanding of weightlifting and program design" have a long history of not having the faintest clue what they are talking about. Given how frequently fashions have shifted over the past…
I have a guarded respect for Jeff Vogel's games, but having played the Avernum series quite a bit, I'd say part of the trick here is being closer to "making the same game 22 times" (or the same 4 games 5.5 times each).…
> It also happens to be as hard or harder than most other types of software engineering. This remarkable statement is probably true if we correct difficulty levels to the average ability of the population of "web…
Seriously. Our local burrito chain has a loyalty program where you get a little card, and so on, but you have a password. Right, because I really want to remember a Burrito Password.
In Soviet Russia, device roots you!
Calling the process of "accepting a SciGen-generated paper into a allegedly peer-reviewed journal" a "precision error" is a bit on the optimistic side. It implies that someone was making a decision after reading the…
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." - Fran Lebowitz
I believe the snarky Inquirer take on this (after a previously touted splash of cash on life extension) was "because dead people don't click on ads". At least funnier than the standard flavor of Haterade.
> our obsession with certain abstractions (the poorly defined "real vs superficial", "honor", "the dignity of work"¹...etc) Let's conjugate together: "I understand X, you believe Y, they are obsessed with certain poorly…
Yes. His sentiments here http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ are very close to mine: "It makes me wonder, when sitting in front of a crisp, 2.3 million pixel display (i.e. a laptop) why I'm telling those pixels to draw me…
I got excited to click on this, imagining that someone was modernizing less. Which is true in a narrow sense, but am I the only one to feel a lingering disappointment that we run shells in xterms (or slightly modified…
My strong suspicion is that if everyone worked 11 hours, we would wind up in ferocious competition for: (a) positional goods (I can have a house on the best street if I just work 22 hours, not 11) and (b) the scanty…
Attanasio's Solis also covers this topic without optimism; the protagonist's brain is used in a mining machine IIRC.
You know, it's quite possible that no amount of investigation will ever reveal definitively what happened beyond the basics of the matter, which appears to be that a cop shot an unarmed kid 35 feet away from the…
see also: "A little bit naughty" There's always been a bit of ambiguity about the sort of rule-breaking ("hacking") that is and isn't encouraged in these sort of start-ups. One person's hack is another person's…