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eff-nix

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    Exactly. The abstract essentially says “these people make for great employees for X Y Z reasons, but many people look at that and come up with conspiracy theories based on it”. The…

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    Do we have evidence these people did fellowship together?

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    Comment #48304039

    Anywhere I can read more about this float accumulation with 2’s complement?

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    Sure, when comparing 0’s to anything else. But what about normal distribution to uniform in 0,1? The author hand waves something about signs but it’s not very well reasoned - that’…

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    But why do we expect random data to result in more bit flips? That seems harder to argue than the mechanics of a basic branch prediction system.

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    Comment #48268026

    My friend drunk drove and crashed, the cop —correctly— gave him a long talk about how that’s a bad call, then let him off. Does that mean drunk driving is now legal?

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    If you tell the TSA you’re a sovereign citizen for 15 minutes they’re legally required to let you fly.

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    Comment #48254066

    LGB is closer - but that has its own aliasing issues.

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    Evacuation map doesn’t seem to take into account wind at all. But then, if it did Disneyland would need to shut down…

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    Earlier today, I tried to run a simple nix tool a colleague made. 3 hours into the build, it crashed. Something about a missing python import? I ran the exact same ‘nix develop’ ag…