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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 …

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 sponso…

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 pro…

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 whethe…

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 rel…

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 t…

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, du…

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 op…

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…

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…

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"…

> 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 a…

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 Passwo…

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 …

"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 stan…

> 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…

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) w…

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 s…

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 2…

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 un…