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worthless443

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    Comment #37632433

    Personally I wouldn't make one part of the name linked to the underlying development language, we make software for the users, and the source is often not part of something users h…

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    Comment #37627526

    And in the end, it feels good and fresh. Just like any other (meaningful) skill, decent social skills put forth significant effects on one's awareness of their local surroundings, …

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    Comment #37398827

    Such a transparent and clear post, therefore first, Thank you! Based on my experience with propitiatory IoT devices and protocols, vendors seem to be kind of unwary when it comes t…

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    Comment #37348097

    I'm not a mathematician but I enjoy maths both as an anchor to an objective reality and as an art of expression (or rather compression of axiomatic ideas into tight and elegant equ…

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    Comment #35682893

    > They feel strongly drawn to C's virtues, often explicitly in contrast to other languages Can someone point me to which set of virtues you are talking about here? Simplicity? Valu…

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    Comment #34595505

    Prof. Leonard Susskind's Lectures on General Relativity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZgW1YjCKk&list=PL9YY-u_YWq... . Maybe out of many, this because of a nostalgic attachmen…

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    Comment #34254660

    Last time I checked on blink, it couldn't run dynamic executables (or ELFs that run with the dynamic interpreter), and would result in a segfault. How has it improved since then?

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    Comment #33117538

    I hope people understand that this process is non-linear.

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    Comment #33112079

    > it stores data in memory, and async starts writing data to disk in small data chunks called deltas, later these chunks are deleted and replaced with the whole graph snapshot Than…

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    Comment #33111713

    If a large graph is needed to be read multiple times, sure memory bandwidth will result in the most performance possible under the context of this workload like interacting with Pa…

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    Comment #33110833

    Automatic memory management is indeed the first thing one needs to look for writing performance critical software, and that's a first in my check-list. But > in-memory storage of d…

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    Comment #32723489

    Rather than "evil", I would dub it as a little too much confidence on statistical models running on blackbox computers without checking for edge cases of false inference(which coul…

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    Comment #32455503

    This to the very extent, is still very valuable for me to a personal level. However I can understand why people would divert away from it, people have grown apathy for comprehensiv…