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It's not about IEEE754, it's about the precision that the FP co-processor offers. The results you get are correct per IEEE754, it's just that they may have even less error than required by IEEE754 in some cases. But, this is enough to make the results non-deterministic between different compilation options.

Also, changes applied to the FP co-processor by other processes on the machine could impact your process, regardless of your own compilation settings.
I went there expecting something about Binary Erlang Term (BERT) [1]. It's unfortunate the acronym clashes, though with so many acronyms it is bound to happen. Interesting article though.

[1] http://bert-rpc.org/
> 2007-2008 era financial crisis revealed that the bankers are incompetent at assessing risk.

They are not incompetent at assessing risk. That is entirely their job.

It was that the government intervened in the housing market and to do so, assumed risk from the 1993 Clinton initiative to offer minorities access to mortgages and purchase their own homes.

Mozilo from Countrywide exploited this.
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I think the portability and ability to include in distributions is important, but most people I see don't. However, I don't know how you'd be locked in for linear algebra since you can re-link against alternatives.
A Datasette is a cassette recorder for storing data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
They have updated their website and now have knowledgebase so I think its more clear now. The developer is setting the price for his project.
I didn't take it the GP was talking about Animoji, as those are motion-captured, rendered in 3D and sent as pre-rendered video files (GP mentioned something that could be represented as animated SVG). I don't think anyone is proposing a way to encode facial motion-capture into Unicode.
But you're missing half of the value of the interaction.

Generally when I'm asking this question, it's not because I have any expectation that they should have used sshd, it's because I want to understand the design tradeoffs that led to building X alternative. It's a learning exercise for me.

If I'm chatting to the Nobel Prize winner in not using sshd, I want to learn something from them, but if I'm not careful I come across as sounding like I disagree with them (I personally tend towards the 'three sentences of pre-amble' approach).
These days it's pretty much abandonware, or $2 on Steam at the moment.
Both of those comments are actually not great, but at least the first one has the benefit of being direct. Really the question you’re asking is something like ‘you’re deviating from an established design pattern here, why?’. It’s essential to communicate that you either don’t understand a decisions they’ve made, or that you have some particular reason to question a decision they’ve made. Beating around the bush dilutes that message, will usually just end up wasting time, and will often seem condescending. If your team can’t deal with good faith criticism in peer review, then you have a problem with your team culture, not a problem with improperly concealed criticism.
It may be the easiest way but it's not that easy for people hooked on it.

I still have an account but I rarely log in (perhaps couple of times per year and when I do it's with Firefox Containers and with cookies cleared after log out plus I block third-party connections from Facebook and its domains), but Facebook is more than Facebook.

A lot of people I know spend way more time on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger then they do on Facebook itself so it will be difficult for them to not use it.
> The original emoji were all monochrome

Emoji were in color before they were added to Unicode. Even the original iPhone 3G Emoji release pre-dated their addition to Unicode (Apple used the SoftBank encoding). They were even in color on flip phones as far back as 1999 https://emojipedia.org/softbank/1999/
Edit. Even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction

Very broadly, I'm not an expert in this.

It's simulation.

The models for wheather split the atmosphere in 3D blocks, on to which observed data parameters (temp, pressure, wind direction & speed, humidity, more perhaps?) is "projected".

Then calculations are run to forecast the behaviour of each and every block and its neighbors, on the n next time steps.

The smaller the blocks, the more precise you can forecast.
The more the blocks, the larger the area you can cover.
Each and every parameter can impact others.
Each and every cell impacts its neighbours.

All of this combines into quite a huge computational challenge.
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Then how do you explain that at that time in Europe asset based finance (for things like car leases, trucks, boats etc.) changed from fairly rigid due diligence on the borrower to almost auto granting the loans?
That's your (and my) shorthand for those meanings, and my intention in the conversation, but based on a large sample over the years, that isn't how a large percentage of people interpret it.

If 0.1% of people interpret a statement in a way that I didn't mean, it's probably their fault. If 40% do, then that's my fault.
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Get a demo working, even if it only works 20% of the time or covers one use case poorly.

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"I banged my head on the same issue before for weeks/ months/ years and ended up using sshd".
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To be frank, those hypothetical answers seem very hostile and I wouldn't want to work in an environment where communication works this way.

Instead of saying "of course there would be" there could be a bit of a deeper discussion and the two people could figure out the best solution together. It's always supposed to be people against a problem, not people against people.
Did not read the paper but it seems to me bit weird definition: that adding a constant to geometric progression makes it polynomial progression.
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Do we have a software or a platform to automate the vendor contracts and property management?
There's no reason to be jumping straight in with "why" in this situation at all, one can perfectly reasonably ask "have you tried using sshd".

Why doesn't the author just try putting it that way?
Maybe it should disappear only from uncivilised countries, then?
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But what if the person actually is a moron or -- maybe more likely -- just really insecure. Just because a person is a moron doesn't make it right to treat them badly.

But yes, I really agree with your comment: This is not usually an issue if you have a well developed relationship to that person. But if the context is still undecided, that's when the phrasing can really decide which way your relationship is going.
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Anything particular you were missing from the post? I'm the author and did my best to share everything that's relevant, but may have missed some parts.
there is a vast difference between using profits to buy back shares and using debt to buy back shares
This is a good chance to stop our dependence on DNS and move to things such as .onion domains instead (which by the way help avoid the whole certificate CA mess).
In general there seems to be a rule of thumb that shorter half-life drugs are more addictive - they hit you fast and wear off fast.

Within the same category of drugs, e.g. Benzodiazepines, it's pretty well established that the first step towards getting clean is to get the dose of low half-life drug swapped out for an equivalent dose of a long-acting drug, then taper down from there.

I believe this is also the theory behind the use of Subutex/Buprenorphine and Methadone as ways to get people off heroin and oxycontin.

So conversely, if Oxycontin had a shorter half-life than was advertised then one would expect it also to have a worse addiction profile.
> It is astonishingly complicated because what they are asking the wrong question.

No, I see this argument a lot on electronics.stackexchange and I think it's over-used. That's their question. They have some larger objective in mind, which it may be useful to know; if they want to control the light from UI on the PC then that's a natural way of phrasing the question.

If you want to do this over the ESP, sure, then you've got to get networking involved, and that's how you end up with all the usual IOT disasters. How do you "securely pair" an ESP32 with a PC? Again it involves a huge amount of software. Whereas if you just had a wire you wouldn't have to worry about security.

Answers of the form "buy a different computer" or "install a different OS" serve to make the answerer feel smug without usually helping the questioner at all.
Pretty sure this is an edge case. Sure, one that needs to be handled, but I don't think it invalidates my thinking.

Fines are obviously not a great option, since someone who has been recently homeless likely can't pay them. Maybe jail time is the right answer? I agree that SF wouldn't reach for that solution, but I wasn't talking about things that SF likely would do, just what I think it needs to do in order to get us out of this hole.
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Commenting about some of the comments . . .

Yes, ads are what keeps facebook and other websites running, but there's a blurred line that crosses from offering content for users to offering users as product. To attract readers, they provide content that has value. Then they do everything in their power to distract you from what you came for. When the distraction is too overpowering and irritating many people will complain and leave. It doesn't necessarily mean that we don't understand the money model; it's that we obviously are not going on the internet to see ads that take primacy over our online experience.

The line may be blurred, but facebook users are not facebook's customers; they are the product. Facebook offers this product to the businesses that pay for access. Inasmuch as facebook focuses on an engaging user experience, it's only to ensure that they maintain their product so businesses keep buying it. It's interesting how this product maintenance has evolved: like news or reality shows or contest shows, the aim is to introduce tension, and in the case of news topics, anger, which oddly keeps people coming back for more. The aim of providing an engaging user experience has morphed into providing an addictive user experience. And like most addictions, what started out as an enjoyable pleasure transforms into something that controls and destroys us to varying degrees.
> Certainly there was drug use in hunter/gatherer societies but it was mostly shamanistic/ritualistic use, not 'stress relief'.

Can we really say this?
Are we sure that finding a patch of 'those' mushrooms wouldn't have just meant party time?

We know that (for instance) animals seem to seek them out...
It doesn't do that for me. Must be your settings.
> I know technically all this debt is probably being purchased by retirement funds

Actually, a material chunk of that debt is held by big tech.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/08/how-big-tec...
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That is still theoretical so for any reasonable waste model, we cannot factor that in. If it turns out to be the case, we might be able to channel a lot of the money set a side for waste management, into other things such as better energy options.
> I would feel offended if anyone would feel the need to go easy on me

"go easy on me" means "condescend", so you're essentially doing the same as the people mentioned: feeling offended because they perceive condescension from the speaker.

> Do I look like such a weak person to you that you feel like you have to handle my self esteem with silk gloves?

> Making things up in your head

The phrase he came up with doesn't actually state that he is treating you with silk gloves; that's an implication you're deriving (in your head), just like those people are deriving another implication from the original phrase.
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Things I pragmatically need Facebook (including Messenger) for:

- My martial arts classes post updates there

- So does the community garden I help out at

- Keeping up with family news, and directly talking to family

- Keeping up with what's happening to my friends in the USA or other far flung places

- Access to topical news that matches my political beliefs rather than being heavily centrist-biased and ignoring all the important stuff

- Monitoring political campaigns and issue campaigns

And honestly, good luck finding all that anywhere else.
> (Nicotine is similar, I imagine, though I've never actually used it)

I once heard Iain M Banks say on the radio, as he lit up (he was making a program about a tour of whisky distilleries at the time) -

"Nicotine, a drug so shit you can do it while you're driving"
When I visit https://www.facebook.com/careers/ the first things it says are "Do the Most Meaningful Work of Your Career, [...] We design products and deliver services that bring the world closer together - one connection at a time [...] We encourage our people to be bold and solve the problems they care most about. [...] Together, we help others build stronger communities"

Does working on anti-ad-blocking seem like that to you?

To me, if I was promised "the most meaningful work of my career" then I was assigned to anti-ad-blocking I wouldn't feel my Facebook career was delivering on that promise.
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I think it's gonna be something good from the creators of Typescript, the most flexible and object oriented language. Microsoft created too many languages compared to any other company and they really one step ahead in this field.
As a lay-developer,
I know unicode is what you need for international character support. Oh, so what are the options: utf-8, utf-16, utf-32. I will choose utf-32 just because 32 > 16 or 8.
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One of my favourite games this. Dragoon skirmishing worked well because horses reproduce themselves but guns are expensive. It was also a game in which terrain was very important as it provided huge bonuses. Or, during the War of Independence, disadvantages for the government troops.
>Son, who has said his investment strategy is to focus on companies powered by artificial intelligence, is eager to move WeWork beyond its real-estate beginnings. Briefing analysts after last earnings announcement, SoftBank’s founder bristled at the suggestion that WeWork doesn’t match that profile. He said that he’s long pushed WeWork to make better use of its data, but progress has been slow. The company will now begin experimenting with AI in Japan and could be ready to introduce it more broadly in as little as six months, Son said.

This part kills it for me. WeWork pumped their valuation by pretending to be a tech business when they're actually a office rental business. Son is still pushing that, he genuinely believes a bit of machine learning pixie dust is going to push occupancy up and make the company profitable but there is no reason to believe this. Frankly, I suspect if you do create an AI that's predicting and managing your occupancy then you're better off letting it go trade the stock exchange.
Question for anyone in the know: Is this allowed, from an accessibility point of view? I'm just wondering how someone with a screen reader would know it's an ad? (Or are screenreaders more advanced than I think, and would actually be able to read out 'sponsored')?
If you rely on compiler implementations for accounting, you're already lost.

For anything imprecise and scientific, doubles will normally work well.

Accounting rules regarding truncation and rounding as specified, seems unaccounted for by most until they meet such stringent reqs.
Did you (try|consider) sshd?

"Yes, it wasn't suitable because..."

"No?" Ah ok, I think it'd work really well here because...

Direct, no assumptions, no trick questions, no toes trodden on.
It reminds me a wee bit of stuff that has happened in browsers. NaCl was a way to run untrusted native code by scanning it for unsafe operations.

BPF seems to have a similar aim in a sense: run less-trustworthy code in an unrestricted environment, but don't use CPU hardware based access control (and therefore context switching) to limit it, rather, make the code more sandboxed in software to prevent the need for context switches.
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[1] https://blog.molecular-matters.com/
[2] https://macton.smugmug.com/Other/2008-07-15-by-Eye-Fi/n-xmKD...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
[4] https://flipcode.com/archives/articles.shtml
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Zig's comptime is a very simple and minimalistic but still incredibly useful and strong approach to generics. I think that could fit into a language like that. I many ways I find Zig as keeping the minimalism trait that Go has (which they both take from C). But I get that people want a gc sometimes.
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They assessed risk then sold their mortgages to third parties. How accurate do you figure their assessments were if they knew they wouldn’t hold that debt? Then the financial instruments created from that debt were valued by models trained on RE prices that grew for something like 8 years then tanked. So those same instruments grew then tanked. Nobody called them out on it because they hid the functioning behind models no one could really understand at the Fed.
But wouldn't the hot dense stuff before reionisation have emitted light?
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I find that 3 can become a mental down spiral for the carer.

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