Always actually evaluating left to right is extraordinarily costly --- a lot of the trickery that compilers do to make things fast (CSE, interleaving loads & math, etc) don't work with it.
And always actually having the same behavior as left to right, when not evaluating left to right in actuality, is hard to do and pick up any performance. Not for trivial cases like this, but because you might reach the same actual location in memory multiple ways (e.g. aliasing from pointer traversal).
The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission is a government entity supervising taxis in New York City.
However, such entities are often subject to regulatory capture--- no one talks to them more than the taxicab companies, no one cares about what they do as much as taxicab companies, no one is as likely to be involved in the discussion as to who's appointed to the commission as taxicab companies. So it's not surprising that they to a large extent look out for existing taxicab companies' interests.
> and will continue going into them to keep them up to date.
Yes, but they could give all that to you free, too. Why are they allowed to recoup tools R&D cost and not Apple?
The marginal cost of all these things is low. Even the dev hardware from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. The real cost is the initial development, the cost to build the first unit, and maintenance.
> Jews haven't had a "homeland" in more than 2000 years. Putting natives population in camps so that you can move somewhere your great-great-great-("...-"*100)-great-grand-father lived is just plain wrong.
So-- Jews and Muslims lived side by side in what is now Israel throughout the middle ages. All of Palestine was about 10-15% Jewish in 1900 and about 30% Jewish in 1945. International forces proposed partitioning this at the close of WWII and with the rise of sectarian violence into three parts-- a Jewish state, a Muslim state, and the city of Jerusalem. But that all became a free-for-all with multiple Arab armies moving on the Jewish population and we've evolved to the shitty situation we have today-- where there's an overly-defensive state of Israel taking extreme measures to prevent its own eradication and somewhat becoming the bad guys in the process.
The grandparent poster is volunteering his time to make a thing that people like (DragonFly BSD). There are limited resources to be spread. Old versions will continue to work unmaintained, just like the old hardware does.
How much should he increase his effort to support smaller and smaller populations? If supporting x86 is a 15% "tax" on developer time and resources-- is it worth it if 10% of the userbase is x86-64? 5%? 1%? How long should we still be supporting things? 386's are still out there.
> That kind of attitude is not only arrogant but just shows the devs haven't actually bothered to think about the conditions those who might use their software have to deal with.
No.. the attitude where you expect people donating their work and resources and time to work on what you would like them to is arrogant.
> If an airplane autopilot goes bad it would take many tens of seconds if not minutes for disaster to ensue.
Tell that to the guys in the bizjet who were killed when the autopilot trimmed to the maximum stop fighting a small control column force and then disconnected/"let go" and killed everyone in the back from head trauma.
Same git repository it's been at for some time, with active development still ongoing. Seems like they just are not pleased with the relationship with FSF/GNU.
It depends on a lot. Carrie Fisher carried off an incredulous vibe in critical parts that.. transformed the story and our interpretation of the characters, I think? Who's to know how much of that was written-in, how much was directed, how much was her interpretation, how much was her talent, and how much was her chemistry with the rest of the cast.
Population density and machines mean various kinds of pollution which you don't really want getting concentrated in your food (solvents and plasticizers from trash, medications, oil from runoff, lead from water in municipal water systems, and tailpipe emissions and particulates from everywhere).
On the other hand, it's probably great for disaster preparedness and robustness of the supply chain if a few percent of a city's nutrient needs can come from rooftop gardens, and people find farming enjoyable. And food grown in small batches rather than industrially is super yummy.
So, I'm not sure of the net impact of this. I hope in 20 years the increase in urban farming is seen as something good, rather than another way that we concentrated lead into poor peoples' bodies.
If they cross the equator and go from fall to spring, they're already alternating directions at 6 mo intervals in response to (pretty much) the same initial circadian stimulus. That is, flip the world over, and the algorithms to follow work the same.
TIL macro-evolved life wasn't around 780k years ago.
It's an event that's happened 3 times per million years on average for a long, long time that complicated life was around for. Yes, the weakening involved with a flip has had varying severity, but at this point there's a pretty large N.
Will it kill us off? Almost certainly not. Could there be bad cancer rates for a couple or a few generations as a result? Heck yes.
Though the quantity of content is a little light for $10 (but not drastically off-- but another 10-15% content would make paying the $10 feel a lot better).
720p is about 44% the pixels of 1080p. 40% the GPU clock to generate just 720P rather than generating 1080P for external display and then also downscaling it to 720p sounds reasonable.
> They've done a great job making it clear the device is defective. I think people who still have a Note 7 are aware and it's entirely their choice to keep the device if they wish.
This is great solace to someone whose apartment burns down because there's a Note 7 charging next door. And I'm sure whoever decides to keep the device has fully indemnified Samsung for any damages that may come from the defect.
I'm not saying that they should be able to force the recall necessarily-- just that the issue is a little more complicated than informed consent.
> Colon cancer is curable with surgery in the early stages, but uncurable by anything after it metastasizes.
Just a curious aside-- the survival / staging thing is probably somewhat misleading.
Some fraction of cancers are probably incapable of establishing themselves in other tissue; and aggressively-growing cancers tend to get diagnosed later in phase of disease progression. So in other words, there's a selection bias where the inherently nastier cancers show up with a worse staging.
A lot of attempts to detect cancer earlier / screen more frequently have spotted earlier stage cancers but have not delivered nearly the survival benefit you'd expect from the staging changes.
(This effect is clearly present in colon cancer but there's still really big benefits from colonoscopy--- this effect has shown up to a greater degree in mammography, prostate cancer screening, etc)
> I can't understand why clinical trials reject people who aren't in bad enough condition. What if the treatment only works before the disease gets really bad? Wouldn't you want to know this?
A key reason is that there are already pretty good treatments for stage 1 or stage 2 colon cancer that significantly drop 5 year mortality. So the potential for doing more harm (by doing this instead of other treatments) or confusing the results and potentially creating harm (by offering this with existing treatments) are much greater.
So it's a much lower bar to justify trying it on late-stage cancer patients who don't have a proven, really effective therapy available and are pretty likely to die anyways even if your treatment is somewhat dangerous.
> In fact, so small, that maybe the radiation they've detected was a coincidence due to some meteorite and actually has nothing to do with Fukushima.
Things with short half lives only come from recent nuclear reactions. Stuff in space or from geologic processes would have gone through tens of thousands to billions of half lives.
If a pure kilo of Cs-137 originally has about 4 * 10^24 atoms... After 82 half lives, there is probably not a single atom of Cs-137 left. This happens in less than a couple hundred years.
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Always actually evaluating left to right is extraordinarily costly --- a lot of the trickery that compilers do to make things fast (CSE, interleaving loads & math, etc) don't work with it.
And always actually having the same behavior as left to right, when not evaluating left to right in actuality, is hard to do and pick up any performance. Not for trivial cases like this, but because you might reach the same actual location in memory multiple ways (e.g. aliasing from pointer traversal).
Fine:
72.9 microradians/second * 86164 seconds/day = 6.281, close enough for me.
The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission is a government entity supervising taxis in New York City.
However, such entities are often subject to regulatory capture--- no one talks to them more than the taxicab companies, no one cares about what they do as much as taxicab companies, no one is as likely to be involved in the discussion as to who's appointed to the commission as taxicab companies. So it's not surprising that they to a large extent look out for existing taxicab companies' interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, the driver's own ordinary insurance does not generally cover people they're carrying for hire.
The insurance that Uber has obtained for its drivers when "onlne" does.
https://www.uber.com/drive/ins...
> and will continue going into them to keep them up to date.
Yes, but they could give all that to you free, too. Why are they allowed to recoup tools R&D cost and not Apple?
The marginal cost of all these things is low. Even the dev hardware from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. The real cost is the initial development, the cost to build the first unit, and maintenance.
> Jews haven't had a "homeland" in more than 2000 years. Putting natives population in camps so that you can move somewhere your great-great-great-("...-"*100)-great-grand-father lived is just plain wrong.
So-- Jews and Muslims lived side by side in what is now Israel throughout the middle ages. All of Palestine was about 10-15% Jewish in 1900 and about 30% Jewish in 1945. International forces proposed partitioning this at the close of WWII and with the rise of sectarian violence into three parts-- a Jewish state, a Muslim state, and the city of Jerusalem. But that all became a free-for-all with multiple Arab armies moving on the Jewish population and we've evolved to the shitty situation we have today-- where there's an overly-defensive state of Israel taking extreme measures to prevent its own eradication and somewhat becoming the bad guys in the process.
Yes, and get results like this: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
The grandparent poster is volunteering his time to make a thing that people like (DragonFly BSD). There are limited resources to be spread. Old versions will continue to work unmaintained, just like the old hardware does.
How much should he increase his effort to support smaller and smaller populations? If supporting x86 is a 15% "tax" on developer time and resources-- is it worth it if 10% of the userbase is x86-64? 5%? 1%? How long should we still be supporting things? 386's are still out there.
> That kind of attitude is not only arrogant but just shows the devs haven't actually bothered to think about the conditions those who might use their software have to deal with.
No.. the attitude where you expect people donating their work and resources and time to work on what you would like them to is arrogant.
> If an airplane autopilot goes bad it would take many tens of seconds if not minutes for disaster to ensue.
Tell that to the guys in the bizjet who were killed when the autopilot trimmed to the maximum stop fighting a small control column force and then disconnected/"let go" and killed everyone in the back from head trauma.
Update: It seems this is why Libreboot's maintainers were not pleased with GNU: https://libreboot.org/gnu/
Same git repository it's been at for some time, with active development still ongoing. Seems like they just are not pleased with the relationship with FSF/GNU.
Getting lots of mass there cheaply lets the other solutions be a lot less fancy, though.
> but when we we lose someone due their impaired health it is still sad, and a reminder to take better care of ourselves.
Probably a better reminder to get up and stroll around the plane every once in awhile.
It depends on a lot. Carrie Fisher carried off an incredulous vibe in critical parts that .. transformed the story and our interpretation of the characters, I think? Who's to know how much of that was written-in, how much was directed, how much was her interpretation, how much was her talent, and how much was her chemistry with the rest of the cast.
You can't rule out that possibly we're in the slice of the multiverse where Princess Leia was played best ;)
Population density and machines mean various kinds of pollution which you don't really want getting concentrated in your food (solvents and plasticizers from trash, medications, oil from runoff, lead from water in municipal water systems, and tailpipe emissions and particulates from everywhere).
On the other hand, it's probably great for disaster preparedness and robustness of the supply chain if a few percent of a city's nutrient needs can come from rooftop gardens, and people find farming enjoyable. And food grown in small batches rather than industrially is super yummy.
So, I'm not sure of the net impact of this. I hope in 20 years the increase in urban farming is seen as something good, rather than another way that we concentrated lead into poor peoples' bodies.
If they cross the equator and go from fall to spring, they're already alternating directions at 6 mo intervals in response to (pretty much) the same initial circadian stimulus. That is, flip the world over, and the algorithms to follow work the same.
TIL macro-evolved life wasn't around 780k years ago.
It's an event that's happened 3 times per million years on average for a long, long time that complicated life was around for. Yes, the weakening involved with a flip has had varying severity, but at this point there's a pretty large N.
Will it kill us off? Almost certainly not. Could there be bad cancer rates for a couple or a few generations as a result? Heck yes.
Yes, this.
Though the quantity of content is a little light for $10 (but not drastically off-- but another 10-15% content would make paying the $10 feel a lot better).
720p is about 44% the pixels of 1080p. 40% the GPU clock to generate just 720P rather than generating 1080P for external display and then also downscaling it to 720p sounds reasonable.
> They've done a great job making it clear the device is defective. I think people who still have a Note 7 are aware and it's entirely their choice to keep the device if they wish.
This is great solace to someone whose apartment burns down because there's a Note 7 charging next door. And I'm sure whoever decides to keep the device has fully indemnified Samsung for any damages that may come from the defect.
I'm not saying that they should be able to force the recall necessarily-- just that the issue is a little more complicated than informed consent.
> Colon cancer is curable with surgery in the early stages, but uncurable by anything after it metastasizes.
Just a curious aside-- the survival / staging thing is probably somewhat misleading.
Some fraction of cancers are probably incapable of establishing themselves in other tissue; and aggressively-growing cancers tend to get diagnosed later in phase of disease progression. So in other words, there's a selection bias where the inherently nastier cancers show up with a worse staging.
A lot of attempts to detect cancer earlier / screen more frequently have spotted earlier stage cancers but have not delivered nearly the survival benefit you'd expect from the staging changes.
(This effect is clearly present in colon cancer but there's still really big benefits from colonoscopy--- this effect has shown up to a greater degree in mammography, prostate cancer screening, etc)
If the new drug is very possibly much worse than the current treatment, it's still a bit of an ethical conundrum.
> I can't understand why clinical trials reject people who aren't in bad enough condition. What if the treatment only works before the disease gets really bad? Wouldn't you want to know this?
A key reason is that there are already pretty good treatments for stage 1 or stage 2 colon cancer that significantly drop 5 year mortality. So the potential for doing more harm (by doing this instead of other treatments) or confusing the results and potentially creating harm (by offering this with existing treatments) are much greater.
So it's a much lower bar to justify trying it on late-stage cancer patients who don't have a proven, really effective therapy available and are pretty likely to die anyways even if your treatment is somewhat dangerous.
> In fact, so small, that maybe the radiation they've detected was a coincidence due to some meteorite and actually has nothing to do with Fukushima.
Things with short half lives only come from recent nuclear reactions. Stuff in space or from geologic processes would have gone through tens of thousands to billions of half lives.
If a pure kilo of Cs-137 originally has about 4 * 10^24 atoms... After 82 half lives, there is probably not a single atom of Cs-137 left. This happens in less than a couple hundred years.