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carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
Theory isn't really all that applicable to this though - in theory nothing is stopping anyone from writing all code in assembly, but obviously that doesn't happen.

I think more practically cars have adding driver assistance feature for a while now - more cameras, blind spot monitoring, ultrasound for parking, lane drift indicators.

It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that adding more sensors is helpful (but even the old adage of more data is better than less would probably say that).
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
I don't think std::span is bounds checked. Try again.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
Cool, let me know how to improve the code security on my vendor compiler then, I'll be waiting.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
I've used vendor-specific C++ compilers with no bounds checking and a barely conforming stdlib, so by your logic C++ has zero bounds checking... Defaults matter!
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
There is no proof that humans are just glorified Turing machines and even as a nonreligious person, I find such a statement to be as lacking in evidence as those that claim humanity has some soul or similar that cannot be replicated.

The actual logic of gggp's statement also doesn't make any sense. We as humans also under and overestimate the soundness of programs.

Sometimes, a perfectly fine solution is massaged to better adhere to best practices because we can't convince ourselves that it's correct. Rust requires that we convince the compiler, and then we know it's correct via the compiler's proofs, instead of requiring us to do the proof all the time.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
The ML one seems to not be piracy from a legal POV.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
One way you can think of this is speeding up the "slowest programming language". And removing/reducing blocking calls has benefits for languages like Ruby too.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
Does the functional equality being impossible to determine thing work for math problems? I know it works for computable functions, but math functions are pure and total so it seems easier.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
I'm sure the US government would have been real keen on you reading Kremlin news source 40 year ago...
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
This is from the company that just made the Apple Vision Pro. I don't see any reason they couldn't do limited forays into enterprise.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
But you've heard of YC :P
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
What incentive would there be for a drug company to undertake a drug program that has a negative expected value? Ultimately, someone has to pay the cost, society just decides if and where.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
Sadly they're just an investor in that company - misinformation travels quickly. The era of anime dystopian megacorps is not upon us yet thankfully.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
> There is this insidious cognitive bias in (software?) engineers to only consider the happy path when thinking about the consequences of their actions.

This applies to buying off the shelf software (and other things) too. Vendor provided software is not immune from bugs or shortcomings or terrible vendors.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
The tradeoff is you lock some of those gains down in safer assets. Probably the wrong choice for retirement earlier on, but if you need money during an economic crisis, say you got laid off, then that might change how it's viewed.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
I feel like if you're working at a startup, you value some things more than just straight cash. Hour for hour, I'm fairly certain FAANG pays more than all but a few startups.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
What's the point of not supporting the TLS changes? A lot of the HTTP/3 holdup in other libraries has been the TLS situation, so not supporting that means you're getting basically minimal value for the work you're putting in.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
Replacing RAM chips on GPUs involves resoldering and similar things - those (for the most part) maintain the signal integrity and performance characteristics of the original RAM. Adding sockets complicates the signal path (iirc), so it's harder for the traces to go where they're needed, and realistically given a trade-off between speed/bandwidth and expandability I think the market goes with the former.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
You can always shut down rather than do so - it's happened in the US.
carbotaniuman
·2 года назад·discuss
Yes, but compared to the alternative where the parent company is responsible for an unknown amount of liabilities, capping ones liabilities at 6.5 billion might be better for shareholders.