bally0241's comments

bally0241 | 3 years ago | on: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders

IRS? Yes. I'm OK with abolishing the others too. Volunteer (only) fire departments can stay.

bally0241 | 3 years ago | on: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders

Not only are they completely unnecessary, but more importantly many of your so-called "limits on freedom" are blatantly unconstitutional and illegal.

bally0241 | 3 years ago | on: Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Convinced eh? Sounds like baseless supposition to me.

bally0241 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: I Made a Magic Trick

Same...was just browsing stack overflow for positive mod, so I got

"return (i % n + n) % n;"

heh

bally0241 | 3 years ago | on: Adjusted for inflation, a Single Family Home costs 75% more than it did in 1987

That's literally not a discount though.

bally0241 | 3 years ago | on: Tax the Land

This is the most disingenuous argument I have ever heard.

bally0241 | 3 years ago | on: Tax the Land

This sounds extremely regressive. Basically rich developers will all be getting a huge property tax break by not having to pay taxes on the value of the land/building improvements, while small businesses and homeowners who can not afford to improve their property (or extract profit from it) will not be able to keep up with rising land taxes and be forced to sell. What a stupid idea.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”

Ever hear of electric heating? How on earth would you expect solar or wind to be used for heating. It's far from the cheapest option currently, but you're not getting rid of fossil fuels without electric heat.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”

I do sometimes work nights, but not in a factory. But your missing the point, there are lots of industrial processes that you don't just turn off for 12 hours because the electricity is not there or more expensive. Spooling them back up can take far in excess of that, so a 50% duty cycle is a non-starter.

I'm sorry we can't all be laptop-class software devs, someone has to make the 'stuff'.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Changing jobs during the Great Resignation

Out of curiosity, what turns you off about Amazon?

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Intel's “Cripple AMD” Function (2019)

I don't think the fact that it can be enabled/disabled by environmental variable indicates malicious intent. It could be as simple as that Intel doesn't care to test there compiler optimizations on competitors' CPU's. If have to distribute two types of binaries (one which were optimized but could break, vs un-optimized and unlikely to break), I would default over to distributing the un-optimized version. Slow is better than broken.

I understand some end users may not be able to re-compile the application for there machines, but I wouldn't say its Intel's fault, but rather the distributors of that particular application. For example, if AMD users want Solidworks to run faster on their system, they should ask Dassault Systemes for AMD-optimized binaries, not the upstream compiler developers!

Anyways, for those compiling their own code, why would anyone expect an Intel compiler to produce equally optimized code for an AMD cpu? Just use gcc/clang or whatever AMD recommends.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”

I would hardly call the FDP libertarian.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”

It's ok...we're over provisioned on solar generation capacity. So it doesn't matter that it is night :P.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”

Yeah, its pretty unrealistic to imagine any zero-Carbon approach which excludes nuclear. But the greens would rather cover their eye/hears about that, and imagine that it can all be done with wind and solar (in northern europe of all places).

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers balking

Its called hyperbole. Seriously HN can be so pedantic sometimes.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Debugging with GDB

Never underestimate the power of print statements for debugging, that being said, the gdb-based "poor man's profiler" has also been a life saver.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests

"Research"

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests

You're right, some random guy on the internet definitely knows better than the first hand witnesses and U.S. Navy!

Actually, it was probably swamp gas. Case closed.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests

There are plenty of "mundane" explanation for the motion of the object to be real as well, and not just camera glare. No need to invoke aliens. For example, this video shows SDI technology from the 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnofCyaWhI0

which appears perfectly capable (albeit in test) of in-place rotation/motion very similar to that of the object. It could very well have been a drone, but I find it incredible that people dismiss first hand accounts in preference to some internet armchair quarterback.

bally0241 | 4 years ago | on: The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019)

Errmm...The Cyberiad certainly has plenty of 'sexual' content, but it may be considered too bizarre or disturbing for a mainstream audience, especially the story of the HPLDs.