hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made
This is probably libel, and regardless it's character assassination that reflects more badly on management than it does on Rick.
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hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
Ok, so what changes would you make to my explanations?
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved to Mexico
> raising the price of goods by locking out foreign competition is regressive: the made-in-America premium hurts most when you have the least to spend
you could always lower sales tax and raise income tax
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Learning C as beginner better than learning C just after python?
Learn them both at the same time. Pick two small projects. For project 1, implement it in Python, then implement it in C. For project 2, implement it in C, then re-implement it in Python. Repeat for the next two projects.
It will feel slow at first, but you will learn more quickly overall.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds
In theory yes, if you have an impartial third-party monopoly, but in practice it's still might-makes-right, where might = money, lawyers, political connections, ethnicity, etc. It's probably still better, but it's less transparently obvious what's going than with my club vs. yours.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds
Eh, I don't disagree, I was just trying to distinguish between property existing and objects existing. But maybe force defines existence all the way down.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Open Source Game Clones
And you won't get far with source modifications if you can't run the program.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds
This doesn't mean property exists in the same way that objects exist. A piece of property is just a protected object.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack
Well, maybe it's more accurate to say that it's impossible to consent because no consent is required to take someone's picture in public. People generally exercise control by choosing not to be in public. You could say that having your picture taken is part of the terms of service of using public space. When you agree to something, you also agree to all of the consequences. Just because they are implicit doesn't make them invalid.
Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly like having my picture taken without my explicit consent. In the end, consent is all rather arbitrary because it's not like you can choose not to live in human society on Earth.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Two scientists quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation
I don't disagree with you, but human society exists because of our ability to control violence via intellectual rules.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack
It's valid if X is having your picture taken and Y is being in public.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
Python has its share of cruft and idiosyncrasies. I find some of the syntax irritating, e.g. boolean logic, argument handling, hidden / private / magic symbols, and those pesky half-open intervals that routinely lead to off-by-one errors.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
More or less, assuming you can predict it. But there's a penalty for misprediction. So it boils down to whether using % frequently (either as a native instruction or as a sequence of instructions) is more or less expensive than predicting a branch frequently, given a certain misprediction rate.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots
Are your parents truly completely different people?
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
On their own, % and / are way slower than +, -, *, <<, >>. Cycle counts depend on your architecture, you can look them up. That mod is so slow and should be avoided is a kind of folklore based in truth - kind of like function calls being slow - but like everything time-sensitive the mistake lies in not profiling before (manual) optimization.
There's an example on SO, I got similar results just now when I replicated it:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15596318/is-it-better-to...
It doesn't matter on my machine whether the divisor is 10 or 42 (as in the example), the branching is way faster. Now, maybe if the branching were not in a loop and hence not so easily predicted, it wouldn't make a difference. But if this code is not being used in a loop, optimization may be premature anyway (as indicated in my original comment).
Probably f() has something to do inside the main game loop and gets called on a bunch of objects every frame. I haven't looked at the code enough to know if that's a bottleneck.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (1999) [pdf]
It doesn't have to be intended. It's just that every time you write or speak you communicate group membership. For example, there are further implications about group membership when you correct my interpretation of forking. Another example: unless it's a typo, your grammar ("I have heard") indicates that English is not your first language.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
Well, it's faster than %, but I bet it's premature.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (1999) [pdf]
The other primary purpose of language is communicating group membership. For example, it's reasonable to guess that you belong to the "uses version control" group by your use of the word "forking" in a non-VC context above.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: The Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan
Go on then, enlighten us with the definition, and failing that, the most precise definition you can give.
hacking_again | 8 years ago | on: Musk revises Mars ambitions
In my experience the public face of Japanese society is very polite, but that's distinct from what can be said with the language, and what people say with the language in private face contexts. It also varies to some degree by class, but you could say the same thing about English.
Also, loanwords like fakku are a legitimate part of the language. The katakana script is used almost exclusively for them and many sentences have them, spoken and written.
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