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CPUs do have a 'hardware' (I guess microcode) implementation in the 80387 era FPU. But it isn't used. One reason is that the software implementation is faster in modern floating point code. I don't know about GPUs but I would guess compilers transparently take care of that.

If time were symmetric, wouldn't that mean instead of causality (future is influenced by the past) and retrocausality (past is influenced by the future), there is no preference and in effect no causality at all? A&B are necessarily connected, but none of them is the cause of the other.

Ok, try me. What is a non-derogatory way to describe people that are called woke derogatorily?

I recently decided against a 1+10 Pro for a 9 Pro. Price was a factor, as was the fact that they are not massively different in capabilities. But the final nail in the coffin was alternative rom support. Both are not officially supported by Lineage (yet?). But there are inofficial builds for the 9. Apparently OnePlus stopped supporting some tool that is needed to safely develop roms without risking to brick the phone.

And if I remember correctly, the primary motive for the Prussian pension system when it was introduced was to reduce youth unemployment by getting the elderly out of the way.

I think still today that is a deciding factor, as some economies have high unemployment and there retirement can be cheaper and better than caring for unemployed people at all ages. And other economies have high employment and would even benefit economically from a larger workforce.

Oh, I am sorry. You are right. It's not intended as a smear word at all. Thanks for your explanation.

Who is talking about government? I am just refuting the argument that continued growth is necessary for life.

It's a smear word for 'people that care about people'

People grow (in height) for the first ~1.5 decades of their life, and then stop growing. It appears to me that there is more to it.

Or, hear me out, a pension.

I guess you shouldn't let it come to burnout. This is probably a good measure to prevent burnout.

I just switched from a OnePlus 5 to a 9 Pro a few weeks back, and it is a noticable improvement. But you are right, while I was on the 5 I thought performance isn't a problem.

There was a guy, Kryptochef, roaming german tech forums. Hard to tell if this was an extremely committed comedic troll or an insane guy. This was his website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140504165057/http://kryptochef...

It went down in 2014 and the guy vanished never to be heard of again.

E3 is only relevant to decimal numbers. I don't see how computing can benefit from it, unless base conversion for human interaction is a particularly large part of the problem. And there is a reason why stuff like BCD isn't used anywhere near anything resembling high performance computing: it's practically never worth it.

I heard an interesting philosophical discussion many years back, where it was stated that we are morally obligated to outlaw non-self-driving cars as soon as it is proven that self-driving cars kill fewer people. It is not so easy to argue against that, because if you do, you rate your own right to choose higher than another persons right to live.

What you are doing is interpreting everything as you like, not as it is meant. You paint yourself as the victim when this all started with your baseless accusations. If you don't like people reacting to your accusations, you should not use a public forum.

How are you in trouble?

One could argue about the nuances between predisposition and ability of a population (half of the population). But saying that you don't expect a certain understanding of a topic on HN seems to imply that you think HN is an echochamber.

Bravo, you've built the perfect circular argument.

It's in the definition of the IQ (assuming a bell curve distribution)

I think the secret to get the C2 splines that pass through the control points right is to not just increase the degree but also add two more points, i.e. not 4 but 6 segments.

I use my Personalausweis to submit tax stuff, to get the current status of the government pension fund (I can know at any time, not just once per year how many Rentenpunkte I have) and to submit local requests for my city (for example changes for the garbage collection service). My phone serves as the card reader using NFC. It works like a charm.

Solving problems once and for all is very hard. Our track record with that is less than stellar. I agree with you, Russia needs to be defeated. But that is for moral reasons, not because it is overall the best economic solution for the world. Rather in spite of the economic consequences.

Well, you should not publicly admit that you aren't looking for work, otherwise you might risk that sweet unemployment money.

Actually, .com files can be larger. I don't know how exactly it was handled, but I distincly remember seeing versions of edit.com >64k

I like the idea of WebView2, but it seems to be abandonware. They don't fix the most obvious bugs you run into immediately when trying it out. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/229...

The increase of energy prices in Europe doesn't seem to be short term anymore. It reflects a new geopolitical reality, that has almost zero hope of changing soon again. Sure, energy prices will decrease over time, but it will be a very slow process, until we get even in a similar region as a few years back. Governments will have to subsidize not just energy creation, but many more activities, unless we are ready to loose a lot of the wealth and equality we have left in the population.

How do you know?

Nice fantasy. Note that building up that infrastructure at scale itself (within decades) overconstrains resources already.

I think in the end people who are different (no matter if autistic, bipolar, whatever) need to learn to get along with each other. Whenever one side says: "I am right, I don't move a bit to accomodate anyone else", he is doing the opposite. This piece reads exactly like that. It calls people who communicate and think differently indistinctly bullies.

If you claim to be a complex thinker, you also consider people in your analysis, then that should also apply first hand, not just as a part of the solutions you propose. If you are unable to do that: fine, nobody is expected to be perfect. But don't claim to be perfect.