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Yeah you can take this antrophocentric view to an egocentric extreme where I am nothing but a lazily evaluated interaction with you which is, btw, the reason this reply came so late... The engine didn't get around to it earlier :)

So is a whirl in a fast river. Doesn't mean it's important or long lasting.

OK, so you think a star was just a tiny point of visible light... until we developed telescopes. This is a antrophocentric world view by definition.

I think you are taking us far too serious, we are not that important...

Maybe they consider that after destroying so thoroughly and completely a probably innocent man's life, it's just better to get the job done once and forever.

One of my nearest avoided the pain of dying from cancer and years of painful treatment simply by suiciding. It was hard to accept her choice not to stay with us for few more years, denying our care. But of course I forgave her. We all forgave her. Edit: better said, we had no business forgiving her or not, that would be the worst forms of entitlement I could imagine. What I mean is that we still love her, no hard feelings.

> and now we have one the highest energy prices in all of Europe

I hear that over and over again but... looking at my last EDP bill I find that I pay €0.15/kWh so what am I missing?

Just looked it up, if that one guy needs money today his 2008 €20k gold would buy him >€40k today. Not so bad.

> let them age out

Doesn't work. A long time ago I thought when all the old farts are gone, everything is going to be better. Had to have faith in my own generation right?

You know what happened... Humanity just grew a new set of old farts.

> My own meat consumption is less than 200g per day

You think that is little? 200 g per day would be 80000 tons of meat for a 400m population (EU) - let's generously account for the less hungry babies and we'd maybe have 60000 tons.

How many cows and pigs are we talking about here daily?

> The Earth itself will be fine.

Sure. Earth will be fine even if we are hit by a megathingy that rips apart the entire lithosphere. Nature will be fine even if our sun blows up tomorrow. But what has that to do with anything?

PS My own meat consumption is down to 2-3 meat dishes per month. Don't know if that helps...

I just skimmed through the article but it seems that they refactored from allocating and copying substring to pointing at the substrings within the original string (inside a hot path). So 25x performance boost should be expected just from that and has nothing to do with GC or the language used.

What strikes me most is the level of anxiousness people in the US develop when faced with frivolous/absurd charges. This guy is working so hard - hours and hours - trying to convince Comcast to get their shit right and install a video trap! Here where I live, you would just lough out loud, lean back and continue watching TV.

Because you know it would take a judge exactly 1 minute to consider two facts - 1) you had a contract for that cable and 2) installing a video trap is not your job - before he'd slap the charges back into the face of the cable companies attorney.

What does that even mean? If you halt the match engine for one second, you can expect 100000 order placement requests to queue up until that second is over. And then what? If you process the whole queue and then rest another second etc., then you change the HF game only a little, the fight is now about your spot in the queue.

Probably not, but does it matter? When parking at home, your car usually is a few hours at rest anyway. This is interesting for charging at a service station.

Time for a SF novel: those engineered/encouraged microbes became so efficient over time at adapting to new materials that some mutations began to attack cellulose... Fast forward a few years, and everywhere in the world our forests started turning into stinky and bubbling yellow mud...

So you bring up Russia every time you join a discussion about Israel I guess.

Unclear to me why you bring up Israel in this context other than provoking a flame session.

I pay a whopping 80 euro per month for my free and open internet to our ISP, one fiber and two mobile devices.

And it runs full featured ublock on Android giving me an ad-free web experience.

As of the article, major version updates only with new versions of windows. And "why it lost to Chrome is that Chrome was a very strong entrant" begs the question.

Nothing. It will eradicate the potatoe bug and then go extinct for lack of prey.

This is incredible! It takes two HN nerds just 5 minutes to come up with a good plan a group of scientists would have needed months to develop.

The sheer size and endless bike shedding in this comment section proves that the author is after something here.

I guess you put the game position right after the pawn capture into a good chess engine and check if you're one point up a a result.

Now why would the EU mandate details that make for a less safe driving? You are implying they are either malicious or stunningly incompetent.

Since it's a lawsuit, there is unfortunately only one way for it to make sense: legally.

> The concentration is the same in both cases so the adult is getting 30X more.

That should read 15-30 times more, according to your own figures. And then, the baby's mass is about 15-30 times less than the adult, so at the end you are in the same ballpark again, percentagewise.

Hi!

I can't help with commercializing, but I love your work and I'd very much like to buy one from you. I don't mind to pay for a good craftsman's time.

I'll try to contact you through your site.

Looks too easy. Any chance this "Al programming assistant document" is a decoy?

Well THAT support starts with the experimental records of Manhattan Project and fills a whole library. Support for current ML techniques being dangerous in that sense are handwavy descriptions of what might well be science fiction for another 500 years.

It's pretty amusing watching you trying to lay a trap and then beating up a strawman with your sarcasm. This letter was meant for the masses to read, and not to be kept in private between him and his family. Not the regional flair of political messaging it contains is telling, but the fact that it contains political messaging at all.

If my wive went on a risky mission and died about it, and all I get from her was a letter about "freedom", "democracy" and maybe "our great nation" and stuff like this, it would break my heart even more.

That he felt need to include such blatant political statements in a letter like this is telling.