BlackFingolfin

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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
Five years? Citation needed? Also, do "people" other than nerds really complain about this?
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by BlackFingolfin 7y ago
And reference counting is a form of GC
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Actually, Chet Ramey maintains GNU Bash, and Jim Meyering maintains GNU Grep. As far as I can tell, Arnold Robbins "just" maintains GNU awk. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to trivialize this at all, just correct the r
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
They do not translate to a fully native experience. At least on macOS, they stick out like a sore thumb. And honestly, I think in the end, virtually any such tool will, because to really get the fine nuances and details right, the programme
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Yes, the language was (intentionally) stabilized with 1.0. So version 1.1 (the current one) is fully compatible with that, and this will remain so for the whole 1.x series. And I expect that even 2.x won't be as bad (if at all) as the
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Interesting, I don't know a single program on OS X which supports Ctrl+C/V for copy&paste but does not support Command+C/V (indeed, I know only a tiny set of programs that support Ctrl-C/V at all, mostly cross platfo
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Just because something is XML doesn't mean it is "well-defined".
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Out of curiosity (I haven't used Android in quite some time, and even then only cursory): does Android (resp. Google) have a good solution for uniform Undo in phone apps? How does it work?
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
But that usually only helps for text editing (it's even in the article ;-)
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
That's where a menu bar shines: it allows you to browse for and discover new functions. Sure, most people still won't use most of those. But at least you have a realistic chance of finding them. Of course this is not unique to men
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
I'd say there is nothing bad about having additional shortcuts for often used functions, as long as the standard ones still work (and of course as long as there is a standard...)
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Actually, he never says that he does not think iOS needs a menu bar. He just says "I’m not arguing that iOS should have a Mac-style menu bar." which makes sense, because doing so would distract from the core of his criticism --
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
PDFs might still work - but will the storage devices they are on? There are good reasons to doubt this: tapes, CDs and DVDs age and degrade over time; plus devices to read them only last so long, and may not be produced anymore at some poin
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Am I missing something, or is their example at the start of section 3 (bottom of page 7) plain wrong? If x is an uint32_t, then ((x << 31) >> 31) + 1 returns either 1 or 2; while the "optimized" version ~x&1 reutrn
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
This is from 2017, previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554
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High-Precision Linear Algebra in Julia: BigFloat vs. Arb(fredrikj.net)
6 points by BlackFingolfin 8y ago|1 comments
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Things I love in iTerm include the following: * cmd-click on URLs or filenames to open them in my browser resp. editor -- even recognizes "FILENAME:LINE" to jump to the right line in my editor, which is super useful for errors pri
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
Plenty: classes (including constructors/destructors, virtual methods, etc.), operator overloading, patterns like RAII, ...
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by BlackFingolfin 8y ago
I'd love to see that reference, as I've not yet seen an example where this was true in practicd, but know several examples where it is definitely false (e.g. we use a modification of the Julia GC which uses consevative stack scann
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
The problem is that often enough it is not "known working good code", because nobody has been compiling and/or running and/or stress testing this code for a long time. Given that constant churn in the kernel, refactori
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
I am not sure that there are/were "high profile failures", but serious bugs for sure, not just in Mathmetica but also in the calculators you mention; ser eg here: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/11517&
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Travis CI may base builds on wrong commit(github.com)
2 points by BlackFingolfin 9y ago|0 comments
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
Innovated? More like blatantly lied and committed fraud, I'd say
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
Reference counting can also lead to big cascades of objects being freed, which can make it impractical in realtime context as well. This makes RC useless for systems which have hard constraints here (e.g. automotive). And of course, once yo
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
You mirror sage, but your site still links to sage.org, which seems to be defunct AFAICT, current is http://www.sagemath.org
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
It also appears for the URL they give in the FAQ for donations :-(
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
Re 1: it is true that there is a single paragraph "discussing" rounding in https://github.com/douglascrockford/DEC64/blob/master/dec64.... -- which is not much. If there is more, I did not fin
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
I see no contradiction here, as long as the period is >= 16...
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
Unfortunately that page does not say when the comparison was made, and which version of each tool was tested. Also, which "grep" is that? I assume GNU grep? There are others, though... All in all, it'd still be nice to have a
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by BlackFingolfin 9y ago
And it has been for some time (years, I think)

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