BuuQu9hu

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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
"Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure," or so the saying goes. A teacher used to repeat this phrase to any grade-school students who failed to turn in homework. He didn't care what the excuses were; no amo
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
The number ...1 in your first notation is actually -1, using 2-adic interpretation. The number 0.1... is actually 1, which lies outside your expected range. Maybe another base will help. In base 3: 0.0... 0.10... 0.20... 0.010... Once again
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Python has list comprehensions because maths has set comprehensions.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
I enjoyed this article until the closer at the very end: "Having boobs and running a business is exactly the same as having a penis and running a business, except boobs are more aesthetically pleasing. I hope, at minimum, we can all ag
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
I worry that this is the chaos of folks not understanding compiler theory. This is the result: every minifier is a compiler, but none of these minifiers boast properties like idempotence and none of them are sufficiently correct that they a
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
If only ES were more like E or Monte, where there are no classes and no `this`.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
First we need to figure out smart contracts and educate folks on how capability security works.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
The problem is one of capabilities; unrestricted image hosts delegate too much power to uploaders. An uploader should not be able to create a valid URL with any data under the hoster's domain. In addition to what's been mentioned,
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
This is an advertisement for sleep masks.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
I don't know any languages in the APL family. Which should I learn and why? Which should I definitely avoid and why?
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Did you try PyPy? If so, how did it perform? If not, why not? PyPy adoption is at only 1% or so, and it'd be nice to see more PyPy usage.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Hi! Unfortunately, compilers must take at least linear time to compile code, because they must examine every character. Ditto for pretty much any serializer. Also, you'd think that the number of LoC matters, but the choice of language
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Many of these problems were in third-party libraries. It would be cool if Sandstorm were written with capability-safe languages like E or Monte or Pony which encode Sandstorm's security properties into the structure of the language.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
You have missed an important point: Your technology is not yes/no/dunno, but yes/no/dunno/loop. Turing-completeness implies Rice's Theorem, which is basically a fancy way of saying that you can't escape Tu
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Don't worry about mitigating DDoS beyond not exposing amplification weaknesses. At the end of the day, DDoS is an economic problem, not a technical one; it crucially hinges on scarcity of bandwidth. It's not your problem to solve.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
I would love to know whether alternatives to floating-point, such as unums or quote notation, are worth considering for those languages which have rationals in their numeric towers.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Actor-based dynamic language author here. (Doesn't matter which one; I think I speak for all of us.) Thank you for being honest with us; we are not a very performance-oriented group sometimes. We're generally in favor of things wh
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Threads are still the best way to get asynchronous filesystem I/O in a reliable way. I know that people will reply with various explanations of how to do it for some cases some of the time; however, nobody will post a way that works as
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How Futile Are Mindless Assessments of Roundoff in Floating-Point Computation? [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Kahan has another great paper, https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf , which discusses the futility of attempting to rely on floating-point numbers.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
With each step, we shall come closer to a test which is applicable to the USA's poor. For now, we are establishing whether the concept works at all. The article described several previous tests, each of smaller scale and with flaws whi
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
If you don't do this, then it's not Python.
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
"We needed a high level of compatibility and reasonable performance gains on complex, real-world workloads. I think this is a case that PyPy has not been able to crack, and in my opinion is why they are not enjoying higher levels of s
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03638
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Imagine there's no unsafe blocks It's easy if you try No dangling pointers below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the programmers writing memory-safe~ Imagine there's no memory It isn't hard to do Abstracted away all th
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
I will try to help: The first feeling that washes over you is a kind of despair that this question was asked at all, as even a cursory view of the information available in the OP, let alone a Google search, would immediately show the projec
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Design patterns are patterns which can be used for designs. All patterns can be used for designs; "design pattern" as a phrase merely signals that the pattern was described in a certain book. Functions are too simple and concrete
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by BuuQu9hu 10y ago
The Monte language is based on E: http://monte.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Concurrency Among Strangers: Programming in E as Plan Coordination (2005) [pdf](erights.org)
21 points by BuuQu9hu 10y ago|2 comments

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