Chinjut

80 ms·

871.
by Chinjut 12y ago
I believe this terminology goes back to Rudolf Carnap; it actually predates the use of "functor" in category theory.
872.
by Chinjut 12y ago
As someone who hasn't read Snow Crash, I'm curious what this means; could you explain the reference?
873.
by Chinjut 12y ago
FTFY: "Stephen Job"
874.
by Chinjut 12y ago
For what it's worth, the linked article never actually uses the term "white privilege".
875.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Who said anything about Asian and Indian Americans having white privilege? (The linked article doesn't...). Of course, they are quite well represented in the tech industry, but that neither means Asian and Indian Americans have the ful
876.
by Chinjut 12y ago
None of what you've said demonstrates white privilege is a myth... (At most, it is an argument agains the claims, which no one ever made, "No white people have had any problems of any kind" and "No person ever overcame a
877.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Re: "If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right", that's the cheeky title of the article you link to, but not really the content of it. The article discusses how to get the best bang
878.
by Chinjut 12y ago
So it turns out not only could we ignore all but the last digits of the bases... we could furthermore ignore all but the last digits of the exponents!
879.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Another simple disproof: 3987 and 4365 are both divisible by 3 (and thus so is the left-hand side), but 4472 is not (and thus neither is the right-hand side, as 3 is prime).
880.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Even "utility" isn't necessarily identical with "popularity". I suspect, in many cases, by "X is better than Y", people mean enthymematically "X would be better than Y if we were to start using X inst
881.
by Chinjut 12y ago
A lot of people also spent a lot of time hating on Windows, which they only were so familiar with because it had already reached such overwhelming "critical mass in the wild". Does it follow that all these complaints were ultimate
882.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Everything else being equal, of course I'd be happier to have more money. But all things aren't equal, and many of the things one is supposed to spend one's time on in order to make maximal money are things I am unhappy spend
883.
by Chinjut 12y ago
I think the point is that what we think of as an archetypal "general-purpose processor" is a somewhat arbitrary point in the space of possible architectures, and to think of other designs as in some sense secondary simply for fail
884.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Are you referring to the adjustable reset counter in the bottom right (which by default resets every 32 steps)? I wish the option were available to disable it and simply have the rhythm reset at its natural period. Alas...
885.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Sure. As you note, an apple would leap into the trees if the ground under it conspired to push it upwards. That the ground rarely does so (but the reverse, an apple falling and dispersing energy into the ground, happens frequently) is certa
886.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Although counter-intuitive, reversing time doesn't change the rules of gravity: the basic law of gravity just says that objects accelerate in a certain way dependent on their masses and distances. Because acceleration is the second der
887.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Right. For the dream to happen, we have to actively push for it, instead of just assuming it will happen on its own. There are plenty of powerful forces with incentives to maintain the status quo.
888.
by Chinjut 12y ago
I guess let me put my question another way: what's the advantage of being able to reuse previously freed array space for new iterations of the array, vs. having that space used for something else and using some other space for new iter
889.
by Chinjut 12y ago
By "amortized O(1)", what's meant is essentially O(1) _per array element_; in other words, O(N) overall to reach a size of N. Note that this is when considering each reallocation to take time O(current length of array) [as on
890.
by Chinjut 12y ago
I don't understand; why hang on to previously freed array space to reuse for new iterations of the array? Isn't the whole point of freeing array space to allow arbitrary other data to use it as needed?
891.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Why do you say "deliberately"?
892.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Whoa, really? ...I've been flagging a lot of articles.
893.
by Chinjut 12y ago
What's wrong with thinking of such a relation as a "machine that takes in [a] value and gives you back another value"? This seems to me needless pedantry.
894.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Perhaps Coq, Agda, Idris, and other such dependently-typed languages are to be considered, at least in some dimensions, "more advanced" than Haskell.
895.
by Chinjut 12y ago
In fairness, even prior to 1900, quite a lot of people were upset at these sorts of changes, at least when it was their particular livelihood on the line; consider the historical Luddites, for example. Or the subculture behind the tale of J
896.
by Chinjut 12y ago
You say "I think there's an important difference", but then, you end up saying precisely the same things about monads and rings. What was the difference?
897.
by Chinjut 12y ago
What do you mean by "algebra across an inequality"? (Does this mean things like "x < y is equivalent to 5 + x < 5 + y"?)
898.
by Chinjut 12y ago
I can't put my finger on exactly why, but this was the most interesting answer for me (not in the specifics of anime and computer games, but just in the ubiquity of the winnowing of interests over time due to career and family pressure
899.
by Chinjut 12y ago
For all your mentions of the government, it's hardly the primary source of competition-oriented jobs, is it? I mean, even without the government's help, there are a lot of jobs in Company A and Company B simply fighting each other
900.
by Chinjut 12y ago
Is software engineering really a discipline uniquely filled with constant learning, changing, etc.? I imagine many jobs have an element of this. Software engineers keep learning new things about software engineering as the discipline evolve

More ›