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by DC-3 4y ago
One of the most common usages I find is to restrict the scope of RAII locks such as Mutexes.
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by DC-3 4y ago
His studies probably relate to contact between archaic Vasconic languages and Indo-European. It is considered fairly likely that languages related to that of the Vascones were spoken more broadly in Western Europe in antiquity, and that the
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by DC-3 4y ago
Go to the slums of Dhaka or Lagos today and report back how many beautiful people you see.
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by DC-3 4y ago
> [Plan 9] is the most interesting operating system that you’ve never heard of Drew, who do you think is reading your blog if not the sort of people who know what Plan 9 is :p
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by DC-3 4y ago
When people pay large amounts of money for watches, they are doing so for premium materials and exquisite workmanship (brand is often a large factor too, of course). It's not obvious that the same value proposition applies to mass-prod
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by DC-3 4y ago
The tuber isn't poisonous unless it suffers prolonged exposure to sunlight (this is why you should not eat green potatoes). The green foliage and tomato-like fruits of the potato plant are poisonous, so should not be eaten.
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by DC-3 4y ago
> Maybe things have changed but when I graduated undergrad CS in 2017 the extent of frontend being taught in my school by professors was "hand write some HTML, maybe some PHP if you're lucky" And rightly so, because fronte
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by DC-3 4y ago
Hey, I recognise you! You're the bemenu guy! I must admit I recently swapped `bemenu` out for `tofi` but I did use it for several years and it worked well, so thanks for that.
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by DC-3 4y ago
Open source began because Xerox neglected to update their printer drivers. It's always been a blend of idealism and pragmatics.
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by DC-3 4y ago
Most likely, your clone-child would grow to hate you. Why not just do things the sane way and marry a nice woman and have a child with her?
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by DC-3 4y ago
warp is quite a nice framework but it has a really bad tendency to blow up compiletimes in my experience. I think for non trivial projects in the future I will prefer something else because it can be a real sore spot.
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by DC-3 4y ago
One important reason is that the archaeologists excavating this site are by-and-large the direct ethnic descendants (and cultural inheritors) of the Anglo-Saxons, which is likely not the case for excavations in North America.
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by DC-3 4y ago
This is nice. One interesting choice is the decision to compute the number of observed words, N, as the default value of an optional argument, thereby ensuring that it is only computed once, while still limiting its scope to the function in
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by DC-3 4y ago
e.g. usages of 'shitpost' on the 4chan /jp/ board from 2008. https://warosu.org/jp/?task=search2&search_text=shitpost&sea... I'm sure it's trivial to find even older examples but t
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by DC-3 4y ago
I wonder how it works? I imagine some sort of hill-climbing search method, simulated annealing perhaps?
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by DC-3 5y ago
Good point. As anyone who has written an essay before can attest, if you have it all in your head before you start writing it can flow out from your fingers remarkably quickly. If you're still piecing it together as you go along it wil
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by DC-3 5y ago
maybe for your utility function
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by DC-3 5y ago
Very far from an expert on ML, but isn't GPT-3 trivially not Turing Complete since it halts deterministically?
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by DC-3 5y ago
This is HN, so perhaps you're not familiar with how fiction writing works, but the things that a character says or thinks are not necessarily the opinions of the author.
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by DC-3 5y ago
Classic HN comment. Fundamentally misunderstands complexity theory, and considers the objective function of scientific progress to be the obtainment of VC cash.
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by DC-3 5y ago
Sounds like a good way to get beaten up.
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by DC-3 5y ago
Babbage's contribution was substantially larger and more impressive than Lovelace's in my opinion. But you're right, it was essentially a technical cul-de-sac. For what it's worth, I think - in spite of his genius - Babb
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by DC-3 5y ago
I'm not saying anyone could've done what she did. I don't know why you're putting those words in my mouth. I'm also not saying her contribution wasn't good - it was, though I believe it to be relatively minor (
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by DC-3 5y ago
This argument might hold up better if Ada Lovelace were a more important or foundational figure. In reality, although undoubtedly bright and an intuitive 'computational thinker', as far as I know her contribution did not have a gr
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by DC-3 5y ago
If you believe that Will had the potential to become a great artist or philosopher - and whether you believe this depends on your reading of the text, since I believe it is left somewhat ambiguous whether he was truly gifted or simply a hig
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by DC-3 5y ago
In WW1 the British upper classes, who made up the officer class, were killed at a substantially higher rate than the largely working class enlisted men.
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by DC-3 5y ago
Wonderful, thanks for sharing.
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by DC-3 5y ago
'When all you have is a hammer'
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by DC-3 5y ago
It's somewhat low but they've probably made a concious choice to accept a lower salary to work for a project they are passionate about.
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by DC-3 5y ago
I am doing a Computer Sceince masters in this field. I am personally quite sceptical of this study. The methodology seems somewhat arbitrary and I doubt that the signal is there for what they are inferring from the data. I suspect this is a

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