Firadeoclus

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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
"All the person has to do" reads to me as if you're implying it's a guaranteed road to success, or that it comes at minimal cost. If this wasn't intended, I apologise. Not negotiating means you get low offers, stand
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Standing firm is a useful negotiation tactic at times, yet no guarantee for success. If companies you want to work for collectively take the stance that you don't deserve the salary you're asking for, possibly influenced by their
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
I'm curious, what would be a good reason why treating floating point numbers as byte sequences should be any harder than what is required to make it obvious (provided their binary format is well defined)?
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Certainly some people do say "Ich bin Christdemokrat", but that would usually be active party members, not just voters.
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
That seems solvable, for example by blocking programmatic control of playback until you allow it for a given video element. That way it only "breaks" when the user wants it to be "broken".
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Depends on where in Europe. You can certainly find rock sugar/lump sugar in supermarkets in, say, Germany (where it's called "Kandiszucker"), whereas in the UK you're likely to have more success in small ethnic shop
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Exactly, and fuel is only a part of the consideration. Though it's also true that the infrastructure to process, deliver and store large amounts of fossil fuel comes at a higher cost than is usually considered (as some of it is subsidi
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Would you be willing to elaborate why "energy per unit mass" matters when the mass in question is a completely different substance with different cost and availability profile? If we found a way to extract 10x as much energy from
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
If they cannot be symbolically encoded why would you ever _need_ to encode them?
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
The article makes the argument that the plot being hard to follow is in fact to the film's benefit. So unless you require "depth" to be plot depth, that doesn't match #2. There are qualities other than "plot depth&q
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
The benefit would be it being optional. You only need it while learning the language, whereas once you're familiar with the notation the terseness becomes a feature. Of course once you've come up with clear names for each symbol y
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
> I don't know any folks who are neurodivergent who desire their traits. Might that be because many people who like their traits don't consider themselves neurodivergent, and don't get called that by others?
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Depression is tough, and yes, a deeper understanding would really be great. There's something I'm curious about with your colleague: You already know he is disorganised in the specific ways you observe. So telling him what you see
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Very interesting! I never knew that a fair number of city trees are dioecious. What happens to all the female saplings? I would imagine that we can actually do a lot to accelerate the process of trees spreading over an area. And even a smal
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
> BTW what you're actually doing by planting a tree is burning carbon to move an already existing plant from one place to another. That is true (unless you're actually planting seeds), but generally the idea is that another tre
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
If it does in fact become "very complicated" then maybe you are trying to achieve something that is very complicated. Good tooling takes the surprise out of nonlocal control flow, and can project it into local control flow on dema
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
I'm sure there are existing systems for which this is quite involved. These are design choices, though. If the compiler can figure it all out and find everything, then so can an IDE, and make everything visible where it needs to be vis
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
> When reading such a method's source, there was absolutely no way to tell that code was going to get injected. This clearly makes it pretty awkward to handle. Yet considering that the compiler manages to figure out where code needs
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
> A problem there is that in memory the arrays are of course laid out one after the other, which actually destroys cache locality if you need to access more than 1 property inside a loop (it will need to load back and forth to the differ
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
hyperhopper wrote "* 2 commutes a day".
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
There is no indication that 31 minutes is per day, so I'd assume it's one way.
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
> While the use of such a fixed-size buffer is an obvious vulnerability, we note that fqzcomp already contains over two dozen static buffers. It should be noted that "static buffers" are not per se a vulnerability. This sentenc
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
I think the only general claim that could be made is that the brain prefers to be certain of what's going to happen/what did happen. To get that you either need to have a good feel for where a motion is going to end up (which is h
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Monogamy and casual sex are not opposites. You can both monogamously engage in casual sex, and be non-monogamous and reject casual sex.
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
> The UK system where each buyer comissions a survey is absurd. UK excluding Scotland.
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
Similar, and I like the idea of Elastic Tabstops. A significant difference is that Elastic Tabstops won't look right in an editor that doesn't support them. What I'm suggesting would use spaces in the file and put metadata in
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
As a user I disagree they should look different. Maybe the designer wants to funnel users down a specific path, but these aren't my preferences. "Skip" is not a rare, exceptional choice here.
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
This is a good example. I think the ideal way to support this would be an editor/IDE using tables for alignment. The compiler doesn't need to know about tables, whatever information the editor needs could be encoded entirely in a
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
If you have access to the whole codebase, and the ability to ask the system for code after macro expansion, you can do any kind of analysis you want.
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
This is some great work! One point I disagree with: >What’s less obvious is that we can infer the size of the machine’s register file. On one hand, if 256 registers are used, the machine can still support 384 threads, so the register fil

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