Koshkin

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631.
by Koshkin 4y ago
An indirect recursion.
632.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I find that recursion is something that in simple cases can be replaced with a loop, and in complex cases is hard to reason about and therefore should be avoided.
633.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Indeed, Go Is Great.
634.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Zig is the ugliest of the Three Piglets (the other two being Rust and Swift).
635.
by Koshkin 4y ago
const std = @import("std"); pub fn main() !void { const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer(); try stdout.print("Hello, {s}!\n", .{"world"}); } To me, this looks worse than anything I
636.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Starting the engine(s) even in a propeller-driven airplane used to be a big deal, too. Hell, I'm sure that even starting a car engine back in the day was a much more complex affair (than simply pushing a button like it is today).
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I mean, sure, converting grams to kilograms is easier (for a human) than converting ounces to pounds, but how often do we have to do that in our heads? Computers, on the other hand, do not care (and they "prefer" the binary system
638.
by Koshkin 4y ago
There was this ‘Help’ utility which could be made resident and which was very popular among programmers. Here’s its modern incarnation: https://helppc.netcore2k.net/topics
639.
by Koshkin 4y ago
It is, though.
640.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Is this an adjunction, perhaps?
641.
by Koshkin 4y ago
No, it’s still there, only wireless.
642.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> i.e. categories and morphisms Objects, not categories.
643.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I guess, “the world’s longest” is something of note…
644.
by Koshkin 4y ago
C++ had to add new keywords anyway.
645.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The attention deficit in action. (Not to blame you personally, this is what the modern communication style does to us in its pervasiveness, and the delicious "long form" characteristic of the "olden times" is no longer e
646.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Copy constructor much? (Also, I would take var over auto any day, to be honest; but no, they had to override the old useless keyword for some mysterious reason.)
647.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I remember it being slow - to the point of almost being unusable (at least on the earlier versions of the RPi.)
648.
by Koshkin 4y ago
This has reminded me about “open addressing” also known as “closed hashing.”
649.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Hmm… I find myself using ‘cat’ more often.
650.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I don’t know about it being unparalleled, but when I am in a terminal I don’t think twice before typing ‘vi’.
651.
by Koshkin 4y ago
They don’t have to be just paper, you could put a Raspberry Pi Pico inside any of them. Thinking of a model of an IBM System 360 now.
652.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The universe simply is , and “laws” is what we know about what/how it is. For example, the law: “Things consist of atoms.” The universe does not “know” this law, we do.
653.
by Koshkin 4y ago
xv6 is a toy, compared.
654.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I agree, and Minix has been (advertized as) production-quality for a while now.
655.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Wolfram has gone nuts trying to make these the foundation of the “new” physics.
656.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The Lazy Universe by Coopersmith may provide some intuition as well.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Unless you do it by working through the Demystified series, of course!
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I remember getting addicted to constant updates some years ago, when I was using Gentoo. Switching (back) to Slackware cured me. I do not now why since Slackware, too, gets regular updates. I now check for updates once a month or so.
659.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Search YouTube for “mini dos pc” WeeCee is one interesting project. There are also some (older) client terminals.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> programmers tie their identity to being smart And not just programmers themselves: more than once I have heard a manager say, Let’s ask a programmer, they are smart!

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