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811.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Then it wouldn’t be an axiom, which it, in fact, is, being logically independent from the rest. It is considered somewhat special though, and mathematicians, being nice people, usually indicate whether they rely on it in a proof.
812.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Well there’s a little bit more to it. There is a type involved, and then there’s pointer arithmetic.
813.
by Koshkin 4y ago
What is so difficult about the concept of a memory address? Is it the C syntax? Asking because I personally have never struggled with this.
814.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Good point, actually. Many cases of undefined behavior are clearly visible to an experienced C programmer when they review someone else’s code.
815.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Well, semantically, "size_t" makes sense to me ("the type of a size variable"), while "uint_t" does not ("the type of a uint variable"), because "uint" is already a type, obviously - just li
816.
by Koshkin 4y ago
832 pages is not a "better alternative."
817.
by Koshkin 4y ago
You can easily have a stack without the special machine instructions (like push and pop) or the special stack pointer register. In fact, such special register is only useful in the absence of (a sufficient number of) general-purpose registe
818.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Written by Eugenia Cheng, of the TheCatsters fame. (A great series of short lectures on YouTube.)
819.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Same here!
820.
Linux from Scratch(linuxfromscratch.org)
45 points by Koshkin 4y ago|9 comments
821.
by Koshkin 4y ago
But the question, then, is: is there reality behind the model (or, rather, how close to reality the model is)? The answer lies in how accurate the model is. This is all we can know in this regard.
822.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> There is good and bad in all tools. In the sense that you are implying, the good and the bad are most definitely not in the tools.
823.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The article itself isn’t much better: If space is made of entanglement, then the puzzle of quantum gravity seems much easier to solve: instead of trying to account for the warping of space in a quantum way, space itself emerges out of a fu
824.
by Koshkin 4y ago
How frequent are crashes though? I would think, more often the user could just accidentally pull the power plug without a proper shutdown.
825.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Mathematics and its History by Stillwell.
826.
by Koshkin 4y ago
But for those who want Linux, there’s always Slackware - the most BSD-like distribution out there.
827.
by Koshkin 4y ago
It seems you are taking the notion of "the cell not being a machine" a little too far. Molecular biology has not shown the need for the hypothesis of a "higher level life-force" to explain what is going on inside a cell.
828.
by Koshkin 4y ago
We have, in some cases. In some nature preserves in the US hunting is only allowed with a bow and arrows. (And you still need a license, of course.)
829.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> equivalent of $2.15 But what does this even mean? The buying power of the dollar (or its “equivalent”) where those people live can be much higher than in the US. (Unless you mean to compare with living on that much per day in the U
830.
by Koshkin 4y ago
“In the math sense” a better term would be ‘category’ :)
831.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Well I’m sure other species took advantage of forest fires, too.
832.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> rather than having to create interfaces I don’t know about that. To me, interfaces is the best thing since sliced bread, “OOP” or not. In particular, they bring some sanity to the design in the modern C++, where you would use templat
833.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Even C++ does not need ‘class,’ as it already has ‘struct’ that it inherited from C. (A saner language would just use the word ‘type.’)
834.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> They contain complex carbon-based molecules called amino acids, which are regarded as the “building blocks of life”. Just curious what could be the percentage of the readers of the article who never heard about amino acids. (I’ve bee
835.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Not everything is physics. Love is not physics (according to Feynman). So what? What is all the fuss about?
836.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Had the original (I think it was a gift), one of my favorites, got me interested in computers… There were things you couldn’t (easily) do or have in the Soviet Union, but learn things, OMG…
837.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The important thing is that colors in a book should have more to do with content than markup .
838.
by Koshkin 4y ago
For me, the only way to get things "click" is through exercises and small projects of my own. No amount of passively absorbing the material delivers the sense of a complete understanding.
839.
by Koshkin 4y ago
If they get to live that long…
840.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Why wouldn’t one send an animal to space before sending a person for the first time? What does politics have to do with this?

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