Koshkin

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by Koshkin 2y ago
> they're means to communicate ideas to other programmers This is somewhat of an anthropocentric point of view. (In particular, assembler is as far as it gets from this.)
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Well, now imagine a mark on a boulder that means ‘danger’ (left there because, say, a tiger lives nearby). Same thing. (And it would not be unreasonable to suspect that that’s how writing began.)
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by Koshkin 2y ago
The negation of ‘cease and desist’ is ‘continue or persist’.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Yes - not exactly a transcription.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
So, in other words, the notion of the homomorphism is almost useless in this context - which is why its mentioning when talking about knots may create confusion.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Well, hieroglyphs are not exactly a “transcription”, either…
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Yes, there must have been a long pre-history of writing proper, like, leaving marks on trees or soil as a guide, a warning, etc. But it takes a civilization to start writing on a scale comparable to that of the Sumerians, and such a civiliz
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by Koshkin 2y ago
I, on the other hand, prefer the modern media for the ability to include animations etc.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Somewhat counter intuitively, all knots are homeomorphic to each other.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Think of a 3-dimensional object (unlike a surface, which is 2-dimensional, regardless of the shape), with the volume zero. That's not easy to wrap your head around.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
> Every knot is “homeomorphic” to the circle Here's an explanation: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3791238/introductio...
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Indeed. Free shit is still... shit.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
I didn't know that ls was missing plugins.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
I, for one, have been wishing for a high-performance, extensible alternative to emacs for a long time.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
There’s indeed something wrong with a syntax that needs double semicolons all over the place.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
In terms of heat dissipation, maybe, yes. But not necessarily in time.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
This is about the raw compute, no matter the workflow.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
This comment is somewhat more insightful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791010
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by Koshkin 2y ago
> AMD GPUs drove 72.1 percent of the new performance added for the November 2024 rankings
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by Koshkin 2y ago
> what's wrong with corporate America
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by Koshkin 2y ago
My “late 2014” Mac Mini had indeed become unusably slow (before I installed Debian on it, that is).
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Algol 68 ended up competing with Ada, and you can guess which one won.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
6MB was quite an amount back then.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
The order in which you sum a large collection of floating-point numbers is also important, if you want the result to be stable.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Well, to be fair, the use of semicolons in the shell has nothing to do with their use in other languages, here they are simply line separators.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Did you mean "whose"?
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by Koshkin 2y ago
What a difference a slash makes! Still, it does ring (the wrong) bell.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
I don't need another computer, but, hell, I want one of these...
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Not if you want an M4
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Russia to create its own Linux community(socialbites.ca)
5 points by Koshkin 2y ago|5 comments

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