Mikhail_K

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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
You mean, you don't care whether your pompous lecture about von Neuman's greatness is actually true?
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
> without von Neumann architectures computers would not be what they are now. He did not develop that architecture. It is not his idea. The article is pretty clear on that. The subroutines were not original, as Turing also came up with t
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
I have searched the article (and another one that the author linked) for the clarity regarding what, specifically, were the original contributions of von Neumann to the computer science. The best I could gather was that he was a "gener
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
To save you a long read - there is not a slightest bit of evidence to suggest that Sun can possibly be conscious. The argument is essentially religious.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
> I'm not sure where you got the impression that the paid layout engine is the primary backend for it. I got this impression once I failed to reproduce the examples in your documentation with free backend. > However to say it ou
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Those "news" (commercials in disguise) about d2 consistently fail to make it clear that even though the language itself is opensource, the primary backend for it isn't, and is actually quite expensive. There're free back
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Enshittification of "Red Hat" linux is proceeding apace.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
> I'm reasonably certain that they can handle more "reasonably" is out of place here. > our assumption that Python necessarily results in an "unmaintainable mess" is "interesting," that is, wrong. It
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Wellerstein prides himself on being able to read Russian, but he is not as good at it as he thinks. Specifically, translating the title of the section "Атомные байки" as "Atomic fun" is simply inadequate. Here < https
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
> Python's performance, aka runtime, is irrelevant for this application. While you are doing toy schematics, maybe. > Getting things done is a much better goal that being modern. If you don't care when this "getting thi
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
In the world where the programming language theory kept developing, rather than being stuck in mid-80s.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
> Deeply flawed? Not really. Python's performance problems are unfixable without wholesale redesign of the language and standard library. Its package management is a bad joke. The developers give no indication that they have any int
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Why python? Why sink development effort into an obsolete and deeply flawed language?
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
> You can make the electric field disappear by choosing the right gauge. That, had it been true, would have made the gauge observable.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
I have read the prior paragraph. It does not clarify how measurement of energy is more direct than measuring the field.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
OK, I do not understand prof.Dyson's argument at all. "This does not mean that an electric field-strength can be measured with the square-root of a calorimeter. It means that an electric field-strength is an abstract quantity, inc
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Some people claim to be able to tell the difference between red and white wines with ease, but fail to do it when red dye is added to the white.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Only double-blind tests have any validity and those are not "super easy" to do oneself.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
I would not put too much stock into James Hoffman's confident assertions. He claims to be able to taste difference between different coffee grinders - but doesn't do it in a blind test.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
D2 is scripting language primarily for non-free back-end. Opensource back-ends give inferior results with it.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
How does that boot taste?
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
> I still appreciate their contributions Do you also appreciate the contributions of street robbers to trickling down of the wealth and drug dealers to the freedom of commerce?
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
According to the article, Roberts believed that Gates gave a false testimony to the court in order to gain property rights over "Altair BASIC". "Just a very clever businessman"?
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
So, Microsoft were cunts from the day 0. Why am I not surprised?
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
We see how Red Hat's (or, really, IBM's) drive for profitability fragments its ecosystem and therefore reduces its value.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Devuan and Void Linux are systemd-free alternatives. The first one is a Debian fork, so should be very familiar to anyone with Debian/Ubuntu experience.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
I think there is. If they had normal process for openly discussing disagreements and making decisions, instead of shady rumour- and backstabbing-based one, none of this would have happened.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
"Yes, it does help women to get into science or programming to have an inclusive terminology (i have no evidence to back this up)." Noone does.
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
I saw the writing on the wall and chose not to invest any time into adopting Rust after observing various happenings like this < https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25585 > PR. Their supposed dedicatio
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by Mikhail_K 3y ago
More tedious editing when I just want to quickly try out a short code fragment. Perfect solution! So pythonic and full of "zen".

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