MontyCarloHall

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1021.
by MontyCarloHall 6y ago
My cynical take is that these historians’ objections stem from jealousy: they lack the ability or means to create these restorations, and are thus envious that the upscaled versions are receiving more attention than the originals ever did.
1022.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
Only if that irrational number is also normal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number ), which pi has not been proven to be.
1023.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
But also sobering: >San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in 2001. Its opening was recently delayed to 2021, yielding a project duration of around 7,300 days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather si
1024.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
Seems like a huge omission to jump from >May (2nd week) Hired the first employee on the team immediately to >Oct (4th week) Launched iPod to the world
1025.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
Hilarious, but you can just option click the notification center icon to silence all notifications. No need for a standalone app.
1026.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
P.S. I’m an idiot who can’t keep orders of magnitude straight. “10 million LoC” should be “100k LoC.”
1027.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
>if you want to introduce a bug-predicting metric, you must do better than simple LOC count Agreed. As I pointed out in another post[0], a good candidate for this metric is the amount of unnecessary code, which is often a proxy for unnec
1028.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
I agree that lines of code is probably the overall best predictor to first order (didn't mean to imply otherwise; I've edited my original post to clarify). I just meant that x lines of overengineered code will almost always be bug
1029.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
In the original publication that’s the subject of the article, it was: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
1030.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
>What would be a good way to measure the comlexity of a task in some objective way? From an existing codebase this would be very difficult to objectively assess. I think you’d have to study it empirically — come up with a set of tasks (“
1031.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
Looking at the metrics used in the publication[0], it seems most of them focus on the absolute number of engineers working on a given component. This makes sense — more engineers touching a component introduces more opportunities for bugs.
1032.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
>for the set of matrices that possess them ("transformation matrices that only perform stretch/contract"), eigenvectors Minor nitpick: this should end with “ real eigenvectors.” Rotation matrices certainly have eigenvecto
1033.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
>I think copying and pasting could be justified as "evaluating". Infinitely copying and pasting is justified to encode the state, but not to encode the transition function, as is the case here to emulate loops. To encode an inf
1034.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
By using the Unicode "subscript four" character ( https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2084 ) ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉
1035.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
The Mercedes wiper didn't simply sweep out a circular arc, like most monobladed cars (including IIRC Citroëns); it used a complex gearing system to vary the blade radius to better cover the windshield's corners. Naturally, this ov
1036.
by MontyCarloHall 7y ago
>I have yet to see any UBI proposal that would wholly replace someone's income Agreed, but partially replacing someone's income would result in a net reduction of hours worked (if UBI is equivalent to half my full-time salary,