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by Oreb 3y ago
I’m not an expert, but isn’t the current consensus that this is pretty much exactly what happened?
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by Oreb 3y ago
This is true, but at least for a while (I’m not sure if it’s still the case), Leela data was used (along with data generated from Stockfish self-play) to train Stockfish’s NN.
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by Oreb 3y ago
I always kind of liked Apollo, but I never saw what was so exceptional about it. These days, I use Narwhal 2, and I can't say I miss any functionality from Apollo. For my use, Narwhal is just as good as Apollo on the iPhone, and vastly
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by Oreb 3y ago
Most of us had unlimited free domestic SMS messages here in Norway as well long before iMessage was a thing, but it’s still rare (at least in my circles) to see anyone receive an iMessage or SMS. WhatsApp also isn’t widely used. The dominan
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by Oreb 3y ago
That’s pretty much the opposite of how I feel. I can win against much stronger players over the board than online. It’s so hard to summon the same focus and energy in an online game.
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by Oreb 3y ago
> More precisely, the near 100% percent agreement on "french are despising non native speakers, especially the Parisians". That’s what I read and hear everywhere, too. I find it very puzzling. I have visited Paris regularly sin
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by Oreb 3y ago
Narwhal 2 is not bad, IMHO. It’s almost as nice as Apollo on the iPhone, and much better than Apollo on the iPad.
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by Oreb 3y ago
The battery in my two years old 13 Pro Max already lasts two days with normal use. I expect the new phones (at least the big ones) to last even longer.
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by Oreb 3y ago
I certainly consider Julia to be a Lisp, and I’m pretty sure that’s what the person you responded meant, too. His point remains true: Julia appears to have little chance of overtaking Python, except in some tiny niche areas. And even in the
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by Oreb 3y ago
You don’t need to be able to read the character. You only need to be able to remember that the piece that looks like this moves like that. This is no different from western chess.
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by Oreb 3y ago
Crazyhouse is a fun game, but I find it inferior to both chess and shogi. Shogi without drop moves would be rather dull. The board is too big, and the pieces too slow-moving. Chess with drop moves (i.e. Crazyhouse) is too chaotic; drops mak
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by Oreb 3y ago
> since Julia software is not really supposed to be running public facing services Who said that? As far as I know, it was always intended as a general purpose language, and in my opinion, it’s already a pretty good one (and rapidly gett
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by Oreb 3y ago
I never had to get used to Lisp, Python, Nim, Julia or SmallTalk syntax. It was easy and natural from day one. Getting used to C-style syntax (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Rust, etc.) took some effort, and I have to work to get used to it agai
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by Oreb 3y ago
I love my AirPods Max, but the automatic pairing never worked very well for me. I ended up disabling it.
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by Oreb 3y ago
Can Zig also be used to compile static libraries for iOS and Android?
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by Oreb 3y ago
More specifically, does anybody have a suggestion for an alternative to the /r/worldnews subreddit?
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by Oreb 4y ago
GitHub’s org-mode support for README files was so broken that I just gave up the last time I tried, about a year ago. Is it better now?
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by Oreb 4y ago
I love Atiyah & MacDonald’s “Introduction to Commutative Algebra”. I was always impressed by how it manages to be so extremely terse and yet so crystal clear and easily readable.
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by Oreb 4y ago
Source code is indeed meant to be read, and at least to me, low information density seriously hurts readability. I prefer both Python-style indentation based syntax and multiple parens at the end of the line over C-style syntax with closing
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by Oreb 4y ago
What’s the problem with having the end parens on a single line? I never understood why languages with curly brace syntax don’t do the same. A line of code containing nothing but a curly brace seems like a waste of screen real estate to me.
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by Oreb 4y ago
I never used Dylan, but isn’t Julia kind of similar, as a Lisp with multiple dispatch and a main-stream syntax?
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by Oreb 4y ago
You are joking, but the Proto-Germanic language (the ancestor of all current Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, Icelandic, Faroese, etc. (sorry for the nested parens, but this is a Lisp thread))) is actually called “urgermansk” in
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by Oreb 4y ago
Like any language, Lisp has readability issues when you’re not familiar with it. You find it hard to read because it’s alien to you. To my eyes – because Lisp is what I’m used to – every non-Lisp language has readability issues. These days
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by Oreb 4y ago
Adding to the other suggestions: I much prefer Leuven and Modus Operandi over Solarized Light.
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by Oreb 4y ago
Most non-US keyboards are terrible for programming in general. I only use my native Norwegian keyboard layout when I need to type a significant amount of text in Norwegian. Whenever I need to type some code, I switch back to US layout. I be
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by Oreb 4y ago
I prefer around 80 characters per line maximum even on very large displays. More columns of text are always better, and I also find shorter lines easier to read.
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by Oreb 4y ago
I was with you until your point about Rust smashing the “has to look like C” syntax monopoly. One of the things I don’t like about Rust is that it tries so hard to look like C.
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by Oreb 4y ago
Is there a new version of the book? All the links I find lead to the 2020 edition.
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by Oreb 5y ago
> It started as a language for scientific computing. Did it? The way I read the famous old “Why We Created Julia” blog post ( https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/ ), it was intended
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by Oreb 5y ago
I’m the opposite. I love emacs and have been using it since the previous millennium, but no matter how often I try, I just can’t get comfortable with org-mode. I spend far more time looking up how to do stuff than I do writing, and I never

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