Paul_Diraq

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by Paul_Diraq 7y ago
Obligatory IANAE (I am not an economist.) I do not believe an UBI on the level of an livable income will increase labor participation. The linked study suggests that an increase of income for low income households will lead to a higher ove
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by Paul_Diraq 7y ago
Free from what?
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
One problem with module systems (in compiled languages) is, that they form dependency chains. Imagine you change code in an upstream module. Now the compiler has to recompile all downstream modules. In C and C++ this only happens if you cha
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
I wish D had copied pythons with statement (without the scope escape) and not used the with statement for destructuring. The nicest thing: you can throw in the exit method without the runtime falling over itself.
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
There is a nice writeup of the wendelstein 7-X. https://www.iter.org/doc/www/content/com/Lists/Stories/Attac... Their conclusion: The technology was challenging and exaberated risks. But most p
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
I think it is perfectly fine that destructors can't throw. For the rare cases that you need finalizers which might throw I would go for something inspired by pythons with statement. WITH(expr , lambda) expands to(sketch):
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
That girl will be mocked by many other people.
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
The best resource in my opinion is still "What every programmer should know about memory." It is now over ten years old but still the most comprehesive and comprehensible post I know about that topic. https://lwn.net&#x
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
This article is very simplistic. The question "What can we know?" is one of the central questions of philosophy. (see metaphysics.) Answers go back to Platos cave allegory (and even further) to discuss it without mentioning some g
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
The article mentions activities of 1 million bequerel per liter. That means every liter produces 1E6 helium atoms per second. There are about 1E9 liter of water (one million tons) and a year has about 3E7 seconds. So one could produce about
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
The problem with the algorithms faster than conventional mm is, that they are defined on mathematical numbers. E.g. strassens-algorithms assumes something like: (A+B)C - BC = AC With the convential floating point representation this becomes
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by Paul_Diraq 8y ago
2012