Sean1708

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by Sean1708 8y ago
I've not been able to find anything about it being debunked. Wikipedia[0] says > A 2012 study at the University of Rochester (with a smaller N= 28) altered the experiment by dividing children into two groups: one group was given a b
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Isn't comparing JS to something like Java or Scala a bit misleading in this regard? They're completely different styles of language with different tradeoffs. I think it would be a lot more fair to compare to something like Python
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by Sean1708 8y ago
You might find the Oil Blog[0] interesting, there are a lot of interesting thoughts there about what a truly modern shell might look like. [0]: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I usually have things set up such that my browser only takes up half of one of my monitors and the amount of websites that don't handle this properly is ridiculous, even Hacker News has a scroll bar at the bottom because the bar at the
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I'm fairly sure object() also returns an object which is unique and distinct from all other objects. The only difference as far as I can see is that make_sentinel returns an object that has a unique and distinct type from all other o
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by Sean1708 8y ago
What's the advantage of make_sentinel vs just doing _MISSING = object()?
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> In fact they must converge Are you sure? Is this board not a counter-example if A starts on the right-most column and B starts on the second from the right: x x x x x x x 8 9 x x x x x x 8 x 9 x x x x x 8 x x 9 x x x x 7 x x
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by Sean1708 8y ago
The article is actually about how closely C maps to what is actually run on the hardware and whether hardware would look significantly different today if people didn't expect C to map closely.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I think that would be a fair point if the article was about whether or not we should call C a low-level language, but the article is actually about whether C maps cleanly onto what the machine actually does and what a machine might look lik
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Except there's no real definition of what an IDE is, just a general gut feeling that we mostly agree on. VS Code is one of the things that people don't agree on, however, so some will say it is and some will say it isn't.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I'm a native Brit and I would definitely call running a sport, I wasn't aware that it had a competitive connotation at all.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
I've always felt that it was a bit of a shame that Fortran is falling by the wayside nowadays, a lot of universities are teaching C++ (or even C) instead now and it just isn't as pleasant to use for scientific computing work.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Yeah that seems a lot more like what I would expect.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> but man the 3-4GB of RAM was just crazy What kind of files do you usually work with? Because I've currently got two 10000+ line python files open which are part of a project that is at least a million lines of code, and my VSCode
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by Sean1708 9y ago
I think that's a terrible analogy, a better (albeit not perfect) one in my opinion is: If I request access to your house (send a HTTP request) and you grant me access (give me whatever I was requesting), I don't think I should be
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by Sean1708 9y ago
If there's two things people in tech seem to vastly underestimate it's how many old people are technologically literate and how many young people are technologically illiterate. I wouldn't be surprised if there are correlatio
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> "Most popular" packages, which ones? Most moved a long time ago to Python 3 The person you replied to said > most popular packages are now compatible with Python 3 so it looks like you two are in agreement there.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> Outlier was in the UK where I had to sign and show photo id How long ago was this? Signatures haven't been a thing here for well over a decade. Also is Paywave just contactless? Because we've also had contactless for a fair w
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Or just XQL? It could be branded as eXcel Query Language.
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The simple cases do come up though. I've written plenty of functions which amount to little more than a single if-statement and I have had people ask me to make changes like foo(things) { stuff = do_work(things); if (s
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by Sean1708 9y ago
The "shifting" vs "multiplication" is just an optimisation since x * 2 == x << 1 for any positive x. As far as I'm aware shifting a negative number is undefined, which will be why they use multiplicatio
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by Sean1708 9y ago
The full quote, since I think that the author of this post cherry-picked unfairly: >> As one of the folks who brought up the initial concern let me be clear that at this point my only real concern here is one of optics. The DoH servic
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by Sean1708 9y ago
No point burning bridges if you don't have to, you never know when a connection could come in handy.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> (if you don't consider deprecating the old plugins one, that is) I honestly can't think of a bigger breaking change that FF could have made.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here, but how to I get it to work without using the webcam? I'm guessing that white box in the top-left is supposed to show something other than a white box?
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Ah see what really bugs me is that most vim modes do try to be a complete vim mode (and the fact that they never succeed just adds insult to injury), they always try to be a vim emulator instead of providing vim-like keybindings that make
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Diesel doesn't return futures, the author of the blog post returned a future and the person that you commented on is pointing out that that's pointless because Diesel is synchronous.
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Presumably. Rust programs certainly do.
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Where does it say that? All I see is the (free) MacOS App.
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Is there a comparison for anything other than multiplication? Or is multiplication fairly representative of other operations on AP numbers?

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