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by Sean1708 9y ago
> "This rule" seems a lot like the "skinny triangle" rule This rule is exactly the Skinny Triangle Rule, or rather the part of the Skinny Triangle Rule which overlaps with the Small Angle Approximation[0]. [0]: https
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> I'm guessing vim and emacs take too much time to learn I used vim for about 7 years and had a highly customised config with plugins tailored to my workflow. Got to my new job and spent a day trying to get YouCompleteMe installed p
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> it basically creates a massive DOM for every document From the OP: > In Atom, the vast majority of computation of any given frame is spent manipulating the DOM, recalculating styles, and performing layout. To achieve good text rend
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by Sean1708 9y ago
That only works for functions written in pure Python though, right? Although having said that I'm not sure how many of the functions that you'd actually want to look at the source for are written in C/Cython/Fortran.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Isn't that why Elixir came about, to be Erlang with a less esoteric interface?
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Am I correct in thinking that this is a similar idea to page faults but per allocation rather than per process?
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Chapel[0] and Fortress[1] come to mind. Wikipedia also has a list of parallel programming languages[2] (although it seems to play somewhat fast and loose with the definition of "parallel programming language"). [0]: https:/&
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by Sean1708 9y ago
It's basically fixed-point arithmetic[0] applied to base tau. So any integer value x that your computer is actually storing is conceptually the value 2 * pi * x / 65536. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixe
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by Sean1708 9y ago
I think they meant VR graphics data, not data stored on 3D things.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> it simply isn't worth it to organize your data under a single filesystem Is that a fundamental thing or is it just because there aren't many filesystems that can handle it? It seems to me like a single filesystem would be con
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by Sean1708 9y ago
But now the onus is on other people to create a name for everyone they might interact with regularly. So instead of each person creating one name to denote themselves, each person is now creating multiple names to denote everyone else. And
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> list-comprehensions are faster than loops Are they really though? In my experience you'll gain a couple of percent because you're getting rid of that call to append, but that's hardly the orders of magnitude OP was looki
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Are you sure about that? I thought they considered that but decided to just make them always ordered in the end.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Did you try your example? It never worked in Python2 and it doesn't work in Python3 by design. Python 2.7.12 (default, Dec 4 2017, 14:50:18) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "c
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Much better, it's certainly worth giving it another go. It's still much slower than Python, but it's quick enough that I don't notice it all. $ time julia -e 'println("Hi")' Hi real 0m0.24
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> I'm stuck with python2.4 or 2.6 Not even 2.7?! 2.6 hasn't had a security update since 2013[0], I dread to think how old 2.4 is. [0]: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> and some of that code is probably still running today. A lot of that code is still being written today, which is one of the things that OP is trying to change.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> every time there is some new research on "how to achieve okay results with less movement and/or time" people will move less Moving more doesn't necessarily mean you'll be healthier, the entire point of the arti
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by Sean1708 9y ago
All I was saying was that you didn't need to speculate, not that it was the right way to present the data.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> The only explanation I can think of is if censorship and surveillance are just being casually lumped together The chart is literally titled "Internet censorship and surveillance by country (2014)" with categories that don&#x2
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> Does anyone really think some "law" will change this? Having a law which stops it probably won't make a difference, but have a law which allows it definitely will.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
It's possible that you're just expected to know them at that point.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> Nowadays, it's like worst-case simulated annealing. "Climb Mt Everest, then climb all the way back down to climb Mt Everest²." I don't think that's a good analogy, I think it's more like "Climb up to
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by Sean1708 9y ago
When I said ASCII I actually meant alphanumerical, sorry. Basically I couldn't find any information about it on search engines so I was wandering if a had a name that I could use to google it.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Does >; have an ascii name? Symbol Hound isn't bringing up any useful results.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Why would the Planck length be the smallest measurable length in the universe? Edit: To be more clear: Is there a theoretical reason why the Planck length would approximate the smallest measurable length?
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by Sean1708 9y ago
In my experience being aggressive or patronising tends to cause people to become combative which in turn makes them (subconsciously or otherwise) less likely to actually understand the point you're trying to make and more likely to was
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by Sean1708 9y ago
The issue I have with most mailing list interfaces like this is how difficult it is to find context. This post is a perfect example, it's pretty easy to find David's email by clicking the "In reply to:" link but I'v
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> Lotteries are also illegal to operate privately I didn't know that. Does that mean that raffles are technically illegal? Or is there some kind of special-case about winning money?
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Personally I stopped working on "projects" a couple of years ago after I had to abandon a mildly popular (that's probably a bit of a stretch) project. Nowadays most of the programming I do outside of work is either learn new

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