Sean1708

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by Sean1708 8y ago
> Contrarily to what we hear sometimes, Pijul is not a rewrite of darcs in Rust. The theory is different, and the algorithms have a different complexity. Then of course, Rust was chosen to gain an extra performance factor, but rewriting
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Did your parents grow up in Sweden (or I suppose more pertinently, do they have Swedish accents)?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
They're way ahead of you: https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> does auto formatting just like gofmt It does auto formatting, but it doesn't do auto formatting just like gofmt. An auto formatter can't do anything with this block if check_based_on_value: if value < 0.3:
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Also indentation-based syntax makes it (almost?) impossible to have an expression based language and IMO delimiters are definitely a price worth paying for that.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> I would love to see a new language, technology, something, take on this sort of problem. I know for a fact that Rust can do this[0], though I couldn't speculate as to whether it would be better or worse than the equivalent done wi
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> APL and Julia both use ~ Julia doesn't use ~ for logical not, it's used for bitwise not (it does work as logical not but only because Bool is a subtype of Integer, I've never seen it explicitly recommended).
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Something that's become quite popular in recent times are "awesome lists"[0, 1]. This isn't the common use-case for them, but it might be worth looking into. [0]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awes
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by Sean1708 8y ago
What about a Github Gist (or similar) or an actual code repo somewhere (wouldn't necessarily have to have actual code, could just be a readme)? Also out of interest, what is the file format?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Even as a kind of active commenter very rarely do I have anything worth saying about the post itself, usually I comment in response to other people's comments.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I'm guessing most people aren't introduced to FFT in an algorithms course though, they're introduced to it as the computational way to calculate an FT.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Does the JS JIT not handle this? Seems like it would be incredibly trivial...
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Aren't termcap and terminfo linux (or maybe unix) only?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I'm struggling to even find the canonical source code for xxd, let alone a way to provide a patch. You could probably email the address in the man page, but that's from 1997 so I wouldn't be too optimistic about getting a res
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I think on balance it's a definitely a decent analogy, this was just something that jumped out at me as being a possible source of confusion. If this is an analogy that you've used successfully without this confusion coming up the
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> A friend, you just let go! I'm kind of in two minds about this analogy because on the one hand it does correctly explain why it's difficult to get to the sun from the earth, but on the other hand we don't get to mars by
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Out of interest, why will the exported PDF fail?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I played Splendor for the first time a couple of weeks ago when I visited my parents and immediately bought my own set, it's just such a simple premise that lends itself really well to interesting tactics.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Because they learnt from their mistakes and made it a teachable moment, encouraging other people to avoid the same mistakes.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> intentionally derailing a train resulting in deaths That seems oddly specific, do you know why it singles out trains?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Ah, thank you. I suppose there are no prizes for guessing which generation I belong to then?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> syntax highlighting, or as I prefer to call it, spitzensparken blinkelichtzen Google Translate reckons this means "peak parking", is that a correct translation? If so would somebody mind explaining what parking has to do with
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Are you aware of cbindgen[0]? It's not exactly what you want, but it's certainly far closer than wasm-bindgen is. [0]: https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I always thought that 1 char was exactly 1 byte, but that 1 byte was not necessarily 8 bits?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
They're making you ring them ?! That's ridiculous! Personally I would just flat out refuse, there is absolutely no excuse for them to put the cost on you unless they can't afford to hire you anyway.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
What's Clickbait Case?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> Or maybe in areas outside of physics altogether This does actually happen already. I'm not sure how widespread it is, but I've noticed it in a couple of Condensed Matter Theory groups. For example Imperial's group[0] do
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by Sean1708 8y ago
For anyone else wondering, a Hyundai costs anywhere between $15000 and $30000: https://www.hyundaiusa.com/build-your-hyundai/index.aspx?int...
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I think they must be including nuclear in renewables (32.97% non-renewables w/o nuclear, 21.69% renwables w/o nuclear, 36.79% renewables w/ nuclear).
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Just because we can only measure something subjectively right now doesn't mean that we won't be able to measure it objectively in the future, unless of course we don't bother trying.

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