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by Someone 3y ago
I thought iMessage is post-Jobs, so I checked. It’s close. Steve Jobs went on medical leave from Apple since January 2011. Wikipedia says iMessage was announced June 6, 2011 by Scott Forstall and launched October 12, 2011. Steve was at the
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by Someone 3y ago
Because that’s what it has been called since the term was coined in the 1950s. I think its meaning may be shifting, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#Artificial_in... still shows it as a broader term t
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by Someone 3y ago
> Unless Morgan launches a new product and gains interest of new audiences, like now. I expect those audiences will learn when they try to order one and/or when they see the price tag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Someone 3y ago
> and use Rust The page mentions gcc nor clang, so chances are high the “Full C compiler” is home-grown. If so, there probably is work to do to built a Rust compiler for it.
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by Someone 3y ago
https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/ has a larger, zoomable map. It doesn’t show railways, though, but may show railway station investments (I didn’t look hard for them)
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by Someone 3y ago
Indeed. “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” The value of things can vary heavily depending on circumstances.
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by Someone 3y ago
for example, search for constellations that send gliders back and forth through empty space. If you have one of period p , you can make one of period p + 8n for every n in Ν by moving the guns further away from each other. Find a few gun
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by Someone 3y ago
It may look similar in these high resolution pictures, but it’s different. With dithering, there’s negative correlation between the noise added to neighboring pixels (if one gets a bit blacker, at least one of its neighbors is more likely t
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by Someone 3y ago
The ’standard’ proof of the infinitude of primes implies that: Given primes p1 , p2 , …, pn , multiply them, add 1 , and factor the result. All its prime factors are new primes. For example, given {5,7,11} , the product is 385 . Addin
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by Someone 3y ago
If you want to get such practice, creating filesystems inside files on your disk and then mounting them is more convenient. https://askubuntu.com/questions/85977/how-do-i-create-a-file... should, I think, work on
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by Someone 3y ago
I haven’t delved into it, but you likely lose the ability to round-trip your json strings, just as in postgreSQL’s jsonb type. Jsonb_extract(jsonb(foo), '€') likely - will remove/change white space in ‘foo’, - does
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by Someone 3y ago
> Run json_*() function on Internal Binary Format, which will serialize the Internal Binary Format to JSON as output I don’t think that’s always correct (it is within this thread, which stated (way up) “if you’re always reading/wri
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by Someone 3y ago
That’s exactly what I argue: the CPython developers choose not to spend time on a JIT (quite possibly because they didn’t have the resources to build a good one) PyPy shows Python could have had a JIT ( https://www.pypy.org/
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by Someone 3y ago
From what I understand, it’s more like requiring each programmer to write implementations of arrays, dictionaries, date/time handling code, float parsing and printing, etc. Once the language designers had figured out the hardware was n
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by Someone 3y ago
CPython compiles to a byte code, too and runs that ( https://devguide.python.org/internals/interpreter/ ) Any speed difference between the two is because of a combination of - developers spending less effort on maki
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by Someone 3y ago
> And yet, despite these being really hard (or in the general case, impossible) problems, humans use some heuristics to achieve progress. That’s because, in many of these problems, the theoretically hard cases are rarely encountered in p
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by Someone 3y ago
> fonts that are designed to obfuscate the internal text, e.g. re-arranging characters or splitting glyphs up in strange ways, etc. It's worth noting that with the exception of the spaces, these techniques are used deliberately to s
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by Someone 3y ago
Everyone can be cool with void main(void) nowadays in C. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/main_function : “Every C program coded to run in a hosted execution environment contains the definition (not
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by Someone 3y ago
> I can't even begin to imagine what can weigh in at 845 MB for a bug/security release Changing a few compiler flags, say to enable a hardened stack, or a compiler update that fixes a bug in such a feature probably could do tha
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by Someone 3y ago
I don’t see what makes htons special here. The C standard library is full of functions that return an int that isn’t an integer. For example, printf returns “a nonnegative integer or an error code”, creat returns a file descriptor,
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by Someone 3y ago
First words from the article (emphasis added): “Three astronomers FROM the Netherlands” Because of that and her Italian-looking name, I suspect she’s Italian. Wikipedia thinks so, too ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra
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by Someone 3y ago
> assume this wild idea isn't feasible given vinyl data rates? Data rates go up if you spin the disk faster, and can get fast enough for 2D video. I don’t think it was vinyl, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te
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by Someone 3y ago
Good to know that my knowledge was dated.
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by Someone 3y ago
Not a Ruby user, I expect it is because they want as few implementation details as possible to seep into the syntax. If you’re thinking functional, everything looks like a function. Examples (pseudocode that may be valid Ruby) x = 3 d
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by Someone 3y ago
> and even compiler upgrades are not that painful. …if you do them frequently enough. A problem with OSS code is that it may lie dormant for years, then get picked up by somebody. Even if they try to compile for the same CPU architecture
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by Someone 3y ago
Unless you do what the Greeks did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour#History : “Instead of dividing the time between one midnight and the next into 24 equal hours, they divided the time from sunrise to sunset into 12
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by Someone 3y ago
I’m curious as to how this will go. If this succeeds, it seems big players will for each of their products have to choose whether to make it free or a paid product. Or maybe, they would be allowed to have a free product and a paid “fewer ad
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Consumer groups file complaint against Meta's unfair pay-or-consent model(beuc.eu)
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by Someone 3y ago
https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face : “Nerd Face A smiling yellow face with glasses, often with teeth showing, originally buck teeth on most platforms. While this emoji is often used by people calling themselves nerds in a sel
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by Someone 3y ago
https://energycentral.com/c/ec/flying-without-fossil-fuels-n... : “Mid-flight a Boeing 747 uses around 4 litres of jet fuel per second. Therefore given the energy density of jet fuel, approximately 35 MJ/litr

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