TchoBeer

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   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   I'm pretty sure Computer Modern was in fact designed by a designer and not "scientifically designed" whatever the heck that would mean.
2. 482.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   Again, maybe my school was different, but you gave it to the teacher and they'd wipe it and give it back.
3. 483.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   Nobody, I'm pretty sure their express purpose is as a education tool.
4. 484.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   I'm not generally a fan of puns, but that's a solid pun.
5. 485.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   iirc Casio's offerings aren't any cheaper.
6. 486.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   >due to TI banning assembly programs they did _what?!_ I recall TI-Basic programs running at a snail's pace on my TI-8whatever, without assembly nothing of any scale can be done, even numerical analysis.
7. 487.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   I don't know, something about this feels more like an abstraction than a real thing. If you say "the speed of light is the speed limit for information" that doesn't feel like you're saying something about the way th
8. 488.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   Sounds like an 001 story. For my personal favorite one read "When Day Breaks."
9. 489.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   What is "information"? Is it a physical thing?
10. 490.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    The important thing is that 2521 (ohgod don't hurt me) seeks out and destroys everything which contains information about itself, but only if that information is words. It doesn't destroy pictorial representations.
11. 491.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    It's 1984 and we're the proles
12. 492.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Allocating/deallocating memory has a cost, if you can afford to just add more memory that's faster than any clever memory management solution you have.
13. 493.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    It's possible that they recognize that a team is necessary for execution (and if they don't realize this nothing gets done) but still think of the product as stemming wholly from them.
14. 494.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Many moons ago I remember talking with someone who works in HFT software and they said they'd just load the system with tons of RAM because allocation/deallocation and even manual memory management was too slow.
15. 495.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I don't understand why there aren't any solutions like this. Why aren't there any languages with a good garbage collector but also let you turn it off and work with memory manually. Maybe there is and I don't know of it?
16. 496.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Do you have specific numbers on how much inspection and refurbishment the space shuttle went through vs F9?
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Interesting. I wonder how compiler-dependent rule 10 is. Like, if I'm writing for a compiler that gives really bad and usually unhelpful warnings that make my code worse... but I suppose these are more very strict guidelines than rules
18. 498.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I think we've solved the GC vs Manual debate. Just add more RAM and explode your computer when it's done running
19. 499.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Yeah, historically men more than women have contributed more to society's intellectual progress because institutions literally didn't let women get an education.
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I agree so much with that first paragraph. All these "women geniuses snubbed by 18th century sexism" are aristocrats (which makes sense because all the men geniuses are also aristocrats). The lack of discussion of people who didn&
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    That seems like an overly-close reading of GP. I don't think they would pointing out the other pluralization of cactus unless they thought there was something off about the one the article uses.
22. 502.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I don't see how putting people with darker skin in art could possibly be seen as "pitting races against each other". Would the artstyle be improved if it only depicted white people?
23. 503.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Perhaps, in being so widely shared, it has in fact achieved a level of success that is incredibly rare for an advertisement.
24. 504.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Becomes especially funny when you consider the ideological origins of Italian Futurism. Hint: What was the dominant ideology in Italy in the 1930s and 40s.
25. 505.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Maybe this is a hot take, but I actually love this artstyle. I love minimalist art/clean vector art in general, and this is more of that, so I'm a big fan. I'll be sad when it stops being trendy.
26. 506.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I think it'll stay for next year too, considering how many years anti-racism has been on trend.
27. 507.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Holy shit, I think you're right.
28. 508.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    If the marginal cost of a new subscriber is 0 then increasing their costs should only decrease revenue.
29. 509.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    >But because Netflix is a quasi-monopoly, they would be likely to increase prices to find the new equilibrium maximum profit point. That's the thing though, if they have a perfectly horizontal supply curve, then the maximum profit p
30. 510.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Actually no, even if they face a downward sloping demand curve (which everyone does but I know what you mean) if their supply curve is perfectly horizontal (infinite elasticity) then an increase in demand would still hold price steady and s