Twisol

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by Twisol 9y ago
Coroutines are quite nice for managing sessions with asynchronous events, like stateful GUIs or client-server interactions. If you're familiar with the tendency of callbacks in e.g. JavaScript to nest deeply, you can think of coroutine
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by Twisol 9y ago
As an 87% Explorer myself, I think "loyalty to an environment" might be a closer fit than "loyalty to a vision". I want to get invested in a game world -- its lore, its inhabitants, and the many different places that it
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by Twisol 9y ago
Not that I don't agree, but Sun Chips once made an attempt at 100% compostable packaging: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/frito-scraps-loud-sunchips-... (Warning, auto-playing video of loud bag sounds) They ended
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by Twisol 9y ago
There is a real and useful sense in which _everything_ is an integer; see Godel numbering. There's also a real and (debatably) useful sense in mathematics in which everything is a set. Even still, we prefer to impose structure and conv
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by Twisol 9y ago
Kind of. It's not the idea that the brain is a Turing machine that's the problem -- I think it's fairly well established that given enough scratch paper, a human _could_ manually execute an algorithm for any computable functi
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by Twisol 9y ago
If something can do anything, than the way in which it can do _any_ thing doesn't much tell you how it does one _particular_ thing. In contrast, a mechanical clock can be inspected, and the way in which it tells time can be understood
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by Twisol 9y ago
The parent also mentioned adding to the funds on a monthly basis. Does that make the math match up more properly?
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by Twisol 9y ago
The complaint was confusing to me because it didn't call out where the error was. The word "use" appears early on, so it looked like the complaint was incorrectly calling out a disagreement in plurality. (Didn't downvote
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by Twisol 9y ago
I immediately thought of this work when I saw the title. Of course, you're actively and effectively hunting down bugs, not accidentally running into them while doing other things ;)
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by Twisol 9y ago
I somewhat suspect the funny tag will become a ghost town pretty quickly. The reason people add these funny lines is because of their juxtaposition with the realistic ones, and I think making it a recognized, expected thing with its own &qu
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by Twisol 9y ago
Same, shortly before you in Sacramento on (I believe) Comcast.
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by Twisol 9y ago
My local network has those as the default nameservers, and my laptop has them set manually as well. Still having problems. Normally, ISP name resolution is the first thing I look at, but this seems atypical.
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by Twisol 9y ago
I'm having significant issues as well -- it happened quite suddenly an hour ago (9:50 Pacific Time, northern California). Thought it was a local issue at first and spent the last hour debugging my network. I think my apartment is on Co
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by Twisol 9y ago
> - Interprocess communication could use language support. I'm really interested in hearing more of your thoughts on this, since it touches on one of my personal research interests. What kind of language support for IPC are you look
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by Twisol 9y ago
It's not an emoji, but as a similar sentence-ending mark, you often see /s used to indicate sarcasm. Similarly, "Kappa" may not be very popular outside a certain subculture, but it's very recognizable as snark at Tw
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by Twisol 9y ago
I'm actually very interested in CRDTs and related approaches, and I've been exploring active research directions in the area, but I'm not sure they share many usage patterns with data stores like Postgres, which support very
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by Twisol 9y ago
Yes, there seem to be a number of summer schools every year on a variety of topics, although the ones I'm familiar with are based more in academia than in industry. I think they tend to get announced on the Types mailing list ( https:&
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by Twisol 9y ago
I can vouch for the mystery language assignments at least -- we worked through several at this year's Racket summer school ( https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ ), and they were interesting and very engaging
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by Twisol 9y ago
This year's OPLSS did not really engage with Coq. Adam Chlipala did give a lecture series on Coq at OPLSS'16 though: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer15/cu... The DeepSpec summ
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by Twisol 9y ago
Not to sound pedantic, but a number is only its own prime factor if it itself is prime! (Your point stands, though: every integer > 1 has at least one prime factor.)
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by Twisol 9y ago
I suspect "Whom am I to judge" is also correct, but only because of a technicality. (It was an intentional play on words, so even moreso now, who am I to judge?) "_Whom_ am I to judge", asking which people ought I be jud
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by Twisol 9y ago
I'm hitting the same problem -- the app only renders to a smaller rectangle of the whole screen rooted at the bottom-left (when held sideways), but touch events are scaled to the whole screen. I could probably live with the smaller v
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by Twisol 9y ago
Reference aside, OVS is a very rare word order in English. Most would expect "Prolog killed whom". Then again, "Prolog killed who" is broadly considered acceptable, so whom am I to judge?
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by Twisol 9y ago
> The name escapes me at the moment. You're referencing Greg Egan's "Permutation City", I think? http://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/Permutation.html
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by Twisol 10y ago
This is really nice! It pegs my CPU something awful though -- Firefox 52 on a mid-2014 Macbook Pro.
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by Twisol 10y ago
Aside from a variety of MUDs (see topmudsites.com for a bunch), one of my favorite Telnet destinations is HORIZONS ( https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi ). > This tool provides a web-based limited interface to JPL's
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by Twisol 10y ago
Gosh, I can only imagine how terrifying a whole gram of antimatter would be. It's kind of a good thing we can only generate it in such minuscule quantities.
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by Twisol 10y ago
Yes, you can think of it like an information game where your function is a black box that you can feed values and get back values. If you take lots of samples from a uniform distribution and feed it to the black box, you can estimate how th
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by Twisol 10y ago
"Minimum information" is much more accurate than "zero information". A necessary condition for a good cryptographic hash function F is that F(X) is a uniform distribution if X is a uniform distribution. This is a propert
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by Twisol 10y ago
If we have any probability distribution, that tells us something about x. If someone tells us that license plates numbers are uniformly distributed, we can pretend to be a license plate maker by sampling from a uniform distribution, and n

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