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by Xophmeister 4y ago
I also wonder if the model also accounts for vapourisation. Over the entire ocean, the effect may be negligible, but local to the impact may have made a non-trivial difference.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
I agree; I like the book, but the lack of exercises is a bit of a missed opportunity, I think. At times, it just feels like you’re reading a reference manual.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
All I can imagine is a Pythonesque sketch of early-20th Century artists sitting at easels -- maybe stretching their canvases -- in a sports field, waiting expectantly for the starter pistol. An anticipatory quiet descends over the stadium.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
This is something that needs to be read when fully awake and, probably, with a dictionary nearby! I admit that I gave up with the opening spiel quite quickly -- I'll have another go later -- and skipped to "The Rules"; many o
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
This is described, IIRC, in The Three-Body Problem[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
In this video,[1] he mentions 6502[2]...so assembly. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUosmUcckU [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
One thing I wish I knew how to do -- presuming it's possible -- is constraining the reverse/forward history search. Say I know I'm looking for a grep command, I'll do `C-r grep`, but then I want to look through that subs
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
Theoretically possible in the sense that the lines exist and are connected? I don't know for sure, and while it may be a very convoluted route, I wouldn't be surprised. EDIT: This map[1] suggests you could do Norwich -> Birming
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
There's a bug in his template. He suggests to `set -eu`, which is a good idea, but then immediately does this: if [[ "$1" =~ ^-*h(elp)?$ ]]; ... If the script is given no arguments, this will exit with an unbound var
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How to change your self-limiting beliefs(psyche.co)
2 points by Xophmeister 4y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
In much the same way you bundled Racket with Scheme, you could associate SBCL with Common Lisp.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
I didn't search _that_ hard, but I can't find the text of the EU directive; everything I did find does seem to mention USB-C explicitly. What is the procedure/convention for superseding this directive when something supersede
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
As a non-American, who hasn’t grown up with “grilled cheese sandwiches” but is nonetheless culturally aware of them: I always assumed this is what you called a “toasted sandwich”. However, I’ve since been led to believe that this is not the
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
The original publication date looks...suspicious.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
My lowercase x and n look quite similar, especially in subscript-size. When I was an undergraduate, I got marked down once because the marker thought I had written a limit as x (rather than n) tends to infinity, which made no sense in the c
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
Maybe if we take into account the packing coefficient of coins and other miscellaneous booty it works out.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
Oops, my bad! I knew it was something to do with equality, but I forgot the specifics… Another good reason not to rely on tricks, I suppose!
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
The XOR swap trick is just a trick; it shouldn't be used in practice. Modern architectures can do a register swap almost for free, compared to three XORs. The biggest problem is when your two values are equal: they'll get zeroed o
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
You can implement TCO in Python manually with continuation-passing style and trampolines.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
In my (admittedly newbie) experience, it's particularly useful when application of your function is going to be in a context where η-reduction is natural. For example, your fmap is going to look cleaner without a wrapping lambda inside
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
That’s the spirit. The climate’s not gonna change itself!
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A History of Ideas(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Xophmeister 4y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
Moreover, daily standups, billed as lightweight, low key check-ins, have become, for some workers, exercises in surveillance. Particularly when work is decomposed into small parts, workers feel an obligation to enumerate
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by Xophmeister 5y ago
I wonder if "word" is the correct unit, here; perhaps "morpheme" would work better, especially for multi-morphemic words or in compound nouns (e.g., in German). I think "syllable" may be a bit too much, unless
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by Xophmeister 5y ago
IANAL, but I think "money laundering" is a colloquial term used to describe the process of obscuring currency's provenance used for/acquired in criminal activities. Maybe I'm not having a very imaginative day, but I
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by Xophmeister 5y ago
What happens in countries that have multiple official languages that can't be determined geographically? I only assume such places exist, or there must be places on the borders where the accuracy of geo-IP and the demographics aren&#x2
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by Xophmeister 5y ago
If all else fails: Electrical tape along the sides of your screen.
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by Xophmeister 5y ago
I wonder for how long the NYT will keep it free…
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by Xophmeister 5y ago
That doesn’t sound conspicuous at all.
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by Xophmeister 5y ago
I remember being taught (or reading somewhere) that using expressions like "I believe" or "I feel", rather than "I think", can be more persuasive, because they're more open-ended and less assertive (which

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