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901.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Now you're really just making claims about implementation details. That doesn't make one concept more "fundamental" or "flexible" than the other, while "interesting" is just a subjective judgement.
902.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Erm, I'm pretty sure I can implement coroutines using cooperative multitasking. Also, the other way around. So I'd say they're equivalent in that sense.
903.
by _0ffh 7y ago
>synchronization points are explicit Hmmm, I'd have just called it cooperative threading/multitasking then. Or do you think that would be wrong?
904.
by _0ffh 7y ago
>How do you visually differentiate nulls from zeroes? My zero is a continuous line, starting top right and angling sharply left-down after a ~360° oval. That nicely makes it writable in one fluid motion. My null/empty set is a somew
905.
by _0ffh 7y ago
How are they measuring declining IQ over time? IQ tests are regularly recalibrated to mean=100 and std=15. That opens quite the can of worms for comparabilty in all sorts of ways.
906.
by _0ffh 7y ago
>my solution to the letter O is just to never, ever use them in math That seems reasonable. My solution was to slash my zeros, to the point that it takes conscious effort not to.
907.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Not afaik.
908.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Lol, that link sent me on a nearly one hour detour and then sent me back to HN (specifically, to [1])! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6269114
909.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Nothing, if you let people who do not want to waste time (and tuition fees!) on repeating basic stuff skip ahead.
910.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Yeah, they got caught in a bit of hyperbole there! Yet, if you take the 2017 budget [1] for example, nearly half of the net contributions (excluding the UK) were paid by Germany. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics
911.
by _0ffh 7y ago
On Discworld, at least, it is.
912.
by _0ffh 7y ago
I wonder if the name is a reflection of the PR strategy to claim special merit on exactly the point where you're actually most lacking.
913.
by _0ffh 7y ago
I think an OCP is rather something that you couldn't possibly have expected. I'm not sure that this is the case here.
914.
by _0ffh 7y ago
You're casting too broad a net here. I don't think this article is about pedantry. There is a time and place to be pedantic, just arguably in none of the given examples. The place to be pedantic is to point out sloppy thinking. So
915.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Strictly speaking, yes, if you just view it as unordered sampling without replacement. Although that would squeeze out nearly all of the creative side of things.
916.
by _0ffh 7y ago
I suspect you didn't catch gp's meaning: To get to 24 bits of color info, you'd need at least 3 words of 8 bit info each. If you want these to be non-repeating and unordered that makes 256x3=768 unique words.
917.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Might he have been a fan of general semantics?
918.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Yes! Sometimes if you compromise, you still loose - just more slowly.
919.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Worked the same for me. I actually like the css on the site, but I refuse to click through multi-page articles. Especially when I am not even informed about the total number of pages.
920.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Worse in Germany. In the past, you paid for public broadcasting if you possessed a device capable of receiving a broadcast - independently of what you used it for, or if at all. Even that wasn't coercive enough for the powers that be,
921.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Yeah, I'm not dead against a bit of language simplification by anthropomorphisation, but one needs to be wary about the mental traps it sets.
922.
by _0ffh 7y ago
My impression was that using "choosenim" switching between versions is easy already, but I might be missing something.
923.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Wow great! Now s/w will not only be able to fuck up my spelling, but also my meaning!
924.
by _0ffh 7y ago
I don't think this is a good idea. It's an incentive for people desperate to get back to work (or back to partying) to deliberately try to get infected to get it over with. Especially young people who tend to think they're in
925.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Yes, and what few people know, is that x86 co-processors in general really only had to stick to the hardware interface given by Intel. What they actually did with that was up to the co-processor. Best known case in point were the Weitek mat
926.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Somewhat. The hypothesis was that the end of the cold war meant that a big incentive to make the common people in the west feel good about their affiliation suddenly vanished. Competition is good for the customer, after all.
927.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Yeah, I realised that too at some point. And I immediately formed a (maybe obvious) hypothesis about the timing.
928.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Yeah, also the only other language that is as simple at it's core as Forth is Lisp. I suspect that lots of CS people have at some point written their own of either, or both, just for the experience.
929.
by _0ffh 7y ago
Yeah, I think that's a much more promising approach. Have a good model, use it to build an observer, now you can control based on the state of your simulated system.
930.
by _0ffh 7y ago
I can't test right now, but there's a torrent at https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland Maybe it's quality is better.

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