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by aardvark179 1y ago
Our techniques have improved.
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by aardvark179 1y ago
Thank you. I saw the headline and was thinking things had progress surprisingly quickly.
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by aardvark179 1y ago
The reason for it in terminals is much more directly linked to the IBM punched card format.
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by aardvark179 1y ago
It is complete, and I’ve found it extremely usable when writing code to trawl over a large number of class files. Looks like it should be good for code generation as well but I haven’t used that yet.
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by aardvark179 1y ago
True, but many of them have had bugs in printing or parsing such numbers, and once those creep in they can cause real long term problems. I remember having to maintain alternative datums and projections in GIS software because of a parser e
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by aardvark179 1y ago
I have also found scale model building to be a deeply relaxing hobby, and Tamiya kits are definitely some of the most rewarding and pleasant to build. They also make superb tools and paints which I would hate to be without.
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by aardvark179 1y ago
I was curious because there is a much larger training corpus for Lisps, so if the problem really is one of training data rather ordering then this would be a way of showing that.
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by aardvark179 1y ago
How do they do with lisps?
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by aardvark179 1y ago
And without knowing that in advance I’d have assumed that link would have been to a commit or PR. A link to a project is useful, but a succinct description of a project can be far more helpful. Something like, “tl;dr: Infinite Mac (the soft
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by aardvark179 1y ago
So several people in this thread have talked about academia giving you a network, and getting jobs via that, but have also conflated that with companies only hiring from particular schools. The network of contacts you make through universit
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by aardvark179 1y ago
I think Gavin Bierman is an unsung hero as far as steering the Java language is concerned. I had the privilege to sit next to him in the office when I was working on TruffleRuby, and our conversations on language design were always elucidat
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by aardvark179 1y ago
C64 BASIC was bad compared to BASIC on the Spectrum, and terrible compared to BBC BASIC on the Acorn machines. Sure, you could POKE your way to doing everything, but compared to having OS routines for most things, and an assembler accessib
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by aardvark179 1y ago
You seem to be conflating life, multicellular life, and intelligent life. Life appears to have developed on Earth pretty quickly, multicellular life took a long time to appear, and we are only aware of one species that developed civilisatio
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Then tried Little, Big by John Crowley and the relationships were probably wrong. I mean, Sylvia might be related to George Mouse, but probably should not have a family connection to Daily Alice.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Tried Book of the New Sun. Apparently Terminus Est (a sword) is Severian’s companion, and it completely fails to mention Dorcas. Oh well.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Books were produced before computers, and with very good typesetting. One difference between websites and books is that theee is a feedback loop with books where somebody ia at looking at the layout and either adjusting the spacing subtly,
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by aardvark179 2y ago
So happy to see this, thank you Ron and Alan.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
That’s how I started as well. Much nicer to program than the spectrum, and taught me about parsing in the worst way when I discovered my text adventure couldn’t have a variable called torch because it was. Parsed as to rch.
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Emjay – a simple JIT that does math(andreabergia.com)
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by aardvark179 2y ago
That may have very little to do with refresh rate itself, and far more to do with the image processing and latency introduced by the monitor in different video modes.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Ah yes, that was always entertaining. All the different ways additional metadata could be encoded was so much fun if you were dealing with geographical data.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Was 23 the first to be released under GPLv3? I think that is what stopped Apple from updating a number of packages.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
If you really needed it in memory you’d use one of the file APIs that will map it and present a direct byte buffer view over that memory. Those APIs use long as their offset unlike the 32 ints used by arrays, and would avoid having to copy
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Just because your initial fractal path is infinite does not imply that a line offset from it is also infinite (even for an infinitely thin rope), at least if the offset version is not self intersecting.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
They do quite a lot of interesting things, but often either through acquisitions or by collecting up a whole load of specialists when somebody else closes an office. You also find some interesting stuff being done in the UK and the EU becau
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I didn’t work with him much, but every interaction I had with him was great. I’ll miss him.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Excellent advice. It’s also very important to know what any micro benchmarks you do have are really measuring. I’ve seen enough that actually measured the time to setup or parse something because they dominated and wasn’t cached correctly.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I use emacs, and although I have LSP configured I switch projects and branches often enough that I don’t rely on it working. Finding definitions is normally pretty easy because code bases have structure, but occasionally can be tricky if th
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Okay. If the call was from within the UK then I think the 0441 code would have been Swansea, but that would have required 3 numbers being cut from the middle.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I regularly end up using Jshell when I’m analysing things like profiling data. Partly because I have access to libraries that parse those formats, but also because typing and autocomplete make it really effective for this sort of interactiv

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