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by ac42 5y ago
There's a similar war between logging and tracing. Tracing promises to give you everything you ever wanted to do with your logs and then botches it by sampling the data so you can't correlate anymore, or you don't sample and
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by ac42 5y ago
> Instead, this feature should be implemented as part of some safe parser generator Which safe parser generator would you recommend for writing a protobuf parser (preferably one that yields at least 25% of the throughput claimed by the O
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by ac42 5y ago
Great idea to comment on someone else's post on HN by pointing to related work, but the communication standards of the parent definitely need some work before being unleashed to the world.
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by ac42 5y ago
I sincerely hope they didn't just do that because someone whose empire is built on Linux rang them up.
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by ac42 5y ago
Society works because of trust. Activities like these erode trust. It's like "let's try and pour a bottle of acid into the freshwater storage facility".
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by ac42 5y ago
Perhaps not the accent. But there's a chance you would cut your sentences a tinge differently when not based on a German original.
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by ac42 5y ago
Responses to the poll, I would presume?
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by ac42 5y ago
Oh, wow... I haven't felt so nerdy in a long, long time. Lovely :)
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by ac42 5y ago
I was somewhat disappointed to find a timeline of mathematicians instead of a smart way to capture the evolution of mathematics. Pretty design for what it does, though!
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by ac42 6y ago
s/unreliable/unreadable/ (autocorrection got me wrong)
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by ac42 6y ago
Except for the "Elegant" thing, which I would drop entirely, I think the pyramid either has it backwards or should be read from top to bottom for priority. Usually nobody cares for unreliable code because the "correct"
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by ac42 6y ago
And should that noble standard apply to humans specifically, or to life in general? First world problems, my guess.
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by ac42 6y ago
I think you got that backwards. It's life that sucks, not the dreams ("Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper...") Sleep deprivation has effects similar to alcohol consumption:
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by ac42 6y ago
Twice as much!
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by ac42 6y ago
Well.. the obvious one: don't kill yourself. Assume you already died and this is the what-if-you-had-not version of things.
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by ac42 6y ago
Many commenters have already said it: the article is probably not helpful when teaching kids. Or is it? I recall having asked myself these questions at school: if lines are infinitely thin, how is it repeated addition that defines surface a
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by ac42 6y ago
During the interview, you find yourself fending for yourself alone, your corporate framework is gone, and you realise how you miss your desk phone, and somewhere out in space a voice you can't hear is hollering: "The secret is ban
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by ac42 6y ago
Interesting, the VC firmware is ThreadX based, indeed[1]! The number of platforms this runs on is absolutely mind-blowing (from an engineering perspective). [1] https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv
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by ac42 6y ago
Can you elaborate? AFAIK, the ARM on the PI is real silicon and controlled by Broadcom firmware via the VideoCore GPU. Where is the MSFT part?
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by ac42 6y ago
Linux has Linus Torvalds to prevent breaking "fixes". Your JS fad of the day likely ain't even considering.
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by ac42 6y ago
From the python docs: > Two objects with non-overlapping lifetimes may have the same id() value.
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by ac42 6y ago
If it's so close to Unix, why do all the C functions have it the other way around? e.g. memcpy(dst,src,n) I've always thought AT&T syntax is made for machines & debugging compiler output while Intel syntax is made for peop
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by ac42 6y ago
"Tragula was horrified to learn he had destroyed her mind, even as he proved his point that if life was going to live in such a vast Universe, one thing it could not afford to have was a sense of perspective."
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by ac42 6y ago
63.8T USD o_O
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by ac42 6y ago
IIUC, this could be as important for quantum computers as p-n junctions are for semiconductors.
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by ac42 6y ago
Yes! A Cheetah with muzzle and mittens because it's also safe.
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by ac42 6y ago
I'm pretty sure sets supported up to 256 elements (32 bytes) in Turbo Pascal on 16 bit systems, because you could manage ASCII characters with them. Yes, didn't scale. Yes, tons of use cases nonetheless.
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by ac42 6y ago
Time to start praying (or do something about it). Artificial water shortages are already a thing it seems.
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by ac42 6y ago
I think so, too. Linear algebra, control theory and quantum mechanics haven't gotten us anywhere and ivory towers prevail as this machine learning solution to a problem in biological chemistry clearly demonstrates. /s
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by ac42 6y ago
I had an economy row on intercontinental flights for myself a couple of times (back in 2009 during the financial crisis, when flights were routinely half empty). It definitely helps, but you can't fully stretch out if you are taller th

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