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by addaon 8mo ago
> Objective-C was created because using standards is contrary to the company culture. What language would you have suggested for that mission and that era? Self or Smalltalk and give up on performance on 25-MHz-class processors? C or Pas
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by addaon 8mo ago
If you read the colorforth source (there’s only around 1000 instructions of assembly, it’s not a long read), there’s a real sense that much of the design (pretokenization, color tags, etc) are built around the punchline of a single (with re
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by addaon 8mo ago
Slowing refers to a change in the derivative, in this context. Slowing growth would be a decrease in change in GDP per year — a decrease in growth. But the claim is that the growth (first derivative) is what’s slowing — that is, the second
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by addaon 8mo ago
There are institutes scattered around the world — “colleges” and “universities” — where people spend a lot of time thinking about what set of knowledge should be considered part of the baseline understanding of a subject. These are publishe
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by addaon 8mo ago
Always thought that “disc” was the original word for an object of a certain shape. As they evolved for computer storage, we got smaller diskettes… which were abbreviated to disks.
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by addaon 8mo ago
> When has there been a war on protein? Before the war on drugs, basically all wars were on one subset of humans or another. Humans are a great source of protein.
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by addaon 8mo ago
> it's an ideal usecase This is impressive, you’ve completely mitigated the risk of learning or understanding.
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by addaon 8mo ago
> End soldering of components to motherboard. What do you see as the alternative here? Conductive epoxy is way less repairable than solder. Sockets are… components; and tend to be more expensive and higher failure rate than what’s socket
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by addaon 9mo ago
It’s early February. Have you really read so many articles you couldn’t understand in one month that you have a “usual” way of dealing with it? You should consider whether you would benefit from curating your sources better, or if use of AI
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by addaon 9mo ago
> a compiler introducing bugs into code it compiles is a nightmare thankfully few have faced Is this true? It’s not an everyday thing, but when using less common flags, or code structures, or targets… every few years I run into a codegen
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by addaon 9mo ago
But the event store is also your undo stack, then. Keeping it infinite (or deliberately trimming it at application launch) improves user experience.
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by addaon 9mo ago
How about we restrict airport and aircraft access based on individual's ability to do harm, rather than on the information in some trusted database? It sure seems like the major incidents in my lifetime would have been better prevented
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by addaon 9mo ago
If you are able to follow simple written instructions and enter several pieces of information on a keyboard in less than five minutes... why would you work for the TSA?
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by addaon 9mo ago
The value of the journal having history (with comments and timestamps) is huge. I think what I'd prefer to see is having a start sequence of replay journal, build in-memory structure, optionally move old journal to backup name and writ
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by addaon 9mo ago
Don't have the spec handy, but specifically binary operations combining two NaN inputs must result in one of the input NaNs. For all of Intel SSE, AMD SSE, PowerPC, and ARM, the left hand operand is returned if both are signaling or bo
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by addaon 9mo ago
> Anything that relies on bit patterns of nans behaving in a certain way (like how they propagate) is in dangerous territory. Why? This is well specified by IEEE 754. Many runtimes (e.g. for Javascript) use NaN boxing. Treating floats as
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by addaon 9mo ago
NaNs are distinguishable. /Which/ NaN you get doesn't commute.
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by addaon 9mo ago
Probably? Transparent -- ITO on glass is the usual answer. You can deposit the ITO in patterns rather than as a continuous layer; and a conductive layer works as a faraday cage as long as the gaps are significantly smaller than the relevant
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by addaon 9mo ago
Just electroless plate the interior of something like this [0]? Or use conductive paint if the polyurethane doesn't take an electroless well. Don't know what OEM Nillkin uses but I'm sure the factory has iPhone cases as well.
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by addaon 9mo ago
But that's not what the study tested. The study showed that both calorie restriction, and calorie restriction combined with almost all calories from oats, reduced cholesterol; but that the effect was more durable for the latter case. N
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by addaon 9mo ago
> Nuance/dissent wasn't even vaguely on the cards. Not all topics are nuanced when discussed by an educated, well-intended audience. Is the world flat? Does evolution lead to speciation? Dissent is for the sake of dissent, and
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by addaon 9mo ago
> Why is it seen initially so negatively? They went from being able to profitably produce a luxury car, to not being able to profitably produce a luxury car, to not being able to produce a luxury car at all. All while becoming uncompetit
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by addaon 9mo ago
> caffeine derived from coca leaves Coca leaves contain various alkaloids, but not caffeine. Coca Cola gets its caffeine from (traditionally) kola nuts, and (today, presumedly) the usual industrial sources.
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by addaon 9mo ago
Are you at a company that tends to hire from non-traditional backgrounds? The topics you mention -- the underlying "how it works" of the tech we use to build things day to day -- should be, and in my experience are, the areas wher
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by addaon 9mo ago
> IMHO the bigger issue with NaN-boxing is that on 64-bit systems it relies on the address space only needing <50 bits or so, as the discriminator is stored on the high bits. Is this right? You get 51 tag bits, of which you must use o
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by addaon 9mo ago
This was 20+ years ago, so the "sophisticated" baseline wasn't ML or AI. I was looking into an initial implementation and use of order files for a major platform. Quick recap: C (and similar languages) define that every funct
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by addaon 9mo ago
Wild blueberries. Yum.
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by addaon 9mo ago
"The -Wsign-compare warning is old and it’s not enabled by default or even by the “warn about everything” -Wall option." The "warn about everything" option is -Weverything, which /does/ enable -Wsign-compare.
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by addaon 9mo ago
Been wondering the same since it stopped working without a Facebook account...
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by addaon 9mo ago
> 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things. Is this idea that top 25% is "very good" at something innumeracy, or a subtle insight I'm missing? There's got to be a million skills that you could assess rank a

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