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by adwn 6y ago
> That seems completely irrelevant. Safety is irrelevant for a payment system?
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by adwn 6y ago
> Lots of things evolve and change and their original intent is twisted. It’s ok. Life goes on. Maybe, but that doesn't mean that a technology is still useful after it's lost its unique selling proposition.
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by adwn 6y ago
a) That's not relevant, b) it's not nearly as new, interesting, or revolutionary as you think it is, and c) please stop spamming links to your website in every second thread here.
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by adwn 6y ago
> In the specification, it says what must happen when a file does not exist, what must happen when there's not enough memory, etc. Then you write the specified behavior into code. I've never, ever seen a specification which m
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by adwn 6y ago
> Typescript taught me that I actually don’t care about types and all I care about is the shape of data. Seconding leafario2 here, that's exactly what types do: They give guarantees about the shape of data. Maybe what you meant wa
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by adwn 6y ago
> Most problematically, his site was a place which encouraged people who were not educated in a topic to repeatedly offer opinions on things they did not understand, and often did not want to understand. In other words, this little pla
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by adwn 6y ago
You make it pretty clear who you think are the good guys and who the bad guys. The world is so simple, right? > when you don't want to be a part of the people calling themselves the good guys Everyone calls themselves the "
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by adwn 6y ago
> ownership semantics, yet the ECS (Entity Component System) that the talk demonstrated was effectively bypassing that. I don't see how that's the case [1]. The entities are owned by the ECS (or the game state, or whatever),
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by adwn 6y ago
> Counter-rant from Jonathan Blow I've just watched the first 20 minutes of that video. So far, it's all "yeah, she's basically right". When does he get to the point? I.e., what does he actually object to?
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by adwn 6y ago
> EDIT: as you can tell, I’m not a parent - and am still too mentally close to adolescence :) Just a general remark: If you're not a parent [1], don't tell others how to be parents. It's okay to ask questions (e.g., &quo
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by adwn 6y ago
> and the most common cause of extreme poverty is white-collar crime You lost me there. Do you mean that a) of the set of extremely poor people, most are extremely poor because they've been the direct victim of white-collar crime,
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AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested(anandtech.com)
1 points by adwn 6y ago|0 comments
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by adwn 6y ago
> It doesn't matter if it's bullshit, it matters if people that can move the markets will trade on it. Since anyone can reach any conclusion depending on which indicators and which parameters they use, technical analysis can&
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by adwn 6y ago
> technical analysis [...] candle sticks, trend lines, chart patterns Technical analysis is, for a lack of better words, utter bullshit . There are so many patterns that fit a given chart that you have free choice between any conclusi
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by adwn 6y ago
> if a system can be brought to its knees by a single person, then the system is very likely flawed. That just means that the person who designed the system deserves the blame. I'm only half-joking here. You can't just rely o
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by adwn 6y ago
> But MAP, REDUCE, and APPLY are, and they all have the same problem as self-apply: their static types are infinite. Huh? Any semi-decent static type system has no problems modeling higher-order functions, and static types can easily b
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by adwn 6y ago
That didn't answer my question. Let me rephrase it: When would you use (define (self-apply fn) (fn fn)) in an actual, real-life situation (outside of teaching lambda calculus)?
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by adwn 6y ago
> A typical example, in dynamic programming languages, is to treat numbers as strings and vice-versa That sounds great until it bites you in the ass really hard. In general, you want to catch unintended behavior as early as possible .
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by adwn 6y ago
As a proponent of static typing (at least for larger programs): thank you, that was a very enlightening example for when dynamic typing can be superior to static typing.
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by adwn 6y ago
> (define (self-apply fn) (fn fn)) Out of curiousity, what would be a practical application of this?
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by adwn 6y ago
> Most people in Europe associate socialism with things like healthcare, paid vacations, &c. What? No they don't, at least not in Germany. Here, "socialism" is primarily associated with the Soviet Union and the GDR (
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by adwn 6y ago
Simultaneous editing of the same document over the Internet is a fundamentally different problem than having multiple views on a local machine: 1) On a local machine, only one view has the input focus, and 2) you don't have to deal wit
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by adwn 6y ago
> An electric signal in a wire can't travel faster than the speed of light. So? That means that the speed of light is an upper bound , but it's not a bottle neck .
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by adwn 6y ago
> And the "electric signal" is an electromagnetic wave- also known as light. No, it's not. If it were, you'd have photons moving through your copper wire, which would be quite the sensation! A moving electron does
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by adwn 6y ago
> the speed of light is a bottleneck for processors It's not the speed of light [in a vacuum], but electric signal propagation speed in copper.
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Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by adwn 6y ago|0 comments
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by adwn 6y ago
When you click on a comment's timestamp, you can "vouch" for it, thereby raising it from the dead.
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by adwn 6y ago
> Since the address of arr is statically known [...] No, that's almost never the case – only when accessing a static array. Typically, that restricts it to static look-up tables and very simple embedded systems.
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by adwn 6y ago
Also when counting down: "3, 2, 1, go!", where "go" means 0 seconds left. Therefore, it's 0-based as well.
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by adwn 6y ago
> Your (1) only affects compilation time, [...] No, it mostly affects execution time. Whether the effect is meaningful, however, depends on various factors. > [...] and even this is assuming a particular implementation of arrays (w

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