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by agalunar 5y ago
Wait, there are only four promotions! Queen, rook, bishop, and knight – you're not allowed to keep a pawn on the back rank.
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by agalunar 5y ago
I'm not sure if I'd call it a low point unless you're simply describing your personal taste; I think there's far from uniform concensus that Scotch romans (and other "modern" faces, like the didones) were a m
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by agalunar 5y ago
[It's also worth pointing out that Computer Modern was not created as a demo, and in fact, it's almost the other way round. He wanted better typography for The Art of Computer Programming, and created TeX and Computer Modern as me
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by agalunar 5y ago
> Knuth's idea that letters start with skeletal forms is flawed. This is a critique of Metafont, not Computer Modern. And interestingly, Knuth et al eventually reached the same conclusion; as I recall, most letters in Computer Moder
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by agalunar 5y ago
haha C++ is actually my primary language at work ^_^ and UB crosses my mind pretty often: there've been times I've read through the spec to make sure I avoid it. My feeling isn't really about `unsafe` in particular, though; i
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by agalunar 5y ago
I'm not sure why it's surprising that some things might bother some people but not others. (?) Anyway, I thought the passage was an interesting reflection of the perspective of the 'nomicon authors. I'm fairly new to rus
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by agalunar 5y ago
I remember reading this exact part of the 'nomicon and being really put off by it. I understand it's a joke, but it's a bit tasteless, and terribly condescending. I was surprised by how much it bothered me.
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by agalunar 5y ago
This is the whole "black swan" idea that Nassim Taleb writes about – events that are very rare and unpredictable but completely life-changing. This might be a poor paraphrase, but roughly: We're not very good at reasoning abo
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by agalunar 5y ago
Right, but there's a difference between connecting a business to a customer who wants the product (which is good!) and influencing the wants and needs of the customer, particularly against the long-term interests of the customer (which
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by agalunar 6y ago
The sense here is 1 : to make much of : PROMOTE, TALK UP as opposed to 2 : to solicit, peddle, or persuade importunately https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tout Edit: uups! Didn't reload the page and see y
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by agalunar 6y ago
Oh, that's interesting. Looks like I have some reading to do! Thanks for replying.
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by agalunar 6y ago
I'm skeptical this was the reason, though (at least in and of itself). Going off of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics#Novel_ideas , it seems that the address space (36 address bits ⇒ 36 bits/word × 2³⁶ ÷ 8
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by agalunar 6y ago
I've never used Multics myself, but from what I understand it was also based on the idea of mapping files in memory. When I first heard this, I thought the idea was pretty neat, but then the person I was speaking to remarked that it wa
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by agalunar 6y ago
I don't think this is true, though – it'd strike me as utterly bizarre if an architect decided to use the same index bits for the branch target buffer as the cache. For the cache, the low bits of the address are the offset, the ne
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by agalunar 6y ago
What's unfortunate is that Massachusetts already has good right-to-repair laws; the only thing this ballot measure changes is that car data must be accessible wirelessly, which frankly I think is a terrible idea. (The idea of cars ne
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by agalunar 6y ago
A critique of deBoer's book by another socialist, Current Affairs' Nathan J Robinson, which I enjoyed: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/09/we-dont-know-our-pote...
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by agalunar 6y ago
> If he were, then he wouldn't support government regulation to reduce CO2 production. I'm not sure I follow the logic here. If you view climate change as an imminent and catastrophic threat, I think it's pragmatic rather
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by agalunar 6y ago
> Noam [...] want[s] a single party system like China where they are in control. What? Chomsky is an anarchist, and refers to himself as a libertarian socialist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_N
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by agalunar 6y ago
> This is because declaring the variable x means it must have some associated storage I've not read the C spec, so I may be terribly wrong here, but I'm inclined to disagree: x is not accessible outside of a() and cannot be re
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by agalunar 6y ago
I'd also recommend Libre Tools for Teaching https://hz.mit.edu/thoughts/teaching_with_libre_software.htm... which discusses the tools that were used to run one of MIT's introductory programming course onlin
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by agalunar 7y ago
One of my best friends did his Masters work designing a programming language that can be modified on the fly; I'd highly recommend the paper: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/113144/101
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by agalunar 7y ago
Some friends and I wrote something similar as satire during undergrad. It’s ridiculous, but I was (and still am) pleased how it rolls off the tongue. http://web.mit.edu/kade/www/misc/ieee4919.pdf
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by agalunar 7y ago
Can you tell me which link is broken? The author's a friend, and I can poke him to update it.
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by agalunar 7y ago
If you like xonsh, I might recommend the tako shell (by a former xonsh dev). https://takoshell.org/
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by agalunar 8y ago
I’m no expert either, and maybe there’s a precise definition of fragmentation that I’m not aware of. My understanding is that fragmentation is about software. The extension scheme allows you to use the same binaries across all platforms. If
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by agalunar 8y ago
I suppose “variants” is not an inaccurate description, but it feels misleading (although you could argue about intention vs reality). The spec calls them “extensions”. Support for an extension can be checked at runtime, and unsupported inst
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by agalunar 8y ago
Try taking a look at some of SiFive’s stuff. There’s the HiFive board ($59) or an FPGA bitstream that runs on an Artix-7 ($99).