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by astrobe_ 3y ago
One should remember that not all problems can be solve faster with concurrency - not all problems are "embarrassingly parallel". Besides, even when they are, one gets diminishing returns by adding more cores. Raw performance on si
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Not exactly. "riichi" comes from Mandarin, which might be related to "reach"[1] (can someone confirm?). It is an original word, although maybe a loan word, an the pronunciation might just have been kept faithful to the o
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
If as a right-handed person I discriminate against left-handed persons, I also both create yet another silly criteria for discrimination and a crime ex nihilo , and I am the only one to blame for that - not the cop that arrests me, nor t
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
It is a matter of mindset. I work on software with soft real time, storage capacity and power consumption constrains, there is a constant flux of "small" feature requests and I cannot even "throw hardware at the problem"
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
The comment resonates with me: > Attempting to 'unixify' Windows is indeed a task often drought with much pain I chose TDM [1] to port some utility of mine to Windows (actually the initial port may have have been done with MSYS
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> The big one however is going from 200 Python servers to 4 Erlang ones If your rewrite or refactor gives you a 10X in performance, that's not an optimization, but a bugfix. Unless you are a researcher who have just found a revoluti
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Interesting examples from that wicked language, thank you! (Studied French before but unfortunately lost interest.) I won't blame you, as this was my thought when I wrote it.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> When reading, say English, we don't really sound through each word but recognize the shape as you say Apparently, some people do and some people don't; and each category is surprised the other exists. I'd be curious to k
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
AFAIK on electronic devices, they use Hiragana and the autocomplete "translates" in Kanji. People here point out that they cannot drop Kanji because of homophones, so I guess that autocomplete turns really fast into "autocorr
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Hiragana and katakana are just the very easy parts of written Japanese - it's merely like learning Greek or Cyrillic alphabets. Personally I picked up a Hiragana/Katakana chart image online and put it as my wallpaper, so I could
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I don't think the speed of the process is really relevant, outside of the pace (or risk) of change of the environment. In animal life as we know it, lifespan ranges from a few days to centuries.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> You have to separate low entropy volume from high entropy volume to do life That's what I believed too, but I have doubts now after reading another comment that defines it as energy gradients. As far as I understand the concept, a
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
The demo pictures have this sort of "uncanny valley" effect for me. I wonder if it happens when I don't know that the pictures are AI-generated.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Trying to avoid shipping bugs is a defense-in-depth affair, because fundamentally tests can only show the existence of a bug, but not that a program is bug-free. It starts right in the editor, where syntax highlighting can help with spottin
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
On the contrary, they acknowledged that hash tables only was pushing it a bit too far, so they implemented arrays sort of "on the side" of tables.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
There are three types of people who seek strong anonymity: whistle blowers, criminals, and tech-nerd posers. For this reason any viable, strong anonymous comms solution is doomed to be misused 2/3 of the time.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I spent more than a decade building embedded C/C++, never felt the need for any of that. But I was always able to keep things under my control; that is a GCC-based cross-compilation toolchain, my own makefiles do build stuff, and an ed
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Arithmetic problems have nothing to do with reasoning Then try to introduce GPT-4 to Peano's axiom and try to make it "understand" arithmetic that way? Oh, wait, it could already lecture you about it.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Good find!
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
s/Linux/systemd (not how to avoid the Socket BSD API as I was hoping for)
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I second the question - is there non-organic food? For me the opposite of organic is "mineral".
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
CLI and GUI are different languages that are optimal for different use-cases. A dev who doesn't understand that and refuses to use CLI where appropriate is like a dev who would refuse to learn English. They are crawling when others can
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Yeah. ChatGPT has no expertise at all, just a huge amount of knowledge. Because there are two parts in expertise: pure knowledge, and a set of weighed criteria to evaluate things. This second part is what I think TFA calls "tacit"
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Programming and compression are related, see Kolmogorov complexity [1]. It's then no surprise that when you do the "compression" yourself, it is almost like your are compressing twice, which often results in inflation because
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
There's a bunch a vendors still alive, mainly the historic Forth, Inc. and MPE. Both publish complete systems and native compilers that apparently perform well enough. If raw execution speed was all that matters, I can name a bunch of
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
This is kind of my theory too; making a tutorial is difficult and not the most exciting part of the game (for the developer). It's difficult because players refuse to read, and showing stuff to them rather than writing requires a stu
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Confusing title for me. Oppenheimer is related to WW2, so I believed this was about Klaus Barbie [1] instead of the doll. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I've always wondered how much of the success of the PS1 could be attributed to the fact that games could be basically free because of the CD/DVD medium instead of cartridges, which required more dedicated hardware to make "ba
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
This was sort of a general question, although Zig confused me a bit by placing the annotation at the call site rather than on the function declaration. I guess this choice was made to keep compilation times under control.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
About macros and comptime: why is the compiler unable to detect that a function is a pure function, and if it is called with constants, the result can be computed ahead of time? At least in the simple cases such as the square example, whi

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