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by azornathogron 2y ago
The complexity ratchet is an interesting problem. I wonder if (or how much) Rust's "edition" system will help. Or if some other mechanisms are needed, and what ideas there are for that. I suppose eventually you need a bridge
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by azornathogron 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40185903
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by azornathogron 2y ago
> “My daughter made the reservation online for the ticket and the computer at the airport thought my birth date was 2022 and not 1922," she told me. So it's a classic Y2K bug. Something is representing the year as two digits, m
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by azornathogron 3y ago
If you're doing low level graphics programming (processing pixel data) or in some other way dealing with 2D raster type data, you might want to work with data in Morton order or with Morton order tiles or something similar. Interleavin
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Offline in-browser semantic search with only a small model sounds like it has some great potential! I'd love to see a more compelling example / demo. The demo page you have is fairly short and the content being searched seems sema
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by azornathogron 3y ago
> I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four. Yes, those are called octonions. Though I don't know if anyone has tried to use one to draw an elephant.
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by azornathogron 3y ago
> browsers have various popular language runtimes (and perhaps even popular libraries) preloaded, so that all web pages requiring that runtime can share the same (read-only) copy of that code. That sounds a lot like the idea from some ye
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Another option is to start with Kythe, which is Google's own open source framework for getting a uniform cross-language semantic layer: https://kythe.io/ Worth looking at as a source of inspiration and design ideas eve
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Coming back to this after a couple of days, I now realize I probably misunderstood the original question. 'xanathar provided a more useful answer.
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by azornathogron 3y ago
It's a defense-in-depth measure. If your whole codebase is written without anyone making mistakes then the new policy won't change anything for you. But if not - particularly if your codebase is large and written by many different
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by azornathogron 3y ago
While it's certainly possible to rewrite git history, it's tricky to do it without other maintainers or contributors noticing, since anyone trying to pull into an existing local repo (rather than cloning fresh) would be hit with a
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by azornathogron 3y ago
How is this normally done? Manual review of machine code?
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by azornathogron 3y ago
It doesn't invalidate it, it offers context.
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by azornathogron 3y ago
State is data that you use in control flow decisions. (This is a 5-second reaction, not a deeply considered opinion, don't take it too seriously)
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Being discussed here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788748 (I don't know which article is more informative)
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by azornathogron 3y ago
What's the value proposition for bitnami container images? I mean, why would I choose bitnami/postgresql over the "Docker Official Image" postgres? (genuine question)
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by azornathogron 3y ago
If you're talking about the TrueType bytecode patents, yes, they expired nearly 14 years ago: https://freetype.org/patents.html But I don't think that's relevant here anyway, since the article refers to the a
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by azornathogron 3y ago
I also find this approach helpful. Except when the thing I do is "start a new project", in which case it is extremely unhelpful.
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by azornathogron 3y ago
This is a glorious demonstration of someone really understanding the platform. I don't expect I would ever use it, but I think it's excellent.
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Not as implausible as it sounds... The guy in Luton whose house was stolen did get it back, but it took two years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67356...
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Regardless of speed, presumably the simulator must hold at least as much state as the simulation has, and that would put some kind of bound on "size".
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Perhaps this is how the world ends up with "PHP: a fractal of bad design"? Not that I want to be too snarky about it: I used PHP a bit back in the LAMP stack days, and as bad as the language was it was easy to get stuff up and run
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by azornathogron 3y ago
I'm no expert, but as an interested amateur I thought the Linux kernel could already be built reproducibly? There is some documentation at least... and I know several Linux distributions have been working on reproducible builds for a l
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by azornathogron 3y ago
> A status page should not have dependencies, and if it does, they should have higher availability than your service. IMHO this is often unnecessary. The critical thing is for the failure modes of your status page to be uncorrelated wi
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Note that though the video is new, the bug happened 9 years ago in 2015. And I'm pretty sure it was fixed quickly, though I didn't immediately find the fix commit when I had a cursory glance at the github issue, because there were
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by azornathogron 3y ago
Where I work, yes, internship places have been massively reduced. Internships feed into the hiring pipeline: no hiring, no internships. They're not a way to get low cost employees, since even very adept interns need a ton of guidance a
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by azornathogron 3y ago
You may want https://search.marginalia.nu/ It gets mentioned here on HN quite a lot.
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by azornathogron 3y ago
I was asking about why specifically it's surprising that humans are good at such problems. I think that to be surprising there must be some prior expectation about how good humans should be and then evidence that they're actually
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by azornathogron 3y ago
I do find this interesting... > Trained Humans are surprisingly good at these problems Surprising why, and by what metric? (speed? Or quality of solution?)
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by azornathogron 3y ago
I look at past commits probably every week or two to track down why something is the way it currently is. Having said that, I care very little about style and grammar of commit messages. Ideally I want them to say why the change was made, w

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