benrjackson

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by benrjackson 4y ago
Its a problem that's trivial if you are allowed to allocate an array/list that's the same size as the input but tricky if you have to do the operation in place (unless you already know the fisher yates algorithm). There'
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Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language (SPJ) [video](youtube.com)
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by benrjackson 4y ago
IMO geometry nodes are a bit lacking atm. No loops, no procedural uv unwrapping, no compact maths expressions, bare bones standard node selection in general etc. It feels like they've been concentrating on particle system type use case
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by benrjackson 5y ago
Thanks for the second link. Years ago I emailed Erik Ravn about getting copies of some hard to find Wuthering Heights albums. He mentioned that he was working on remasters after he got the rights back from the record company. Glad to see he
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by benrjackson 7y ago
To the best of my understanding, this is an accurate summation of events. With the MAX it isn't possible to have electric trim without MCAS, so if MCAS is malfunctioning pilots have to trim manually. The problem with the EA flight is t
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by benrjackson 8y ago
Winter's Gate is brilliant. I've found previous Insomnium albums to be a bit pedestrian (albeit very competent vanilla melodeath). With Winter's Gate Insomnium introduced some prog & black elements without abandoning thei
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by benrjackson 10y ago
I'm really looking forward to VS2017 update 1. I've been following the activity in the visualfsharp github repo and some of the new Roslyn based tooling looks fantastic (albeit with alot of churn at the moment). F# has always had
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by benrjackson 10y ago
I suspect you have been downvoted because some people may perceive your answer as a glib trivialization of a debilitating condition ('just pop a few probiotics and everything will be ok'). However, I have upvoted you because I agr
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by benrjackson 10y ago
I would suggest 'Visions of Johanna'. At the other end of spectrum is 'Changing of the Guards' in which Bob Dylan seems to be intentionally parodying his own songwriting (still an enjoyable song though).
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by benrjackson 10y ago
The Mono runtime Unity uses is, I think, a fork of Mono 2.8. The tailcall op wasn't implemented in Mono until 2.10 (again, I think). The tailcall op is essentially ignored by Unity Mono. To date, we haven't had a single stack over
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by benrjackson 10y ago
Currently you can't target iOS, Windows store & WebGL with F#. For these platforms Unity uses an IL to C++ transpiler which doesn't work with F#. This might change in the future (one of the Unity devs submitted an IL2CPP issue
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by benrjackson 10y ago
I've yet to hear any reasonable defense of this often repeated assertion (UK 'special treatment'). The UK net contribution per capita is similar to other comparable EU countries (time periods vary but see this link (payments
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by benrjackson 10y ago
I find it a little bit sad that the only thing most people know about Quine is source code outputting programs. Quine was probably the most influential post war analytical philosopher. 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' is his most famous
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by benrjackson 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification and great project! It will be interesting to see how things change when you get the official lineups. As I'm sure you are aware, teams often rest their 'star' players in friendlies immediately pri
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by benrjackson 10y ago
The Wales starting lineup is missing Gareth Bale (arguably in the top 5 best players in the world). His 'kickscore' is listed as higher than any of the welsh players so I don't understand why the model has excluded him from t
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by benrjackson 11y ago
Consuming C# code from F# works fine. Consuming F# code from C# works pretty well for the most part, although F# specific types are cumbersome to use (records, discriminated unions, computational expressions aka monads). This just means tha