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by blt 7y ago
Writing a textbook is inherently egotistical. Either: 1. You think you can explain well-known material better than everyone who tried before 2. Your field recently exploded, and you feel that you are the contributor most suited to convertin
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by blt 7y ago
Many CS papers, at least in machine learning, state an algorithm in terms of real numbers and use results from real analysis to prove properties of the algorithm.
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by blt 7y ago
it doesn't really matter what style you assign to each class of text - it only matters that they are different.
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by blt 7y ago
Your comment reminds me of the situation of game engines and 3D graphics APIs a few years ago before Vulkan and Metal were released. Too high-level for developers who want control (and understand how the hardware actually works), but too lo
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by blt 7y ago
I would go for a comment like "a simpler naive implementation is in commit A0348C. It ran approx. 2.5x slower in 2019."
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by blt 7y ago
If we are serious about trying to "break the cycle", one obvious solution is to pay teachers more. Imagine if teaching paid as well as software development.
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by blt 7y ago
This is a nice result. A similar pattern to generational garbage collection: divide everything into a fast, common path, and slow, fully general path.
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by blt 7y ago
I only skimmed the paper, but it seems like the proposed method could support handing over ownership from the worker thread to the GUI thread via an explicit statement in the code.
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by blt 7y ago
If your desire for comfort and privacy in public is strong, don't live in a dense city.
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by blt 7y ago
it indicates how important this result is!
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by blt 7y ago
I think it's pure ignorance on the part of the author, thinking that text-to-speech is somehow harder than speech-to-speech with a voice change.
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by blt 7y ago
I guess the return of HDMI and MagSafe was too much to hope for :(
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by blt 7y ago
Same. I built a modest core i3 machine in like 2012 for my dad. That computer has had zero problems and runs Windows 7 with uptimes comparable to Linux servers. I never really thought about it until now, but the Intel motherboard might be t
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by blt 7y ago
I know nothing about init systems, but I hope someone well-informed can comment on your idea. It sounds interesting.
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by blt 7y ago
not trying to nitpick your comment, but yaml has some serious drawbacks: https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html
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by blt 7y ago
IMO this is not a problem. The people building insanely huge models are expanding the set of tasks that can be done by a computer. Who cares how much memory it takes? Historically, computationally expensive methods eventually become cheap.
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by blt 7y ago
Did you read the article? > Carmack was not the first person to think of using BSP trees in a real-time graphics simulation. Of course, it’s one thing to anticipate that BSP trees might be used this way and another thing to actually do
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How Graphics Worked on the Nintendo Game Boy(youtube.com)
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by blt 7y ago
Strong statement, but I agree that the Win95 scrollbar looks "right". Probably just an artifact of using Win95 during our formative years.
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by blt 7y ago
Worker s leave. That's the "collective" part.
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by blt 7y ago
> Yes. If IBM built something that helped the government during the Obama administration, would you consider it "political" too? Helping the government in general != helping one specific government agency with a narrow missio
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by blt 7y ago
Or, recognize that the company is worthless without its laborers, and that the laborers can use collective bargaining to change the company mission.
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by blt 7y ago
Right, and IBM was also leaving out politics when they built custom tabulating machines to help Nazi Germany's logistics. Obvious hyperbole but you get the idea.
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by blt 7y ago
GPL haters seem to have the mistaken impression that GPL software authors want lots of for-profit companies to use their work. If that were true, the authors would use a BSD or MIT license.
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by blt 7y ago
> When asked, I would give people my opinion that maintainable code is more important than clever code. If I encountered clever code that was particularly cryptic, and I had to do some maintenance on it, I would probably rewrite it. It
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by blt 7y ago
The C++ <algorithm> library has a huge limitation: algorithms return a single iterator that cannot be further consumed by other algorithms. This makes it impossible to chain algorithms in a manner like LINQ. The ranges library will ma
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by blt 7y ago
This answer makes me excited for C++20 too. I'm not currently using C++ for any projects; I might have to make one up.
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by blt 7y ago
I think that was the point - that answering questions on SO is like having a conversation, and feels pleasant to some people, not like work.
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by blt 7y ago
> Presto, now if the user makes an edit on page 223, TeX can quickly back up to the state of the world just before page 223, and continue on forward with the modified input. Page 223 gets recomposed and immediately redisplayed, essentia
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by blt 7y ago
> trying to figure out how to rework my long-term financial plans around the hole Snap had just blown in my projected income made me feel ill. Maybe don't make long-term financial plans around a company that's obviously unsta

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