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by blt 3y ago
Taken all together the color palette stands out as a limitation. It's pretty much impossible to make a vivid looking game on this machine. (Not a hater btw, the SID is amazing and I'd love to own a c64 some day.)
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by blt 3y ago
It's probably on microfiche in a university library somewhere. HN elders: How long would it have taken to get your hands on this paper (or a similar "old; noteworthy but not famous" paper) in, say, 1985?
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by blt 3y ago
I tried and failed to find the original paper by Kaprekar, does anyone have a pdf?
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by blt 3y ago
> Things fall apart when the space is not compact. Your sequences may converge but not to an element in your space. This is about closedness only. ℝ is not compact but contains its limit points.
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by blt 3y ago
yeah, I haven't used Polars but from skimming the docs it looks kind of enterprisey. I don't want to type `df.select(pl.col("a"))` instead of `df["a"]`.
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by blt 3y ago
Lots of CS theorists are working on non worst case analysis and have been for some time. The CS research community recognizes the limitations of worst case. It makes sense to teach worst case in undergrad classes because it's easier to
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by blt 3y ago
Wendover Productions is another major offender.
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by blt 3y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by the implied slice shuffling in this "model". Lol! We need to think of another real world setting where a stack of randomly hole-filled sheets would be naturally shuffled.
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by blt 3y ago
Stallman knew exactly what was coming
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by blt 3y ago
I also feel empathy. My "sad" is more about the state of the community than the author's own attitude. But still, even in the current climate, I think this is going too far. The whole paragraph after the part I quoted is just
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by blt 3y ago
SIEVE isn't just playing the part of a cache eviction algorithm; it's stepping up as a cache design superstar. Think of it like giving a fresh spin to classics. Is this how academics write about their own work in blog posts now?
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by blt 3y ago
What about x = 1000 ms and y = 1000 hz?
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by blt 3y ago
Why do you want to erase cursive from your brain? Or am I misunderstanding the analogy?
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by blt 3y ago
It always sounds worse on LiveATC because the antennas are weaker and not optimally placed
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by blt 3y ago
For comparison, at LAX the typical parallel landing runways 24R and 25L are around a mile (~5000 feet) apart.
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by blt 3y ago
I feel the C++ committee saw the major quality-of-life improvements from C++11 and convinced themselves that Python's ergonomics with templated C++'s speed was possible. I won't say it's impossible, but the backwards com
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by blt 3y ago
Yeah, I was surprised the example input didn't have a sequence of 3 monotonic points to reveal this.
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by blt 3y ago
Inserting the abstract verbatim is very far from ideal. That would usually cause you to repeat a lot of information from your own paper's introduction and then fail to hone in on the precise reason you're citing the paper. Summari
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by blt 3y ago
The point of work like this is to characterize in more detail the kinds of operations transformers are capable of representing. It's in the same spirit as the efforts to figure out the classes of formal languages that transformers can
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by blt 3y ago
I should have said "Many people" instead of "Anyone" in my original comment -- edited. I would use it myself, but a lot of developers don't want to use C++ (too complicated) or Python (too slow, dynamicness becomes
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by blt 3y ago
Don't know it, but from the website it looks mobile-first and intended for simple apps like Spotify. Don't get the impression that I could build something like Blender or Kdenlive with it. Maybe my impression is wrong, but I would
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by blt 3y ago
It's not an attractive scene for GUI developers on Linux. Gnome, Qt, and Electron all have some unappealing aspects. Many people who get the itch to make a Linux GUI app will immediately be discouraged by having to choose between them.
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by blt 3y ago
It's a sigmoid function, not softmax. Softmax is for multi-class classification.
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by blt 3y ago
I also rarely use them, but sometimes pointers (via virtual methods and factories) can reduce compile times a lot for components with a stable API but high complexity and churn of the internals. Do you have another way to handle that?
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by blt 3y ago
Many bicyclists don't want to ride on the sidewalk Sorry you're forced to slow down and pay attention occasionally
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by blt 3y ago
Strongly disagree. I want to have variables that only exist within an `if` block. That is something C99 got right. But Python's leaky scopes are even worse than up-front declarations.
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by blt 3y ago
The whole concept of roads being "car land" comes from car industry propaganda. Roads existed before cars, and people walked in them. Then cars came along and started killing a lot of pedestrians. Car companies didn't like th
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by blt 3y ago
I like the ones from École Brassart. Most pixel art has either a game, tech-demo, or sci-fi/fantasy aesthetic. It's cool to see pixel art from graphic designers.
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by blt 3y ago
Ironic that now, in hindsight, we see that the N64's 3D hardware is more sophisticated except for the texture size limit. The PS1 doesn't even have a z-buffer. But that would probably be hard to explain to the general public.
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by blt 3y ago
I was wondering about that after asking my question, since converting the signal to an x/y scope requires trigonometry. Probably a challenge to do electronically in the early days of radar. Leave it to the WW2-era engineers to find an

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