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by bshanks 5y ago
Ironic if AIs end up being more useful for creativity than for detail-oriented tasks.
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API Improvement Proposals(google.aip.dev)
85 points by bshanks 5y ago|13 comments
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The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)(typeclasses.com)
104 points by bshanks 5y ago|12 comments
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by bshanks 5y ago
When you export the drawing (click the button in the upper left then click the download icon to the right of File), there is an option to us "ASCII Basic".
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ASCIIFlow Diagram Tool(asciiflow.com)
214 points by bshanks 5y ago|36 comments
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Explaining Code using ASCII Art (2019)(blog.regehr.org)
5 points by bshanks 5y ago|0 comments
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Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web(snap.stanford.edu)
66 points by bshanks 5y ago|13 comments
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Should we rebrand REST?(kieranpotts.com)
123 points by bshanks 5y ago|147 comments
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by bshanks 5y ago
I feel like many science-y people have an intuition that a measurement technique should not be used until you have explored its false positive rate. Perhaps judges don't share that intuition. Presumably judges receive their training in
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by bshanks 5y ago
Halting is indeed the same as termination. The halting problem DOES allow you to prove that some programs terminate. The problem is that there will be other programs that do terminate, but you won't be able to prove that they terminate
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by bshanks 5y ago
Many of the GTA V pictures look more realistic to me. I think some of this is due to location; in the GTA V pics, the brownish hue, the haze and washed-out colors, the patchy grass, and the grainy roads seem to me to really capture the actu
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Wuffs the Language(github.com)
187 points by bshanks 6y ago|75 comments
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A “Better C” Benchmark(zserge.com)
183 points by bshanks 6y ago|185 comments
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How Safe Is Zig?(scattered-thoughts.net)
192 points by bshanks 6y ago|274 comments
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Goroutines Are Not Significantly Smaller Than Threads(matklad.github.io)
10 points by bshanks 6y ago|4 comments
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Things you should do now (2011)(secure.phabricator.com)
199 points by bshanks 6y ago|110 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
You could ask the same question of calculus (or any theoretical domain of knowledge). The rules of derivatives and integrals don't, in themselves, give a model of any particular empirical system. But they are a tool/language that
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by bshanks 6y ago
Could you give any pointers to what is broken about these, and how a better way to do it would be? (I'm thinking about implementing a small system call library interface and I'd like to not repeat the mistakes of the past)
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by bshanks 6y ago
Do recent events make you confident that you can trust every government administration not to abuse a hypothetical power to regulate speech? Freedom of speech may have great value in helping to prevent (or reduce the probability of) totalit
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by bshanks 6y ago
You can also mix-and-match further, and add another layer of indirection. One method that I've heard of is to have a committee (/"commission"/"council") select judges. The committee composition can draw fr
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by bshanks 6y ago
The category of 'appointment' contains many different methods, some of which may be better than the US system. One method that I've heard of is to have a committee (/"commission"/"council") selec
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The ecosystem is moving (2016)(signal.org)
3 points by bshanks 6y ago|0 comments
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Two Year Work Retrospective(simpixelated.com)
30 points by bshanks 6y ago|4 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
It's notable that this is on the front page of https://www.foxnews.com/
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What to know about Signal, the secure messaging app that's surging in popularity(foxnews.com)
1 points by bshanks 6y ago|1 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
You might like recfiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recfiles
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by bshanks 6y ago
In the US, jury duty can have issues with bathroom rights also. In many places everything must stop when any juror is out of the room.
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by bshanks 6y ago
If 50% of this is loans and 50% are grants, and if all of the grants are over 3 years, then that's 145/(2*3) = 24.17 billion Euros in grants per year, or $29.33 billion dollars per year. By contrast, in the US, US National Science
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by bshanks 6y ago
I should be clearer about how a "transpilation platform" would differ from something like LLVM IR. First, a transpilation platform is focused on interoperability between the source high-level language and the target platform, incl
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by bshanks 6y ago
Lightweight standards organizations to track, discuss, publicize, and coalesce support for new formats and protocols recently proposed by individuals or small groups. Think Markdown, trackbacks/pingbacks, RSS/Atom, TOML, SemVer, b

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