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by chalst 6y ago
A buffer per directory is just the right thing for dired to do, for the same kind of reason that it is right that git has a staging area. Your problem is that this behaviour causes friction with how you prefer to manage buffers. Some sugges
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by chalst 6y ago
This comment is very far from the mark: it would be closer to the truth to say the article is mostly complaining about lack of tools to help ameliorate problems caused by the architecture. The author clearly likes Postgres and ends the piec
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by chalst 6y ago
The Reconstruction Era essentially recreated the slave system through the Black Codes in the southern states. Death rates of blacks on plantations actually went up after the civil war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl
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by chalst 6y ago
I guess the reason is that Julia's type system and standard libraries really guide users to use types that the JIT can unbox as far as possible.
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by chalst 6y ago
Julia is the first language to really show that multiple dispatch can be efficient in performance-critical code, but I'm not really sure why: JIT concepts were certainly familiar to implementors of Common Lisp and Dylan.
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Why Are Most Textbooks Still Proprietary?(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
3 points by chalst 6y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 6y ago
It's common in Germany, called "Sprechstunde" ("speaking hours").
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by chalst 6y ago
Please link to claims of duplicate submissions. This story is not shown before on https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com/swlh
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by chalst 6y ago
In journalism, things like price/earnings are usually given dimensionlessly, even in quality newspapers like the FT. E.g., Tesla was a red-hot stock even before the coronavirus crisis, boasting a forward price/earnings ratio
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by chalst 6y ago
The dimensionless %age terminology is misleading (hence the Kalecki quote) but I agree standard: it would make the difference in kind clearer to give this in terms of time, say days, but I am not going to object every time I see this. But t
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by chalst 6y ago
Michal Kalecki: "I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows". Can we not have financial journalism with apples-to-oranges comparisons like "Nonfinancial private sector debt alone now
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by chalst 6y ago
I recommend studying a simple Forth implementation. rwmj wrote a tutorial/x86 implementation, now widely called Jonesforth: Main x86 source to bootstrap minimal interpreter/compiler: https://github.com/nornagon&#x2
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by chalst 6y ago
If you restrict it to abductions, the picture is less rosy: around 1 in 6 abductions are non-family abductions. The stand-out statistic is over 90% of missing children are runaways. Working on this risk, reducing the chance that your kids w
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by chalst 6y ago
This argument is very flawed, I'll pick on just one point. The main users of Tether are generally people who find it difficult to use conventional finance, so in the event confidence in USDT collapses, a lot of holders will be unable t
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by chalst 6y ago
This is a nice introduction to proof search. A clarification: a rule is invertible if when the conclusion is provable, each of the premises is. The most important example of a non-invertible rule is weakening: Gamma |- Delta
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by chalst 6y ago
I added them as neutral (the '?' character) rather than an allowed domain: I don't want to have to understand Google's mailing policy when assessing the risk of my site being downgraded.
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by chalst 6y ago
CLOS is about generics, so is about the type system, and is in practice pretty much orthogonal to purity. CLOS was originally implemented using macros, which are semantically pure. CLisp supports but, unlike Scheme, does not really encourag
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by chalst 6y ago
The point about rendering hyperbolic 2D using the Poincare embedding is that you see more of the game world, but what is "closest" is larger, somewhat like POV 3D but unlike traditional roguelikes. John Lamping invented a file bro
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by chalst 6y ago
The type annotation story is indeed better with Julia, but having type annotations for NumPy is beneficial for many users for whom Julia isn't a win, where number crunching isn't the main thing going on and Python's better li
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by chalst 6y ago
I'm not all that surprised by the small improvement on regular C++ code: the last decade hasn't seen radical changes in how this is done; compiler innovation has been elsewhere with only the SIMD story seen in this article. I was
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by chalst 6y ago
Quick summary: "This NumPy release is the largest so made to date, some 684 PRs contributed by 184 people have been merged." > Annotations for NumPy functions. This work is ongoing and improvements can be expected pending
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by chalst 6y ago
I've posted this story because of the general interest of this kind of analysis; the evaluation of ReviewMeta presumably is already out-of-date, and since the owner plans on passing on the business, we can epect things to change in the
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ReviewMeta warning: It's not remotely accurate (2018)(davidgaughran.com)
1 points by chalst 6y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 6y ago
Roundup deserves its bad press, regardless of which exact scandal caused it to penetrate popular consciousness. Monsanto's highest margin R-Up product range is ultra-high dosage pesticides together with crops designed to tolerate the p
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Gnupg.vim: Plugin for transparent, diskless editing of GPG encrypted files(vim.org)
1 points by chalst 6y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 6y ago
Journals typically list their referees per issue, but they do not say who reviewed which paper.
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by chalst 6y ago
Not great for rainforest.
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by chalst 6y ago
The Greens actually had little parliamentary influence then: the CDU could have counted on the support of their coalition partners, the pro-nuclear FDP, at the time. Merkel went with massive anti-nuclear sentiment post-Fukushima to pass leg
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by chalst 6y ago
The most likely explanation for Amazon changing its approach is that the issue was taken over from risk-averse managers who hoped Parler would do the right thing by closure-hungry executives who were not willing to wait and were willing to
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by chalst 6y ago
AWS drew attention to the violation of the TOS in mid November and provided extensive documentation of the kind of content they regarded as unacceptable in mid December [1]. You seem unaware of the most basic facts of the case. 1: https:&#

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