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by choeger 4y ago
Does it come with a context-free syntax? If not, that would be a grave mistake. Being unparseable is one of the biggest problems of TeX, IMO. Not the least because you cannot automatically work with TeX "documents".
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by choeger 4y ago
If hydrogen would only halve the amount of usable energy, it would already offset the difference in a perfectly sunny location and one that's often cloudy. The case for wind energy is probably similar.
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by choeger 4y ago
From a bootstrapping perspective, GCC is not perfect, either, because of the C++ addition in 5.0 (at least I think that's the version.) So to bootstrap rust this way, you'd need to go GCC 4.2 -> GCC 13+ -> Rust
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by choeger 4y ago
I think you're confusing some things. First of all, "just uploading" the binary only works in languages with a very lazy approach to modularization, aka static linking. But thinking that uploading binaries "works" i
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by choeger 4y ago
No, its not. But the general idea is, I think: If the composition of correct code can lead to incorrect behavior and the language that handles this composition does not allow to correct the error (and explicitly supports the composition), t
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by choeger 4y ago
Cows are herbivores, pigs mostly so. Dogs eat stuff that we would vomit on seeing. They also have some very bad parasites. I think it's perfectly natural to find dog poop more disgusting than cow manure.
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by choeger 4y ago
And if you don't, there's a chance you wish you did.
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by choeger 4y ago
Mateschitz did something very impressive: Sell an oddly-tasting soft drink by financing (very successful) extremely expensive sports teams. The connection is so odd that no one could copy it. It's totally artificial, of course, but it&
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by choeger 4y ago
Well, it depends on how you financed. If you paid a large part of your mortgage already, or needed a small one to begin with, you can still move, bacause all houses will get cheaper. If you sit on a large mortgage, though, you better don&#x
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by choeger 4y ago
I think it's complete bullshit and I fell for it. sigh As a matter of fact, both Hackernews and reddit accounts have wildly different results. Also, the response is way to quick to fetch all comments from either platform (and you&#
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by choeger 4y ago
Also highly illegal in the EU. So if the author does this and reads this comment: Better stay where you are or you might get fined into oblivion.
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by choeger 4y ago
You don't understand. Back in 2018, JIRA got an AI extension that allowed it to automatically create tickets. Also, JIRA's development is managed by JIRA. Since COVID, everyone working on JIRA is working remotely. Somewhen between
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by choeger 4y ago
When I was still programming in C++ that tool was the method to discuss compiler internals and language semantics with colleagues. Just setup a minimal example and share it with your colleagues. Impressive and sad at the same time. Impres
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by choeger 4y ago
I can totally believe that. But it has 470 or so stations. That makes about 10k or so daily passengers per station. That's very roughly the same as Berlin. Additionally, the trains are quite slow, which ain't a problem for a metro
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by choeger 4y ago
"functioning" is an exaggeration. Most of the German trains are slower than 300kph most of the time. They are also often crowded, delayed or outright cancelled. They are also quite expensive, compared to planes. I think the autho
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by choeger 4y ago
How does the length of the burst depend on the size of the event?
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by choeger 4y ago
Why is the ambient temperature important? Isn't it about thermal energy? So wouldn't a heat pump just need to be much larger to work up to 1000 degrees or more? Say, I have a heatpump that heats up water to 100°C at ambient temper
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by choeger 4y ago
After so many years that idea should be laughed at at court. Patents are one thing but waiting for your "free" codec to gain usage across the world only then to reap the benefits should be called fraud.
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by choeger 4y ago
Prices and lead time for solar power projects. Right now, solar power is a no-brainer for pretty much everyone in the industrialized world. No one does not invest into solar because they're stubborn or stupid. The pipeline is simply so
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by choeger 4y ago
Yeah. Except that just building the factories to build the solar panels and wind turbines would take longer than that. And that statement ignores the whole supply chain. The thing is, despite what extinction rebellion et. al. tell us, the g
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by choeger 4y ago
What UML (class diagrams) never really got, is that in order to be simpler, you generally have to leave out details. But that means you cannot generate code from a class diagram unless it basically is the code. Why on earth should I use
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by choeger 4y ago
But chromium is BSD-licensed, is it not?
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by choeger 4y ago
But 20kph is absolutely doable for even several kilometers. A speed difference of 10kph ain't that problematic. The idea shouldn't be to create the perfect bicycle town, but to reconcile different modes of transportation. A cyclis
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by choeger 4y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. Wherever bicycles and cars share the same routes, at roughly the same speed, they should share the same roads - at a speed that is safe for everyone, so about 30km/h. For routes and speeds that are different
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by choeger 4y ago
The problem is that containers are opaque and authors simply don't care about quality. If say, fedora would allow containers by having deviating Versions of rpms per app, it would be quite cool. The OS could inform me about apps using
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by choeger 4y ago
I seriously wonder why no one did that before (put a context-free language in front of C++). Presumably, because of the need for modules to get anything beyond trivial code (without modules, one would have to use the preprocessor which woul
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by choeger 4y ago
Very nice work. Worth a read!
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by choeger 4y ago
Where's the analysis, though? Why is the educational system geared towards a disadvantage for boys? I get it that the implication is puberty, which typically occurs later in boys. But that proposed change would only pull it from, say
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by choeger 4y ago
> Will we really throw up our hands and finally announce to each other that we are too stupid to solve our problems? Well, yes. That's what "AI" is about: Create some, very complex, generic model and hope that it can enco
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by choeger 4y ago
You're absolutely correct. IMO, the reason is, to a large degree, ineptness of software engineers. It simply doesn't pay to hire or train high-quality SEs, if you're not google or Amazon (and even they probably only hire an

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