chowells

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by chowells 2y ago
Sounds like Dan Simmons' Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. I think that particular bit was in the second book, but Sol spent a lot of time grappling with Abraham in both.
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by chowells 2y ago
Bottom+right is purely a performance optimization, when processing top-to-bottom, left-to-right. You only ever push the error terms to pixels you haven't processed yet, so the whole algorithm remains a single linear pass. That was the
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by chowells 2y ago
I think https://qntm.org/clean makes a good case that the advice it gives can be taken to very bad extremes -- and that the author of the book does so in some cases when providing "good" examples. That's not
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by chowells 2y ago
Honest ones, sure. Why would a malicious one leave behind evidence of its malicious behavior? The threat model is identical.
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by chowells 2y ago
So you're saying it's exactly the same as binary installers, which frequently download additional components during installation?
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by chowells 2y ago
FWIW, I distinguish between "season pass" and "battle pass". So far, the games I pay attention to seem to distinguish between those terms consistently, but I don't know how widespread that is or how long it will las
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by chowells 2y ago
I'm not sure. Older gamers tend to have more perspective to see through AAA BS. I'd rather have better, smaller games than a AAA content slog. More focused complete experiences with fun gameplay would be welcome, but I'm not
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by chowells 2y ago
"curl | bash" is the exact same threat vector as "download this compiled installer". I wonder why that doesn't result in the same hyperbolic responses.
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by chowells 2y ago
The point is that you shouldn't need to ask. If it's actually a general-purpose system it will do it automatically.
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by chowells 2y ago
> Overuse of dynamically generated functions is possible in any high level language. A large number of high-level languages resolve functions at compile time, rejecting programs containing references to functions that don't exist.
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by chowells 2y ago
And presuming you avoid 100% of undefined behavior, which I've never seen a non-trivial C program succeed at. C is way too complicated in the real world. You don't want C, you want a language that actually gives defined semantic
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by chowells 2y ago
This severely underestimates the weirdness of the visitor pattern. It's far more complicated than monads.
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by chowells 2y ago
No. It means that a case for the same incident cannot be filed again. When a case is dismissed without prejudice, it can be refiled if the plaintiff thinks they can make a better case at some future point.
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by chowells 2y ago
Twice a year? I think there were 7 new releases in a single year recently. Twice would be relaxing. (I quit a long time ago, so I just watch from the sidelines, baffled.)
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by chowells 2y ago
The point of the investigations was to determine if any rules were broken, and potentially to propose new rules if something bad happened that didn't break the rules. It turned out no rules were broken, and while things got weird for a
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by chowells 2y ago
No video game company is worth investing in... ... Except in the rare case that the returns you want are in the form of good games, rather than cash. Then invest all you want in companies that don't constantly make excuses about why
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by chowells 2y ago
The entire nature of the kill screen in NES Tetris is that the game crashes because the game has written over its stack.
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by chowells 2y ago
If there's no abstraction, what's your value-add? I don't care enough to read your marketing BS to see where you claim to be special, but... If your API is doing the exact same things as an underlying service is doing, you&#x
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by chowells 2y ago
You've never had values that are only valid within a specific context and wanted to prevent using them incorrectly?
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by chowells 2y ago
There is no one who fails to see the similarity, because they're both kinds of radix sorts. For instance, a counting sort is a degenerate form of radix sort that only does one pass. But where the classic radix sort is bottom-up, the Am
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by chowells 2y ago
Because excesses finally became so ridiculously over the top that it was finally politically viable to address it. Remember, chain restaurants have started using non-competes to ban servers and cooks from moving to another employer. The sit
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by chowells 2y ago
That sort of thing is typically handled during lexing. By the time the parser deals with it, it's a string literal. This is one of the advantages of splitting those into separate phases. There are other hacks in use as well. Haskell&#x
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by chowells 2y ago
And? The only way someone is ingesting that accidentally is if a classmate is attempting to poison them. There are a lot of other poisons that can be ingested in small doses if someone is trying to injure you. Fentanyl is not going to lea
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by chowells 2y ago
You think fentanyl is magic killing dust? What are you, one of those moronic cops who thinks they'll die from seeing fentanyl? They only way you're injuring someone with fentanyl is getting them to ingest an unsafe amount of it on
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by chowells 2y ago
Because without betting something you at least notionally care about, poker is a tedium simulator rather than a game. The betting is where the game is, and if you don't care about winning or losing the bet, you're skipping the gam
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by chowells 3y ago
Can you explain how any construct in FP conflates subtyping and code sharing the way OO inheritance does?
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by chowells 3y ago
When the person making the argument has a history of acting in bad faith, that's relevant to the argument.
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by chowells 3y ago
Yes. Prime numbers come up in nature in a lot of cases when cyclic things evolve to minimize coincidence.
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by chowells 3y ago
Drugs shouldn't be approved on hope. They should be approved on evidence. And there was never any evidence for this one. Just letting it inspire hope was hurting its victims.
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by chowells 3y ago
Why is humanity important?

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