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by chowells 4y ago
Why do you think it's French? The term has developed a distinct meaning among speakers of English. It has slightly different connotations than alternative phrases, as the sibling comment points out. It may be derived from French, but i
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by chowells 4y ago
There are some attempts at making light field displays. Those seem like they would address this, but it's a lot of engineering to get from where they are now to a useful head-mounted display.
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by chowells 4y ago
And Yesod is one of the worst options in Haskell, at least as far as making me wonder why it's doing so much magic. It's very much trying to build a fully integrated framework instead of being composable Haskell. (To be fair, the
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by chowells 4y ago
You don't even need constant time for opening airbags. Real time (upper bound, but no lower bound) will do the job. Pretty much it's just working with secrets that cares about constant time.
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by chowells 4y ago
Blame Marie Kondo. It's just modern self-help vocabulary.
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by chowells 4y ago
If the moon's orbit is increasing in radius, doesn't that mean its orbital velocity is decreasing? Which way is energy being transferred? This stuff confuses me.
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by chowells 4y ago
It's the idea underlying any kind of "diversity" effort. Nevermind that most of those get heavily corrupted into some form red tape box-checking or internal power struggle rapidly. People will be people, no matter what they s
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by chowells 4y ago
Usually the beliefs being excluded are things like "white people are superior to all others", "there is no reason for the English language to have different words for sex and gender", or "it's acceptable to use
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by chowells 4y ago
Because there hasn't been a run. They're definitely insolvent, but that only causes immediate failure when enough people try to withdraw at once.
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by chowells 4y ago
Data Parallel Haskell has been deprecated since roughly when I started using Haskell. It's basically seen as a failed experiment.
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by chowells 4y ago
Eh. Most functional languages actually serialize operations pretty linearly in their default evaluation model, which is why they have explicit constructs for parallelism and concurrency. There are some languages that are intended to paralle
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by chowells 4y ago
The sad thing is that I've used several mechanical keyboards that very clearly do the wrong thing the article suggests. Debouncing on keydown is super obvious and really painful as a user.
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by chowells 4y ago
Would your aarch64 test suite have caught it? Testing is fine and all, but it can only find bugs the test authors predicted. There will always be some issues that test suites miss. It's obvious to add regression tests for this and rela
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by chowells 4y ago
> >This analysis is so shallow it's practically Libertarian. > Said the guy who has done no actual analysis, and instead just asked questions. I think we've reached a second peak of HN here. Ah, you've misunderstood
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by chowells 4y ago
This analysis is so shallow it's practically Libertarian. It gets one surface level detail approximately correct: if water or carbon emissions cost more, businesses would work harder to reduce their use. Analysis depth level 1: Where a
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by chowells 4y ago
So... you think it's a total coincidence that after lots of people start talking about specific acts of violence, people start doing them? There's no connection at all?
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by chowells 4y ago
Well, we absolutely have models in our heads. That's how we can understand what programs do. It's possible our minds are also huge and complicated neutral networks, though I suspect that description is incomplete at best. But the
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by chowells 4y ago
Just take a look at the generated code and explanations. A surprising amount of it is subtly but fundamentally wrong because gpt is just a regurgitation engine. The issues may look superficial, but when you start looking at why they happen,
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by chowells 4y ago
Nah, they think Musk is a net negative to SpaceX. Which sounds likely to me.
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by chowells 4y ago
You only log in to google in one container. You use that container only for google. In every other container, you're not logged in.
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by chowells 4y ago
A lot of those have audio artifacts that clearly indicate they were sped up - weird bits of sounds being dropped in clearly unnatural ways, and such. They're probably not winning any contests.
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by chowells 4y ago
I'm not sure you read what I wrote. At no point did I say to bathe, or in fact proffer any treatment at all for body odor. I merely pointed out that refusing to deal with it when you're in close quarters with a large number of peo
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by chowells 4y ago
I don't see the problem. HTTPS is basic internet hygiene. It's no worse than telling people they should mind their body odor when they're in a space with a lot of other people. Possibly indelicate, but undoubtedly true.
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by chowells 4y ago
Funny, I never see any of that. Maybe you just watch bad streamers.
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by chowells 4y ago
You are describing a very small percentage of streamers. If you avoid people with over 100 concurrent viewers, you find thousands of streamers who aren't doing more than trying to build communities around a common hobby. And it was my
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by chowells 4y ago
> Some kind of reflection in Haskell In Haskell you can only do that kind of manipulation at compile time. At run time, the source code is long gone. And even at compile time, expressions are a very different type than code that can be r
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by chowells 4y ago
Did you pay attention to the boy who cried wolf? There was a wolf. It ate the boy. The villagers didn't do a thing to stop it. You'd better hope this isn't a "Boy who cried wolf" situation.
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by chowells 4y ago
A symbolic language is something like mathematica. Mathematica does evaluation as term rewriting with rules for how to rewrite all sorts of things - and if it can't find matching rules, it leaves the expression in the same symbolic for
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by chowells 4y ago
That tweet thread is 100% wrong. I absolutely do have the moral authority to tell everyone that burning billions of joules per day in a bank of resistive elements and then dumping the heat directly into the atmosphere is morally wrong. It&#
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by chowells 4y ago
Blizzard's public figures said that the average number of players in an online Diablo 2 game was... 1.1. Are you kinda surprised?

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