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by chronial 4y ago
> pulling those out may lose access to required lexically-scoped variables The only situation for this that I can think of is inside a list comprehension / generator expression. You are aware that you can define functions at any sco
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by chronial 4y ago
> that's not what the GP was asking for in this case. You really think that when they mentioned the dynamically allocated `Vec` in Rust (which has fixed-sized arrays) and "manual memory management" in C, what they were act
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by chronial 4y ago
> We really need to be more precise in our terminology here. "Sampling from a distribution" can mean a lot of things. I know it to mean only one thing: Generating a value in such a way, so that if that process were to be repeat
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by chronial 4y ago
> "Bernoulli distribution" (not a thing, btw) So this Wikipedia article is a fever dream? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_distribution > they calculated the ratio of two binomial random variable
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by chronial 4y ago
> I think I get what you're going for here -- you're trying to simulate a coin flip? -- but what you've actually done is made successive draws from a uniform random number generator. The software is designed to return numb
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by chronial 5y ago
The requirements and the spec are very different things. The requirements are exactly the thing that comes from the stakeholders. The spec is a way longer document that must match the requirements, but it is not the requirements. Also, th
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by chronial 5y ago
I really like "mining" here. At least for me the connotations fit really well. I think it's better than "inventing", because it's not like requirements come from thin air. They exist in a raw form buried in the
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by chronial 5y ago
Ah, good times – I was the one who initially continued development after you left off. Thanks again for open sourcing it back then :).
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by chronial 5y ago
I don't know Zig, Ada and D very well, but isn't Rust the only language that can guarantee huge amounts of safety with zero runtime overhead due to the burrow checker? I think that is its differenciating property.
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by chronial 5y ago
> What I meant is inline. So inside of a py file, you can rewrite the one function which you identified as the bottleneck. In C or another language. Have a look at cython – it provides exactly that.
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by chronial 5y ago
There are versions of Python without RC: https://www.python.org/download/alternatives/ . There is no doubt that Python would be better off without RC, the problem is that Python extensions rely on RC. So CPython (t
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by chronial 5y ago
Which real life experience are you referring to? Go has an extremely fast GC that has minimal pauses. Python still doesn't have "proper" multithreading because RC is too slow. The problem with rc is not memory access but sync
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by chronial 5y ago
> The idea of societal benefit is very nebulous. [...] How do you measure something like societal benefit? That is indeed a very hard problem and one of the mayor challenges of any society. But that doesn't mean that any endeavor th
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by chronial 5y ago
Your analysis has one major flaw: It would only make sense if ice cream had as severe a climate impact as bitcoin. I have no reason to believe that it does. You would have to find a list of things that people enjoy but don't bring soci
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by chronial 5y ago
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I don't backwards-compatibility mattered in this decision. They wanted memory-efficient and O(1)-indexable strings.
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by chronial 5y ago
Apparently I forgot to type the "go away" that was supposed to go between the "acceleration" and "while" in that sentence ^^.
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by chronial 5y ago
You misread. Your phone is accelerating upwards at 9.8m/s^2. That is also what it displays. If you have an accelerometer that displays a history (I recommend the app phyphox), you will also see that acceleration while your phone is fal
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by chronial 6y ago
Same here, but you can just skip through the video and look at the slides. There's not that many and they summarize his points quite succinctly.
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by chronial 6y ago
Here's a non-paywalled article https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases... and it has a link to the study: https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi&#x2
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by chronial 6y ago
I think it's this one: https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...
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by chronial 6y ago
IMO "My income is more important than the environment" is not the correct summary. The actual situation is this: 1) A youtuber needs a certain amount of income to be able to afford the time to create their content. 2) Selling merc
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by chronial 6y ago
At least for python, using is not more limited, but more complete: It allows to handle exceptions that are raised in the block and it also allows you to raise exceptions in the "destructor". That is something that you actually nee
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by chronial 6y ago
The coffee shop router is the thread. Whether it's the coffee shop owner, an employee, somebody who hacked the router or just somebody who tricked you into going into their WiFi which is not actually the coffee shop's.
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by chronial 7y ago
> However, a major concern I have for this architecture from a pedagogical perspective is it's reliance on the global namespace. Their concerns are not specific to pygame. They are trying to teach their students to not have global s
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by chronial 7y ago
But the Julia syntax can not represent arguments that can be passed either positional or named, right?
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by chronial 7y ago
> I think there is going to be a huge health revolution ... How would any of what you listed help against cancer, aging and the obesity crisis?
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by chronial 7y ago
Asymptotic times usually have assumptions on the problem size. On computers, you assume that memory access is constant time, which violates the laws of physics for arbitrarily large N.
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by chronial 7y ago
> Healthcare quality is basically the same in all first-world countries While this statement is correct, my understanding is that there are still small quality differences, and the US is in fact the word leader in quality. Thinking about
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by chronial 7y ago
> When you fly a drone, you still constitute a danger to other aircraft and the people in it, or people on the ground. Why should you be subject to fewer rules, just because you are not aboard the aircraft, and thus not at risk? Because
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by chronial 7y ago
Unfortunately, on Linux, filenames are actually bytes, not utf-8.

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