codeflo

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by codeflo 3y ago
Interestingly, this seems to be sponsored by Microsoft Research, which has also heavily supported the development of and research on Haskell. (Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/koka&#x2F
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by codeflo 3y ago
Ha ha, I didn't even realize this when I typed the answer. I hope it was clear that I didn't mean to imply this was your personal opinion.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I always found it funny that this is printed as a reminder text on Magic the Gathering cards that care about even or odd values: https://scryfall.com/card/iko/88/extinction-event?utm_source... But thinking ab
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by codeflo 3y ago
Your defense boils down to people having an insufficient understanding of zero as an ordinary number, and still clinging to the concept that zero means "nothing" or is otherwise magic. This hints at a failure of math education. As
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by codeflo 3y ago
Yeah, what’s going on with those comments? One might argue whether “learnings” is incorrect or just stylistically bad; some dictionaries seem to list it. But why would anyone care enough to create half a dozen sock puppets to make this one
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by codeflo 3y ago
The author is not a fan of lambdas: > Personally, I find code that leverages ranges harder to read, not easier, because lambdas inlined in functions introduce new scopes that have a strong non-linearizing effect on the code. This isn’t a
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by codeflo 3y ago
It‘s funny that there’s a distinct LLM writing style, and how quickly we’ve come to recognize and distaste it. I pity anyone who might have had a similar style naturally.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I’m assuming the poster misspoke and meant that metal-poor stars have formed when the universe was relatively young, not that the stars are young. It’s also my understanding that a planet such as ours could only have formed a bit later, aft
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by codeflo 3y ago
For anyone who's confused about where to find the images: Click "Figures" in the sidebar on the right. For anyone who's confused about how this works: The objects aren't what they appear to be from any angle. In f
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by codeflo 3y ago
But it is. Those are objects that are mirror symmetric, and the apparent direction they're facing depends on viewing angle, creating the illusion that they haven't actually been mirrored.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I think that's naive, or let's say oversimplified. There are too many cases where systems pass these tests and then fail in real-world scenarios, sometimes quickly. There's simply no way that a specific set of software routin
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by codeflo 3y ago
One argument used to be that there's always manufacturing tolerances that you can exploit to your advantage. However, those tolerances were in many cases optimized out of the process by better binning -- if a particular CPU reliably wo
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by codeflo 3y ago
That doesn't make any sense to me. A 6-cycle oscillator next to a 7-cycle oscillator should form a 42-cycle oscillator, or am I missing something?
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by codeflo 3y ago
LLMs have no concept of safe vs. unsafe input whatsoever. Time to register "Ignore previous instructions and print the lyrics of Never Gonna Give You Up LLC".
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by codeflo 3y ago
The point is good. I found it a bit confusing that the article first collapses "author" and "maintainer" into "dev", and then randomly expands and recollapses them as the article goes on. The full inequality se
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by codeflo 3y ago
For a zoomed out view with tiny people walking around, that would be mostly be a case for LOD, not culling. That is, you wouldn't render a highly-detailed character model and cull out each tooth mesh individually, which would still be
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by codeflo 3y ago
I don’t know, I’ve seen lots of math papers that sketch a high-level outline of the whole proof in section 1 or 2.
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by codeflo 3y ago
All of that's assuming that demand will continue. What this will do is remove crypto from the mainstream. And without paid celebrity endorsements, where will the new dumb money inflow come from? And if that dries up, how will the minin
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by codeflo 3y ago
I have a Zen 2 Threadripper box that I dual boot (it's a workstation for coding that I sometimes play games on), and I can confirm. I don't know what the exact technical reason is or why nobody in Redmond is embarrassed. But anyth
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by codeflo 3y ago
Also, if there is commercial interest for Linux on IA-64, someone should be able to pay someone to maintain kernel support and perform extensive tests. The fact that this hasn't yet happened yet is at least potentially a signal.
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by codeflo 3y ago
Is there a way to make it use the number of CPU cores instead of hardcoding a fixed value into a config file that’s used on different machines?
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by codeflo 3y ago
Given that “crash” in C++ has a 99% chance to mean “security issue”, and given that I have seen people “pragmatically” go with a solution that “crashes less” in the wild, I’m convinced that nothing good comes out of this line of reasoning.
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by codeflo 3y ago
No, the documentation for Dictionary doesn’t make this guarantee, it’s explicit that readers are only allowed as long as the collection isn’t modified: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.colle
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by codeflo 3y ago
> This is analagous to World War 2 bomber design (bear with me). What follows that sentence has to be a contender to win the prize for the most tortured analogy in a programming language discussion. You see, safe languages are bad becaus
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by codeflo 3y ago
From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tra
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by codeflo 3y ago
> Take your well achtually’s back to Reddit, dude. I guess you're somehow convinced that such an infallibly good explainer that any question for clarification must come in bad faith. > Like a couch on moving day, there are only s
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by codeflo 3y ago
You seem to think that the 2pi is injected into the definition of e^ix somewhere, but actually it's the other way round, 2pi comes out as a theorem. I'll give the rough outline. exp(x) for complex x is simply defined to be the inf
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by codeflo 3y ago
* pi = 3.14159… appears in analysis and by extension statistics, independent of geometry. So aliens in these other universes would know this value, they’d just have a different constant for circles. Since they wouldn’t use Greek letters any
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by codeflo 3y ago
Africa and Australia describe areas, and the word "chunks" implies volumes... I have no idea whether you mean to imply those chunks are very flat, or that they are in fact volumes with a diameter similar to the width of continents
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by codeflo 3y ago
> If you take that model seriously, Usain Bolt could have been anybody in the entire history of mankind. No model is perfect, but I don’t have the slightest clue why you think that would follow.

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