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by codeflo 3y ago
I believe so, yes. I think it's somewhat likely that mathematically minded people would come up with that idea independently -- it's essentially Platonism taken to its logical conclusion. For reference: https://en.wikip
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by codeflo 3y ago
I agree that memory management can't be solved locally. The situation in C++, where every library or API you use has a different cleanup convention, that you need to carefully read about in the documentation to even properly review a p
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by codeflo 3y ago
You also grew out of an immortal cell. Are you a form of cancer?
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by codeflo 3y ago
Many regular events are scheduled "indefinitely" into the future. Do you really think that when the US changed its DST rules a couple of years back, any of the regularly scheduled weekly meetings were happening according to the ol
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by codeflo 3y ago
> You want three pieces of information, a date, a location and a local time. Note that I do not think you actually want a time zone, what if you are not in London and that place gets moved into another timezone? Theoretical arguments are
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by codeflo 3y ago
> You may make production use of the Licensed Work, provided such use does not include offering the Licensed Work to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's products. > A “competitive off
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by codeflo 3y ago
The problem likely isn't what the compiler produces given the semantics of a piece of code, but rather what you'd do with data structures and memory layout if you'd target the 6502 directly.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I get that, but that's just stupid given how the story actually played out. When people talk about flat organizations and mean it, they also mean transparent, cross-functional teams that understand the full context. If that had been al
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by codeflo 3y ago
From the documentary I've watched, Theranos was a very dictatorial organization that had strictly enforced knowledge silos and spied on its employees. Their fraud wouldn't have been possible otherwise, but the article's &quot
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by codeflo 3y ago
Half a day to get something running that's a "one off" for you is insane. With a compiled language project, I'd download a binary. In Python, I need to reproduce the developer's setup. And I've yet to find two
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by codeflo 3y ago
I hate slide decks like these, where every page in the PDF contains one more bullet point than the last one. Maybe I'm particularly bad at this, but I spend way too long scanning each page for the new information. Is it impossible to c
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by codeflo 3y ago
Well, I’m also the sort of person who wouldn’t. Similarly, I also never copy&paste example code when reading documentation, instead, I immediately jump into writing my own variation. It took me a while to realize that’s not typical.
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by codeflo 3y ago
It's possibly an unpopular take, but it's not completely clear to me what community-driven programming languages gain from a standards process anyway. (At least if the intention is to really standardize the complete thing, bells a
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by codeflo 3y ago
While that’s true, isn’t part of that due to Microsoft having enterprise-friendly licensing nailed down? I’d think that doing the equivalent of industrial espionage would remove Microsoft’s offerings from some industries extremely fast. (Co
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by codeflo 3y ago
Or perhaps more likely: Giving users a more prominent way to filter by time didn’t improve ad clicks and was thus A/B tested out of the product. Just like it was A/B tested that the best background color to contrast the ad area ag
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by codeflo 3y ago
It's interesting that this works in the time domain (instead of frequency domain), and I wonder what the resulting quality limitations are, if any. The sound samples on the demo page, at the least the dozen I clicked on, didn't se
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by codeflo 3y ago
What do they do about the SID? For younger folks, the SID is the sound chip of the C64. It's infamous for being partly an analog circuit. That is, it uses transistors in states between 0 and 1, as you would in a transistor-based amplif
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by codeflo 3y ago
The Haskell one is not that spectacular if you understand that operators are just functions in that language: λ> let 2+2=5 in 2+2 5 This simply defines a new local function that happens to be called "+". It's
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by codeflo 3y ago
Wait for the influx of HN comments to disagree with you, citing specific prompts that they found working. It may be obvious to you and me that it’s smoke and mirrors, but a lot of smart people fall for it.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I wonder about this. Is ML just plugging together prebuilt blocks because that covers the entire solution space, or are we limiting the solution space to that because that’s the only thing you can realistically do in Python?
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by codeflo 3y ago
When I last looked at this -- admittedly years ago at this point -- all Unicode operators had an ASCII alternative. So maybe you could enter the code as Ascii and prettify it into Unicode?
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by codeflo 3y ago
That would lead to weird behavior since the OEIS is sorted by number of references, which I think prefers "interesting" solutions over straightforward ones. For (1, 2, 3), the positive integers are only ranked 5th -- the top hit a
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by codeflo 3y ago
I once worked with a PhD who claimed that basically any novel bit of coding was a "research problem", and thus not worth bothering. Using a hashtable to speed up an algorithm? Research problem. Using raw TCP instead of HTTP for a
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by codeflo 3y ago
The article has a link[1] to a discussion between the blog author and the paper author that I find revealing. Perhaps as a reminder, the issue is that the paper’s implementation of their 2-nearest neighbor secretly uses an oracle to break t
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by codeflo 3y ago
> Games are generally mass-market products so any feature that only helps a very small percentage of buyers is much less likely to get added. Your point kind of proves the opposite. Many players will benefit from tutorials, of course. Bu
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by codeflo 3y ago
The worst are multiplayer games that don’t let you join a party with your friends before playing a long single player tutorial. You arrive late, you want to join, your friends will teach you anything you need to know anyway. But a self-abso
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by codeflo 3y ago
That doesn't work for me. It's not really holding together the reactor as the headline would imply, it's holding the plasma.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Presburger arithmetic is famously complete. What a system can't be is consistent, complete, and strong enough to perform a Godel encoding (which requires something multiplication-like). Drop any of th
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template <typename T> struct optional { // One version of value which works for everything template <class Self> constexpr auto&& value(this Self&& self) { if (self.
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by codeflo 3y ago
> You can't entirely rely on it to know a dereference is happening because references (e.g. `int&`) aren't subject to the `->` requirement. To the extent that this is a problem, it's a problem with references as a l

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