codeflo

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by codeflo 3y ago
I'm not sure I fully agree with that characterization. Many people would intuitively classify assignment as a statement, yet it's an expression in C, which is fully in the Algol tradition. And Rust is certainly a descendant of C,
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by codeflo 3y ago
Hmmm. I tried about a dozen times before giving up. I thought the game was broken before reading your comment. Nothing in the game visually indicates that going back is worse than going forwards. As the level is symmetrical, the distance is
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by codeflo 3y ago
Why do you believe this to be a market failure?
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by codeflo 3y ago
The year is 2023. Everyone who believes either Microsoft or Google are the good guys here is either not paying attention, or works for either of the companies (not so unlikely on Hacker News). Both companies use every imaginable dark patter
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by codeflo 3y ago
> The post is about removing some unnecessary wording from technical documentation that doesn't add anything, and as an aside can sometimes imply complex tasks are simpler than they are to the detriment of the app/library&#x2
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by codeflo 3y ago
Or maybe -- controversial opinion here -- people shouldn't be such babies. I'm looking around the HN discussion here and can't quite believe how personally offended people are by these words. Yes, at the beginning of the firs
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by codeflo 3y ago
At least they unlocked the creativity of whoever produced that documentary.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I’m no expert on the sociological aspects of this, but do claim a bit of knowledge on statistics. And when a research finding contradicts everyday experience, it’s natural to be skeptical, so I looked at the paper in a bit of detail ( https
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by codeflo 3y ago
I’m also most often on the hiring side of this. If novel problem solving is what you’re actually testing, I would agree. But too many interviewers just think they’re testing that, when what they’re actually testing is whether a candidate
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by codeflo 3y ago
Very much yes to your first sentence, but I don’t think “just plug something into ChatGPT” is a fair summary of your (very interesting) post, so you’re fine with me. I’ve seen several statements recently, including one in a talk by a Micros
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by codeflo 3y ago
It’s not intended to do that, and I don’t think that would be possible in general. Debug output can be arbitrary and ambiguous, while this is a well-defined serialization format that only happens to have a readable Rust-like syntax. Of cour
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by codeflo 3y ago
Well, that’s a colossal failure of branding if I ever saw one. Seriously, what were they thinking?
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by codeflo 3y ago
You're basically fucked if you want search results for a different location, and increasingly more fucked if you want them in a language that's not the dominant language of the region you happen to log in from. All of that used to
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by codeflo 3y ago
That's a bit of a non sequitur. Quotes no longer working doesn't have anything to do with the JavaScript on the website. My theory about this is that Google has slowly and steadily A/B tested every useful feature out of their
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by codeflo 3y ago
However, social engineering is orders of magnitude less automatable and scalable than prompt engineering is.
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by codeflo 3y ago
No, it’s people who possibly even agree with the intention of this wanting the letter of the law to be as clear as possible — so that a hypothetical uninformed judge a few years down the road has less wiggle room for a bad decision. (Also
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by codeflo 3y ago
1. I 100% agree about comments. 2. I’m still not convinced it’s the file format’s job to encode every possible data type. We used to have deserialization layers for that, but for some reason, we don’t do that anymore. Nowadays we expect eve
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by codeflo 3y ago
> "the only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user" I think it's true that user experience is all that matters. Software engineering is just the realization that this will also be true 12 months from
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by codeflo 3y ago
Tell me you haven't read the article without telling me you haven't read the article.
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by codeflo 3y ago
To be fair, I’m not sure this will actually make a significant difference. :) Even 200m wouldn’t be a huge error.
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by codeflo 3y ago
When will “I asked ChatGPT” stop being posted in response to every other HN comment?
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by codeflo 3y ago
> There is obvious advantage You have a different definition of “obvious” than I have.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I’m not familiar with R, but the lm(…) line looks like it’s linearly interpolating the latitude and longitude. However, that’s not what straight lines in a Mercator projection are. You might be confusing it with the cylindrical projection.
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by codeflo 3y ago
Mercator maps are conformal, which means that over small distances, shapes are preserved, though you do have to correctly adjust the distance scale. So how much does that matter over 76 km, would the bend in the line even be visible?
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by codeflo 3y ago
> (The term “einstein” comes from the German “ein stein,” or “one stone” — more loosely, “one tile” or “one shape.”) As I said, that "loose" meaning doesn't exist, but either way it would be "ein Stein". I guaran
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by codeflo 3y ago
Sorry to ruin your pun idea, but Stein doesn't mean geometric shape. The most common meaning is simply stone, but it can also mean board game piece. Words you might use for these shapes instead would be Form (meaning shape) or Kachel (
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by codeflo 3y ago
You make it sound like you'd have to remember a 4-digit constant in either case. That's stupid, it's simply (torque * RPS * 2 * PI).
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by codeflo 3y ago
> Besides, nobody is calculating this, they are measuring and that is just a matter of what label you put on the dial. That's why I asked about engineering, not driving. Nobody converts torque to power etc.?
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by codeflo 3y ago
I know this is off-topic, but I'm curious. I always had the impression that even in the US, standard units are used for engineering. Reading about "ft-lb" makes me think I was wrong (and my head hurt, tbh). Do you really comp
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by codeflo 4y ago
Of course these things are “observable” in the literal sense. And yet, they aren’t considered to be observable by the memory model of any language spec that I know of. Same as CPU power draw, which has been used as a side-channel to extract

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