codeflo

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by codeflo 4y ago
I feel you, I just don’t think it’s limited to this one issue. I too strongly identify with most, perhaps all of the left’s causes: universal human rights, fighting world poverty, peace, protecting the climate. The only problem is, the amou
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by codeflo 4y ago
It’s not about area, but about actually physically placing an object in a higher dimensional object, like placing a long stick (1D) in a room (3D): the stick can be longer than the longest side of the room, but not by that much. In higher d
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by codeflo 4y ago
> One way to make the weirdness of the "other parts infinitely far away" concrete is to recall that, say, the Empire State Building can fit entirely inside of an n-cube with sides of 1 cm, for sufficiently large n. That’s a str
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by codeflo 4y ago
There’s perhaps another way to think about this. The unit “1” in terms of hypervolume is a n-hypercube with side length 1, so the question is really, how many of those hypercubes fit into an n-ball of a given radius. Now, the thing I realiz
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by codeflo 4y ago
It looks like several territories that were once ruled by Austria tend to vote more to the right, if I'm reading the maps correctly. Is that a coincidence, or is there anything specific about the history of the Austrian Empire that (se
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by codeflo 4y ago
Also more commonly/colloquially called “Panzerlimousine” — armoured limousine.
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by codeflo 4y ago
There’s something between having random ideas (easy) and implementing ideas (hard, but learnable) that I find very difficult: the ability to pick a promising idea — which includes having the confidence to stick to it. I don’t think that’s
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by codeflo 4y ago
I think if you had swapped Trump with Obama, the downvotes wouldn’t change.
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by codeflo 4y ago
My impression is that this is an opinion about the stdlib that many programmers concerned with performance share.
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by codeflo 4y ago
> That and understanding when big O doesn't matter for your problem size. For example, an extra factor of log(n) is hardly ever relevant, constant factors are almost guaranteed to dominate there. On the flip side, people are also so
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by codeflo 4y ago
What you're basically suggesting is that feature development at Atlassian moves at such a glacial speed because of course they're using Jira to manage it. This kind of blows my mind right now.
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by codeflo 4y ago
To simplify even more, both the Earth and your head would eventually collapse due to gravity if it weren't for electromagnetic forces pushing the atoms apart. I would be in free fall towards the Earth's center right now if it were
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by codeflo 4y ago
But in fact that did happen. Several languages started to implement “editor neutral” code analysis and refactoring. That worked, for the most popular editor/language combinations, but not as a general solution because of N*M.
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by codeflo 4y ago
Hmm, maybe I misunderstood the author’s point slightly, but I find what you suggest the argument was even less convincing. Here’s the history: Every editor has a language abstraction already. And some language analyzers had an “editor abs
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by codeflo 4y ago
This is a “correction” of a strawman only: The left diagram is exactly what would have been necessary to achieve the same result. Since that’s clearly infeasible, most of the arrows didn’t actually exist, and never would have. That was al
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by codeflo 4y ago
Bit flips are scary even on Earth. At a previous job, we had a customer who suddenly couldn’t send us email anymore. When their IT sent us the server logs to “prove” it’s our fault, we saw that the one letter in the cached MX record was wro
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by codeflo 4y ago
> In my career I feel like I have seen hundreds of examples of me saying the systems equivalent of “lets put the dining table indoors?” to be told that the dining table is outside because the original budget meant the front door could on
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by codeflo 4y ago
If I get it right, the claim is that if A is better than B at fast time controls, they tend to be less dominant at slow time controls? If this were true statistically, I think that should be reflected in the Elo spreads: Players winning mor
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by codeflo 4y ago
As I said, transportation is a red herring, trade is mostly not about that. And just so I have this straight: you dispute the claim that Marxists think trade is not beneficial, and argue that they instead think it’s an inefficiency.
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by codeflo 4y ago
Even indentation has a meaning, usually quotation.
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by codeflo 4y ago
> All he says is that exchange of objects of equivalent value does not create any surplus, which is true. I know Marx says that, and it’s false. Trade can raise both utility and price. The reason is that price is highly context depende
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by codeflo 4y ago
Since all labourers necessarily are consumers, a point that Marx hits home repeatedly, the question whether labour prices are too low or consumer prices too high is irrelevant, they are mathematically equivalent.
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by codeflo 4y ago
I'm not even sure what you're disagreeing with. I gave a direct quote, from the very article we're discussing, that Varoufakis directly attributes a price difference to "profit". You may believe that, but it contrad
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by codeflo 4y ago
Straight from Das Kapital : > Turn and twist then as we may, the fact remains unaltered. If equivalents are exchanged, no surplus-value results, and if non-equivalents are exchanged, still no surplus-value. Circulation, or the exchange
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by codeflo 4y ago
I've seen interviews with Varoufakis before, there are several on YouTube. I find him very hard two bear for two (unrelated?) reasons. First of all, I have the impression that he's incredibly vain. Maybe that's not entirely h
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by codeflo 4y ago
I've seen beginners, especially those without a very strong maths background, struggle with the concept of syntax. The idea that you need to put the thing you want the program to do into a very specific form. That any deviation is an
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by codeflo 4y ago
I know you're not the GP, but please give some specific examples of such workloads, I honestly want to know. To be clear, yes, it's well-known that the kernel will page out rarely used stuff, but those are (almost by definition) p
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by codeflo 4y ago
> Try putting a consumer-grade SSD into a machine with 512 GiB RAM and let the kernel swap to it -- that SSD will be dead in a year. Are you sure? I’ve heard the argument before that swap is one of the better cases for SSD longevity, bec
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by codeflo 4y ago
I don’t think there’s a bifurcation between “good” and “bad” people in crypto, the real world is a lot more grey, and how people behave doesn’t depend so much on their character, but on culture and incentives. These days, we painfully obser
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by codeflo 4y ago
> Separate the bits that stay the same, and inject the bits that change. Basically, treat your build/deployment scripts like you would any other code. Strive to have a single source of truth for any fact that can change etc. That se

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