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by couchand 3y ago
The canonical reason a language adds a utility like print over just offering the services of the underlying console is to make the Hello, World example as terse as possible. IO is inherently extremely complicated, but we always want people
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by couchand 3y ago
Printing directly to the console, even in a console app, is for debug purposes only. If your console app is writing output to any device, it must, for instance, handle errors gracefully. That means, at least in Rust, write! rather than prin
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by couchand 3y ago
As someone who understands about 2% of the GP but maybe 85% of TFA, I'd suggest diving into the various topics explored there. Galois Fields, for instance, are a rich topic for Wikipedia research and have intuitive and surprising prop
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by couchand 3y ago
This is a great story that highlights how human beings working together can reveal new insights. I love how the author covers each individual's contribution to the discovery. It's also interesting to see how critical the human el
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by couchand 3y ago
Have you tried juggling upside-down underwater with the floatables? Basically impossible, lots of fun.
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by couchand 3y ago
The mathematics of siteswap are fascinating. The linked article points to the canonical Internet source for siteswap information: http://www.siteswap.org/ There you will find many articles on the subject and several variet
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by couchand 3y ago
> For me the trick was to stop thinking about it and to just let go. Indeed. From "Juggling for the Complete Klutz" by Cassidy and Rimbeaux: > Step 1: The Drop > Throw all three bags into the air and, making no effort to
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by couchand 3y ago
Incredible. They throw some indie-sounding buzzwords out and that's enough to make the business model unimpeachable? Over the past few decades we've seen many cynical capitalists riding the wave of "peer to peer open source&
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by couchand 3y ago
Here's the article: https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/ It's been submitted a few times for robust discussion, most recently a few days ago.
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by couchand 3y ago
Yes! And, the killer feature of paper that no digital UI has yet to fully capture is the margin. If your business process doesn't have a form field for some data, but the person on the ground understands that it's valuable, it&#x2
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by couchand 3y ago
> This sort of iteration is not very uncommon in esolangs. Or academic computability analysis. Raúl Rojas's paper on the Z3 comes to mind. A neat trick.
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by couchand 3y ago
> d3 is literally not a programming language In what ways is it, though? For instance, D3 offers looping constructs and facilities for control flow, so I'd conjecture it's Turing-complete. > It's written in js It&#x27
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by couchand 3y ago
It's a programming language for working in the domain of interactive data visualization.
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by couchand 3y ago
This comment so beautifully distills the difference in philosophy between D3 and Echarts. Charting libraries like Echarts provide a few stock visualizations and a handful of knobs to turn. If there's not a knob for the parameter you w
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by couchand 3y ago
> it's not d3 based. ... I'm curious if any other graphing libs will build on echarts internals in the future and if the current rise in popularity will one day be seen as the end of d3. I think your history is a bit muddled he
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by couchand 3y ago
I'm curious to learn more about this heuristic and how the database leverages it for indexing. What does right-leaning mean formally and what does analysis of the data structure look like in that context? Do variants like B+ or B* ha
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by couchand 3y ago
This sort of awkward joke made to cover for capitalist illogic makes us all dumber.
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by couchand 3y ago
Carruthers is a nice overview, sure, though I've always felt it to be far too imprecise where it really matters. I guess I see what you're saying about the cultural differences!
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by couchand 3y ago
Forfeiture may be technically irrelevant in the so-called "classic Atlantic" game, but there are several West Coast extensions that make the situation hazier. They allow a limited influence of bi-directional Perridale (some go fu
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by couchand 3y ago
Very interesting analysis. The last map makes me wonder: could you invert the function used to estimate coordinates here and directly plot the reflections data overlaid on the map?
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by couchand 3y ago
This hasn't been our experience. Our public school kids are learning things we never would have dreamed of at their age. I distinctly remember being surpised at the worksheets on platonic solids that my kindergartener was assigned.
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by couchand 3y ago
Can you help me out with your last paragraph? My understanding was that the PDP-8 was squarely a mini, not a micro.
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by couchand 3y ago
The answer to that question depends on where "the mindshare" is, and unfortunately we're living in a future where many seem to believe the former is easy and the latter impossible.
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by couchand 3y ago
GP specifically called out, "don't try to get fancy with crypto" and I'm inclined to agree with them for this use case.
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by couchand 3y ago
It seems like the principle of least power would apply here. There's value in restricting capability to no more than strictly necessary. Consider the risk of a compromised some-small-obscure-system.corporate.com in the presence of a m
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by couchand 3y ago
I think your point 2 is absolutely on the nose here. It fits in with broader industry trends in testing and operations. And perhaps that's where the OP's question originated from? As we've watched the despecialization of our
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You could delete the branches locally while archiving them to any another clone of the repo.
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The problem here is not the tool. The problem is the author's colleague's willingness to paste a stackoverflow answer into their terminal without taking a moment to understand what it does. If stackoverflow told them to break off
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by couchand 3y ago
Should a chain saw come with the ability to start the engine disabled by default?
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by couchand 3y ago
You've precisely described Java! And Go!

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