crabbone

31 ms·

331.
by crabbone 2y ago
Well, no, no physical square, no matter how precisely its sides are 1m long has an irrational-lenght diagonal. That is simply impossible in the physical universe because the universe is discrete at this level. Irrational numbers are impos
332.
by crabbone 2y ago
No. exponentiation and square root are not algebraic operations. Only addition and multiplication are. That's kind of the whole point of this theory / subfield of mathematics. The operations you mentioned can be found in many di
333.
by crabbone 2y ago
Algebra is a very well defined mathematical term: > an algebra is an algebraic structure consisting of a set together with operations of multiplication and addition and scalar multiplication by elements of a field and satisfying the axio
334.
by crabbone 2y ago
I think it's kind of obvious what my definition of existence could be from the answer above: if it's possible to count up to that number in finite time, that number exists. By counting I mean a physical process that requires disc
335.
by crabbone 2y ago
OP said constructed from finite number of symbols from basic algebra. There's no finite construction of sqrt(2) using addition and multiplication.
336.
by crabbone 2y ago
Rational numbers are a lot more useful than irrational. Eg. everything that happens in digital computers is rational. If you need a measuring tool, the scale is going to be rational. Irrational numbers, in practice, cause lack of precisio
337.
by crabbone 2y ago
Several unrelated comments: * In general, whenever I hear "compiler will optimize this", I die a little on the inside. Not even because it's delegating solution of the newly created problem to someone else, but because it cr
338.
by crabbone 2y ago
OP has some particular type of project in mind, where what they say probably makes sense. Not all large codebases are like that. For example, it could be a lot of individual small projects all sitting on some common framework. Just as an
339.
by crabbone 2y ago
Editors that are geared towards advanced users, i.e. they allow mostly or completely keyboard-driven interaction (to increase precision of actions), editors that are rich in the way that they understand and navigate text, i.e. they offer mu
340.
by crabbone 2y ago
This isn't about the state of container. It's about interactions between several containers (a group of containers is called a pod). Which, probably, doesn't make it better for you, but for the sake of correctness...
341.
by crabbone 2y ago
> Unlike traditional text-based editors, these tools treat code as a structured tree rather than a flat sequence of characters. This is such an obvious lie... Of course, even the disastrously bad editors like VSCode or IntelliJ tools und
342.
by crabbone 2y ago
I wish this article was at most a quarter of its current length. Preferably even shorter. There's so much self-congratulatory and empty talk, it's really hard to get to the main point. I think, the most important (and actually v
343.
by crabbone 2y ago
Maybe OP didn't describe the intricacies of photography well enough, but I had to take photography in an art college... but I have a better story to tell. So, my father is a somewhat famous persona in the world of animation. When I wa
344.
by crabbone 2y ago
I'm talking from a perspective of someone working with QA in my day job. And I do have to answer questions about the quality. Like, "did the quality of the product increase in the last release?" or "is our quality high
345.
by crabbone 2y ago
But why tho? The only kind of plausible explanation the author gives is that it's "more secure" because the imaginary attacker will have to take an extra step to get the password from the VM instead of the host OS? -- This se
346.
by crabbone 2y ago
Nah. You misunderstood OP about photography. There's a level in photography, as is in many other fields, where it's good enough to be used in print or on the Web without it being a major disaster. Anything beyond that will only
347.
by crabbone 2y ago
I'm not directly involved with extending Jupyter Lab, but I'm involved with the results (and testing) of our extension on the daily basis. What I find very often to be the source of complaints is the error reporting. In particul
348.
by crabbone 2y ago
It's clear that you want ORM. But you didn't explain why you want it. For all I know, you like to suffer, and that's why you want it, but you've made no compelling argument for people who don't like to suffer to us
349.
by crabbone 2y ago
Yeah, I confused multiple acronyms here :) Anyways. Hibernate works on top of JDBC, so, if you like its interface, then it means you could make your own, but skipping >99% of the rest of Hibernate code that has nothing to do with wrappi
350.
by crabbone 2y ago
Counterexample: regex. In terms of how successful DSLs are, I think, something like Perl's regular expression is, at least, in the top ten. Most regex users don't care about there being an IDE for it, I don't think there&#x
351.
by crabbone 2y ago
Then what's the point of using Hibernate? Just use the ODBM driver... why are you dragging the gorilla and all of the jungle with you if all you wanted was a banana?
352.
by crabbone 2y ago
Nah. That's an inconsequential part of the interaction between the database and the application. The reality is that your code has both, the database and the application. And if you want to write good software, you need to know how b
353.
by crabbone 2y ago
There's a difference between "works once for my very specific problem" and "works most of the time for a wide range of problems". DSLs, in my experience, usually fail in the later definition. It's very hard to
354.
by crabbone 2y ago
I've never seen a good DSL beside something like regular expressions, and even there, I hear, a lot of people are upset by the language. Examples of popular DSLs that I would characterize as bad if not outright failures: * HCL (Terrafo
355.
by crabbone 2y ago
Well, wouldn't this bias happen a while ago, to the very primitive organisms? Because the organisms we see today seem to universally want to live. I mean, even if we somehow mislabeled some more fundamental property, on the face of it
356.
by crabbone 2y ago
Thanks! Much appreciated. I do love the subject, although I'm not connected to it professionally.
357.
by crabbone 2y ago
I think that we find the idea of thermostat having experiences strange because, subconsciously, we think of experiences only being accessible to someone / something that has a "will to live" (in the words of Schopenhauer). I.
358.
by crabbone 2y ago
What power are we talking about? That's completely new to me (and I had to go through this process). Just to give an example of a document that I know had been submitted in this situation. A graduation certificate from a Jewish girls g
359.
by crabbone 2y ago
> Even in the olden days, the papers you had only had value against the agency's record that could prove their validity. That's not true. For example, Jews (or people who wouldn't be always considered Jews, but those who
360.
by crabbone 2y ago
So, this is a problem with using good editors. I don't know if VSCode or any similar editors have the way to select current block / current function, but in Emacs (and mostly likely Vi(m)) world this is just part of knowing the r

More ›