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by crdrost 5y ago
If you see me as FuD you might consider re-examining yourself? Aspartame may not be the only one but it's absolutely the most common. And it really isn't very shelf stable and it really does taste nasty when it decays. If that&#x2
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by crdrost 5y ago
No that's fine, unlike one commenter replied, I am really not fear mongering here but just trying to answer the question—are people just upset that they're getting something for free? It's just that the most common sweetener
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by crdrost 5y ago
It's bigger than that. So first off, just about all of these artificial sweeteners are like 200x sweeter than sugar or higher. This kind of means that you have high amplification which comes with distortion—artificial sweeteners do not
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by crdrost 5y ago
It's that the languages suck. I've tried writing a language around this but it's... rusty. You kind of want to pipe Get-AzDnsRecordSet and Get-DnsServerRrsourceRecord to the same interface structure and then build another tra
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by crdrost 5y ago
Thank you. Hearing these stories I always feel like commenters treat the companies involved as having no real agency. “Of course the New York Times article came out, so even if the information was sensationalized or whatever, MasterCard had
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by crdrost 5y ago
This is also a deep principle of physics. Very simple systems can be "linear" and you can say "okay, if you tweak this little knob, e.g. increase the input, then such-and-so is what must happen, e.g. an increase in the outpu
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by crdrost 5y ago
CSV parsing is not as bad as it sounds and can be a decent fizzbuzzy interview question. The real problem with CSV is the lack of vision of data formats in general. Inside your programming language you need to say that you want to read a CS
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by crdrost 5y ago
This is one of those super nerdy quotes to put up, too: > Laser... inter eximia naturae dona numeratum plurimis compositionibus inseritur... quas habeat utilitates admixtum aliis, inmensum est referre. > “The laser, among the most p
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by crdrost 5y ago
“So I spent a week doing OAuth2 stuff. It took a couple days to read through [Google’s] ten-thousand lines of code, so then I went and looked for other libraries. There's `python-oauth2`... it's the second version of python-oauth,
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by crdrost 5y ago
The point of the article is that it doesn't have to fail gracefully. Consider the API: data Date = Date { getYear :: Int, getMonth :: Int, getDay :: Int } deriving (Eq, Ord, Show) addDays :: Date -> Int -> Date
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by crdrost 5y ago
It's also that they are different data structures used historically for different things, no? It'd be interesting to see a high-fanout splay tree, not even 100% sure how it'd work. Do you splay just the one node up to the roo
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by crdrost 5y ago
I'm not sure you're right. At night both I and my wife have reported difficulty reading glowing blue signs compared to glowing red/green signs at the same font size, brightness, and distance. I'm also not sure that the a
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by crdrost 5y ago
So, Smalltalk is radically different from other programming languages, and has a very different vision for what it means to program. Imagine that you download the binary for the programming language, and then you don't know what to do
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yes. Continued fractions offer the best possible rational approximations, for some definition of distance which I don't remember at this moment. Moreover, they are uncommonly good if you truncate just before a large integer. So for π,
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by crdrost 5y ago
Interesting. For once I am interested in compiling something to wasm. Thanks for the libvim link! :)
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by crdrost 5y ago
FWIW I came to the comments because I also found the “Immutability changes everything” paper nearly unreadable. I just wanted to comment that I love your last paragraph from a conceptual level. You want immutability? Great, let's talk
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by crdrost 5y ago
I mean, “voluntarily” in quote marks. They were likely threatened in some way and had to react pretty strongly, no? This looks like a typical action of a legal-compliance department or individual. “we just want you to know, Disney wanted us
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by crdrost 5y ago
How can people post these type of outraged replies without first checking if the link indeed contains an image of the artwork that was claimed to be infringing?
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by crdrost 5y ago
Okay, I just want to reflect back to you that you have literally said that the green words “LOW KEY” constitute “fan art of the character Loki from the Marvel films... a specific character, and much more limited than the mythic Norse God.”
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by crdrost 5y ago
Like I understand why you are being downvoted here, your comment is kind of confrontational and kind of strawmanny, but the concern I think is quite valid and deserves a real response. My response is, mental illness is something more person
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by crdrost 5y ago
Agree that the transformation described is pointless. A more interesting statement, but I am not sure it is exactly equivalent to the law of Demeter: Distinguish first between immutable data structures (and I'd group lambdas with them)
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by crdrost 5y ago
Hi! This is a fun question. Certainly, thermal equilibrium involves something called the equipartition theorem, which says that all of the energy is divided equally across all of the degrees of freedom so that each has an average small amou
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by crdrost 5y ago
That's okay, speaking as a physicist the connections between entropy and information are not at all obvious at first glance and you have to “get used to them.” For example, Maxwell's demon makes more sense if you phrase the second
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yes. Freenode was the largest public IRC relay network, something like 30 servers, 80k+ users, 40k+ channels, originally directed to open source software but e.g. I would mostly hang out on ##math and ##physics and help students out with pr
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by crdrost 5y ago
This is great news! I was also kind of surprised to see the article talking about algebraic data types... table stakes for ADTs is sum types and I have missed them considerably in the Java ecosystem. Kotlin has something like them with seal
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by crdrost 5y ago
You can and it doesn't have to be a choke point; as far as the ACL is concerned it's just a namespace (the microservice) and an opaque ID inside that namespace. What the Zanzibar paper describes is two big things: (1) The auth ser
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by crdrost 5y ago
I was trying to explain Mercurial to other folks at a Subversion shop to make the case for DVCS to them, seemed like it'd be easier to describe the shift from SVN to Hg rather than SVN to Git. As part of this I drew a diagram on a whit
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by crdrost 5y ago
This is also the community that brought us, for example, the Fantasyland Code of "Professionalism," a code of conduct that rivals the GPL in how unpleasant I have found it to read and piece together what is going on...
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by crdrost 6y ago
If you have never read it before, “On the Building Blocks of Mathematical Logic”[1] is incredibly readable given that it's talking pure theory and trying to do something quite remarkable. Basically it teaches you to remove variables fr
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by crdrost 6y ago
Yep! The problem happens when you divide the safety buffer up in the first place. Safety buffers demand to be shared, when one part does not use all of its safety margin you want to transfer that to another system. Another surprising place

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