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by crdrost 7y ago
Haskell is somewhat similar, too! I think some of this comes from C. The goal of a Haskell compiler is to take your code and spit out an executable. That executable is in fact the value named “Main.main,” which must be of the in-Haskell typ
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by crdrost 7y ago
Yeah, I mean, this is a core Christian belief. Hitchens even described it as objectively immoral. :) Jesus tells us that we don't really know the future so it's kind of pointless to be planning to hard, speculating and being anxio
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by crdrost 7y ago
(1) This gets a little into difficult notation but e.g. in Mathematica-style notation, {{0,0},{1,0}} {{a},{b}} = {{0}, {a}}. I think that you are preferring to left multiply your matrices by your points so that your points remain h
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by crdrost 7y ago
You're describing some sort of type mismatch between two concepts I think, and I really don't understand it: and I feel like as someone who occasionally teaches these things I really would like to. Could you elaborate? For my part
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by crdrost 7y ago
I mean, what Docker does is, it turns a network of executables and scripts into a single executable with no outside dependencies. It works extremely well for language communities that need this, in particular it caught on because you would
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by crdrost 7y ago
Hey! I wanted to just tell you if you see this comment that your approach is more important than you may realize. If you write internal tools for a company then it is SO powerful to write a front-end without a back-end. Ultimately this gets
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by crdrost 7y ago
If you think that I am interested in Fibonacci calculators... I mean you are not wrong: I have a Gist I think on doing Fibonaccis by matrix exponentiation which is kind of fun. But in this particular case, no, I don't need to calculate
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by crdrost 7y ago
I do not have advice directly addressing your question about how to read, but I will say this: A lot of this complex-dense-technical stuff is difficult precisely because it can get abstract. That is true for example in writing proper C for
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by crdrost 7y ago
You might be interested in LXC if you haven't seen it already. It is also a big tool, but it is smaller than Docker.
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by crdrost 7y ago
Does container mean something different to y’all than it does to me? I ask because I read your comment as saying “the advantage of Docker is that it uses (explanation of what containers are)” and the parent comment as saying “all I want fro
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by crdrost 7y ago
This. If you want the security features, switch to a BSD (jails) or illumos (zones). These started spiritually from that same chroot place but were designed to incarcerate your software in a small subsystem. The illumos ecosystem in particu
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by crdrost 7y ago
Oh goodness, this thing has only been up for 40 minutes and it's already got 20 comments... I will say that the basic thrust of the article seems to resonate for me, in that I did come to hear of UBI first because of a utopian ideal. I
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by crdrost 7y ago
Now that ads are blocked, what is the revenue model for YTKids videos? I was about to suggest that content creators pay a nominal fee for the content to be reviewed but if creators have no way to monetize the platform, that proposal is bije
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by crdrost 7y ago
Right, TS wants you to go full-on tagged union. {type: 'a', a: number} | {type: 'b', b: string} When you do this you consume it with a switch(x.type) statement, not an if() statement, so that you can write `defa
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by crdrost 7y ago
So this in part comes down to what novelists call a “type of conflict” that Trek makes great use of, but Wars does not. The term is usually “Man vs. Technology conflict” but if I were writing it, I would call it “people versus tools” to cla
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by crdrost 7y ago
Joel on Software gave a better illustration of this a while back in talking about the dangers of multitasking; he said imagine that you have no task-switching penalties but have to perform two tasks A and B which are in theory 100 units of
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by crdrost 7y ago
With respect I simply disagree with Feynman that the double slit experiment contains everything... Maybe in suggestive outline? As an example of how QM is weird, my go-to is a game that I call Betrayal. It is a challenge for a 3 person team
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by crdrost 7y ago
Yeah sorry, Medium has become somewhat like The New York Times in that nonmembers only get a certain number of free views of these “Partner” posts per month; it sounds like you have run into that particular paywall whereas I think most of t
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by crdrost 7y ago
One nice thing to share here is that a statistical model for success under such conditions is for there to be a collection of independent random variables that multiply to form your overall success: people who lack any particular one of t
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How to Become the Best in the World at Something(forge.medium.com)
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by crdrost 7y ago
Apparently not, but the linked page does mention that this necessitated a change to their ToS and until you accept the ToS the API stops working. I don’t think they’re trying to associate your identity with other web traffic the way normal
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by crdrost 7y ago
I would also say that I have been at least somewhat successful in teaching people about relativity by ttuncating the Lorentz transform to first order in β, as you can prove that you get the full results back from this as the matrix limit
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by crdrost 7y ago
It’s a much bigger problem than this, sadly. The fact that you are even saying “If you want it to continue to work, you also have to be very careful how you communicate...” is the problem. The problem is that the way we manage things causes
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by crdrost 7y ago
I mean I suppose it’s up to you whether you “recognize” the Universität Konstanz, but it’s a rather large place. Tell himself is indeed not working in the field anymore—this preprint was submitted to at least one journal as I understand but
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by crdrost 7y ago
Yeah, I mean, at this scale you’re not going to prove how nature is from any of this. What MWI is saying is that if you admit a really difficult view of the cosmos, then you can regard the Born rule as part of Schrödinger evolution—but it
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by crdrost 7y ago
It's more than that... when you are living on a tight budget you really want a line graph that tells you what your checking account is going to look like in a week, two weeks, three weeks. Your problem is not necessarily income but cas
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by crdrost 7y ago
There's something... not quite right about loopy. I think it's just that it has inverters but not diodes? You can see for example if you try to form an ecosystem with a Sun node feeding one or more plant nodes that feed herbivore
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by crdrost 7y ago
I don’t know how fast food companies brew it, but frequently coffee shops who do drips and care about the flavor more insist that the most important thing in drip coffee is a temperature that’s only around 10°F/5°C under boiling. Of
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by crdrost 7y ago
I’m not saying that the sides are the same, I am saying that the two parties we have in the US are both spineless. The people who want to ensure you have your rights protected will flip and turn on you if it can be part of a plot to smear
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by crdrost 7y ago
Beautiful article, I don’t have too much to add except to the unexpected conclusion: > “So why is it,” I asked, “that when I hear people talking about you, and you hear people talking about me, the only thing they ever talk about is that

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