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by dcuthbertson 2y ago
I've used Everything for many years. It would be nice if it were FOSS. Still, it's always been fast and reliable for me.
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by dcuthbertson 2y ago
That was a rather insensitive comment. People are not disposable and people with schizophrenia need help.
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by dcuthbertson 2y ago
Oh the horrors! Please use "it", not "him"! These machines are creepy enough w/o being anthropomorphized more than they already are! 8-)
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
> Converting math into code is extremely easy. Converting code back into math is the thing to optimize for. Yes and that's what programming languages like APL do. Whole algorithms for manipulating equations represented as matrices c
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Tangentially related, I know little about double-entry accounting and was wondering what CR and DR meant. If CR was credit, then what was DR? It's somewhat obviously debit, but why DR and not DB or some other abbreviation that uses let
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
What an attention grabber! If only more textbooks introduced their topics so as to capture the imagination and set the reader on a path of possible danger and intrigue.
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
The author is being coy.
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
SLIM wins the outdoor high dive championship!
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
My second introduction to programming was also with APL in 1976. My high school had a few APL terminals that had a dialup connection to a computer at the University of Rochester. The math department had a course in APL. It dovetailed well w
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Yes, language like "... it's turning heads with its slick efficiency..." and "We didn't stop there. We pushed SIEVE a bit further..." smacks of sales pitches for cheap-quality, overpriced merchandise. Certainly
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
>>Nvidia buying all their employees solid gold full-size Wall Street bull statues as a little holiday thank-you gift. This is classic Steve Yegge hyperbole. He's been ranting like this for decades[0]. His (accidentally public) ra
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Replacing an AC system with a heat pump might provide you with an avenue to move away from a gas furnace, but I found that avenue to be very expensive. I live in New England and in June 2022 I replaced a broken down AC system with a heat pu
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
I think RBerenguel intended https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Whether you lease or buy, don't settle for anything less than a full complement of planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteors, and comets. You should also have it inspected first. You want to be sure it will last and won't get suc
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Likewise. I thought it would be about some kind of "name a star" service, but now you get not only a star, but all the celestial bodies in orbit, too. The linked article says, "Rooftop Solar Power..." which is much more
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
What does "pe." mean in this context?
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Yes, I agree that determining the lifetime of a value is the hard part. I wrote "... and use that information to automatically release allocated memory, ..." to imply the language got lifetime detection right.
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Thanks for that explanation! I'm going to have to dive into Rc/Arc [0]. Reference counting built into the standard library is really interesting. Several years ago I wrote a Windows kernel minifilter and reference counting is used
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Excuse my ignorance (I have only just started learning Rust), but why is GC by default desirable? If a programming language can tell when a variable goes out of scope, or its lifetime ends and use that information to automatically release a
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
> what makes anybody think it would be different with robots and AI? Someone else programmed the AI, and if it causes an accident, then the company that programmed it might be held liable instead of (or in addition to) the driver. It&#x2
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
It is complicated, and many people speak English differently (generally more casually) than they write it (or should write it if they're concerned with rules). As for prepositions and sleeping, I sleep in bed, on a mattress, between th
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Yes, the design, two rigid bodies connected by a single actuator is very cool. However, it's the eyes that are most striking. The eyes and the rainbow colors. So very pretty. How could one not want to fund further development?
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Granule-based material extrusion is comparable to filament-based [pdf](sciencedirect.com)
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
I tried Starbucks coffee a few times years ago in eastern Massachusetts and upstate New York. I don't understand how people can drink the stuff. To me, it tastes like hot water poured over charcoal. When they came out with the light ro
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Probably yes for both questions. Ch.4 of Hacker's Delight starts with assuming all quantities are signed integers. A little further along, a lemma about computing b-a when a≤b is introduced: Lemma. If a and b are signed integers and a
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
In this particular taxonomy, programmers are software developers [0]. The about-page [1] says ESCO is meant to work as a dictionary providing a common language on occupations and skills. That's all well and good. I just hope no one in
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Yes, congratulations on finishing the game! Also, thank you very much for sharing the story of making it. I'm more inspired than ever to keep dev logs for the little side projects I work on. It's important to keep track of progres
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
I guess the person you replied to edited their comment. Still, "1 is on, 2 is off" made me smile.
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by dcuthbertson 3y ago
Bricks of Dune is a silly name I just thought up. On second thought, it reminds me of sand art in glass jars, just more dynamic.
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
Thanks for the reference to Yoda conditions. I hadn't heard of Yoda code until a few weeks ago when a Go linter complained about some code I wrote a few years ago. I realized I've been writing Yoda code in C/C++ for quite a w

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