denim_chicken

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by denim_chicken 11y ago
So I suppose the fact that the opponent is a computer program should not be factored into the reaction to Sedol's win at all. I hope your reductionist explanation is not accurate because it would imply that we are already so highly con
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
It feels really weird to see someone being showered with congratulations for beating a computer program. What exactly is he being congratulated for? For probably triggering and then capitalizing on a bug in AlphaGo's AI? For showing
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
I would probably watch 95% fewer YouTube videos if I actually had to pay money for them.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
Maybe in a decade.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
Neither is Rust, which comes with a huge RTS that itself likely full of such bugs. The library and the compiler too may have bugs that compromise the "guaranteed" memory safety of a libc written in Rust. There is no silver bullet
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
Rust is not a decent contender. It is far too immature. The only reasonable contender is C++.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
There is loads of data that suggests an economic collapse around the corner. Right now there are so many indicators of economic health that are reporting poor results, that it's worth taking seriously the prospect of a looming economi
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
This behavior is pretty reasonable to me.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
The article should be titled, "The World is Not Becoming More Violent". Violence among humans is only one of many metrics to gauge the state of the world. Other metrics show trends that are not as rosy. Let's not forget, for
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
Empathy and remorse cause inefficiencies in the economy. A perfectly rational agent would have neither.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
Such naivety.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
I doubt he will need to know a popular language to get employment opportunities if he's the son of John Carmack.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
I feel that this library is a testament to the power of C and C++ (and their ecosystem).
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
> You need a mortgage because you don't have $400,000 in cash sitting around. And a large part of why housing costs $400,000 in the first place is due to the availability of mortgages. Mortgages gave themselves a reason to exist.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
> it is cheaper and easier to get in more markets than ever before and the margins are as low as they have ever been on providing it High enough that the firms are at least receiving a normal profit. And given the opportunity cost that
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
If functional programming actually mattered we would stop having to remind ourselves why it matters.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
C is "pure" too. The statement puts ("hello"); is a "pure" value of type int.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
It's only anecdotal, but I feel the opposite.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
The C ecosystem has tools designed to compensate for its issues. There's valgrind, static analysis, debuggers, asan, tsan, etc.. With its immense popularity, its flexibility and portability, and its mature, comprehensive ecosystem be
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
Why did the moderators change the title from "Felons, addicts, immigrants: This bakery will hire anyone"?
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
> C got its place in the IT world thanks to UNIX's adoption. I disagree with your implicit claim that C's position as the most popular systems programming language is not due the language's intrinsic qualities. Luck was a
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
> A rich history of segfaults and security issues is not proof enough? The most popular language in the world -- the language that's being used to write the largest, most complex software -- will surely have a rich history of bugs a
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
All I'm saying is that if we plot languages on a spectrum, where one end corresponds to functional programming and the other to, say, imperative programming, then Haskell will be most closely to the FP end than any other practical lang
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
C is the best language we have for this sort of stuff. Nobody has been able to show otherwise.
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
I seem to be describing Haskell because Haskell is the epitome of an FP language. If FP is truly a self-contained practical, versatile paradigm by itself, then Haskell would exemplify this.
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
> Functional programming languages shine when they deal with complex, recursive data structures, not for simple tasks which are primarily IO and need to handle many cases. I think most of the advantages of FP languages (as they exist tod
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
Such naivety.
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
In GNU C one can add the statement asm ("" : : "m" (&key)); just before or after the memset, effectively telling the compiler that the address of "key" escapes the scope of the function.
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by denim_chicken 12y ago
There is no evidence that nature can globally solve NP-hard problems. At best, nature finds locally optimum solutions to these problems.
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by denim_chicken 13y ago
But why didn't Apple increase the RAM _and_ upgrade the processor?

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