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by derriz 6y ago
A warning before filling your kids with anticipation: I loved The Hobbit and Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid but I remember being very disappointed with this game - maybe it demanded more commitment but I gave up on it after a few
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by derriz 6y ago
Well yes - it's clearly a joke? It seems so obvious to me that I didn't think it needed to be pointed out when I quoted it.
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by derriz 6y ago
I’m reminded of the Mark Twain essay, The Awful German Language where he says: “In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl.” D
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by derriz 6y ago
Yes it's a nightmare. I'm using 1.4.30. In response to your question, I just bumped it to 1.4.32 and haven't observed a significant improvement. Back in the old days, compiler metrics were often quoted using units of 100s of
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by derriz 6y ago
Kotlin compile times are killing me. In a current project, I have fewer than 20K lines and it's 50ish seconds for a clean re-compile on a very decent laptop (less than a year old, 32Gb RAM, quadcore i7, fast PCIe/NVMe SSD, etc.).
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by derriz 6y ago
The FDA has yet to approve AstraZeneca's vaccine while the EU approved it back in January. The US has a stockpile of 40million doses which are not being used until approval arrives while European vaccination rates are limited by vacci
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by derriz 6y ago
The story displays a lack of historical perspective which I find common among technologists particularly those focussing on IT. The entire article seems to be based on the following premise: "In the past, IBM, Oracle or Microsoft
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by derriz 6y ago
Right now coal is not cheap - China and India are the only ones building new coal stations and in the case of China, the new coal capacity is not being added for economic reasons but because of the local vs central government politics. The
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by derriz 6y ago
I don’t think this is the case. Particularly if you move past 1d numpy numeric arrays. And even in the simplest case of say a 1d float32 array, Arrow arrays are chunked which means there is significant overhead if you try to use an arrow t
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by derriz 6y ago
I agree nostalgia can cloud judgement but there has been a fundamental shift in the nature of farming in the last few decades. Btw, this is a perspective from Europe - the same thing has happened with family farming here. While I didn&#x27
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by derriz 6y ago
Am I missing something? In the paper the definition of cmp3 on page 2 seems to have a bug - as defined, wouldn't cmp3([1,2,3], [1]) return 0? # Uses 3-way cmp() for primitives def cmp3(a, b): if not isinstance(a, lis
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by derriz 6y ago
Exactly, people are repeating decades old argument without incorporating what has happened with technology over the last 10 or 20 years. In the last decade, grid scale battery costs have declined by 75%. Wind turbines and solar panels have
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by derriz 6y ago
Are the downvotes really hard to understand? Claiming that renewables are untenable without unavailable fantasy technology is clearly ill-informed. Renewables are already contributing a significant proportion of generated electricity globa
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by derriz 6y ago
For that to happen would require banks to call in massive amounts of loans suddenly - most loans are not structured in a way that would allow the banks to do that - the repayment schedule is fixed or provides discretion to the borrower rare
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by derriz 6y ago
It's been a while and I was just a dabbler at the time - but from what I recall, Exec at least has some object-oriented features or at least influences? This is all hazy but wasn't there some sort of base "node" struct w
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by derriz 6y ago
Kotlin has lots of type anomalies if you peruse the official discussion fora. For example, you can write a pure Kotlin program, which compiles without (type) warning/error, that throws an NPE without using casting. Overall I prefer Ko
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by derriz 6y ago
Doesn't english already have a perfectly good way to support "molding the quote into the grammatical context"? For example, if you don't like: He said, "I will go to the city." You can use: He said that he wou
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by derriz 6y ago
That's a very weird equivalence. I really can't see how living in a boarding house is anything like co-living? A boarding house is generally someone's primary residence where the owner lets out one or two spare bedrooms to l
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by derriz 6y ago
I agree fully but the linked-to "driving guide" is a bit more problematic than that. I stopped at the sentence for example: "According to international traffic rules, you have to check your mirrors and do a shoulder check whe
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by derriz 6y ago
People have been about GDP as a measure of economic progress for decades. Despite its well known flaws, GDP has some great features - it's relatively easy to measure, has more-or-less a standard agreed and universal method of measureme
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by derriz 6y ago
How can you get away from having an explicit guard block? Without one, you couldn't 'defer' to the end of a containing block from within an if/while/do/for/etc. block. When/where the deferred code is
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by derriz 6y ago
With checked exceptions it's not clear how control can pass into the catch block (using Java terminology). The fact that a method can throw a particular exception is not visible at the call site so unless you examine the declaration o
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by derriz 6y ago
Good spot. Yes you are correct - I had meant to say fission.
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Why Switzerland became one of the world's worst coronavirus hotspots(foreignpolicy.com)
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by derriz 6y ago
Describing these as mini-plants gave me the impression that they're talking about say a container sized "unit". While they would be considered small at 440MW, they are still full nuclear plants - the novelty seems to be that
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by derriz 6y ago
Turing incomplete languages are not necessarily niche or a pita to use. For example SQL (before version 3) had no recursion yet was very widely used. Even today, I'd guess 99% of written SQL does not use recursive CTEs.
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by derriz 6y ago
Except for an exceptional period between 2012 and 2015, Ireland has had net inflow of migrants for years. Even if you focus purely on Irish people emigrating, the numbers are tiny - about 30k a year from a population of nearly 5 million - m
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by derriz 6y ago
It's fairly straightforward to offer some functionality in this area with hand-written recursive descent parsers. For example, a language with a C-like syntax, you'll often be parsing a sequence of statements separated by semi-col
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by derriz 6y ago
Curious as to the basis of your claim? Dublin property isn't cheap but as a multiple of disposable income, it's in the lower half of European cities[1] - certainly far below Paris or Amsterdam. I'd imagine property which is
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by derriz 6y ago
To be fair, the Daily Mail seems to have toned it down a bit since the editor changed a few years ago. Subject to the caveat that I haven't lived in the UK for over 15 years, overall the popular press in the UK is a bit shocking. I do

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