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by enriquto 4y ago
Fwiw, an entry-level tenured professor in France has to teach about 200 hours/year. This is a bit daunting the first year, but as you gain experience it's not that hard. Notice that this also includes hours for mentoring undergr
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Have you ever heard about the entire concept of academia? It is more or less like that.
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It can be argued that "labelled" parody ceases to be comedy at all.
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> I guess in maths this is called a generating Lie algebra This is often called an affine structure.
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> people are going to skim the article and copy & paste the pseudocode. Heh. But then again, these kind of people will create way worse problems than last-bit overflows.
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But this is pseudocode. For all you know, it could be implemented in a language whose integers are arbitrary precision, in which case it is perfectly correct and appropriate.
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The xmp tag would be the natural answer to this problem. It still works in browsers, but unfortunately it became deprecated on the html5 standard. A hackish (thus beautiful!) answer is to use textarea tags, suitably styled.
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by enriquto 4y ago
I find that even "Peter" sounds a bit strange... I've always read him as "Pierre", which is the name under which he signed a great deal of his works. Of course, "Pёtr" is a monstrosity.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> In any case, avoiding raw HTML is a huge improvement. Why is that? Raw HTML is quite simple to understand and edit. Especially modern html5. There may be a slightly marginal improvement with bold markings with stars versus b tags, b
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by enriquto 4y ago
Problem is, I already moved my friends and family to Signal and removed Whatsapp from my phone. It was an uphill battle that I don't want to fight again. What do I do, now? As much as there's a lot of questionable stuff on Signa
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> I work with TeX quite a lot and I can't even really understand intuitively the principles of the language design let alone the grammar. Read the TeXbook. No, really, it is a beautifully written text. The program it describes is
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by enriquto 4y ago
LOL my asm is rusty, didn't even know about the syscall instruction (I'd have used int 0x80 here)
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you can disassemble the code portion, they are single-byte instructions push 0x2a pop edi push 0x3c pop eax db 0x0f, 0x05 ; invalid?
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by enriquto 4y ago
In the opposite direction, if you want to recover a human-editable text stream from json data, you run gron.
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It would seem that you mean "continuous" here, instead of "differentiable".
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by enriquto 4y ago
> this means the function's domain is the set of tuples (3D object, camera parameters) and the function's range is a set of 2D images of some sort What would be an example of non-differentiable rendering according to this?
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Actually, that is the correct definition! Hmmm; no, it isn't? Your quotation is vague stuff and not a definition at all. The notion of differentiability has nothing to do with deep learning, rendering, nor neural networks. None
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> if you ask me, differentiable rendering is the next big thing Do you have a canonical reference for your usage of the adjective "differentiable" ? If people look at the definition they invariably get to this: https:/&#
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> (It's always interesting how these classics have had less discussion on HN than I expect them to have had.) Maybe this is a good indicator for extremely high-quality posts? People start reading the link, and it is so mesmerizing
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by enriquto 4y ago
Bill Gosper's Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. -- Stepanov
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by enriquto 4y ago
You forgot this one: https://xkcd.com/1031/
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by enriquto 4y ago
Well, of course; why would you want to keep the initial clipboard forever? This is exactly the same behavior as for ^C/^V. I don't understand the purpose of your question.
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> you can still use ^C/^V on Linux How do people stand these particular keybindings? They get so much in the way inside a terminal! They are possibly the worst choice of keys for something as important as copy/paste (if the
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> Only on Linux do you find yourself in the situation where one application copied to the Unix clipboard, and another tries to paste from the "secondary" This never happens if you only use the unix clipboard. I agree that both
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I understand this concern. But it seems that it would be better to have an orthogonal implementation of this. The clipboard remains text-only. If you select an image or a file, it copies its absolute path (or url) into the clipboard. Th
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by enriquto 4y ago
No word about unix-style clipboard? Select to copy, middle-click to paste. If I had to highlight an immediate usability advantage of linux with respect to windows and macos, it would be clearly this thing. It feels "at home" whe
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They have to be different if you want to have positive and negative infinity.
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> Can someone give an example of a time you would actually want to compare floats for equality? When they are integers. By construction, floats provide exact arithmetic for small ints. It makes sense to compare those for equality. Also
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The "dark yellow" here looks greenish/brown only because it is shown against a white background. Against a black background it is a perfectly acceptable yellow.
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> it defaults to parsing a git tree's gitignore file and skipping over files listed in it Is that true? How could anybody think that this non-orthogonal monstrosity would make any sense?

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