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by eslaught 5y ago
Coming back to this a bit late, so I'm not sure who will read this, but here goes. Arc tries very hard to be a minimal language. This is good for the implementation (which is short, and therefore easy to read and hack). It was also an
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Arc has a very nice implementation that is bootstrapped from an impressively small number of primitives, is easy to understand, and very hackable. It was the first language implemention that I was really able to wrap my head around and modi
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The magic system in Stormlight is astonishingly good. About halfway through the most recent book, Rhythm of War, I said to someone: when did Stormlight turn into sci-fi? Because the magic is so logical, and so deep, and so specific, that it
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A right of first refusal does not require you to sign a contract. (Otherwise you'd have to have negotiated all the terms in advance, which by my understanding isn't how it works.) So yes, you can negotiate in bad faith. At which p
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You're absolutely right. I'm querying a novel to literary agents right now, and it's the same way. The official channels provide absolutely no feedback. That's exactly what's frustrating about it. You need to look f
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Arguably there is no road to failure, just a road to success that you never get to the end of. The hard part is not that failure is some permanent state. The hard part is that without good feedback you don't know if you're actuall
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by eslaught 5y ago
I'm helping to organize a workshop about alternatives to MPI in HPC. You can see a sample of past programs at [1]. But you're right: today, MPI is dominant. I suspect this will change, if only because HPC and data center computing
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Can you give us an example of one of Heinlein's books with an apparent narrative that is very opposed to Starship Troopers ? I ask because when I read it (way back when), I definitely got the impression this was Heinlein speaking in h
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Is that true? This sounds like typical white label type stuff that you'd see at the grocery store. Safeway sells Safeway brand X and also name brand X, and presumably chooses the prices for both.
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People here should also review the follow-up post: https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail/asdf-devel/2022-Ja... This part is especially relevant to some of the discussion in this thread: > I understand that
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by eslaught 5y ago
While I publish in a field where making source code available is much more common, let me just make a couple of points: * I have never had someone come back to criticize my code style. And if they do, so what? I'll block them and not t
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I have to hard disagree on this one. As someone who had half a foot in sysvinit, half in upstart, and half in systemd (don't try to do math with those numbers), sysvinit was always the hardest to use by wide margin. It was ridiculous
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Yes, it requires parallel content. But I still think this is a better situation than a LaTeX source. While Pandoc can read LaTeX, it's limited to a fairly narrow subset. Anything you do outside of that will generate the raw formatting
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There's really no reason you need to switch. You can put raw LaTeX directly into Pandoc Markdown documents; it'll be ignored in non-LaTeX backends, and in LaTeX it'll just be reproduced verbatim. If you need to tweak the temp
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This didn't quite answer the gp's question. There's an idea in some software communities that you can't "unsee" code. So if you've seen the code even once, you're "tainted" and you can'
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There's an old school website I wanted to access that's long gone. It's only partially preserved in the Wayback Machine. I'm glad it's there at all, but some of the specific information I was looking for was never c
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Why wouldn't an owner consent to it? The realtor's going to say: if you underprice then you'll get more offers and have a chance of starting a bidding war, which could put the sales price even higher than if you'd priced
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by eslaught 5y ago
I read the article and still don't know the answer to the titular question. Why exactly was LOTR risky? Just because it was high budget and Jackson wasn't proven yet?
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Did you take geometry in a California public school? I did about 20 years ago, and my impression was that it's an extremely fluffy course that would absolutely benefit from being condensed, or at least rewritten. California math educat
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Not that it contradicts your point, but publishers don't have slush piles anymore. Agents have slush piles, and if you somehow get through that to be represented by an agent, then you go through the submission process at publishing hou
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by eslaught 5y ago
Does Remarkable support Adobe DRM? If not, then the vast majority of places you can get ePubs either (a) won't be compatible, or (b) won't have the ebooks you care about (because publishers only sell them with DRM). So no, unless
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by eslaught 5y ago
Speaking of which, my 3rd gen Kindle just died. Any suggestions on a replacement? As best I can tell, the trade-offs (staying in the Kindle ecosystem) are to have no physical buttons, or to have an oddly asymmetric bezel (and no USB-C). See
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Dialogue Tags: An Empirical Study(elliottslaughter.com)
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I believe cuDF is not distributed? If you use Legate Pandas (or any Legate libraries) you'll get distributed as well as GPU execution out of the box.
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If you want built-in GPU support (and distributed), you should check out cuNumeric (released by NVIDIA in the last week or so). Also avoids needing to manually specify chunk sizes, like it says in a sibling comment. https://githu
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I can see your comment(s). I don't think there is an approval process for new accounts.
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I want to be convinced, but your posts don't help. Three posts up, your only citation was to Wikipedia, claiming 20% of whites were against apartheid. But the paragraph in Wikipedia itself doesn't cite anything. I hope I don'
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by eslaught 5y ago
It's possible to use Pandoc ( https://pandoc.org/ ) with Jekyll. Here's a plugin that supports it ( https://github.com/elliottslaughter/jekyll-pandoc-plugin ) and example in a working repository
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I don't see anyone in this thread discussing sleep. At least anecdotally, I know a lot of people who get worse sleep as they get older. Sleep quality is, if I'm not mistaken, at least indirectly correlated with memory. So it seems
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I'm not all the way through the book, but I believe this is basically the point. Once Moses' "success" in NY became known, everywhere else in the US started to copy his approach. So he really did have a national influenc

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