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by etbebl 1y ago
It seems to me that for products that in general are cheap to buy as well as produce, companies would want to make these products somewhat longer-lasting to gain a better reputation and then make more sales and larger profits on more expens
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by etbebl 1y ago
OK seems interesting. Maybe what I actually want is fully dependent array types. But it seems like you should be able to do something like this: x : [{| col = #12 |}]float (* given *) x_split : [{| col = [| Top = #5, Center = #, Bott
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by etbebl 1y ago
It says in the paper that a reference implementation is still under development.
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by etbebl 1y ago
I mean, sure, why not, and I'm not opposed to using array languages as a fun hobby (which seems to be the spirit of this). I just noticed that the selling points in the introduction to the manual were not very compelling to me as a Mat
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by etbebl 1y ago
I understand that these languages are older; I meant that in the sense that they are nonetheless still trying to recruit new users, but these potential users may already be using something that does something similar.
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by etbebl 1y ago
I wonder how much overlap there is between users of array languages and of scientific programming languages/dialects like MATLAB, Numpy, and Julia, which are also optimized to operate over arrays. In other words, do K/Klong/w
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by etbebl 1y ago
Well not exactly, they are basically gaming machines that we bought and maintain independently of the IT department because we have specific computing needs. At least that is possible and fairly common I think.
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by etbebl 1y ago
Thanks for the link, I had forgotten this existed. Well, the university's technology roadmap officially states there is no support for Windows 10 after 2025. Yet as far as I know there is no program in place to help individual labs cov
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by etbebl 1y ago
This is awesome. I'd be interested in helping if I could find some extra time. At the same time, we still have a major problem at work if Microsoft goes through with this. I work in a research lab with 10s of 1000s of dollars worth of
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by etbebl 1y ago
The real wtf here is templates, right? Am I right in thinking that if Derived wasn't a template, its copy constructor that tries to use a deleted parent copy constructor would fail to compile?
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by etbebl 1y ago
Isn't writing an article like this just daring someone to make the system in question more cursed, more likely to produce errors, harder to reason about, etc.? In the same spirit as, "well technically this common assumption abou
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by etbebl 1y ago
Maybe people need persuading to learn Rust not just because they think it's hard, but also because they think it's bad? Not everything hard is worth doing. Difficulty is just one of the factors to consider. I started to learn Rust
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by etbebl 1y ago
OK, but do we necessarily just care about the central 95% range of the output? This calculation has the weird property that values in the tails of the input correspond to values in the middle of the output, and vice versa. If you follow t
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by etbebl 1y ago
This is more limited. I just tested and for one example, exponentiation seems not to be supported.
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by etbebl 2y ago
I think what you're missing is that the premise of a hardware bug is just a frame story for a lesson in manipulating logical statements, which is the main point.
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by etbebl 2y ago
Just one data point but my father is in his 70s and has never owned a smartphone, when he wants to Google something he goes to the computer in the basement. On the other hand there are landline extensions all over the house. So yeah it woul
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by etbebl 2y ago
Doesn't the flat line in this context mean that you're at a local minimum, which is where you want to stay? Where being less careful would take more time due to increased number of incidents.
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by etbebl 2y ago
My point is, wouldn't most of these people be fine with coding in Python/Matlab/Fortan/whatever? Not that it isn't a cool idea!
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by etbebl 2y ago
I may be missing the point, but I'm not sure there is really an audience for this...obviously nice math typography is important for publishing, but I doubt the set of people who are comfortable with advanced math but who see translatin
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by etbebl 2y ago
What gets me is that even if you don't code much, if you're using a spreadsheet with formulas, in that moment you are writing code, and doing so in an awful, awful language. Sure, "SUM" is easy, but the moment you have a
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by etbebl 2y ago
I guess I wasn't around to see it; do you mind saying why it's failed? Well, I don't know if it's commercially viable, but just speaking for myself I've been looking for something like this for a while.
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by etbebl 2y ago
Maybe I'm in a middle generation? I'm certainly comfortable with programs where you have to save to a file, but for as long as I can remember, always every program I've used that doesn't autosave warns if you try to clos
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by etbebl 2y ago
Am I the only one who cringes at the name of this tool? The implication being that it's a way to churn out low-quality papers, probably with some p-hacking along the way.
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by etbebl 2y ago
> These aren't things that a computer has trouble with They are irrelevant for executing the code, but they're probably pretty relevant for an LLM that is ingesting the code and text and inferring its function based on other e
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by etbebl 2y ago
It's true, this type of nuance usually doesn't make it into papers for every paper they cite (otherwise, they would be 10x as long), but ime researchers take every study with a grain of salt in real life. I guess someone whose onl
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by etbebl 2y ago
It can be more efficient when combining both Alt-Tab and Alt-` - if you have several windows open in multiple different apps, it's easier to first Alt-Tab to the app you want and then Alt-` to the window you want rather than Alt-Tabbin
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by etbebl 2y ago
Can't you just install it in your environment in another terminal and then import?
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by etbebl 2y ago
A lot of people wear airpods around even if they're not actively using them, right? So if that's the case, you could use the microphone to eavesdrop on an in-person conversation. Although since it has to be within Bluetooth range,
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by etbebl 2y ago
It seems like you're using "enclave" and "exclave" interchangeably, which is causing confusion. What you're referring to is an exclave; an enclave is when one region is completely surrounded by another, like Le
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by etbebl 2y ago
Interesting that the new string library mirrors the introduction of variable-length string arrays in Matlab in 2016 ( https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/string.html ).

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