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by foxes 5y ago
In an ideal world you would not wait for 2 hours for a bus.
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by foxes 5y ago
We really need to eliminate car dependence in our cities.
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by foxes 5y ago
You would think modding a negative number -x by m should really mean taking the mod of the inverse of x in Z_m. Additive modular inverse. Eg -2 mod 3 = 1. In Z_3 we have 1 + 2 = 3 = 0, so -2 -> 1.
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by foxes 5y ago
Fresh in-pouring of victims to sustain the whole thing, while some bigger players benefit. Im sorry, I don't want to argue anymore with crypto advocates. There is no more rational discussion to possibly be had about any of the current
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by foxes 5y ago
The profile picture of the author sums up the whole thing. Emotional outburst. I understand blockchains perfectly. Aiding crime and being a pyramid scheme are the only things they have been shown to solve so far.
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by foxes 5y ago
Has the added complexity had a corresponding increase in correctness?
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by foxes 5y ago
Promoting php is truly a head in the sand attitude. Yes there is valuable old software, but come on. Move on if you don’t have to touch it. Stop being oblivious and rejecting advances in programming language design. That probably goes to a
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by foxes 5y ago
Nixos/Nix solves all python packaging problems.
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by foxes 5y ago
Is this really a good idea? Also reminds me that neutrons will degrade a material over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement
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by foxes 5y ago
Lol why can’t the program/OS just handle this automatically. Is Apple that far ahead? You need to manually press a button? Windows moment.
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by foxes 5y ago
Yep bash is not a real language. If anything you are saying it should be deprecated in place for a real language. If people want to do more advanced things why does the basic language of their shell not support it? Why should you not care a
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by foxes 5y ago
Where did you see e as a series before seeing it as the limit of some growth? I remember seeing the intuitive explanations in school, before anything else.
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by foxes 5y ago
And then you come across a baffling Russian paper that takes months to understand a single line.
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by foxes 5y ago
Anyone have a Haskell version? This or quantum computing seems like you could really just package up with some fancy monad, instead of just a single state it encapsulates a distribution, and you just apply abstract transformations ontop as
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by foxes 5y ago
Maybe if you are just experimentally gluing black boxes together and trying to make observations about them >ah these parameters/network layout did this, here's a guess as to why Or just mindlessly gluing stuff to solve a parti
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by foxes 5y ago
Stop paying attention to Twitter.
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by foxes 5y ago
Okay so just to be clear you along with OP are both climate change deniers? It’s an anti climate change ad , they are removing blatantly wrong information. It’s not like it’s censoring legitimate research or something, it’s removing garbag
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by foxes 5y ago
Apple’s walled garden keeps out the hordes of adtech shovelware barbarians.
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by foxes 5y ago
I feel that is already the situation with software? Plenty of state of the art machine learning is hopelessly out of reach of individuals, you need racks of gpus and trivia knowledge to know how to actually train something (what random para
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by foxes 5y ago
I don't see why these are orthogonal objectives. You still have to write efficient declarative code. If I say spawn 10 billion divs as part of the spec then clearly that's an issue. Funny, a lot of developers complain about things
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by foxes 5y ago
The fundamental ideas underlying the architecture may not be radically different (I mean apart from things like gpu, threading, etc), but certainly our knowledge of programming, and programming languages have changed. Why is write once run
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by foxes 5y ago
I like to speculate for reasons this might or might not make sense at several levels, although mostly just conjecturing. The fact everything works is very interesting, but it seems so hard to come up with something concrete. You have a map
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by foxes 5y ago
There is a part of me that is disturbed. I like working at my big wooden table overlooking the city, nice natural light filtering in, the ability to detach from the screen and pace around to take a break. VR for work seems like a trap, you&
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by foxes 5y ago
Except lightning has been consistent for ~10 years. USB on the other hand is a complete mess. Naively, the lightning connector seems better designed. The cable is just a flat wedge that goes into a socket. The usb has an internal wedge&#x2F
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by foxes 5y ago
The OP talks about how they are going to now only switch the cpu/ram/whatever every year. I feel a cpu is quite an expensive/resource intensive thing to make compared to a cheap plastic case. So while maybe not as bad as an e
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by foxes 5y ago
Dropping constant factor does not seem that important to be honest. The important thing to be exposed to/take away was the logarithmic behaviour. I'm sure if you want to go be a seismologist you will quickly learn all the details.
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by foxes 5y ago
Now also add back lambda tuple unpacking. I wish Guido et al would totally get over the cringe aversion to functional programming concepts.
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by foxes 5y ago
Although finding the specific partitions might be tricker, existence is easy, this is the classic change making problem. Expand prod_i 1/(1-x^p_i) and check if you have terms = total value. Should tell you the number of possible partit
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by foxes 5y ago
They are categorical duals of each other.
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by foxes 5y ago
Taking this one step further, you could build an immensely powerful bomb/superweapon/mega space engine. Cover the inside of the Dyson spheres with mirrors then fire a laser inside. The black hole provides the perfect source to ram

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