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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think you meant to reply to someone else? A change in average temperature (either direction) does not imply extreme temperature swings. My current apartment is much warmer than my previous apartment! I'm not dying, and the extreme
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by foxfluff 5y ago
But this isn't about body temperature or alcohol concentrations, so comparisons like that are not useful. Look, I just had a glass of cool water, perhaps between five to ten degrees celsius. And I'm about to have a coffee. What&
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by foxfluff 5y ago
What kind of math do you use to identify state machines?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Oh, this interesting little thing I noticed just now: jodrellblank also mentioned "enclose bind grade_up index self_right" hours before me in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095934 And I had read that comme
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think it's naive to assume a language would "win" on its own merit. Most of our software today is what it is due to path dependence. Was JavaScript a terrific language? No, it was a little doodle for bringing a little int
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think it's something you just have to learn to believe it. Otherwise you'll doubt it forever and ever. APLers have learned, and they want to keep their symbols. I can only speak for myself, and I know I'd be confused seei
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by foxfluff 5y ago
As someone who spent a few weekends learning APL: no, the learning curve is not that steep. The syntax is very simple, there's nothing scary about special characters if you can get over your fear of them, custom keyboard layout is ab
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by foxfluff 5y ago
For a more modern option with even more pins, there's SMARC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Mobility_Architecture This isn't just a form factor, there's also some standardisation around what&#x27
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by foxfluff 5y ago
This isn't cryptographic though. That would make the entire database absolutely trivial to bypass with tiny imperceptible random changes to the images. It's a perceptual hash.