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by gchpaco 11y ago
A real manual has better tactile feedback so you can know when it's safe to hit keys without getting a jam, I think that's a lot of what was going on here.
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by gchpaco 11y ago
You know what gets unending amounts of vitreol thrown at you? Working customer service. Especially tech support. I had urges to smash phones whenever I heard them ringing for years after doing tech support for three months. Tech support
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by gchpaco 11y ago
The Symbol workaround cannot ever clash with uses of `with`. Granted almost everybody considers `with` to be a bad idea nowadays, but that's part of the rationale.
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by gchpaco 11y ago
He mentioned being somewhat forgiving when people invariably screwed it up to 'rr' or 'orr', but I think he was Norwegian. So this may be a much more common problem with accepted solutions in his area of Europe. What d
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by gchpaco 11y ago
How is ASCII or Latin-1 somehow not an obscure encoding scheme by your parlance? Latin-1 is less common by quite a bit on the web than UTF-8, and ASCII might be if UTF-8 wasn't a superset. Fact of the matter is people have to get out
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by gchpaco 12y ago
I'm reminded of the discussions about XP when it was newer. Lotta folks thought XP meant "cowboy away" and then got excited when it invariably didn't work--the original folks said "well, look, you're not doing
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Yup, the problem with this is that it renders the other claimed advantage of reference counting moot (viz. there is now little or no temporal linkage between when the object's ref count hits 0 and when its destructor/finalizer is
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Yards are generally not in shapes that look like mazes crossed with Hilbert space filling curves, which the problem statement permits.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Unreinforced brick construction is actually illegal in many parts of California, possibly all. It's pretty easy to reinforce, though; if you sink rebar through the brickwork every now & again, it's as resilient as concrete an
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by gchpaco 12y ago
In the part of the US I'm in (California) they omit the insulation step, but otherwise yeah pretty much. Folks in the US do produce real homes, but it's in very small numbers as a pseudo-artisanal thing. http://www.ver
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Yeah, I don't think that's a reasonable thing to do even if you can do it.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
The main reason all this tends to get pushed down to the FS layer is because of the question "what happens if the user accidentally creates two files with the 'same name' but different coding sequences". When it's
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by gchpaco 12y ago
HFS+ is probably the worst filesystem in common use right now; even FAT has the benefit of simplicity. Most of its issues, however, are with its horrific implementation; the Unicode naming is kind of bad but Linus manages to be wrong about
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Not divisible by three, which comes up a lot. 12 is superior. 60 is probably best, tho.
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In Defense of Inclusionism (2011)(gwern.net)
106 points by gchpaco 12y ago|59 comments
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by gchpaco 12y ago
That's easier said than done. To make some of the mathematical equations work and be legible in several of my papers required a lot of subtle positioning; this was not helped by strict conference page limits or requirements for e.g.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Not quite the same, but one of the math professors from my alma mater could write faster on a blackboard than most people could write with pencil and paper and was not shy about erasing when he filled up the board. It was always crazy tryi
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Nursery gc is proportional to the size of the live object set (here alleged to be 0) plus a constant overhead. It's not a simple thing to benchmark.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
If there are no live objects in the nursery, a Cheney-style collector copies nothing and is done. The modification to mark-and-sweep to make it O(live objects) similarly is a bit more sophisticated but routine among high performance GCs.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
From OP: "There are huge amounts of objects which are allocated and discarded milliseconds later." Any mature generational GC should handle this with literally zero overhead. Assuming it is not doing a nursery gc every millisecon
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Interface Builder was impossible in the C++s of the day. It is merely extremely difficult today. Remember that what IB did was build the UI using the actual elements , so you could play with it even without the logic hooked up, serialize
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by gchpaco 12y ago
I buy mine from Unicomp, and have been pretty satisfied. Although admittedly I've only ever bought two, and both of them have survived years of use.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Based on username, I would guess Zmacs.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
There's important differences in color response, although a lot of the most modern films have very similar color response to digital (because the one was designed to mimic the other, obviously). The grain is also difficult to mimic pr
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by gchpaco 12y ago
The US military is unusually detached from reality. The ISS was under constant budgetary supervision and periodic redesigns despite costing, I think, maybe a tenth the F35 program.
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by gchpaco 12y ago
None of which are likely to happen, I'd point out, because vim, emacs, bash and zsh are all tied into some sort of notion of a virtual terminal with software controlled cursors, etc etc etc. Plan 9's TTY is astoundingly primitive
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by gchpaco 12y ago
Unfortunately that would be tantamount to wanting it designed and written by completely different people; Pike and Thompson are clearly comfortable with that level of abstraction, to judge by Go. Moreover OSes designed with higher level lan
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Some of the papers I have written actually made the problem simpler with math--XML Schema being notoriously impenetrable, for example, and XACML not being much better.
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by gchpaco 13y ago
And if you notice, they're still doing it . And it was still just as wrong .
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by gchpaco 13y ago
I have a limited amount of time in my life and no wish to spend it playing "spot the logical fallacy in every paragraph" with McArdle. I have found it more efficient to learn that she is a feckless human being who will lie (by om

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