giantdude

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by giantdude 4y ago
Seems like a lot of work. Snow is heavy. Shoveling seems a bit easier than moving an unmovable tarp full of snow, while slipping and sliding.
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by giantdude 4y ago
The criminal who embezzled billions spent some of the loot on philantropy, to fit in and look good. And?
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by giantdude 4y ago
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626670
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by giantdude 4y ago
I don't know why that man is not in prison. But it's been obvious for years that, in spite of repeated claims (that sent his stock into the stratosphere), that self-driving cars do not work, and will not work for a pretty long ti
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by giantdude 4y ago
What is this thing you call 'banking' and 'finance'? I suppose some pretend money is better than other pretend money, especially if you are close to the money fountain and have a big sack to stuff it into. The entire po
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by giantdude 4y ago
Someone robbed a bank. Gee, I guess the currency is not sound.
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by giantdude 4y ago
From 'Let Over Lambda': These solutions try to limit or eliminate the impact of unwanted variable capture but unfortunately do so at the expense of wanted, desirable variable capture. Almost all approaches taken to reducing the im
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by giantdude 4y ago
Bloomberg terminal is the ultimate device for making information not available to people, so traders can front-run customers, collude, do backroom deals, and other nefarious stuff. I am surprised sheeple don't consider that a crime. I
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by giantdude 4y ago
Customer base is expanding rapidly! Is Tesla advertising yet? Class action, please.
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by giantdude 4y ago
>One of my kids, 15 at the time, ... You had 15 kids at the time? How many kids do you have now? My hat is off!
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by giantdude 4y ago
Thanks, that is what I thought, but didn't trust my memory. Yes, I did mean optimization - without it you can blow through your stack quickly (and the traceback will be long and redundant :)
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by giantdude 4y ago
That! Clojure is an elegant experiment with immutability. The implementation details of Clojure's datastructures are a pure joy to look at. JVM is an unfortunate choice as I see it, but it's a pretty solid system which is benef
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by giantdude 4y ago
It certainly is superior. Now get rid of the inferior part (python) and use SBCL. No more pretending to be a Lisper!
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by giantdude 4y ago
slow. bloated. not particularly good at managing conses. is there tail recursion?
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by giantdude 4y ago
Has anyone tried it on an Intel Joule? Honest question about running on actual metal, Atom, etc.
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by giantdude 4y ago
I don't get it. I am a Smug Lisp Weenie. Lisp is not a syntactic sugar - the only reason it looks like it does is for metaprogramming. Those parens are not syntax - they indicate the underlying structure of the code, a tree which ma
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by giantdude 4y ago
Someone probably told elon to look into the 'plumbing' of twitter. He brought a sink just in case.
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by giantdude 4y ago
That is really funny!
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by giantdude 4y ago
In practice it is not a footgun at all! If you use Lisp, you can tell what's a function and what's a variable by position - functions are always first in a list, variables - never, (except in bindings)... etc.
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by giantdude 4y ago
There is this thing we call humor. Try running the example!
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by giantdude 4y ago
Although Common Lisp is called Lisp-2, there are actually many more namespaces... I think I counted 5 or 6 the last time I tried. But it is pretty sensible to keep functions in a different namespace. For instance, it allows you to: (let (
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by giantdude 4y ago
Apple may have started this. Back in the day Ipods would ingest mp3 files and hide them with hashed names in weird folders to make sure you can't give a copy to a neighbor. Android is even worse: they create absurd views of the file s
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by giantdude 4y ago
A few years ago I had a beer with a guy who was doing just that: registering unregistered domains automatically when someone hit them. He was bragging it was a good business, but who knows.
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by giantdude 4y ago
From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland "The X11 protocol was designed around running graphical apps across the network. While some people use this feature, it's far from common. Wayland drops this requirement as a w
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by giantdude 4y ago
It's a shame it's not on a Xilinx FPGA. I am out.
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by giantdude 4y ago
Funny: I thought it was the most boring work I've encountered, after "A Different Kind of Science" by some guy who claims to have invented fractals... When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a fractal, I mean a n
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by giantdude 4y ago
I am pretty sure the last Roomba I looked at had an upward-facing camera. Amazon can therefore ask the drone, I mean Roomba, to take a closer look at something. This could be tied in with AI: move to the window and detect curtains or window
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by giantdude 4y ago
For some definition of 'anything', a computer that can run a 100MB Electron executable...