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by gnulinux 6y ago
I don't get this. From the same perspective you can argue global variables have scope too since they are "scoped to the current process". It's not like other processes can access your global variable, that's a very
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I think it's ok when the joke is too obvious and it's done as a tradition. E.g. agadmator (a famous chess YT channel) shared a video of one of the most amazing chess games ever played (from 1852) and claimed "Magnus Carlsen [
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Because EECS staff (grad students, professors) don't maintain the IT infrastructure of UC Berkeley?
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Tangential question: Not a native speaker but wouldn't "only a few" make more sense than "a few"? The paper title emphasizes the lack of great variety, as does "only a few", but without any more context &q
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Or at least one would hope so.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Agreed but youtube has some valuable content, e.g. if you're into chess, there are some irreplaceably good videos out there. The way I use them is via youtube-dl.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Total layman here. Question: if 5ppm in drinking water is safe, which would imply we deem it safe to drink unlimited amount of water with 5ppm benzene in it for our entire lives; would it really be problematic to use hand sanitizers with 15
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by gnulinux 6y ago
The original Dragon Book (sometimes referred to as the "Green Dragon Book") was written by Aho and Ullman.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I didn't know this but this so scandalous. I don't even understand what's funny about going through a potentially species-ending war.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I agree with you, although, unfortunately, most -- if not all -- engineers I know would respond to this by complaining about how "a human who can understand the 'why'" cannot be automated.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
For those who don't know, this is a reference to the movie WarGames (1983).
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by gnulinux 6y ago
This is a genuine question, I'm really curious. What if the kid typed something that implies "US is firing nukes to {insert random non-Western country}". What is the probability of something like that escalating?
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by gnulinux 6y ago
> This is what happens in a meeting when someone says "there are no bad ideas". No, I think this is what happens as the date approaches April 1st.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Accent is an inevitable part of second language speakers. I've lived in US most of my life, but English is not my native language and I started learning it around the age of 5 and at the age of 25 after living here more than 20 years,
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by gnulinux 6y ago
According to my therapist if you look at your phone while walking, you're severely addicted and need to consider having no-screen days every once in a while.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
At this point this clickbaitism is marginally more moral than dark pattern UIs. What a shame beautiful internet converged to this.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Correct in what way? I can think of many real time systems that cannot be debugged with a pdb breakpoint.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
Because I don't know web assembly, llvm ir. I'm pretty experienced in C++ and Haskell and they have "good enough" performance for my toy projects, so why complicate things? Besides you can compile C++ to webAssembly and
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I write compilers for fun (hobby) and I just transpile my IR data structure to C++ (I'm also experimenting with other targets like Haskell (similar to agda compiler) and Rust (work in progress)). My friends usually treat this approach
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by gnulinux 6y ago
This is why music is such an incredible art form. It's all sine waves of air at the end of the day, but there are entire universes hidden somewhere there in the air. You can be a musician, explore classical western music, jazz, rock, p
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I have the same opinion, but imho this is not on Glass. Bach is simply something else, even within his own generation, his music transcends everyone else. Maybe my music knowledge isn't very wide but I spent some decent time dissenting
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by gnulinux 6y ago
This is a terrible simple rule if you have a cat. Most house plants are poisonous to cats. https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-a... In addition to plants, common human drugs like alcohol, TH
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by gnulinux 6y ago
For my cat, I'd probably just call the pet poison line in my state/country. Dogs are relatively better at eating human food (except very obvious well known examples like alcohol, grapes, cooked bones etc) but most plants can be po
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by gnulinux 6y ago
If my code derefrences null, I want it to panic even in production. Assuming your server will never fail is very dangerous. oom killer can just kill your process for unrelated reasons to your server.
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I start new projects with python and mypy. If you're convinced that there are some problems that better be solved in python, you can easily see that once you have a project in python, mypy just adds more safety to it. So there is not
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I've never seen anyone who refer to "13 years" as "decades".
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I completely agree with this. Chess is all about rational decision making, within this tournament format drawing this game was rational. If anything, this shows that both Magnus and Hikaru are slightly more courageous to act rationally as o
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by gnulinux 6y ago
You surely must have an insanely fast reading speed if your read this in 15 mins?
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by gnulinux 6y ago
I don't understand this comment. You can run arbitrary code in AWS lambda, you can just run "tar". Why did you need to reimplement it?
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by gnulinux 6y ago
There were no skyscrapers in Boston, LA, SF, Houston etc?

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