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by groos 2y ago
Dying from heart disease is an entirely modern phenomenon.
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by groos 2y ago
As someone who has had to parse C syntax for a living, I'd argue that it's not syntactically simple either. (Declarators are particularly nasty in C and even more so in C++).
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by groos 2y ago
Given that humans have been eating ghee for thousands of years, and seed oils for mainly the last several decades, my bet is on ghee.
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by groos 2y ago
In cases such as mine, where I am no longer the citizen of any other country except the USA, what would revocation of naturalized citizenship mean?
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by groos 2y ago
It is silly to make an overly broad statement about recursion killing. On modern "hosted" OSes, there are safeguards about stack overflows, which will quickly kill your process. This _can_ be a problem on embedded systems with lim
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by groos 2y ago
Minor nit: the "re" part of grep stands for "regular expression". That doesn't seem to be the case with krep so it's a bit misnamed maybe?
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by groos 2y ago
A couple of decades ago, I attended a lecture by Tony Hoare about program correctness. He used the producer-consumer problem as an example and by starting with pre/post conditions and refining them, he arrived at a (proved) correct pro
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by groos 2y ago
As a compiler developer, I see plenty of bugs. So, it's sometimes a bug. But, in the case of C (and C++ by extension), it's often a language design bug that unfortunately has no fix and can only be worked around.
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by groos 2y ago
You almost never have to handle chickens if you build your coop right. We didn't even have a permanent coop, merely a mobile one, but chickens are really good at coming back home to roost. There are books and plenty of info on the inte
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by groos 2y ago
Right! The first egg our chickens laid cost $500, the second $250, etc. It would take a lot of laying for the cost to come even close to grocery store prices (back then) but we quit after a couple of years.
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by groos 2y ago
I started having migraines at 8 years of age, several a week. This persisted all through my life till 42 years later, I had a blood pressure emergency where I ended up in ER with 190/100 blood pressure. Thankfully, it never repeated an
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by groos 2y ago
In my younger days, we had a new walkway bridge open up near our building at work. The opening was announced months in advance and the bridge opened on the exact day they had said it would. I remarked to my wiser boss (also a software dev),
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by groos 2y ago
A good analogy from not-so-distant past is the outsourcing wave that swept the tech industry. Shareholders everywhere were salivating at the money they would make by hiring programmers in India at 1/10 the cost while keeping their prof
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by groos 2y ago
The composition of a planet's atmosphere has to do with the RMS velocity of gas molecules at a given planetary temperature. When this velocity exceeds the escape velocity of the planet, that gas is lost to space. But there is one more
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by groos 2y ago
The bottom image on the page got me believing there was something wrong with me :-)
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by groos 2y ago
Yes, I also tend to suspect incompetence, or worse, indifference. I have a Sony TV that runs Google TV. When I cast photos from my Pixel device, they show at a grainy 1024x768 resolution. I have been unable to find out why this is the case.
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by groos 2y ago
Murder is hard on your soul. He wouldn't be able to go back to life as usual.
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by groos 2y ago
I believe EU allows directionally controllable projector headlights (my description, I don't know the official name). These can be brighter because they can be directed away from oncoming traffic. The US, in contrast, is lagging in app
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by groos 2y ago
There are so many ifs and buts in this idea of resurrecting the brain that it's laughable, yet "brilliant scientists" make press with it. What about the completely unknown mind-body problem that scientism pretends doesn'
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by groos 2y ago
It's not splitting hairs. Unless you are extremely physically active, even ~100g of carbs a day will inhibit ketosis where the liver converts fats into ketones for powering your brain and body. This is easily seen by using ketone strip
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by groos 2y ago
I'm not sure what "dependently typed" means but in C++20 and beyond, concepts allow templates to constrain their parameters and issue errors for the templates when they're specialized, before the actual instantiation hap
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by groos 2y ago
Whatever gave you the idea Microsoft "left" C++ years ago? It has massive code bases in C++ and continues to invest in its compiler teams and actively tracks the C++ standard. It was the first compiler to implement C++20 mostly co
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by groos 2y ago
This is not the Fibonoacci sequence because the first two terms are 0 and hence the entire sequence is 0.
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by groos 2y ago
Well, the Academy did award the Peace Prize to Obama so this is not out of character.
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by groos 2y ago
G.H. Hardy would like to disagree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology
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by groos 2y ago
I sign of apnea is if you wake up from sleep with your heart racing for no apparent reason. It's become common to equate snoring to apnea but with the latter you start choking till your body is forced to wake you up, increasing stress,
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by groos 2y ago
I think the real takeaway is that collaborating/bouncing ideas off other people is the most important part of research. Few people can work isolated on their own without idea exchange.
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by groos 2y ago
Wirth showed us decades ago how to do UIs using text in a modern way yet we remain firmly tied to digital analogues of teletype terminals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
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by groos 2y ago
The gain from HT for doing large builds has been 20% at most. Daily usage is indistinguishable, as you say.
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by groos 3y ago
If you can't understand it yourself, you will have to find someone whose expertise you trust to answer the questions for you. But you don't have to understand the software down to bits and bytes, just enough for you to make good d

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