guidoism

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by guidoism 4y ago
I remember this fondly from Beyond 2000, the best show of the late 1980s.
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by guidoism 4y ago
Yeah I was taken aback when they talked about “linked lists” and instead of banging out a simple linked list they used an STL container that isn’t necessarily optimized for the use case. It’s malloc-heavy and uses full sized pointers instea
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by guidoism 4y ago
I feel the same way! I also feel like the LaTeX crap on top of Plain TeX is crap and it fills me with rage when I try to find info about TeX and always get back something assuming LaTeX. Your stuff looks cool, I will take a look!
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by guidoism 4y ago
Wow! I didn’t know that
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by guidoism 4y ago
I’ve been writing a lot of MMIX lately and I really like big endian. It’s so much nicer to watch memory and registers change when ordered this way.
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by guidoism 4y ago
I seem to recall discussion of this in the RFC. They do ultimately have an order if transmitted over a network! But most of us are used to getting them a byte at a time through the memory interface so we are ignorant of this.
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by guidoism 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment but the RFC even mentions the PDP 11 as the first computer to claim being little endian. I wonder if the ascent of C and Unix at that time also contributed to it.
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by guidoism 4y ago
> if it takes 1 or 2 hours a day to "keep up" with the standard curriculum in grade school, and "schooled" students are sent home with 1 or 2 hours of homework, after they attend "school" all day -- what is
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by guidoism 4y ago
I would like to bring up the question again of “compared to what?” Are the metrics: 1. Based on university entrance (in which case you need to recourse and ask the same questions of that) or 2. Based on some pragmatic list of things that wi
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by guidoism 4y ago
A few weeks ago I read the original paper where the names big endian and little endian came from and was really surprised that it was published in 1980! So, before then we didn't have a common way of describing this I guess. It's
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by guidoism 4y ago
This is exactly what I noticed when getting rid of stuff on my company’s “for-sale” mailing list. It doesn’t matter what it was, there was a HUGE difference in responses between $0.01 and free. It could have been a brand new in the box $50
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by guidoism 4y ago
Actually, before you even read that book take a look at the Wikipedia page for it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
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by guidoism 4y ago
Overly verbose? Indeed for the modern non fiction book. Most are really just 10 page articles expanded to fit in what people perceive as the standard book length. Honestly as much as this sounds like a joke, make your next book “How to read
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by guidoism 5y ago
The Minecraft modding community is full of this shit. And it’s ten year olds that don’t know any better who have to learn the hard way about this stuff. I regularly wonder how much it would really cost to host those assets somewhere else th
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by guidoism 5y ago
I’ve recently been writing personal code that leaks like a sieve. It’s just not worth my time to find every leak when the lifetime of the process is finite and short and it will only ever run on a machine with gigs of memory. I haven’t thou
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by guidoism 5y ago
Well, shit.
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by guidoism 5y ago
I alternate between this. I had a Mac mini as my main computer but decided on a MacBook Air as my next computer because: 1. Every now and then it got disconnected from electricity because of my stupidity or the electricity going out. Having
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by guidoism 5y ago
J is an APL language. APL is the coolest language you’ve never heard of. It’s mind blowing in the same way people talk about Lisp, but more so since the concepts are so alien to most programmers.
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by guidoism 5y ago
In 2009 I began writing code for a new company doing natural language processing. I was the engineer at the time and got to pick my tools. I started with Ruby because I was sick of C++ and Perl and Ruby looked like the future. But I soon
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by guidoism 5y ago
I was wondering when something like this ad campaign would happen. I moved back to my childhood state of Indiana (from Seattle and the Bay Area) in part because of I could take the equity in my house in Seattle and my savings never have to
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by guidoism 5y ago
Ha! I came here to say the same thing. How the world has changed from 99% of our existence when humans were basically hungry all the time and calorie-density was an asset not a liability!
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by guidoism 5y ago
It was on sale on Audible and I got it and listened to it knowing nothing about it other than it looked interesting. Wow! What a great book! I had to take breaks because of the violence and it took several weeks to finish because I wasn’t a
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by guidoism 5y ago
Meta: It’s so awesome how many of these hobbies are essentially free these days. For example, You already have a computer and all of the best languages and libraries are free so programming is now free. You already have a quality camera on
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by guidoism 5y ago
Less about making those people safe and more about making you safe by making those other not spread the disease to you. For example: Go ahead and drive drunk, I don’t care, just do it on your private property so you don’t kill me. Similarly
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by guidoism 5y ago
Yikes don’t say that out loud! But seriously, the left needs to think more like this. The right plays dirty and if the left plays like this they get the same outcomes of playing dirty but is not saying anything bad or wrong.
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by guidoism 5y ago
Heh, most people in the US don’t know about them and when you ask an HVAC contract about them they will give this argument about how nobody likes them because they don’t spew out hot heat and if they install one then the consumer will say t
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by guidoism 5y ago
Nice! I still think about my 2000 VW Jetta. It had the most satisfying buttons and knobs. I still think about the substantial feed and knock of the button. Click seems like the wrong word to describe it. Compare the Audi A4 of the same vint
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by guidoism 5y ago
I miss those internal Google culture things.
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by guidoism 5y ago
I love the idea of it but I don’t yet have a monitor that will do this for me.
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by guidoism 5y ago
Also inexpensive for that kind of quality.

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