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by gumby 2y ago
We see in a mirror, not through one. Yes, a half silvered mirror can be seen in and through, but that’s hardly true of the mirrors of the time when the archaic term “glass” meant what we call a “mirror”.
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by gumby 2y ago
Seems like you could only use very small integers or your program size would become enormous.
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by gumby 2y ago
“Sorry, Colonel. Nice tank you’ve got here. It’d be a shame if it caught fire, wouldn’t it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m31s
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by gumby 2y ago
Incremental collection is preferred in this case, as stop-and-copy collection leads to Second System Syndrome.
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by gumby 2y ago
Why do you consider simpler the use of the incomprehensible expression “through the looking glass”, as a looking glass is something you cannot see (view) through . Lewis Carroll’s use of “Through the Looking-Glass” in the title of one of h
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Costco is building out an ad business using its shoppers' data(marketingbrew.com)
84 points by gumby 2y ago|76 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
Would be great name for a device that just sang your praises all day.
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by gumby 2y ago
Leela.ai was founded to work on problems like that.
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by gumby 2y ago
It’s an open ended problem and someone could nerd out on the maths while another could define a card class, a suit class, and use a factory pattern (oh brother…SMH but probably wouldn’t categorically rule someone out for it, just talk some
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by gumby 2y ago
> If they fail fizzbuzz I generally just turn the interview into a chat or give them easy questions to practice, rather than say "yeah no thanks", because I feel like the latter is a bit mean, and everyone can benefit from inte
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by gumby 2y ago
I’m not saying that you cannot write vector code, but that it’s typically a special case. CUDA APIs and annotations are bolted onto existing languages rather than reflecting languages with vector operations as natural first class operatio
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by gumby 2y ago
The whole of the context* of the LOTR can best be understood through the lens of this comment by Tolkien: > My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as
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by gumby 2y ago
> good vector performance is still important (if less important than integer) This is in part (major part IMHO) because few languages support vector operations as first class operators. We are still trapped in the tyranny that assumes a
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by gumby 2y ago
At all the companies I’ve run we’ve used a simple whiteboard example for this reason. Don’t worry about typos; how does the person think. “Trick” questions are dumb, but you want to get an idea of if the candidate knows their stuff (and le
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by gumby 2y ago
I agree, but 45 years of using emacs has wired into me that my primary navigation tool is search. Sadly most programs make search a heavyweight operation. But search at least usually takes me close to what I need from where I can tab as req
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by gumby 2y ago
> just saying that arguing against such things in 2008 didn't mean you were an insane person I disagree with you — the data and the trends were perfectly clear back then and I remember the political lines were drawn no differently
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by gumby 2y ago
It’s a common turn of phrase which I’ve always taken to mean “limited in its expansion due to being an island”, said island being small in comparison to other powers, notably France, Spain, Austria, Prussia, and later Germany and Russia
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by gumby 2y ago
You are confusing cause and effect. The revolution (upturning of a system) refers to the cause of the increase of the exponential growth, not the consequence. There is a very sharp bend in the growth rate in the 19th century. Even more
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by gumby 2y ago
> GDP per manhour would make much more sense And is why labor productivity is used as a comparator. The question, still completely applicable today, is the trade off between cost of capital and cost of labor. Will your cap ex ultimately
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by gumby 2y ago
Your sentence is a refreshing (for these days) example use of their term in a normative, rather than political and/or pejorative sense. Marxism is really a consequence of the Victorian era, despite Marx and Engles being German. It is
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by gumby 2y ago
It actually comes out of the UCC (Universal Commercial Code), though IIRC via case law, and restricts the sellers’s control over the buyer’s rights. See some discussion here: https://www.peroslaw.com/news/online-resale
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by gumby 2y ago
I don't see the problem with them not wanting to buy it back (though they could probably sell it on to another eager buyer). But refusing to allow resale appears to be a straightforward violation of the first sale doctrine.
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by gumby 2y ago
Wetlands are also huge sources of methane (from mathenogen bacteria).
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by gumby 2y ago
> The CPU doesn't have undefined behaviour, thus any code running on it doesn't have undefined behaviour either. Have you read Rice’s theorem? Every nontrivial program on a Turing machine (which has only defined behavior) is u
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by gumby 2y ago
I suppose you can make that assertion by moving the goalposts. But Rice's theorem specifically addresses such behavior: all turing machines are inherently undecidable for all but trivial cases. You can well argue that Rust may be bet
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by gumby 2y ago
Unless you solve the halting problem, every language has undefined behavior.
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by gumby 2y ago
When you are fit you have a lower probability of events leading to trauma because you have better balance, reaction time, and strength when needed. You can see this from the inverse too: as you age all of those factors (muscle strength, rea
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by gumby 2y ago
Ipads are widely considered by analysts and the tech press to be, well not a failure exactly, but a marginal product that has yet to find its niche. This is despite the fact that they solidly outsell macs. And if they were not from Apple
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by gumby 2y ago
Latin is a borrowed writing system not native to English, German, Polish and many others which aren’t even Romance languages to begin with and must resort to di- and trigraphs plus non-Latin characters like J, V, ß, ł or å, among others (
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Ozempic and Wegovy Might Be Supercharging Your Taste Buds(gizmodo.com)
22 points by gumby 2y ago|24 comments

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