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by idolaspecus 6y ago
My memory was telling me the examples were all in C, so I went just now and picked a few random chapters, and the examples I saw were in C.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Purchased! Side note: new books on Amazon always seemed to be perfectly priced so that I buy new instead of used. Is this just a market at equilibrium plus my personal bias? It makes me feel like Amazon is driving used book sellers into the
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I think you've implicitly rejected the thesis of the book, which is of course your prerogative as a reader, but the way the comment is worded makes it unclear whether you realize you've rejected the thesis.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
The article references Andrea Wulf's the Invention of Nature a number of times, which I'd like to give a hearty, emphatic +1 recommendation to. It's a beautifully written biography and the Vintage Books paperback is also a
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
In my experience it's because of two things mostly. (1) Naming generics is harder than naming other variables for whatever reason. (2) Signatures with generics in them are stupidly long. Signatures with generics tend to be super unaest
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
When we industrialized food production we all started eating too much and too shitty and now practically all of us have overweight and unhealthy bodies. Feeds, push notifications, aggregators, to-do apps, notes apps, etc are all artifacts o
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I'm surprised the article's author attempted to counterbalance Highsmith's moral turpitude with her writing, because the title suggests otherwise. Edit: I didn't read the article because it's behind a paywall.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
You seem to conflate the fact that we're none of us perfect with the assertion we're all deeply flawed. What does "deeply flawed" mean? Hunter S. Thompson was a severely unhappy man with extreme drug problems who shot hi
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
DISCLAIMER: I think Trump is essentially diabolical, do not support him nor his behavior, and have a visceral loathing for the man and his (lack of) ideas. This is a grossly opportunistic instance of moral signaling from Twitter. I believe
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Your comment inspired an interesting (to me at least) thought. I'm imagining a world where mathematics becomes too advanced for even the brightest human being, but progress is preserved by proof-generating programs running in data cent
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Details aside, I think it’s good the point that you can (if you’re lucky) proactively engage with the world on your own terms. Anecdotally, as a new first time home owner I’ve been recently rediscovering this fact and it has been so immense
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
This is exactly the kind of implicit coupling that makes software unmaintainable in the long run. You _are not passing the project root_, you are passing the value of a variable which currently should be set to the project root. The constra
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
How would you define complexity such that a script which computes a value is less complex than a script which accepts that pre-computed value?
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
It's really not silly. A build script could easily move around inside a project. It could go from the project root, to /root/bin, to /root/bin/build, etc etc. If the inconvenience of arguments troubles you, wri
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I don't think there's much weird about providing a script a path to its dependencies. If it's the case that the path to the dependencies location is the same as the path to the script's location, that's fine. We&#x2
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
IMO this solution solves the wrong problem. The “right” problem to solve is the coupling between the script and the directory layout. If the script needs to operate on data in some directory, the path to that directory should be part of the
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
ffmpeg-fu is pretty googleable actually
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I'm interested in the idea of running barefoot, could you share a reference or two?
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Vim + Tmux + SSH is probably the most common/generic example. This stack allows me to, for example, work from my iPad Pro.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Starting with Tmux was quite eye-opening to me for exactly this reason. The power of composable tools is hard to exaggerate.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
This snarky response unfortunately misses my point, and your point is trivial to anybody who has taken even a remedial course in probability. The key detail is that we know the "RNG" in question might be flawed . If I tell you I
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Your comment is basically correcet, but not as a refutation of mine. Your point is the same as mine: certain "special" outcomes at certain rates are evidence of implementation flaws in our random number generator even though they
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Of course. In this case I think it's plenty likely that in fact the 5678910 sequence is in fact just a random event. It's not strong evidence, it's just evidence.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
The thing is that the lottery is not a truly random number generator . It's a physical process implemented by humans, subject to design flaws. So how can we detect whether or not the random number generator we've built has any fl
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I think this is an important point. I think someone asked "what's the probability this number is chosen?" and many people respond with 1 in 42 million or something like that. But in fact this is only true under the assumptio
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I don't think you're correct. Imagine you code a random number generator and run it ten times and get the same number every time. A "completely logical" person would probably assume there's a bug in their program. I
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Yes, but the outcome 5 6 7 8 9 10 is also evidence that something is amiss. If you can discern some structure in some random sequence of numbers, that's evidence that it's not random.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Contrarily, this is exactly what makes Unix environments so powerful (and wonderful). The "Unix Philosophy" is typically considered unopinionated (in the "let the user choose" sense), but I'd say that it's mo
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I'm curious about the ethics involved in publicly decrying/defending someone who has been indicted but not convicted. I want to be an informed and involved and vigilant citizen but I don't want to be part of a howling mob. It
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
If I stare directly at the center of the screen for a bit, say 10 seconds, then look somewhere else, my field of view appears to be flowing towards wherever I'm looking. I am surprised that this happens after such a short period, and a

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