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841.
by ithkuil 3y ago
What if the front one is only a small fraction of the thrust at the rear? Would that be enough to "clear the path". Surely it would cost some efficiency but it may beat he alternative
842.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Precisely. That's the famous Twin "paradox" (which is not a paradox)
843.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Polymorphic type erasure is the technique where the type is only used during type checking but has no impact on the generated code, namely the compiler doesn't emit specialized code for each instance of the type.
844.
by ithkuil 3y ago
An alternative way to model that in an ISA is the indirect addressing model coupled with the ability to use it when expressing operands in any instruction. The models are isomorphic. Write to an "address" register -> write to a
845.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Futamura
846.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Sometimes the signal to noise ratio is so bad that I can't blame the experts for no longer engaging and/or me disengaging before I encounter an expert steering the discussion towards more fertile grounds
847.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Endpoint != Front Social media companies have also their own nefarious goals so you don't have only to worry about your government but also about the (un)intended consequences of attention capitalism
848.
by ithkuil 3y ago
My favourite was: "Chuck Norris" + "a-hole" = "dead a-hole"
849.
by ithkuil 3y ago
O got trump by making "god"+"a-hole" Then I did "T-Rex"+"trump" and I got "T-Rump" I was impressed by the creativity
850.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I never tried (yet) but a quick search reveals a lot of people filming the "banana split in thirds" action, e.g. https://youtu.be/NoGXTXsamt4?si=ANNTdtcu1trOdQXP It's still technically possible it's a ho
851.
by ithkuil 3y ago
The 2nd law doesn't say that a decrease in entropy is not possible; it just says it's extraordinarily unlikely. But given sufficient time extraordinarily unlikely things will happen
852.
by ithkuil 3y ago
What amount of packet loss were you experiencing in your setup?
853.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I wonder at which point of the evolution of the English language the spelling will diverge enough from the pronunciation for it to make sense to just switch to an ideographic writing system
854.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I don't find that use of "myself" painful, provided it's done in the right context / dialect (I heard that used at lot in Ireland)
855.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I noticed there has been (relatively recently) a overcorrection of "John and me" to "John and I", independently of whether the "I" is nominative or accusative. - Who saw it? - John and I! (correct) - With whom
856.
by ithkuil 3y ago
> "Rules" are just discovered patterns in the arbitrariness of language, convenient ways to capture and communicate how most people Yes, that's a the descriptive rules. They are useful for people who are interested in unde
857.
by ithkuil 3y ago
And call it "The Liar's Paradox"
858.
by ithkuil 3y ago
English grammar and phonology is also much more complicated than what people give it credit for. There is also a general confusion between descriptive and prescriptive rules. The same goes for other languages, like Italian. My impression is
859.
by ithkuil 3y ago
It's so meta. It reminds me of Frank Abagnale
860.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Our ants may have many questions too but we don't seem to understand whether they even have questions and we may not even know how to start engaging with them to answer them. Surely they don't seem to respond to our level of intel
861.
by ithkuil 3y ago
The yak hair is bad. The act of shaving it is good
862.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Betteridge's law
863.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Absence of hype != winter Absence of new breakthroughs for a few months != winter Absence of progress for a long time == winter
864.
by ithkuil 3y ago
My son in Italy is in second trade and reads and writes fluently cursive and printed text. Perhaps the trick is that Italian doesn't have such a fucked up spelling so that kids don't have to waste so much time wrapping their heads
865.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I have a related question: is there a different terminology for when you can call an arbitrary C function versus when you need to implement a C function with a special signature (which often can be used to bridge the target C function) ?
866.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Yes. In forth some words have the "immediate" flag set. When such words are encountered during compilation they are executed nevertheless. This allows words such as ; to end a word definition and return to interpretation mode.
867.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Because the people of the Mediterranean were as imprecise as westerners are when referring to other people. They called "franks" any people in the west that didn't speak Greek. In the same way as many today call arabs any peo
868.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I don't remember the exact sizes of the harddisk(s) but it was late 90s early 2000s and the small business I was talking about was a small publisher, so many of the documents were large DTP files, postscript files ...
869.
by ithkuil 3y ago
> One of Charlemagne’s last descendants to be king of West Francia – the predecessor kingdom to France – grew up in the court of his uncle, King Æthelstan of Wessex in the tenth century. Just to put things in perspective, Franks were a G
870.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Well, you have to do that anyways

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