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by jakub_h 11y ago
Wouldn't SSDs - and even better system-bus-connected storage contraptions - also drive the use of different algorithms? I can see how merely cutting the disk latencies by two (or more) orders of magnitude leaves you starved for computa
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> When clouds roll in, people are not OK with their TVs turning off. So you'd always need the traditional grid in place, even if it's for a few days a year. Sounds like a great argument for municipal generation and storage. If
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> Clinton should at a minimum be banned from handling classified information in the future. That sounds like a good idea for many more politicians of this world.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Seriously? That sounds like the perfect job for Common Lisp (which appears more or less set in stone in 2016, albeit without the usual concomitant stagnation, given its malleability). Plus, in fact, I get the distinct impression that your s
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Well, Romans, from what I can tell, had better multiculturalism than Ottomans centuries later. They did not split the society into religion-based classes. So "the West" was quite a bit more progressive centuries earlier in some wa
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> Because cuda matrix multiplication is so optimized that no one with a bit of sense would roll out his own Really? What if you have, for example, special matrices, not general ones? What's going to be faster, generating a matrix an
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by jakub_h 11y ago
With enough libraries, everything fits into a few lines. How big is Parsec itself?
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by jakub_h 11y ago
In the same place where there's a horse in a seahorse.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> "descends from a multicultural, religiously tolerant empire (Ottoman)" Where the terms "multicultural" and "religiously tolerant" apparently mean something quite a bit different from today (just like Athen
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> 88642ba Fix all the conflicts > fbd2658 Conflict all the fixes Sounds like some amount of made-up work!
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Well at least the biggest thing they can break now is the gym equipment.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
That sounds a little bit harsh (even if I ignore the claims of unsuitability of Go for that purpose). What if I want to write, for example, a Go port of DataDraw? Perhaps with profiling-based memory layout optimization thrown in? And maybe
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by jakub_h 11y ago
One of the points of Go seems to have been the idea of making a Go process a lot like a mini-Unix, with many small programs plumbed together and communicating through pipes, only strong-typed ones (and often by passing ownership of data usi
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by jakub_h 11y ago
True, one of the prime considerations for Go's design was that despite having pointers, structs could be embedded as values into other structs. That's the reason it doesn't look half like Java.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Correction: they thought they had to. I suspect that an in-process solution would avoid the HTTP and JSON issues, and better implementation of the store itself would avoid GC issues.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Now that I think about these issues, I'm wondering now how performant AllegroCache is.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> 'He' is sometimes used in this fashion, but it is an uncommon use Says someone unfamiliar with Indo-European languages in general?
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Likewise, the square-cube law could mean that the smaller versions are necessarily less impressive with repect to what you can squeeze into the uninflated volume of the module.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
I suspect that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gnuroot.de... is the newer version?
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Well, I'm happy with running the basic stuff using GNURoot. (I have no intention of running more complicate GUI apps anyway, even though that should be possible as well.)
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by jakub_h 11y ago
It's probably more useful to be able to run Lisp, R, Octave etc. in a device like this.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> Yes, this is why photographers who avoid postprocessing because they're "purists" who like "unenhanced, natural images" sometimes deliver unnaturally bland images. The visual system phenomena at play are high d
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by jakub_h 11y ago
True. But when it comes to learning the basics of programming, you can always pick better languages. There doesn't appear to a shortage of pedagogically useful ones.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
I could take that text more seriously if it at least discussed the limitations of the most powerful embodiments of OOP that we have today and not the accidental limitations of languages that for one reason or the other ended up not as good
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by jakub_h 11y ago
For a number of reasons, I'm not particularly fond of this specific implementation but I'm seriously considering porting its principles into something else (where they might work even better).
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Setting aside the cringe I experience whenever supposed principles of "OOP" are mentioned by the author, that page painfully reminds me of the that old joke about bolting four extra legs onto a dog... Furthermore, both a broader c
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> "Most stop signs just mean slow down." Which must be why "stop means STOP!!!" was repeated very forcefully by the driving instructor and the friendly police officer multiple times during my driving course.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Unless you use a DataDraw-like approach, I presume. I can't see templates doing similar amounts of data rearrangements.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> That's a pretty good argument against democracy. If you pardon a certain amount of sarcasm, it may seem like one to uneducated people. But I don't think democracy should be equated to dictatorship of optimality. Likewise, p
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> They were printed on a long paper then folded onto itself which creates the pages and then stitched in the middle, the folds are then are cut on the sides to free the pages. Ah, the memories... I recall some of the vintage math textboo

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