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by jcranmer 1y ago
> the US has an incredibly advanced and dense rail network, paid for with federal land grants Note that only a small portion of the US rail network was built with land grants, about 18k miles out of ~250k miles in the peak of the US rail
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... somehow this is the first time I've realized that you contributed to the Unix Haters Handbook. (And I've read it in its entirety at least twice!)
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There is some code that wants to be generic over its executor. This is particularly true of something like parsing code, where you logically have a "get more data" call and you really don't care about the details of the call
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I don't think so, but you do need to fill out a customs form to ship a package to someone on a US Navy ship.
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I can understand not starting at 0; it's the varying tick spacing that has me confused.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
If I'm reading that right, 60% of their users give up after the first week, half of those who stick with it give up after another month or two, and then there appears to be continued decline afterwards. Also, I'm not particularly
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> How is this evidence of that fact? The contention is that the specific translated text appears largely from illegal translations (i.e., fansubs) and not from authorized translations. And from a legal perspective, that would basically m
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> It pretty much manages memory for you with ARC, Objective-C added ARC relatively late, about 2010 or 2011 or so, and giving people a decade to stew with manual memory management isn't going to endear people to your language, espe
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by jcranmer 1y ago
What king 500 years could do that? (Well okay, maybe Suleiman the Magnificent, but that about exhausts the list.) 500 years ago puts us in 1525, which is still in the transitional period of Medieval kingdoms becoming actual states. The kind
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> We were supposed to hit peak oil in what, the 1990's? Originally the late 60's, actually, according to Wikipedia. The failure of Malthusian catastrophes to occur despite centuries of prediction hasn't dampened enthusiasm
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No, it's not. A castle is a fortified place of residence, with heavy emphasis on the military needs in its architectural designs. Neuschwanstein was built in the 1880s, at which point any fortification that could have fulfilled its mil
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I think the point is to criticize the press for using the English rendering on the names by referring to an American politician using a German rendering of the name.
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We have literal decades of experience showing that the problem isn't "get good"--no matter how many best practices are followed, it turns out that the next generation of fuzzers or analyzers or whatnot is able to uncover yet
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One of the interesting things about the experience of LLVM and Clang isn't that it's killing off gcc--a decade after this was written, gcc is still the compiler of choice for most Linux distrubtions--but that it's killing off
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Recently, I've been trying to teach myself some numerical thing I don't have prior experience on (building a sparse LU solver, if you're curious). What I've found is that the single most useful resource I've found i
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Having developed a fair amount of expertise with both C++ and Rust, C++ is on a completely different level of complexity from Rust. In Rust, for most users, the main source of complexity is struggling with the borrow checker, especially bec
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> European condiment sets were made with three shakers: salt, pepper, and well, no one is really sure. Mustard seems to be the agreed answer for the third condiment, though some people hold out for sugar instead. (Sugar seems to be unlik
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by jcranmer 1y ago
And the Wikipedia article immediately goes on to detail refutations of that claim: > Winterbotham's claim has been rejected by other Ultra participants and by historians. They state that while Churchill was indeed aware that a major
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Per Wikipedia, Michaelmas term tends to around in mid-December, not in mid-November.
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I suspect a majority of the population has no idea what "Michaelmas term" is. And there's some other phrases in there that require some familiarity with things commonplace in the 19th century that aren't so in the 21st c
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Actually, I don't think that's known to have ever happened. The Allies protected Ultra intelligence by parallel construction--coming up with other means to 'discover' the same information (principally, sending a reconnai
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The more-or-less unregulated drug industry that you envision is something that already exists: it's called "health supplements." And it's a disasters; there's been quite a few studies that show that many of the comp
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First, the plurality of illegal immigrants in the US are people who entered the country legally but have overstayed their visas. There's not a lot of sneaking into a different person's country to do work. Second, there is no &quot
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Unclear, but it looks to be somewhere around the year 1000.
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> Good enough for a demo and it would have been difficult to come up with an alternative explanation for the patterns in the data. For fun edge cases, there's always Antarctica, where you can travel from a US base (which looks like
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I'm suggesting that Linus isn't the best person to be used as an expert in compilers because his field isn't in compilers. You're suggesting that someone who works on compilers shouldn't be used as an expert in comp
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> What is it if not white genocide? The normal process of cultural evolution and assimilation.
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> People these days don’t own real estate. Wealthy people own it all. Normal people are renting apartments or portions of homes. If you look at a graph of home ownership in the US by cohort at various points in time (see, e.g., https:&#
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That's kind of a rude thing to say, suggesting that compilers aren't real programmers. Nevertheless, it is the case that most optimizations in the compiler are motivated by real issues with somebody's code, as opposed to comp

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