jdmichal

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by jdmichal 5y ago
"Serverless" as in one of the peers is nominated as the Source of Truth? Or truly decentralized state? Because the first option is just changing who owns the server.
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> Consider these ideas at broader scale too - What if you could amortize the cost of that power-hungry timer thread for thousands of gamers instead of just 1? Are there maybe some additional benefits to moving 100% of the game state to t
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In addition to Thinking, Fast and Slow , I'd recommend Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets . It builds on literature such as Thinking, Fast and Slow to discuss the separation of decisions and results. Specifically, thanks to luck,
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> Outlawing custom abstractions in favour of a few very shallow ones doesnt seem like a convincing thechnical argument. The entire point of the Lisp Curse is that this is a social issue! Not a technical one. And, furthermore, what is
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I noticed that also. I've never seen it on anything other than that one search.
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> I have met a lot of people who said that they could do things with Lisp 20, 30 years ago that languages either cannot do today, or could only do recently. > It looks to me like the Lisp community knows something the rest of the worl
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ET IT... I wonder if they still have bastard operators from hell?
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Examples from TFA: * Web-based REPL or IDE environments, where the iframe is typically the primary user interaction space. * Paid third-party website embedded into an internal website. * Hosted JS content such as Kongregate games. * Frames
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Wow! Is there anything similar that you know of for Android TV? I would love to have something like this over the stock photo slideshow.
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> I bet I could download a MOBA I've never played before and have fun in my first match knowing nothing about how to play it (even the controls). Used to play DotA (as in, the custom WC3 map) and LoL. I downloaded Pokemon Unite la
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I watch both, and they definitely have different things going for them. I think something that is missed in appreciation of pro play is just how smoothly coordinated the players are. They make it look effortless, the same way high APM S
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I assume 1 and 2 are placeholders here... Not literally meant.
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by jdmichal 5y ago
That struck me too. My initial impression was to simply implement "Set s ⊆ Type t" as something like "∀i: sᵢ instanceof t"
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Medicare and Medicaid are not exclusive. They call it "dual eligible". (PDF WARNING) https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination/Medicare-... This lists 20% of Medicare and 15% of Medicaid enrolled ar
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by jdmichal 5y ago
I'm not even sure this question means. My previous post is the counter to the book's author's proposal. PIE had abstract vocabulary and several words for existence, including a pure copula "to be", and words such
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by jdmichal 5y ago
There's pretty clear reconstructions for abstract terms in PIE. And there were certainly copula verbs to indicate existence. PIE was not cavemen grunting. The fact that we can reconstruct it so well from languages spanning two conti
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by jdmichal 5y ago
As others have mentioned, that etymology section is complete bunk. Sanskrit and English words have similarities because they are both Indo-European, and those specific words are descended pretty directly from PIE roots. https://
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> Finally, an insanely blue blue has been invented, bluer than any other blue paint in the past. The artist highlighted above attempts to showcase the new technology in its purest form. I was thinking something along these lines. Based
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by jdmichal 5y ago
... So basically they're exactly like every other content network that currently exists?
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We're doing the same. Actively moving away from Kafka, which was only ever used as a message queue anyway, to an actual message queue. We might move back at some point in the future to rebuild an actual event-driven processing model.
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Yep. We all had either TI-89 or -92. I used it to check myself after doing practice problems.
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Yes, except not obvious and usually involving irrationals, so good luck figuring it out.
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My AP calculus teacher allowed us to use calculators on our tests. Why? Because he knew exactly how to design questions such that the calculator would switch from exact to approximation mode. So you could enter any problem on the test
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by jdmichal 5y ago
I was on vacation. So more alive than typical, but dead to those who usually see me around.
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I remember seeing an elevator once that lit up both the up and down arrows when arriving if it didn't have a set destination yet. I called it Schroedinger's elevator -- neither going up or down until observed to move.
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> So someone who makes a truly groundbreaking invention but for some reason (e.g. it requires huge capital) does not want to create a company for manufacturing it, should not be able to use patents? If it's "truly groundbreakin
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> why bother serving wine from bottles with impractical corks, each table should just have a wine hose with a tap To be fair, you just 100% described a keg. It's just not common -- or is even non-existent? -- for wine to come in ke
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by jdmichal 5y ago
All my git training starts with a whiteboard and drawing out a commit tree and branch pointers. I only talk about the commands in reference to the drawings, not the other way around. Most commands are manipulating this commit tree, so it
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The mesh material is extremely thin. As long as you're focusing past it, you don't see the mesh itself. Just maybe the color of it, which is why black mesh is a popular color.
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Net worth is deceptive, because that's going to include illiquid assets such as housing. Are people supposed to take out a HELOC to pay their medical bills?

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