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by jfoutz 6y ago
maybe this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_paradox depending on where you stand, the ladder can fit in the garage, or it can't. If I remember right, it's from the original special relativity paper,
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Somewhere there's an interview with him talking about this gaffe. He spoke a bit about going off script, and starting the "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" aphorism. It captured his intent precisely. it
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I wish I could find the reference, there's an old Roman (Greek? likely older?) rhetorical trick to public speaking. The speech flows as you invite people to your home, and walk them through it. So, the front door is like the greeting,
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by jfoutz 6y ago
The container gets trucked nationality
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by jfoutz 6y ago
You did take the time to comment, so there's probably a little room for less caring. Sorry for the pedantry, but it is hn, so possibly ok.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
very very tangentially related, but I think interesting. US Sherman tanks were not very good tanks. But there were a lot of them, and they were crewed by kids who grew up on farms. Those kids likely spend a fair amount of time keeping the t
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Gates of fire is a great book, that I would recommend. But it’s a novel. The Spartans didn’t really write anything down. All the character interaction is great, but cut from whole cloth of the author s imagination. It’s a great story. The b
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by jfoutz 6y ago
My hometown used cinders. About the same as sand, but better at absorbing sunlight. No idea where they got them from.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I think it’s more about timing. Rfp in 2015, the ev landscape was different, and not super clear battery technology would be where it is now.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
if you go down the Restart=always route, please take a long look at StartLimitIntervalSec, RestartSec, StartLimitBurst. in some failure modes always isn't quite always always.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Ah, apologies. my comment is a bit of a troll. Once the compiler encounters undefined behavior, it's free to do whatever it wants. like, produce an executable that does exit(0); when it hits that condition. Compiler writers are general
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by jfoutz 6y ago
It’s pretty sweet for optimization though. Doing Nothing is almost always faster than the alternatives.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I think if a maze has an entrance and and exit, and there's some surface tension at the leading edge, when you pour water into the entrance, it'll fill the maze like a breadth first search. as soon as the water can flow freely at
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I have a different take. Compilers are usually the first really big project students encounter. There's a lot of complexity around keeping things organized and still efficient. There's a lot of real world hassle around both ends -
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by jfoutz 6y ago
> There's a middle ground between our terrible war on drugs and the naive "make it all legal and experiment with heroin!" I wholeheartedly agree. a couple google searches showed buying alcohol for a minor was a $1000 fine,
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Darn keming.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
2020 taught me a lot more about cooking than I ever would have gone out of my way to learn on my own. I've never cooked with what I imagine to be a perfect seasoning on my skillet. I just cook with it. I sorta wonder if there's a
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by jfoutz 6y ago
this is a funny and thought provoking article. There's a bit of texture that I feel is missing, and I feel personally attacked, so I'm going to throw up a weak defense of category theory web servers. Back in the day, in perl I&#x2
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Good distinction. The difference between eating all of dinner and still being hungry, versus eating all the food in the house and still being hungry. Hand waving metaphor, but more visceral.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. At the end of the day, we all pay for the roads, we should all be allowed to use them. But I have done a little speeding on scenic routes.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
It's late and I must be missing something (or maybe a lot). ordered by key? ordered by value? ordered by insertion/update time? Ordered for enumeration? or ordered where I can provide my own search? binary search is great, but I
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by jfoutz 6y ago
To elaborate a bit, I came from a perl, java background. I'm aware of clos protocols, I've fiddled with squeak and the "here's a test case, give me all the functions that pass the test". Different languages have dif
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Uh, not typeclasses specifically, but Haskell gets a bit of hype. Typeclasses deliver so much, I think they alone make the pain of learning worth it.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Haskell typeclasses. They really are interfaces that don’t leak. Solid state disks. Huge speed boost.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
coordinating conjunctions are wierd. and, or, for, but, yet, so, nor. Nor is sort of an oddball there, since it continues negated clauses, well I use it to. - my jeans were neither creased nor dirty. Yet fits in a ton of places as well.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Uh, kinda.I think I get what you're saying, but I think you're framing it in a fairly shallow way. I think someone good will avoid just copy and pasting the code. Shallow similarity makes it easy to thread a boolean or do somethin
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I've worked with some amazing programmers that produce fabulous amounts of code. and, often, that's who you need. I have been envious of their prodigious production. I think, often, those folks solve problems by adding more code.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Thank you for your clarity. This discussion chain may have kicked of an existential crisis. I think you might have exposed me to a Lovecraftian horror. The article and your discussion have been, if not mind altering, very much mind expandin
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by jfoutz 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel I think some indie movies as well, but don’t have a handy reference on my phone.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Been a few years since I read the book, absolutely - these are the highlights. If I recall correctly there are failures as well. The book walks through how to read annual reports so hopefully the reader isn't picking totally fake compa

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