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by jhgb 4y ago
In Soviet Union, the "startups are supported by the governments" was not true. Neither was the "no real classes" part because Nomenklatura existed. The real reason why people had "very few incentives to start new co
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by jhgb 4y ago
Wow. So in the past I used to tell myself "it's the Cadence RESEARCH Systems that has something to do with Scheme" (they used to make Chez Scheme before Cisco bought them), but now you're telling me that both Cadence RES
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by jhgb 4y ago
I thought that "political maps" simply meant sovereign state borders (as it does in Czech, German, and possibly other languages as well), and that this would be about unchanging borders. For example Bohemia has had some pretty sta
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by jhgb 4y ago
Thanks. This seems mildly ungoogleable, or at least I haven't been able to find a good search result for this. So I'll keep in mind that these are three distinct types with the same aliasing behavior.
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by jhgb 4y ago
Is signed char and unsigned char subject to the same "can alias anything" rule? I never bothered to think about this in the past. Now I'm not sure. I've known that the three types are distinct, but that just means that t
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by jhgb 4y ago
I'm sort-of, kind-of aware of the issue but what surprised me was how std::string pulls this into picture here. Is this because of what str[i] gets compiled into when str is a basic_string of chars? That seems non-obvious to me because
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by jhgb 4y ago
Never heard of Trump University?
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by jhgb 4y ago
Which is a strange thing to claim because e.g. in Germany, Protestants and Catholics "coexist in the successful European model", whatever that means. Claims of "can only thrive" are trivially refuted by counterexamples.
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by jhgb 4y ago
Ah, I see what you mean, but if you contrast "automatic differentiation" and "algorithmic differentiation" with each other, it's counterintuitive to me that these terms should be "oriented" differently. Ei
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by jhgb 4y ago
> I've found algorithmic (I prefer this to "automatic") differentiation Isn't every differentiation algorithmic? It's typically integration where you often use intuition in substitution, unless you're using
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Those countries are more demographically/culturally uniform and are higher trust societies What does that even mean?
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by jhgb 4y ago
Well of course they're feasible. The Soviet Union was feasible. Ancient Mesopotamian societies were feasible. The Aztec Empire was feasible. Feasibility is the lowest bar for picking a solution. All it means is that it's not physi
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Take HTML/CSS. Ten years ago, I would've killed for Flexbox alone. I wonder if the author knew about Sciter back then. Which reminds me that I still need to look into how one could generate Sciter UIs and web browser UIs from
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by jhgb 4y ago
At that point, you save money by paying a servant. Not by messing around with a dishwasher yourself.
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by jhgb 4y ago
Good news - a new version of Slackware was released just for you! ;) (And me as well, actually)
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by jhgb 4y ago
And if it were emitting 10¹² times as much power, like even a small interstellar vessel would, we wouldn't even have to know exactly where it is.
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Some sort of ship emitting enough power to be detected at a non-trivial distance from Earth (see inverse square law) would vaporize itself. Then you can say goodbye to those robotic spaceships. Note that I'm not claiming that the
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by jhgb 4y ago
I'm not aware of any such services in the Czech Republic, for example, opt-in or not.
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by jhgb 4y ago
Maybe we have, but those don't emit terawatts of power while trying to propel themselves in interstellar space.
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by jhgb 4y ago
You should still be able to see them, even from distance, if they have any reasonable power output. Stealth doesn't really work in space.
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Any feedback would be appreciated, do you think this could become something that would be fun to play? Combine this with Hatetris, perhaps? Oh, wait, you said "fun"...
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by jhgb 4y ago
...or knew about octal numbers. (Does it even work on old Unix people?)
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by jhgb 4y ago
Well, yes. But you can't devirtualize until you know the types as well as possible, which is after "de-generifying", so as to speak (I don't really know what terminology .NET uses for this).
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Yep. I spent the last few days surveying the cross-platform GUI landscape. It really is pretty sad. Qt and wxWidgets seem super bloated, and the Qt company appears to be actively attempting to escape from their open source obligations
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by jhgb 4y ago
This is to be expected with what are essentially pointers to heap objects. The actual code being executed only manipulates machine-word-sized values with the same semantics, so it makes little sense to have copies of the same code.
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Every user gets a separate DB file, and a cron job syncs their records Call it SQLitus Notes or something like that?
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by jhgb 4y ago
That's like saying that analog computers hadn't existed until digital computers appeared because only after the advent of digital computers someone started calling a certain thing "an analog computer". Just because you d
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by jhgb 4y ago
> running JavaScript universally or as some like to say, isomorphically, that is, both on the server and on the client "Universally"? "Isomorphically"? These people sure as hell are trying way too hard to avoid using
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by jhgb 4y ago
On that note, one thing I've wanted to do for quite some time is an application that would allow you to open an image file or a set of image files with a particular style of map and it would try to replicate that style with OSM data. I
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by jhgb 4y ago
Perhaps you could do a similar thing with a book. Randomly open it and blindly point to a line in the book. Then do something with that line.

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