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by jhgb 5y ago
> That’s a smart way to represent a trie, with identical ‘tail’ ends of the trie merged into one. That sounds like a DAG-shaped FSM to me...? At least I can't spot the difference.
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by jhgb 5y ago
> (And, before anyone mentions it, since this isn't some low-level/hardware related thing, you don't need to use unsafe Rust). That only makes sense if all your code is in Rust, but I suspect this is not true for foreign
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by jhgb 5y ago
> So, is C good or not? We're talking about memory safety, C provides literally none. Is this not objectively inferior? Now, I would argue that it's not, it's an engineering trade-off that one can make, trading safety for
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by jhgb 5y ago
> it was designed to slow down typing so typewriters wouldn't jam I'm not quite sure that this is what actually happened: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433...
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by jhgb 5y ago
How can the researchers be 100% sure in what year the paper will get published? I imagine that at best they could put the year of submission into the paper, but that's about it.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Not creating novelty waste is not a downside.
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by jhgb 5y ago
> the only way to have produced zero emissions was to not mine the bitcoin at all Yes, obviously. And what's the downside of that?
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by jhgb 5y ago
False dichotomy; they could have done neither. NOT operating an old coal plant NOR building a new plant would have produced zero emissions.
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by jhgb 5y ago
I knew there was something I forgot about; SVGO was probably it. Thanks!
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by jhgb 5y ago
This algorithm should find that very pixel snapping if it exists. Path simplification seems like a more complicated issue, but also promising of course.
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by jhgb 5y ago
That doesn't sound like something jeff_vader was talking about, since "deleting any old data was rejected" and this is definitely a way of deleting stuff.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Smart quantization of SVG paths sounds like a neat problem. Is there no existing tool for it already? Along the lines of pngcrush or similar. This may be too-stupid-to-work but what immediately comes to my mind is normalizing all coordinate
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Now you want to actually trace something. There is at least three ways to it: > * write all intersection and BVH code by yourself; > * build and use open-source third-party library; > * use something like Intel Embree. How
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by jhgb 5y ago
That is a bizarre argument to me. "Stolen"? Plant species spread. Sometimes they're even being spread by animals. Humans have spread numerous plant species across the world. Yet tea plants were "stolen"? Not to ment
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by jhgb 5y ago
By your logic the Jomon culture imported the knowledge of ceramics from Moravia because the Venus of Dolní Věstonice predates the Jomon culture. I'm not quite sure this is how it works. > they could not possibly have ever made or ev
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by jhgb 5y ago
> It is vanishingly unlikely pasta was invented in Ancient Rome I never said it was. It's just that by then , it had already been known in Europe. So it certainly wasn't an import from China. > American-Chinese cuisine was
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by jhgb 5y ago
Infusion may be a technology, but tea is definitely a drink.
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by jhgb 5y ago
The notion of pouring hot water over plant leaves is not something that had to be "stolen" from China. For example it's been known in Ancient Egypt already.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Gunpowder spread to Middle East first, pasta was already being made in Ancient Rome at the very least, and lots of, if not most of "Chinese food" is Chinese-in-name-only.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Then you'd have to sue your business competitors if they manage to capture a part of your market. After all you've been deprived by them of the benefit of getting money from that part of the market.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Tea is not "a technology". It's a drink.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Keys set aside, one can now use Free42 on a phone to get a taste.
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by jhgb 5y ago
> the idea of highlighting a specific part of the expression that can't be resolved jumped from one language to another within the last year CMUCL/SBCL must have supported this for decades.
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by jhgb 5y ago
If anyone (like me) is looking for a map (which seems to be missing from the article), the per-country data is apparently on https://www.pollution.org .
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by jhgb 5y ago
Well, I imagine that it would be possible by expressing its semantics using continuations. Implementing exception handling using call/cc seems like one of them favorite Scheme homeworks. And if you implement it that way, you should the
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by jhgb 5y ago
> But destroy the world? If by "world", it meant "human world", not "the planet", and your intention were to bring our civilization into total chaos, post-Roman-Empire-style, then you'd think that killi
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by jhgb 5y ago
> A 45 degree turn by a fighter jet might mean only a few degrees turned by the sidewinder missile fired from behind. This is true for some "classic" guidance laws (such as proportional guidance), but is it true for optimal gui
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by jhgb 5y ago
> a "sip" of orange juice is indeed a lot of energy, about 80 kJ [1], and if you could extract that much energy from one person every 10 seconds you'd get 8 kW, which could power a decent sized lobby if the lighting is ef
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by jhgb 5y ago
I wonder if this is where the "red clay clods" from Stuart Smith's Rivers of Light came from, since pretty much anything in that game seems to be based on ancient history and/or mythology.
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by jhgb 5y ago
I've already known about Atom and Jupyter, but not about anything actually usable for VS Code.

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