jimmyed

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by jimmyed 5y ago
> Macros cannot change Nim's syntax because there is no need for it — the syntax is flexible enough. Erm, what? How about letting the user decide that?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Ah, 1940s, when US was at the height of it's power. We will never be that great ever again...
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by jimmyed 5y ago
The calendar flips don't scale as well as the EA does. The holidays are just an example, there are a million similar things that the EA can do with the same training.
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India's new Farmer Laws repealed(indiatvnews.com)
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by jimmyed 5y ago
There are some cheap Chinese phones that allow sending out some EM waves to control ACs etc. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duokan.pho...
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Our way was murderous, maybe the worst way to do it. Maybe the only other case where it was worse was in New Zealand where the Māori people were almost completely decimated. In comparision, the Britishers were saints. They did not perform g
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by jimmyed 5y ago
I found the focus on first class passengers quite interesting. There are guidelines along the lines of "no provision to be made of toilets if there are no first class passengers", "make sure to have separate waiting rooms for
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Wow, the British sure were really petty.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Not exactly a fair analogy, since we need a very large amount of water per head compared to salt (unless you are a freman).
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by jimmyed 5y ago
This is better described as a Seal. Another great seal to savor is Mughal Emperor Alamgir's https://mobile.twitter.com/mkapoorofficial/status/1095588089...
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Why not put a hash index on the four columns? By normalising, you get an index but maybe b tree, which isn't best here for exact matching?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
It can also reason about control flow. It does constant folding etc, is it at least theoretically possible to do alloc optimization?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Can you be more specific? Microsoft is big, I am guessing you don't mean Microsoft Lahore?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
"folks are diverse...in terms of background" Tells me they don't have any other diversity (hopefully not due to a deliberate policy)
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by jimmyed 5y ago
(loxias has an mit edu address)
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Low level code has to take extreme care of avoiding as many allocs as possible, wonder when the compiler will be smart enough to do these optimizations automatically...
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by jimmyed 5y ago
> When one sibling is executing, the other must wait. SMT is useful because CPUs often go idle while waiting for events — usually the arrival of data from memory. While one CPU waits, the other can be executing Is this accurate? I was u
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by jimmyed 5y ago
> with some great research and motions he spent Christmas writing. It helps that Amit doesn't celebrate Christmas and needs holidays.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Holy cow, I seemed like a fun little project until I saw the android AND iOS apps! Some folks don't know when to stop, or maybe that's most of us ..
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Spoken like a true Brit.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
The phrase "spice trader" has such a lovely old world charm to it! Or maybe it's because I am from the GB.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
It's one of the spices. There is no ISO-like standard for making chai and there is variation, but cinnamon is most often not added at all. (Disclaimer: I spent 12 years operating a tea stall in Shimla)
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Ah, the genius of being at the right time among the right people, and having an all-too-helpful assistant...
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Someone using their phone will throw this off too I'm guessing...
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by jimmyed 5y ago
You my friend, haven't been invited to parties at fancy places a lot, have you?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Why does the paper have the title of a clickbaitey BuzzFeed article?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
It means you probably shouldn't be on Hackernews
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Is the man still traveling? It says the last modification date was 2002 on the web1.0site
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Wow, taking"just do it" to another level. Anyone wishing to join me as I travel to the Lakshadweep Islands later this year and have an attempt at the North Sentinel Islands?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
What are some great computer science magazines to read today? BYTE seems amazingly technical, something like that still in print today would be a dream come true...

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