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by jll29 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! And kudos to a boss who is also a friend - there are so many people far away from their loved ones, and therefore lonely, on what should be the happiest day of the year for all - so everyone, please remember who you coul
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by jll29 2y ago
That's a beautiful animation (and useful maths ;-). In the spirit of minimalism, Merry Christmas to all HNers with this little but time-tested command: $ xmastree 5 9 2024` *
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by jll29 2y ago
I loved Merlin (discontinued Web-based tool from a Hamburg, Germany, based small company) and have often used OmniPlan on the Mac, which has great usability. Microsoft Project sucks, but it useful as an "industry standard" file in
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by jll29 2y ago
Any information created by humans is part of our "culture". You may consider it of no value, but someone else may beg to differ. I went to a fantastic talk a few years ago at the British Library about digitizing a substantial quan
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by jll29 2y ago
"confined to" is an association I have with sluggy Web GUIs, not with ssh sessions... The tool seems a great idea (I was equally shocked that it's all Bash scripts, and expected Rust), but calling it -- with bash ./dline
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by jll29 2y ago
Fix your points of regret while this is still possible. If you do so, you will find that very likely, you will want to go once successful.
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by jll29 2y ago
To ask "why are you here?" suggests these people were poorly raised or just plain rude. Attendees of a funeral make an effort to pay their respects to the deceased and to express their condolences to the family left behind.
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by jll29 2y ago
I refuse to believe for a second that your attendance was considered inappropriate; the person being burried at least would have surely been happy for you to be there and think of him or her. Also, your intentions are to be commended regard
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by jll29 2y ago
I'm surprised the author doesn't mention LISP, despite recognizing at some point that programming also IS language design (without explicitly calling it meta-linguistic abstraction, unlike SICP). LISP is the language/notation
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I also find it more useful to teach something real , not a toy. Even PASCAL was never a toy, though it was designed motivated by teaching purpose, it became professional because it was capable of that. When I told some friends I was going
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by jll29 2y ago
Technically, the term "insider witness of the prosecution" could fit his role.
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DOIs fix that.
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Donald Knuth's literate computing could be an example to follow: combine lean prove language with inline English human language that explains it. Then, Lean files can be fed into Lean to check the proof, and LaTeX files can be fed into
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by jll29 2y ago
Confusingly, for those on here that think to pee is about output of some pipes, man pee says otherwise: PEE(1) NAME pee - tee standard input to pipes
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by jll29 2y ago
It may help that I hate soft drinks and don't like alcohol. But I'll never give up bread, pizza, pasta and chocolate. Anyhow, better n happy years than (n + x) miserable years, and where x remains unknown.
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by jll29 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. Simplicity is a good thing. In order to speed it up by reducing the number of malloc() calls, it may be worth adding a simple arena memory allocation measure: by allocating one larger block (e.g. 1 MB) initially and then
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Cześć! Since when does SAP have competitors? ;-P A friend of mine claims most research is nowadays done by undergraduates because all senior folks are too busy.
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> definition-theorem-reason-proof Along the lines of your own argument: even better would be reason0-definition-reason1-theorem-reason2-proof
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by jll29 2y ago
> "If you like biology at school, do psychology at university. If you like chemistry, do biology. If you like physics, do chemistry. If you like maths, do physics and if you like philosophy, do maths" This is good advice if the
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by jll29 2y ago
I agree - I would happily pay for a print subscription and donate a second one to the nearest high school (although teens may no longer visit the library, so you'd probably have to spread the magazines in toilets, corridors and cafes).
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by jll29 2y ago
Yes, Java is too verbose, but Kotlins cleaned up much of that boilerplate and runs on the same VM. I'd be curious to see examples for where you think Rust is still to verbose.
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by jll29 2y ago
One of my dreams is for someone to create a Rust stdlib, full stop. I love Rust the language, but the current bazar of little bits of functionality scattered around in the form of a zoo of crates is such a mess compared to, say, Java's
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by jll29 2y ago
Interesting. Do you have any peer reviewed scientific publications or technical reports regarding this work? We also compared Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure as well as a bunch of smaller players (from Edinburgh and Cambridge) and - consist
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Are you kidding? I started reading the X11 handbook series in the 1980s and now it's 2024 and I'm nearly finished, and you want to replace it? ;-)
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There is also the related joke [I think by Jamie W. Zawinski of Netscape Navigator fame] that any sufficiently complex program eventually will be enabled to send email, and its sister joke that any sufficiently complex program eventually wi
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Plenty of November birthdays because it's cold in Februrary (11 - 9 = 2).
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by jll29 2y ago
Correct; here are some papers that cite the paper above in case folks are looking for more: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=6968059276866815065... I would assume that a lot of people now experiment with Large Langu
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The situation is very heterogeneous: not all Israelis are okay with what their government does, and are increasingly outspoken against it. Not all Israelis are Jewish: note also that substantial numbers of Israelis are of Arab background, s
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Yes, if there is any moral norm that anyone, especially any parent would accept - as closely to universal as possible, perhaps - it is that killing children is evil.
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> a free, rights-protecting nation has no basis for an agreement [between any two or more states] with a dictatorship that routinely violates peoples' rights. Wikipedia quote: "States and non-state actors may choose to not abid

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