jojohohanon

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by jojohohanon 4y ago
This reminds of the worse is better debate. Specifically how the “better” crowd spent a lot of time trying to solve PCLSRing while the “worse” crowd just said: meh, throw an error and let the program figure it out. Previously https:/&
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
I think golang is designed intentionally to make it easy to read unfamiliar code. To paraphrase: The idea being that a well designed library api gets you 90% of the benefits of a richer language’s features, but without exactly that penalty
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
If we could support a larger file, we can just zero pad the counts (stored binary) to max needed length. Then we get accurate seek to entry # x. If that is not possible, precompute the average count representation length to get an accurate
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
I was disappointed in how the Dylan project ended up.
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
I always ask when one of these discussions comes up. Can anyone recommend a for that does all of these: * proportional (yes) * sans serif * has the common programming ligatures The proportional with programming ligatures bit tends to reduc
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
I think posts like these are why I haven’t even looked at rust as an alternative. Here the author has boiled the problem down to its minimal form, and it’s still 10s of lines of code. It is this weird overlap of over-verbosity a-la c++ and
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
Idk. Can we not link to paywalls?
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
Is the author of the spec here? I notice in section 6.1 reliability, the word “must” in clock going backwards mitigation is not MUST. Intentional?
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by jojohohanon 4y ago
Isn’t ignoring the difficult edge cases of commutative operations what got darcs and theory of patches into problems? I never used it (darcs) but got the impression that it was easy to get into merge cases that were very hard to resolve. (T
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
Oh. I thought it was a set of images of cites from satellite data that had no official name. Deniable cities, so to speak.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
I’ve not noticed malware so much, but several legit independent programming resources (baledung, as a random example of a possible target; not sure I’ve seen their content stolen) will have their content lifted wholesale, slightly cropped t
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
The Swedish rules I learned as a boy in a dingy included that leisure craft yield to commercial, regardless of propulsion.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
The economist publishes a Big Mac index of currency over/under valuations. I’m sure unions play a factor, but many others do as well.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
The worst thanksgiving menu ever. I can’t find the menu itself (basically Borax Soup Borax Salad Borax Turkey Desserts Borax) But it is referenced here https://www.wpr.org/borax-dinner-party-kickstarted-fda I will go look o
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
I am a huge Gibson fan, but had no clue new rose hotel even had an adaptation. I thought Johnny Memnonic was the only one! Thanks for the pointer.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27777717 <- urs
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
When hooked up to the grid, converting from electricity to heat for storage makes alot of sense (to me). But I'm curious about your case: why not use the old-fashioned solar water panels to create hot water directly?
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
oh. That's a bit disappointing. I was envisioning a clock where the second hand dragged the others every time it passed over. So the minute hand would only move when swept over by the minute hand, for as far as it needed to revolve. S
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
I'm assuming you need to unplug the battery to set the "true" time? Else you might be adjusting the "I'm in my +10 minutes phase" (for early clock, f.ex), turning it into late clock. (?)
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
This is super neat. I identified a desire for the tolerance clock (*) many years ago, but never thought I'd see it implemented. (*) The tolerance clock always displays time that is within some tolerance of true time, but that is all it
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
I would have liked to see a debate between Chock Moore and his Greenarrays chip and a Danny Hillis and the connection machine. Despite surface similarities, the two projects are very differnt (speed vs energy efficiency, simd vs mimd, lisp(
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
Does it have thiotimoline?
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
This. I loved my first job. Every thing about it. But looking back in hindsight, it was a vanity project of the ceo, and was never going to recoup the manpower investment. Requirements and goal posts were ever-shifting. I was too naive to
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
Previously [1], tho the pointed-to link is dead. Discussion there includes Plan 9's Venti filesystem, which I have always admired as throughly well engineered. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8286616
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
The examples on sile’s own webpage are hardly inspiring. Is it better than markdown, as laid out by my browser and the free pluggin, and saved to pdf? Not from those examples.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
A lifetime ago I was writing code for airline data processing. The specs are very clear about what the valid representation of every field was (less so about what they meant, but...). So we generated our parser to fail if field ORG/145
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
I guess I always assumed that IRC was decentralized; one server could drop, or go rogue, with no ill effects. But that's probably an anachronism, given the age of IRC.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
You give the tautological answer. All you say is true. Parent was saying that the Linux model has failed spectacularly to deliver the software they needed. Possibly there are categories of software illsuited for development by donated time
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
I would speculate no, as it seems a trade off between inherently stable and inefficient (standard v shaped hull) and inherently unstable, but more efficient (inverted v). Ekranoplans have wings and aerodynamic control surfaces. I also wonde
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
I am watching this talk now, and so far two things have stood out to me: 1. He flatly declares that forth is the only programming language he deems usable. No contributions to computer science since have added ANY value? 2. He called his pr

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