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by jordigh 9y ago
I'm rather bothered that I know nothing about Soros except a bunch of vague, negative feelings about him that have pop-culturally osmosed to me through constant usage of his name in 4channish/the_donaldish media. He's some ki
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by jordigh 9y ago
It's nice to see some D ideas make it into C++. I think that D is kind of like Mercurial: both less popular than some other wildly popular alternative, but we still hope that at least some of their ideas trickle back into the more popu
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by jordigh 9y ago
> In simple terms, this means you can use it for free in open source projects that are also licensed under the GPL That's not really what being licensed under the GPL means. PC-BSD thought that they had to license their own stuff un
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by jordigh 9y ago
No, it has a lot of original code too.
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By unpopular demand, let's talk greenhouse gas accounting(mathstodon.xyz)
1 points by jordigh 9y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 9y ago
I find this a really sinister bargain too. Citizen, allow yourself to be manipulated, or capitalism will crumble. Watch this ad designed to make you buy a car, or the website gets it! There are other ways. Ask for donations, like Wikipedia
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by jordigh 9y ago
To me, "better ads" sounds like "humane torture" or "acceptable manipulation". The principle of ads is repugnant to me. There's no way to make it better. I don't need to be psychologically manipulated
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by jordigh 9y ago
D. It really is a great successor to C++, with lots of new ideas taken from other languages too, and some very insightful language designers. I wish people would give it more of a chance and not stop at "it has a GC" and decide th
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by jordigh 9y ago
> A simple query language Oh, nice, finally someone implemented something like Mercurial revsets for git: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/help/revsets I've been hoping that even if nobody ever u
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by jordigh 9y ago
It's slightly funny how alternative git user interfaces are their own cottage industry. It's been like this pretty much since day one: https://public-inbox.org/git/20060210195914.GA1350@spearce.o... In a way,
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by jordigh 9y ago
It refers to almost the same software. The difference is more on emphasis and what you care about than the set of software it refers to. It's about the underlying philosophy. I say this because it's important to remember that open
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by jordigh 9y ago
Raw string manipulation in D's mixins is much more limited than in CPP, and it's also not the only tool available for metaprogramming. https://dlang.org/mixin.html > constexpr means C++ also has static if, comp
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by jordigh 9y ago
Very true! I wish D's metaprogramming was slightly more structured instead of relying on raw string concatenation. However, it's not so bad, and it's miles ahead of C++ metaprogramming in terms of ease of use. It's nice
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by jordigh 9y ago
C++ metaprogramming was an accident. Expression templates are a huge, obscure, and very surprising hack. I don't know about you, but I find them really hard to understand. SFINAE wasn't meant to be used for compile-time branchin
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by jordigh 9y ago
D's Mir does the same sort of thing, and metaprogramming in D is much nicer, because it was designed from the ground up instead of the bug elevated to feature that metaprogramming is in C++. http://docs.mir.dlang.io/lat
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by jordigh 9y ago
No, Mailpile isn't a charity. But the Mozilla foundation isn't the one fronting money for this job, is it? Doesn't that money come from the Mozilla Corporation? Hm, the job ad says that MoFo is the fiscal home, but the candid
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by jordigh 9y ago
Is it a charity? It's the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation. Despite some explanations I've received, I've never quite understood how the money flows there. I suppose I could look up their financial statements, b
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by jordigh 9y ago
Well, the Mailpile job ad also says that they're trying to make it easier to install on Windows and macOS and that they got the funds from the bitcoin fluctuations. It's also not "just" a job ad. Mailpile is interesting
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by jordigh 9y ago
I see. Those things, except for the popularity, also apply to Mailpile. I guess that's the big difference.
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by jordigh 9y ago
Huh, I was going to post this story, but I thought it was not allowed because it's a job posting and I had to wait until the Who is Hiring thread. So, if posting jobs for working on free applications is ok outside of Who Is Hiring, let
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by jordigh 9y ago
The FSF announcement about it: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/victory-for-libre-networ... Look in particular at that cool video in it. Someone posts a video to Peertube, which gets federated to Mastodon. Peop
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Victory for libre networks: ActivityPub is now a W3C recommended standard(fsf.org)
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by jordigh 9y ago
I don't think yellow journalism has the same properties as fake news. For one, yellow journalism doesn't try to deceive its readers as being as the same source as another more reputable source. With print media, this was harder to
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by jordigh 9y ago
No, "fake news" refers to a very specific phenomenon. It's not just any kind of misleading or incorrect reporting. Trump was the one to start saying "not fake news, YOU'RE fake news", but the phenomenon as init
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by jordigh 9y ago
No, "fake news" refers to a very specific phenomenon. It's not just any kind of misleading or incorrect reporting. Trump was the one to start saying "not fake news, YOU'RE fake news", but the phenomenon as init
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by jordigh 9y ago
> Why would you assume that D or Rust would be make developers more productive? If the developer already knows C++, then switching to D Because D is very obviously C++ but better. Rust isn't, though. But D, down to the very name, ha
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by jordigh 9y ago
A Jacobian is often used in optimisation. In machine learning, optimisation is often relabelled "learning", because they're finding the minimum of a cost function, also sometimes called an error function. You may have heard o
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by jordigh 9y ago
You were one of that day's lucky 10,000: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
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by jordigh 9y ago
All jokes aside, Terry is writing to an audience where this is utterly elementary. The phrase "it is well known" is seldom misused. Yes, anyone who knows anything about the Fourier transform will know the Gaussian is a fixed point
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by jordigh 9y ago
> The very same democrats who mock Trump supporters for not denouncing him when he said "Grab them by the pussy" What does that have to do with Obama? Trump wasn't in the picture when Obama did any of this. This whole &quo

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