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by jsbg 4y ago
if you like wine at all, then there is absolutely a correlation between enjoyment and price; that the correlation isn't 1.0 doesn't mean that wine is fake
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by jsbg 4y ago
> Is this goodbye to @ElonJet? No. [0] [0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456
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by jsbg 4y ago
"The truths of mathematics would be the same, because they're true by definition" means that "( x => y ) AND x " means y is true based on the definition of => and AND. There's no "philosophy&quo
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by jsbg 4y ago
I hadn't heard of it but it's a good rule! There are too many examples of code that was abstracted out to be shared between uses that end up evolving independently, and the abstraction ends up with a bunch of if-statements and con
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by jsbg 4y ago
> over-refactoring into tiny one-line functions It's relatively rare to refactor a single line of code into its own function, unless it's really hard to read, e.g. some nasty regex. > even if they're supposedly so self
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by jsbg 4y ago
> If breaking up the code makes it slightly less easy to understand right now, but will make it easier to add some feature later that you know you know you're definitely going to need, then hold off. This. Your code shouldn't b
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by jsbg 4y ago
Into the Inferno - Werner Herzog. Documentary on volcanoes where the director allows the filming locations to bring other topics to the forefront. Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World - Werner Herzog. Film about the internet. The
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by jsbg 4y ago
tl;dr: the algorithm splits the audio into blocks (default is 4096 samples per block). Then a polynomial is used to approximate the wave for the block, and residuals are calculated for each sample by subtracting the approximation. The resid
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FLAC – Format overview(xiph.org)
265 points by jsbg 4y ago|237 comments
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by jsbg 5y ago
> There's nothing more demotivating than spending 8 hours on a problem, feeling good about your solution, and then having some "senior" developer come along and tell you to rewrite it "for readability." While a s
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by jsbg 6y ago
What's wrong with dry air in the winter? Humidity + cold is unbearable. I'd much rather have to put on lotion.
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A Guide to Monads in Haskell(medium.com)
5 points by jsbg 6y ago|0 comments
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Is the Network Turing-Complete? [pdf](infoscience.epfl.ch)
21 points by jsbg 11y ago|0 comments
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Is the Network Turing-Complete? [pdf](infoscience.epfl.ch)
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by jsbg 11y ago
Someone wrote an implementation of COMEFROM (a joke response to the Dijkstra article) along with GOTO in Python for an April fools' day joke as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
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by jsbg 11y ago
Tea contains l-theanine, which, when combined with caffeine, has been shown to improve concentration. You can get the same effect by drinking coffee and taking l-theanine pills.
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by jsbg 12y ago
This part, though somewhat unrelated to the topic, is pleasantly insightful: > Saying yes as often as possible is, famously, the first rule of improv, vital to maintaining energy, imagination, and humor. It is also, I have long thought,