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by kaashif 2y ago
C++ has many issues but it has actually supported non nullable references right from the start. Everything is riddled with foot guns and escape hatches but references can't be null.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Okay, but A and B are both repelled outward and it explodes. So the conclusion is any proton star would just explode? That's what I already thought.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Complex analysis is far too nice. There are so many theorems where my first thought was "there's no way that's true". Picard's great theorem is totally insane. As is even its little brother, and even Liouville'
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by kaashif 2y ago
> That's because the repulsion is going in all directions and nets out against itself but all the gravity points inwards cumulatively. Is that true? All of the protons repel all other protons with the electric force and attract with
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by kaashif 2y ago
That definition is on page 18, I agree it could've been reached a bit faster but a lot of the preceding material is motivation, puzzles, and examples. This definition isn't the end goal, the physics things are.
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by kaashif 2y ago
The arrow doesn't go one way. Understanding and fluency go hand in hand. When you have all of the theorems and techniques at your fingertips, understanding actually is easier. And vice versa. But "understanding" on its own do
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by kaashif 2y ago
A lot of people don't seem to understand that fluency in problem solving comes partially from memorization. Memorizing all of the theorems you need, proofs, and a diverse set of examples is going to make it substantially easier to appr
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by kaashif 2y ago
I obviously failed to communicate my point, I'll try one last time. If I ask you to imagine you can see something, and you haven't decided on basic details like what it looks like, this is exactly equivalent in my mind to me sayin
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by kaashif 2y ago
My point is this: if I tell you to close your eyes and form the image of a teacup in your mind, images certainly have colour and shape, so either your image does too, or you don't have an image. It's really just down to a differin
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by kaashif 2y ago
> If I cover your eyes and put a teacup on your open palm so you can't see the colour or feel the size, _what are you holding_? I obviously failed to communicate what I was saying. If you give me a teacup and tell me to imagine I ca
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by kaashif 2y ago
> Another small number of people talk about imagining complete objects out of nowhere that they then have to analyse to describe; the imaginary thing has complete shape before its shape is described. But this is different from the kids t
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by kaashif 2y ago
It doesn't seem like nature is "in perfect balance" over long timescales. The formation of the Earth was not balance. The evolution of life wasn't balance - it was a clear progression from no life to life. The atmosphere
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by kaashif 2y ago
At this point, the simplest explanation is that it actually is malware. A more credible explanation than security researchers making something that looks this much like malware, but actually isn't.
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by kaashif 2y ago
> but if we scale to twice the processing power, then start accepting twice the request rate – we will actually be serving each request in half the time we originally did. People usually add processing power by adding more parallelism -
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by kaashif 2y ago
The initial events described in the article happened around 20 years ago.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Do you have a link to the discussion where this was very well pondered? I can't find anything, but I'm very interested in that kind of discussion.
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by kaashif 2y ago
"betrays" means to expose, to be evidence of, particularly unintentionally. i.e. "poor grammar unintentionally exposed unclear thinking"
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by kaashif 2y ago
Not quite. There is information that's not part of the price system. National defense isn't going to be priced in by markets. And food security is national security, even if it's "more efficient" to ship food in fro
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by kaashif 2y ago
I think you must have misread the comment. The comment is very clearly anti-landowner and saying if an LVT were repealed, labour and enterprise would be taxed instead, which is bad. Nothing to do with trickle down.
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by kaashif 2y ago
What is the average gamer's tongue stamina or tongue dexterity like? How long do you have to practice to improve for this to actually be useful? I feel like it's probably pretty hard to get good with this.
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by kaashif 2y ago
> The way it stands now is that it’s a nice tax write of the the company and a great way to play the heads I win tails you lose game. What do you mean by this? Can you elaborate?
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by kaashif 2y ago
Protection from the elements is only needed in some places. If humans simply lived in the savannah and abandoned useless technologies like shelter and agriculture, we'd all be better off. Frankly I don't see the point of shelter.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Which consonant merger is that?
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by kaashif 2y ago
This isn't language, it's accent, but in America the vast majority of speakers merge lots of vowels - cot/caught are merged, Mary/marry/merry are merged. It certainly does simplify pronunciation.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Yes. There's a difference between thinking you understand something and having to prove it via problems. Often that's how I discover I didn't really understand something at all.
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by kaashif 2y ago
I get why parents make kids do extracurriculars (US college admissions arms race), and I get that school starts very early in the US (7:30 IIRC), and I get that some kids just have to work to bring in more money. But not allowing your kids
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by kaashif 2y ago
I thought that if they're different glyphs they're different characters. Surely the fact that they're represented differently in ASCII means ASCII regards them as different characters? Whether they're different glyphs or
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by kaashif 2y ago
I don't know if that's right. The most obvious way two characters can be the same is if they actually look exactly the same i.e. are homoglyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph But no filesystem I am a
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by kaashif 2y ago
> “e” and “E” are the same character They don't look like the same character to me. A character is a written symbol. These are different symbols. What definition of "character" are you using where they're the same cha
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by kaashif 2y ago
There's no reason some of your coworkers can't also be your friends. You can tell if your coworkers are your friends if you're still friends and hang out after you leave the job. Having friends at work doesn't mean you d

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