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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Piercing the corporate veil is a thing, though. I don’t know the details as I’m neither a lawyer nor a company owner, but my understanding is that you have to keep your and your company’s assets and activities completely separate, which re
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Especially with this expanded commentary, you do show some advantages of C++ over C, but you have only addressed the advice for how to proceed once you’ve chosen C and not the author’s reasons for preferring C to C++ (or any other language)
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That may be so, but the central thesis of the article is that C is the still the appropriate language in which to write libraries for interoperation. If you believe otherwise, I suspect that a rebuttal of the author’s arguments in favor of
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
C++ features don’t help when you’re programming in straight C, as the article advises.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I can’t advise on modern resources as I’ve known C for a while now, but I can speak a bit about the mindset required. Programming in C isn’t much different than programming in any other language, just without the safety railings. If you’r
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The target audience isn’t C programmers, but library authors that want their library to be usable with multiple programming languages. Most of the advice applies to C libraries because the article starts by advising you to write your libra
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> What's an appropriate response? Work to heal the divides in the country and improve social cohesion. Figure out how to reinstill the sense of community that prevented these things over the course of history. Help all students fi
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That statement is a corollary to “A federation must make some attempt to treat its members as equals.” While not necessarily true, deviating too far from it starts to stretch the definition of a federation.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’m not on Twitter myself, but I imagine it’s simply about putting the content where your audience is. How many people will click through a tweet’s link vs. engaging on the platform itself? Also, if you have a Twitter account but not one
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I suspect ‘humanrebar is thinking about bookkeeping more than accounting. It’s largely mechanical, often computer-assisted, and the first necessary step to put any of that theoretical knowledge to use in practice.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’d lean towards practically-useful skills that computers can help with: — Collaboration tools: how to effectively use shared spreadsheets, documents, and online communication to organize a large project — Spaced repetition to aid memory —
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I was hoping for something more along the lines of a book, blog, or academic paper that goes into the subject in some detail.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Does anyone know of a good guide or reference of what to write in annotations or notes? Every notetaking guide I’ve seen seems to talk exclusively about mechanics and not content, which seems like the harder part to me.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Food labeling laws generally allow for a margin of error around reported numbers, even zero. Printed calorie amounts, for example, are rounded to the nearest calorie— something reported as having no calories can in fact contain up to 0.5.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> "Pedestrian outside crosswalk not assigned goal of crossing street", "Tracking history not considered when classification changes", "Predicted path depended on object’s goal" To be fair, I could see myself
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Why pick only one thing? If this is a weekly or monthly event, there’s no reason it has to be the same every time; why not have a variety of events on rotation so that you’re not alienating the same set of people every time?
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> I don't see how this "functions as first class" comes into play here, but I'd be interested anyway? Before Church, functions weren’t considered mathematical objects that could be passed as arguments to another funct
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Well, at this point it’s a tautology because, as you pointed out, “algorithm” is defined in terms of a Turing machine. To my knowledge, recursive functions alone are not sufficient to describe all computation. To do that, you need to consid
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Mathematics are more limited The fundamental point of the Church-Turing thesis is to show that everything computers can do can be described by mathematics, so any programing language has either the same or less power than math. They a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Part of what makes this one hard is that it’s an essential foundational step but rarely used in practice— everything that’s actually useful about Turing machines is several levels removed from symbols on a tape. Probably the most visible ou
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s one of two(1) concurrently-developed mathematical formalisms that each have been proven to be at least as powerful as any possible algorithm, and were in fact used to codify what an “algorithm” is in a formal sense. It had only been a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In the Turing machine formalism that was taught at my university(1), the set of symbols that can be stored in a cell must be finite, but can otherwise be anything needed to solve the problem at hand. For each state in the associated state
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Does Racket use a DVCS? A git checkout involves making a copy of every historical version in addition to the current one, so their code is still being distributed. If a lawyer wanted to make trouble, they could argue that the repository a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
This is certainly true. My point was that I see no evidence that, should bitcoin become mainstream, the situation would be any different- nothing about bitcoin prevents its use as the basis for a credit economy like notes are now and bullio
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Why with cash many don't do that, beats me. The banks provide a service that has some intrinsic value: They protect your cash better than you can, and store it in a place that is physically separate from your home. Home thefts occ
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Working at a more concrete level is generally more effort and gives you greater flexibility than working in the abstract. There’s a tradeoff here, and the right answer will be different for every person, domain, and stage of development.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There are plenty of examples of bank runs and other crises pre-regulation and pre-fiat currency, dating all the way back to the 1600s— that’s about as decentralized as you can get. If you want to argue that there’s something fundamentally
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
You loan currency to a bank in the form of deposits, they keep some of that on premises due to the reserve requirement and loan out the rest to their other customers. In exchange for letting the bank use your money, you get insurance and a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’m less concerned with philosophy and how people “should” be managing their assets than I am observing what people actually choose to do. The exchanges exist, their actions affect the value of bitcoin, and the value of bitcoin affects the
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
All of the author’s core questions can be answered just as well for coins and notes as they can for bitcoin— Every greenback has a unique serial number, after all. There must be a central registry of them somewhere. Money as understood by

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