keithalewis

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by keithalewis 3y ago
> Nobody will tell you: > stdin, stdout and stderr are artificial definitions. Unless you RTFM.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Even youngsters are yelling at clouds now. Just a different kind of cloud.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
There are three kinds of mathematicians...
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Is this an April Fool's joke?
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Java was originally called Oak.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
You are making an assumption as big as the Ozone Hole. Er, I mean as big as it used to be. /s
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Half the story?
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Oh yeah? Well I was Time magazine Person of the Year in 2006!
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by keithalewis 3y ago
I wonder if anyone on the Pulitzer Prize committee for GEB understood this was the idea he was attempting to communicate. There seems to be a large market for books that make dumb people feel smart.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Good for you. The person I was replying to could stand to learn from your example. Where by 'could stand to' means would love to. :-)
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by keithalewis 3y ago
OP said 'I can't stand Git.' You seem to be obsessed with labeling that as 'hate' (3 times) and belittling people you think are not as smart as you. I'd bet within the past week you were swearing at git. :-)
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Wassily Leontief and his Nobel Prize would like to have a chat with your colleague.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Ouch! It is going to take a lot of work to get Polars this fast. If ever.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Wait'l people figure out Excel is thread safe and has no memory leaks. Every one will be rewriting things in that instead of Rust!
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Lovely article but this made me sad/mad. How did we get to the point where this is acceptable? MAGA (Microsoft Apple Google Amazon) have a stultifying effect in our software sharing lives now.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
This relies on the Go runtime scheduler. Sometimes that is not good enough.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
This should be in bold face type at the top of every comment page of HN. RTFA before replying. Paging Emanuel Lasker...
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
It is encouraging to see posts by people trying to teach themselves well-known theory. It used to be college professors writing a book to do that. There is no longer a barrier to entry for randoms.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
I wasn't making a joke.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
No. It is how companies with money increase the gap in wealth distribution. They pay pennies to encourage "influencers" to behave poorly in order to maximize their revenue
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Advertising is the root of many evil things.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
What is Haar measure in this case?
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by keithalewis 3y ago
When the student is ready the Buddha appears. It also takes a mighty big dog to weigh a ton.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
There is no Royal Road to mathematics. There is also no shortage of people convincing themselves they understand some particular aspect of it by watching a YouTube video. It is rare when a mathematician, or anyone, can write a book on a t
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Fourier transform can be defined for any locally compact abelian group. Integers modulo n is one such.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
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by keithalewis 3y ago
THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES AS PLEASINGLY EXEMPLIFIED IN MANY INSTANCES, WHEREIN THE SERIOUS ONES OF THIS EARTH, CAREFULLY EXASPERATED, HAVE BEEN PRETTILY SPURRED ON TO UNSEEMLINESS AND INDISCRETION, WHILE OVERCOME BY AN UNDUE SENSE OF
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by keithalewis 3y ago
> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. What rule applies when the initial comment is not thoughtful and substantive?
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by keithalewis 3y ago
Approximately the same amount as the comment I replied to.

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