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by klodolph 2y ago
I collected tickets without giving it much thought when I was in high school and college. Every few years, when cleaning, I’d come across them again. I realized that they belong in the garbage. “They tell us what it was like to be there.” I
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by klodolph 2y ago
There are a million little decisions that affect compile time. A big factor here is inlining. When you inline functions, you may improve the generated code or you may make it worse. It’s hard to predict the result because the improvements m
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by klodolph 2y ago
Yes, that sounds like a different category from Chicago. Same category as Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace . I flipped open Chicago to an arbitrary page, and it was describing how to refer to decades—whether you say ’90s or nineties or
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by klodolph 2y ago
That’s a different category of book, I think. I haven’t used St. Martin’s, but it looks most similar to Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace , which I recommend.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Chicago is my style guide of choice, although I have an older edition. The only real alternative is the AP style guide, which I don’t favor because I’m not a journalist. There’s a lot of focus on citations in this review, but citations are
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by klodolph 2y ago
Yes, that’s a good point. But I think you can already see the difference in a lot of C++ codebases when you compile at -O0. Until recently, std::move() was a function call, and at -O0, this meant that calls which should be basically a mem
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by klodolph 2y ago
Yes, that is annoying. There’s also such a massive price difference between 4K and 5K monitors. I’ve decided just to accept 4K everywhere because it’s so much cheaper. But I would consider getting a 5K iMac.
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by klodolph 2y ago
It’s a lot easier in C++ or Java. In C++, you make the virtual calls to some base class, and all you need to demonstrate is that only one concrete class is being used at that place. For example, you might see a List<T> in Java, and th
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by klodolph 2y ago
I bought an iMac a while back. I left it connected to a bunch of music studio equipment. It does its job as the center of a home recording studio—gigabit ethernet and plenty of USB ports. I am not considering replacing it yet, even though i
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by klodolph 2y ago
Sure, but to be honest, I don’t think you should be shipping a high-spec computer with a built-in screen. Anything high-spec should be broken into at least a separate screen and computer. The screen is such a major point of failure. I’ve se
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by klodolph 2y ago
“CPython is slow” is kind of a complaint about the Python object model. I’m not sure that I would pin this one on the compiler, per se. Everything you do in Python involves chasing down pointers and method tables, looking up strings in dict
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by klodolph 2y ago
Ordinary consumer equipment already accelerates electrons enough to produce X-rays. Or at least, it did, back in the CRT era. This accelerator is presumably more powerful than consumer entertainment hardware.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Famous composers mimicked other composers plenty, or parodied other composers, copied them or played homages. Mimicked, yes, famous composers definitely did mimic other composers. Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 is one of the more famous. It mimic
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by klodolph 2y ago
There are plastics in the tire, but the exterior bulk of the tire is rubber, which is not plastic.
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by klodolph 2y ago
We can dream of what it would be like with full POSIX support on Windows, but it was a pipe dream to begin with. There are some major differences between Windows and POSIX semantics for things like processes and files. The differences are s
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by klodolph 2y ago
The commenter you’re replying to is using the term “perfect pitch” incorrectly, that’s all. They’re talking about the word “perfect” when it’s used to describe intervals, like perfect fifth or perfect fourth. I think.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Does that work for just major thirds? They’re only 14 cents away from equal temperament, and I would think that the frets would be too close together, if you moved them into place for just major thirds.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Ok, you’re talking about perfect intervals, not perfect pitch. “Perfect pitch” doesn’t make sense in context and so I was having a hard time figuring out what you were getting at. This is not pedantry. I’m not trying to make a point here, I
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by klodolph 2y ago
> I used "perfect pitch" in the ordinary way ordinary people ordinarily use the phrase. I’m a little confused by what you are saying here, because most people who say “perfect pitch” mean that you can tell which note is being p
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by klodolph 2y ago
Note that the technical term for this is “just”.
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by klodolph 2y ago
“Perfect pitch” or “perfect interval”? Someone with perfect pitch can tell what note you are playing just by listening to that note in isolation. Most people can’t do that. “Absolute pitch” is probably a better name, but it’s usually called
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by klodolph 2y ago
They’re trying to solve various issues with harmony. You want to pick a set of notes that produce good harmonies with each other, but you don’t want to pick too many notes. If you “fudge” some notes, which compromises the harmony, you can k
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by klodolph 2y ago
Sure, but ESBuild is here, it works, and the subjective speed improvement is just fucking massive . I’m sure you could get something with similar performance in JS. I’ve messed around with JS daemons, so you don’t care about startup time f
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by klodolph 2y ago
“Close to the speed of light” means, like, 99% of the speed of light. You can even see the speeds listed on the graphs, which are given as a fraction of c .
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by klodolph 2y ago
Yes, you understand exactly the point I’m making.
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by klodolph 2y ago
What is the difference between code that blocks waiting for I/O and code that performs a lengthy computation? To the runtime or scheduler, these are very different. But to the caller, maybe it does not matter why the code takes a lon
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by klodolph 2y ago
Meetings are also run inefficiently. My last manager was abysmal at setting agendas for meetings, and any time he ran a meeting, it would filled with status reports (mostly for projects I won’t ever be working on) and the occasional brainst
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by klodolph 2y ago
Soprano isn’t really “very high”, it’s just the higher of the two ranges of women’s voice types. There’s soprano and mezzo soprano. Those are the two broad types for women. Within soprano and mezzo soprano there are subtypes, like lyric sop
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by klodolph 2y ago
The majority of emergency radio station in the US happen to be AM stations. This is a fact. Sure, you could phase out AM and do all your emergency broadcasts on FM. We haven’t done that. Do that first. Here is more info about EAS: https:&#
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by klodolph 2y ago
In an emergency, when you have a million people evacuating a city, you can put up signs that say e.g. “tune to AM 850 for emergency broadcasts”. To be honest I thought this part was kind of obvious and I don’t know why you made such a sarca

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