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by klodolph 2y ago
I would rather not: - It involves making too many decisions on behalf of users. C++ dodges the question somewhat by making hash tables templated, so you can customize them. - There are a hojillion hash table libraries out there which are wr
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by klodolph 2y ago
I would describe an effect system as the part of a type system which describes actions and side effects rather than values. Under this definition, effects are radically different from types in the sense that apples are radically different f
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by klodolph 2y ago
Current and previous generations struggle too. Critical thinking and problem solving skills have always been an absolute bear to teach, and few teachers or school systems have the stomach to teach it. I’m thinking of science education, for
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by klodolph 2y ago
The thing about stuttering is that the first part of the name is fixed anyway, MOST of the time. If you want to search for `url.Parse`, you can find most of the usages just by searching for `url.Parse`, because the package will generally be
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by klodolph 2y ago
Well, one of the reasons why institutions are free to charge so much in the first place is because student loans are so hard to get discharged. Normal loans get discharged in bankruptcy. Student loans don’t.
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by klodolph 2y ago
I guess I wasn’t thinking of “find usages”, but as the article points out, it’s hard to find usages if the usages are dynamic. The solution—to write code which is less dynamic—helps code search and features like find usages.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Do you have some ideas for how to make code search better? Right now, code search is basically just text search. If you think code search tools “could and should” be a lot better, what kind of improvements are you thinking about? How would
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by klodolph 2y ago
I don’t see why things should be equal. The school system doesn’t spend an equal amount of money on each student in the first place. Students with special needs get more—that includes both students with learning disabilities and students wh
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by klodolph 2y ago
It’s a politically-charged talking point to discuss “useless” degrees. I have a question—should we determine whether a degree is useful or useless based on how much money you can earn using the degree? My answer is no, for the following rea
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by klodolph 2y ago
I think part of it is marketing and part of it is building last-mile infrastructure that doesn’t need to be upgraded for a long time. Last-mile is already such a pain, you might as well build something that will last. (Just my guess.)
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by klodolph 2y ago
The limits for other types of diving are interesting, too. All of the different gases you use for SCUBA diving have a maximum operating depth. At high pressures, various gases become toxic or cause side effects. Oxygen has a limit somewhere
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by klodolph 2y ago
What specific part are you saying was not “clear-cut”? The analysis of Damore’s rant? The rant is, well, a mess. If something is a mess that doesn’t mean that it’s 100% wrong. It contains unsubstantiated claims and logical leaps mixed in wi
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by klodolph 2y ago
Multirepo also comes with cost overhead. I think people talk about it somewhat less. I’ve worked at multirepo and monorepo places, both, before. My current company has a multirepo setup and it sure seems like it comes with plenty of tooling
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by klodolph 2y ago
The laws in the US are different, so it makes sense that regulatory bodies in the US act differently.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Think about it like owning a machine gun. People have been murdering since the beginning of time, but machine guns make it easy to murder a lot of people very fast. So we don’t just have laws against murder, but we have laws restricting a
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by klodolph 2y ago
Not just customization—I think PlantUML looks a lot better than Mermaid out of the box.
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by klodolph 2y ago
I have never seen a GFCI reset switch in a different room from the outlet. I’m not surprised it exists, but it would make me unhappy.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Most of my electricity / electronics knowledge comes from books and old forum posts. I would have loved Technology Connections if it came out when I was younger.
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by klodolph 2y ago
“GFCI” is maybe a bad name because it describes what the system is supposed to accomplish but not what it does. It interrupts the circuit in response to a current imbalance between hot and neutral. Kirchoff’s laws… if the current is imbalan
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by klodolph 2y ago
I read the page and missed the part where it’s binary. I had to read it a second time to find that information. The reason why I missed it the first time is because this information is introduced in the second half of a paragraph, where the
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by klodolph 2y ago
I think part of this is “if you have a linear algebra background”. There are a few different explanations of tensors, and different explanations make sense for different people.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Secrets include facts like “I am being treated for schizophrenia”, “I no longer believe the teachings of my church”, “I used to be a woman”, or “I testified against the mafia.” Disclosure of these secrets foreseeably results in irreparable
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by klodolph 2y ago
> The sort of thing you'd solve in 30 seconds with Google in 2024. I’ve implemented this in my own games and I remember that the solution was basically raycasting. But it was NOT some 30 seconds thing. It was a major effort anyway.
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by klodolph 2y ago
> … but would not bet real money that the colors I'm displaying are close to real life… You can get there if you have an accurate color profile for your camera and an accurate color profile for your monitor. > So for this article
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by klodolph 2y ago
I think used drum scanners were always somewhat hard to find and somewhat expensive. > They sound a bit awkward to use from what I've read, as I think you need to use liquid to adhere the film to the drum correctly? Not strictly nec
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by klodolph 2y ago
Yeah—and do you know what happens when you print it on color paper? You get inconsistent colors between the highlights and shadows. So, people would complain about it.
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by klodolph 2y ago
The other thing about drum scanners is that you can do color correction by adjusting gain / response curves somewhat during scanning. I haven’t done this, but when I had images drum scanned, I provided a reference for how the colors we
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by klodolph 2y ago
> everything is shades of brown?! It turns out that you don’t care. Maybe you can think of brown as a color that filters out blue light. You can counteract it by shining more blue light through it. Maybe not exactly blue, but some light
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by klodolph 2y ago
Amateur photographers often cover a lot more types of photography than pros, which makes GAS even worse. A pro might specialize in sports photography and buy some nice long lenses with fast autofocus. Or they might specialize in portraiture
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by klodolph 2y ago
There are a lot of pitfalls in CF. A lot of lessons you have to learn the hard way.

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