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by klodolph 3y ago
Wouldn’t that require kind of an idealized transmission line, not just a superconducting one?
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by klodolph 3y ago
1. Something “in a superconducting state” has zero resistance, but the transition to superconducting states is not sudden, and there are various things which disrupt that state like magnetic fields. 2. Alternating currents will dissipate ev
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by klodolph 3y ago
I have personally witnessed the “let’s build microservices to get better performance” argument. I definitely want to nip that in the bud. It’s easy to fall in love with complexity, especially since you see a lot of complexity in existing sy
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by klodolph 3y ago
The reason that there are so many tutorials and analogies is because monads are relatively easy to understand, but unfamiliar, and they allow you to do a bunch of math (which you don’t have to do ). Not hard enough to cause Haskell program
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by klodolph 3y ago
> having to use monads or effects for io Speaking as a Haskell programmer, this is not a problem. You put “IO” in the function signature and “do” in the body, and that’s workable. Or some other Monad. You get so many choices, which is it
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by klodolph 3y ago
> I didn't say they were being dishonest, I said it feels dishonest. The phrase “it feels” is not carte blanche to say what you want. I could say, “Someone reading this post might think that you’re an axe murderer.” Certainly not me
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by klodolph 3y ago
> Applications are usually written to know that anything sent over the network could be lost. Generally they are —when you make an HTTP request, the client waits until it receives an HTTP response before it reports success. > We &#x2
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by klodolph 3y ago
I didn’t intend to answer your question—your comment had multiple aspects to it and I am responding to one part of it, rather than every single part of it. My main take on the “which language do I write my compiler in” conversation is that
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by klodolph 3y ago
You use the generated parser as a platform for experimentation. If you know the language, and you have a bunch of users, and you are writing a parser for it, by all means, write a parser by hand and give it the best error recovery that you
850.
by klodolph 3y ago
Here’s how you should write that: “Why would they get better wages? Increased productivity doesn’t automatically mean higher salary.” Keep your writing clear.
851.
by klodolph 3y ago
> Since, per the application, the data may have been passed off to the driver with a successful message pass. The application already knows that the data is not guaranteed to be delivered, or even sent at all. That’s just the nature of
852.
by klodolph 3y ago
If your WiFi driver crashes and restarts, at the minimum, I think it could be treated as if you lost network connectivity for a short time. This is a situation that applications should be able to handle anyway, since it happens all the time
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by klodolph 3y ago
> I'm very open to that debate, but then show it. Exclude the drivers from the numbers. To do otherwise feels very dishonest. You can ask for numbers without casting aspersions like that. This is HN. It is something like a casual co
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by klodolph 3y ago
I must emphasize that there are no “neutral” color negative films. There are just films optimized for different use cases. Once you dive into the sensitometry of how color films work, it becomes apparent that everything is a tradeoff. You h
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t understand what kind of point you’re making here. Are you saying that support contracts are completely worthless because some bugs are closed WONTFIX? B2B generally does not run on the “let’s screw our customers as much as possible”
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by klodolph 3y ago
There are a lot of various points to support contracts. Support contracts are not “fix any bug” or “implement any feature”, but… - With a support contract, there are SLAs to respond to incidents / bugs within a timely manner, and - You
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by klodolph 3y ago
> Most wedding photographers aren't using film. They were using film “a long time ago”. Wedding photographers have only been shooting digital for 20 years or so. Early digital had a somewhat poor dynamic range. It’s gotten better, b
858.
by klodolph 3y ago
Wedding photographers had a hard time with dark-skinned subjects. Color film was fine-tuned for specific matter back in the day, and the two common varieties available were (1) optimized to make light-skinned people look nice, and (2) optim
859.
by klodolph 3y ago
Are you suggesting that they reduce the percentage on display to more typical levels (2-4%)?
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by klodolph 3y ago
The cost of losses in the cables may be high, but the cost of superconducting cables may be much higher. Superconductors may be fragile and unsuitable for cables.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think a reasonable reader can figure out from context what “data center” means. If you have a bunch of computers in a home or office you might call it a rack, or a network closet, maybe a server room. Most people won’t call it a data cent
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by klodolph 3y ago
> I feel like these sorts of things are part of "being more productive" though. Yeah. There are some things which can be more difficult when you’re remote. Working through a design—it’s so much better when you have two people i
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by klodolph 3y ago
Agreed. I’ve also gone into a codebase and seen the most boring code ever. It looked like examples from an intro to web programming class. The backend did simple parameteried SQL queries. It was a pleasure to work with. My conclusion is tha
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by klodolph 3y ago
Saying “a line of code requires no resources” can only be true under a particular set of assumptions and particular system for accounting. It’s not a useful or interesting argument by itself, because it doesn’t explain the assumptions and a
865.
by klodolph 3y ago
People did believe that, but it’s exaggerated how widespread those beliefs were.
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by klodolph 3y ago
This is exaggerated. People did bathe, and they made soap for washing themselves.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Hippocrates recommended that water be boiled and strained to purify it. People in the middle ages boiled, filtered, and even distilled water to purify it. The catch is that without germ theory, people mostly did this process to water which
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by klodolph 3y ago
Beer does not have a strong enough alcohol content to be used as a disinfectant. In order to make beer, you actually have to have clean water, as an input.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Can you provide some clues or hints so I can find these UK historians that make these claims? It’s frustrating, because I’ve been told off for asking for evidence, even though I didn’t ask for evidence. Every time I try get an answer, all t
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by klodolph 3y ago
That’s some very D-grade, armchair history work here. Straight out of the D&D handbook, perhaps. Around the D&D table is where I most heard the myth that people, historically, drank beer because it was cleaner than water. Here’s a c

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