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by klodolph 3y ago
The direct impact could be relatively limited, at least for a while. Having a room-temperature superconductor is really awesome, but existing high-temperature superconductors are fragile and expensive. You can make motors, electromagnets, a
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by klodolph 3y ago
Ok… is there some kind of educated reasoning that leads you to believe that people drank beer because it was safer?
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t know where that myth comes from. It doesn’t seem to have foundation in the historical record.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Word is one of the most common tools for writing papers. There was a study a while back that looked at the quality of Word or Latex papers. The study found that researchers using Word were more effective, and the working theory that explain
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think part of the reason why restraint is so valuable is because of the band context. If you listen to a solo guitar piece or piano piece that you like, it might be really complicated, with a million things going on. If you listen to a gu
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by klodolph 3y ago
The “IDE-grade” error resilience can be approached in many ways, and unbounded lookahead is often unnecessary. The main problem you want to solve is the problem of recovering from an error, and parsing more of the file correctly after you e
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by klodolph 3y ago
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/25910/what-does... Overhead includes things like administrative & support staff, equipment depreciation, etc. It’s often calculated as some percentage of the grant.
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by klodolph 3y ago
The idea that “application” is an abstraction level doesn’t sit right with me. I think that slide is a bit of a stretch. An application, as a mass of code, will contain code that works at different abstraction levels.
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by klodolph 3y ago
HFCS is very similar to sugar, from a diet and health perspective. The FDA’s mandate is food safety, not population health.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Security and usability are always in conflict. Any time you take a hard line on security, you’ll find yourself crossing that line to get work done.
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by klodolph 3y ago
It is also normal that many European foods are banned in the US. For every discussion I see about how the FDA is crazy for letting Americans consume all these various additives, I see another discussion about how the FDA is crazy for bannin
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by klodolph 3y ago
The FDA has a history of being cautious as well. Perhaps even overly cautious. > So if aspartame causes cancer after your career is over, then it’s safe according to the FDA. I would love to see some kind of foundation for this, to expla
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by klodolph 3y ago
Another take from an audio engineer… this one only 3 minutes. https://www.tiktok.com/@greazywilmusic/video/722394591746289... (I know HN is allergic to Twitter, so I worry that some people are gonna go into anaphy
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by klodolph 3y ago
That makes sense. Not making excuses for the API—but this does seem like a difficult design space to work in.
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by klodolph 3y ago
There were massive Twitter outages recently. That said, the article is talking about 20 people who switched from Twitter. That’s not very many.
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by klodolph 3y ago
What? Can you explain what broken behavior you’re talking about? Some things in concurrent programming can result in deadlocks. That doesn’t mean that you round off all the corners and take away all the dangerous tools until you’re left wit
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by klodolph 3y ago
Who’s rewriting history? I don’t understand your comment. The Macintosh had a lot of technical debt prior to the Mac OS X switch. This has nothing to do with being “primarily a network and I/O device”—for what it’s worth, it common to
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by klodolph 3y ago
My experience working with Windows is that it is saddled with technical debt more than Posix is. Things like filesystem semantics—you can’t safely put your auxiliary functions in aux.c because most programs will treat that as a device rat
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. The interop between ESM and CJS in Node is beyond horrible. My sense is that the developers are trying to iron out some differences so ESM can behave according to spec and CJS can also behave according to spec. These have to be proble
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by klodolph 3y ago
Bundling works better with ES6 modules. Compare the experience of using, say, browserify to rollup/esbuild. Plus, with ES6 modules, you can do bundling for your release builds, and do your development work directly with the original so
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by klodolph 3y ago
To be honest, I think the AMD incarnation is a complete non-starter. It’s just such a funky, weird little thing that only makes sense because it’s a compatibility shim. Nobody wants to directly author AMD, and someone shipping a JS implemen
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’m not surprised that you haven’t seen iPads on tour, but I think it’s coming. The software ecosystem is here now. If you music, have an iPad, and can spare the cost of a couple restaurant dinners, I recommend picking up the USB adapter an
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by klodolph 3y ago
People are also using the iPad for running audio programs. There’s a ton, and they work together by routing audio from one app to another (so you don’t need a VST / AU host). Then there’s all the people running ProCreate or something s
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by klodolph 3y ago
Somehow I missed Docusaurus when I surveyed documentation generators—it looks very good! I can understand the desire to want something not written in JavaScript, and I certainly have my own language prejudices, but when I surveyed static si
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’ve used both, I recommend MkDocs over MdBook for most people. MdBook is simpler and easier to get started with, MkDocs has more features, more plugins, more themes. Both MkDocs and MdBook are easy to use. IMO, MdBook is a little too simpl
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’ve tried MdBook, Jekyll, and MkDocs. MdBook is slick for basic projects, but I felt it was too minimalistic for me. When I dug into the source for the MdBook sites that I liked, I saw that they had extended MdBook with some custom Rust co
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by klodolph 3y ago
Framing it as “dogmatism” is unfair. Most people just try to see what the various tradeoffs are between alternatives. For desktop apps, we’re talking about Electron versus, say, Qt, Cocoa, WPF, or whatever. The observation that web packaged
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by klodolph 3y ago
VS Code is reasonably fast but it’s somewhat an exception in the world of slow Electron apps. I’ve seen performance issues with Slack and Discord. Spotify isn’t Electron, it’s CEF, but it has the same problems. The parts of Apple’s Music ap
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by specifying dependencies while the target is executing. The thorn here is generated headers—if they aren’t built before your compiler runs, then you are stuck. > Not really; you can't know what compilati
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by klodolph 3y ago
> But there is no way to make the preprocessed file depend on the headers because its dependencies must be defined before the build and the list of included files is generated during the build. The actual dependencies of a build action i

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