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by klodolph 1y ago
What I’m impressed by is getting noise of a consistent level out of a circuit. That’s a nice second layer of difficulty to the “make some noise” EE project.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Like the author said, their usage in practice often creeps outside that.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Protobuffers suck as a core data model. My take? Use them as a serialization and interchange format, nothing more. > This puts us in the uncomfortable position of needing to choose between one of three bad alternatives: I don’t think the
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by klodolph 1y ago
Maybe what I read here is “this is how contributions go”… Get the API right first. Make sure it’s correct, safe, and useful. Iterate on the performance afterwards. IMO, a lot of contributions should take this shape.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Etymology ≠ meaning
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by klodolph 1y ago
I think ChatGPT isn’t the “who”, it’s just the ass that people are pulling numbers out of. A big ole extra butt you graft onto your body.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Itadaku is literally the kenjogo form of taberu (eat). It just happens to have multiple meanings.
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by klodolph 1y ago
“Enjoy” isn’t a synonym for “eat” in English but it definitely does carry the right meaning here. It’s a little poetic, but it’s idiomatic and native speakers will understand it.
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by klodolph 1y ago
> ETF have some nasty hidden fees related to the etf price being more expensive than the basket when you buy and less than the basket when you sell. That’s a spread. Everything has a spread.
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by klodolph 1y ago
An index fund is a fund that owns a basket of stocks which are weighted by their weight in index. Like, if you have an S&P500 index fund, then for every $1,000 you put in the index, you own, say, $13.30 of WMT, because WMT has a weight
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by klodolph 1y ago
“I want ETFs and low fees” -> https://www.bogleheads.org , there are various articles describing which funds to pick. (I’m thinking by “indexing service” you mean index fund?) Bogle was the founder of Vanguard and argued that
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by klodolph 1y ago
IMO the right thing to do here is even messier than Go’s approach, which is give people utf-16-ish strings on Windows.
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by klodolph 1y ago
In practice, the validation generally happens when you convert to JSON or use an HTML template or something like that, so it’s not so many places. Validation is nice but Rust’s principled approach leaves me high and dry sometimes. Maybe Rus
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by klodolph 1y ago
Yeah, I avoided talking about Windows which isn’t UTF-16 but “int16 string” the same way Unix filenames are int8 strings. IMO the differences with Windows are such that I’m much more unhappy with WTF-8. There’s a lot that sucks about C++ bu
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by klodolph 1y ago
This is one of those things that kind of bugs me about, say, OsStr / OsString in Rust. In theory, it’s a very nice, principled approach to strings (must be UTF-8) and filenames (arbitrary bytes, almost, on Linux & Mac). In practice
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by klodolph 1y ago
Most of my questions are answerable from the support knowledge base.
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by klodolph 1y ago
I think of it less like the middle ground, and more like the best of the three asciidoc > rst > markdown It’s just that the available tooling goes the opposite way, markdown tooling > rst tooling > asciidoc tooling I end up usin
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by klodolph 1y ago
Another shrug, but part of it is that the PL community (programming language community) is pretty deep into its own jargon that doesn’t have as much overlap as you might think, with other subfields of computer science. People describe a typ
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by klodolph 1y ago
If you have a Linux system, try this: find / -name 'perl*' -prune -o -name '*.pl' -print 2>/dev/null You will probably find a bunch of random scripts in various places. A lot of random system a
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by klodolph 1y ago
My top suspicion is that xAI’s valuation is more about moving money around and less about belief in the actual underlying xAI projects.
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by klodolph 1y ago
That second paragraph is a wild ride. I don’t think you’ve gotten a good understanding of history if this is how you’re connecting things.
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by klodolph 1y ago
> If you look at the actual profit margins it’s low single digit percentages. You could eliminate profits altogether and virtually nothing would change. We even have non-profit insurers to look at Look at administrative overhead instead
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by klodolph 1y ago
Ah yes, the Ozymandias approach to writing.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Agreed, and rehashing Strunk & White sucks because Strunk & White wasn’t a great guide in the first place. Strunk & White boiled down the advice to aphorisms and you have to kind of understand what good writing is before you rea
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by klodolph 1y ago
I always thought it was just a metaphor for suddenly leaving whatever you were doing at the time. You’re doing something else, and then you jump on a call. You don’t mosey on over and show up on the call fifteen minutes later.
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by klodolph 1y ago
It’s not just syntax, there are semantic problems. Like, function 1 fails for reason A or B. Function 2 fails for A or C. You call both functions. How do you pattern match on reason A, in the result of your function? In Go, there’s a somewh
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by klodolph 1y ago
Could you clarify what you’re saying? It sounds like you’re saying that you have some kind of moral obligation to insult people who say that they have read Ulysses. That’s my first reading of your comment, but I don’t think it’s correct, be
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by klodolph 1y ago
I’ve never met anyone who has done that, this sounds like the kind of thing someone would say just to put people down.
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by klodolph 1y ago
It works for some types of symmetry but not others!
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by klodolph 1y ago
There’s a bit of math you can do where you calculate the gravitational effect of standing on a sphere. You can redistribute the mass within the sphere and it won’t affect the gravitational pull, assuming it’s radially symmetrical. One of th

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