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811.
by kqr 1y ago
Even better: log absolute total counts of received and finished events. You can easily extract the rates from that, and you'll know if the process builds up a lot of simultaneous processing, and you can more easily compute longer-ter
812.
by kqr 1y ago
I think this has less to do with age and more what we are taught. The printing press, steam engine, and the wheel were repeatedly drilled into me as world-changing technologies, so those are the ones I'd think of. But there are more. R
813.
by kqr 1y ago
Not only is it a useful constraint to ask for mode 7, but making sure the context contains domain-expert technology puts the LLM in a better spot in the sampling space.
814.
by kqr 1y ago
Somehow this also reminds me of http://raisingtalentthebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/t... "I taught my dog to whistle!" "Really? I don't hear him whistling." "I said I
815.
by kqr 1y ago
Or commuting in locations without good infrastructure (which is almost everywhere). That exposes you to both velocities and traffic that can be seriously harmful.
816.
by kqr 1y ago
> drive failure is dangerous if you're crossing the street, not so dangerous at other times As TFA states, it depends on how much you're relying on it to keep balanced.
817.
by kqr 1y ago
I'm sure you know this but a lot of people don't: if you want to stop quickly, use the front brake while adjusting your weight backward. The rear wheel can skid along a good distance, but if you apply the front brake to the point
818.
by kqr 1y ago
Accounting is a huge part of it. Sometimes claims are not fully resolved for decades, and the books for that policy hypothetically have to be kept open for as long. This must be kept correct, but is not computationally heavy. Computing tota
819.
by kqr 1y ago
The counties are administrative and there are bureaucrats who lead the county, but they are not titled, noble Counts and Countesses. In Sweden, we also have administrative regions translated as counties, which are lead by someone I'd d
820.
by kqr 1y ago
> I have no idea how it worked. I traced down this through an academic article which favourably compared it to other summarising solutions back in 2006. It might help answer the question: https://web.archive.org/web/
821.
by kqr 1y ago
I would like to agree – I'm always surprised when I realise how old awk it. It feels like an incredibly modern language. It's also obvious that it inspired the likes of dtrace and bpftrace. That said, I don't know how many ot
822.
by kqr 1y ago
Correct. That was bad wording on my part. I meant it in the sense of "it survives at a scale proportional to the fraction of it that is unique". It used to be that things like GC, REPL, flexible syntax, the cond form etc. made Lis
823.
by kqr 1y ago
GNAT. Upgrade to gprbuild when you start to find gnatmake limiting. SPARK is best considered a separate language. It gives up some of the things that make Ada great in exchange for other guarantees that I'm sure are useful in extreme c
824.
by kqr 1y ago
I'm not convinced. Which languages have Perl influenced, really? All the things that other languages seem to draw from Perl could just as well have come from e.g. awk, Smalltalk, and other languages that came before Perl. Most of the u
825.
by kqr 1y ago
Ada supports storage pools as well. In the right circumstances, it's a safer way to deal with dynamic allocation. I believe it also starts to creep into things like C#.
826.
by kqr 1y ago
I don't think the Ada story is particularly interesting: (1) It was very expensive to licence at a time where C was virtually free. (2) It was a complicated language at a time where C was (superficially) simple. This made it harder to
827.
by kqr 1y ago
Assuming "solve" is meant loosely: much like in C++, with RAII-style resource management. The Ada standard library has what are called _controlled types_ which come with three methods: Initialize, Adjust, and Finalize. The Finaliz
828.
by kqr 1y ago
Not quite. They explicitly drew a lot of inspiration from OCaml, but they never intended it to be an OCaml compiler for .NET. F# was – from the start – a functional language designed specifically for the .NET Framework Common Language Runti
829.
by kqr 1y ago
Algol is in the funny position of being both very dead, yet not dead at all given its legacy. I suspect that's sort of inevitable: if all of a language's spirit is cannibalised by newer languages, it will be hard to argue for usin
830.
by kqr 1y ago
These two statements do not contradict themselves. That teams have the best code quality does not mean they must have prioritised clean code.
831.
by kqr 1y ago
> I'd assert that most of the adult population in first-world countries are far more at risk from a lack of sufficient physical activity than from overtraining. You're using the wrong reference group here. Would you still asser
832.
by kqr 1y ago
I think GP was thinking of quantum computers, maybe?
833.
by kqr 1y ago
Well-written. I learned a lot! Would have been interesting to also see a note about Verdana, and know if Microsoft shifting away from Arial as the default sans serif has changed its popularity as much as one might think.
834.
by kqr 1y ago
When I hear of an advantage being earned , I imagine it would go to the one who has put in the most effort, or been most inventive. Here, it goes to the one with the best metric. Metrics are a proxy for effort/inventiveness, but far f
835.
by kqr 1y ago
Your examples are about making circumstances equivalent, thus canceling out any advantage. There's no way to e.g. switch lanes in swimming so we're bound to have some contestants advantaged. In cases where some contestants have t
836.
by kqr 1y ago
Interesting! Across the lake in Sweden we do use "anropa" for calling subprograms. I've never heard anyone in that context use "uppropa" which would be the direct translation of aufrufen.
837.
by kqr 1y ago
It might be worth clarifying that the game itself does not deal in typefaces: it's the interpreter running the game that handles font business. The link in the article leads to the web-based Parchment interpreter running on iplayif.com
838.
by kqr 1y ago
This has been floated before and many people expect such a pragma to arrive at some point in the future. For now, the relevant committees think some more experimentation and deprecation needs to happen before locking in the set of features
839.
by kqr 1y ago
I'm not convinced the run-time performance always comes from the same pool as start-up overhead. If the regression is waiting-based because resource contention or whatnot (very common) then that won't make the OS start up new proc
840.
by kqr 1y ago
I think it's part of the test to have to do it quickly.

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