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by lanstin 2y ago
What do you think of Hardy's book in number theory? I have never done number theory but having to study it a bit while I work on sets of traps that are approximable by algebraic numbers and it is really a nice read.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Wow that really works? So cool. I should bring my VMs back in house. Spare laptops I have.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I put my own recipes up so when I am shopping I can get the ingredients list. Sometimes we pull it up while cooking on a tablet.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Or invisible text to humans about such topics.
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by lanstin 2y ago
This is why explaining commits with references to Jira or whatever is foolish - always make the source code the definitive reference, for explanations and for documentation. At least at work - maybe other things are ok for public, open deve
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by lanstin 2y ago
Yeah, both Xerox and Lexmark are such blasts from the past for me. Surprised they still exist in any form.
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by lanstin 2y ago
And works very well - it made me a nice general "draw successively accurate Fourier series approximations given this lambda for coefficients and this lambda for the constant term". PNG output, no real programming errors (I wouldn&
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by lanstin 2y ago
That works out ok as long as they are one of a large numbers of producers, competing equally, without monopoly power or excessive physical power, for a large number of consumers free to Ursula their own best interest; a certain amount of in
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by lanstin 2y ago
If there there is only one answer it is zero bits.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s language so much as unnecessarily added language. Words and sentences can appear and be useful, but there is a lot of mental activity that is not essential but added on responses to things. I wouldn’t say a component th
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by lanstin 2y ago
When I have a deeply engrossing unitary (I.e. not one of five tasks but one task for months) project at work I had better start commuting by train and cut out the driving. I have lost two cars by not doing that. Fortunately no one was hurt.
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Quanta Magazine: How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by lanstin 2y ago|1 comments
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by lanstin 2y ago
Joy of Why podcast on cell death
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by lanstin 2y ago
The data science uses are all using it for glueing a bit of data massage/data gathering into their high performance math/ML libraries. Django users are using it natively, and cherryPy/etc. Python full-stack maybe, but they&#
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by lanstin 2y ago
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." It was originally not a bazaar but "batteries included" where the thing you wanted to do had an obvious best way of doing it. An extremely difficul
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by lanstin 2y ago
The cultural aspect is that I can't really extend my refusal to use Meta technology to WhatsApp because so many family members and important family data are only available via WhatsApp.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Wow, in the future we will point to this bogosity and say it is why we can't have good things.
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by lanstin 2y ago
My and my friends kids have a) need us to co-sign leases; b) been scammed of thousands of dollars thru fake rental things; c) can't afford a house any time for decades; d) can barely afford health insurance; e) have to borrow money whe
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by lanstin 2y ago
Come on, not with killing the parents, that's not that close to the human experience of reproduction. Raising a baby is really fascinating and fulfilling albeit tiring and really I feel other people should be just a tiny bit more helpf
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by lanstin 2y ago
I would read that short story.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Also the TclHash table implementation is quite good and independent of the Tcl interpreter runtime.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Honestly, I forgot all about that aspect of ancient programming. It probably made one more careful, or more patient. (Source: typing 6502 programs into a hex "monitor" which is a way to edit memory, view memory, and issue "j
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by lanstin 2y ago
Personally I like them both but I find the barrier to onboarding new devs is lower for Golang. /s
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by lanstin 2y ago
I have also done this on VTA (local train). It's very thrilling but not very high-bandwidth sort of thing. I haven't done it a lot. But I do read a fair amount of code on my phone, in blogs or whatever.
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by lanstin 2y ago
math does every 30 or 50 years simplify stuff. It's hard for the originators to do it, they get so familiar they are able to get weird intuitions that make the difficult tractable. I listened to some of the simple groups people talking
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by lanstin 2y ago
Thank you for some historical context.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Not rebooting after software upgrade is an oft repeated mistake.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Also, it means you are married to the reboot process. If you loose control of your memory management process too much, you'll never be able to fix it absent a complete rewrite. I worked at a place that had a lot of (c++) CGI programs w
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by lanstin 2y ago
And people are running things that take minutes to run when a good multi-cpu framework would make it seconds. Maybe add a dataflow analyzer to Python and do it for people.
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by lanstin 2y ago
And for the code running on the 128 core machine, which is not really rare these days, for that code to be pythonic, it should be dead simple to use all the cores in the obvious correct way. We have language features that enable simple mult

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