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by lindig 6y ago
If you look at B in most fonts: it is not meant to be symmetric. The bottom is usually heavier, providing stability, on which the top sits. The bottom also needs to align somewhat with the x-height of lowercase characters to not look out of
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by lindig 6y ago
I found the argument about balance within individual characters interesting: the direction of stems and the white space between them. As an example, N is shown. However, I it feels top heavy to me, almost unstable - which is not something I
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by lindig 6y ago
I believe the interesting twist is the use of a GADT to represent the parse result. I see this in this line of history: "Higher-Order Functions for Parsing", Graham Hutton - parser combinators before monadic parsing "Monadic
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by lindig 6y ago
How dependent is the result on the order in which players play? Assuming who beats whom is fixed, how much do results vary over the order of the tournament?
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by lindig 6y ago
Software in the 21st century: to check a bunch of regex on a text you need: Grafana, APIs, services. Really? I'm surprised there is no k8s in here. /s
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by lindig 6y ago
For any accommodation business, their existing data is very valuable (planning, customer service, advertising, accounting). This creates lock in and makes them reluctant to switch. To sell it, you need to address this.
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by lindig 6y ago
You might want to check the publication record of the author, Andreas Rossberg: https://dblp.org/pid/90/3425.html
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by lindig 7y ago
> Another mistake that bleeds through is mutable strings. OCaml strings are immutable by default since OCaml 4.06.
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by lindig 7y ago
Copy-writing on the pricing page: "We'll charge you for your traffic to FastComments. For example if you have a small blog and you never get more than 250000.00 visitors a month you won't be charged more than $71.43 a month.&
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by lindig 7y ago
My understanding was that there is a tax advantage (or loophole) in this construct of having influence over a fund's trading rather than doing the trades yourself and holding the fund instead. Would you argue there is no such advantage
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by lindig 7y ago
I've read this story about where part of Renaissance Technologies's alpha is coming from: buying and selling individual financial instruments entails paying taxes on the gains of each trade. It's more lucrative to buy and hol
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by lindig 7y ago
In what climate? Having lived in UK, Germany and the US East Coast with rain and snow, it would not have worked for me and bikes that are used a lot by people who are not careful.
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by lindig 7y ago
I think the prices for bike sharing are absolutely unsustainable and so I'm not surprised about the collapse of the market for rental bikes. A bike that is kept outdoors needs 0.5h per week of maintenance and I don't see that poss
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by lindig 7y ago
Will companies making electric scooters be next to be hit by a slowdown in "micromobility" demand or do we expect scooter rental (and sales) to be a sustainable business?
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by lindig 8y ago
As pointed out in this thread, a lens has to return the modified object as it can't update it as a side effect. That is the reason no universal dot-like lens operator exists in Haskell but it needs to be composed based on the data stru
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by lindig 8y ago
In a language like C, the dot '.' and the arrow '->' are used for access into structures - both for setting and retrieving values. I think intuitively about a lens as a programmable dot which I can use to compose an a
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by lindig 8y ago
The interactive tool linked in the article does not work in Safari for me. I does work in Chromium. https://levien.com/euler_explorer/
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by lindig 8y ago
The authors are using their own Spell[1] tool to parse syslog files into patterns that represent the fixed part of printf-like log statement. Is the source of that available? At the heart of this is a tree-based construction that is not wel
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by lindig 8y ago
The loophole is that the state of the pseudo random number generator is observed (indirectly) and used for predictions. What if slot machines would use a real source of randomness? I assume that this would cause difficulties with the licens
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by lindig 8y ago
Bitcoin proponents like to stress the rationality of their investments and deny that it is gambling or an asset only fit for the black market - hence the large potential. So they surely would take taxation into account.
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by lindig 9y ago
> Mac sales are down 5%. Not true. Apple sold 5.112M Macs units in 13 weeks recently and 5.374M Macs in 14 weeks a year ago. That is 0.393M/week recently vs. 0.384M/week a year ago. https://www.apple.com/newsroo
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by lindig 9y ago
You might want to look after your horses and their foals that you don't keep in the front yard.
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by lindig 9y ago
This does not implement grouping "()" or alternatives "|". Hence, looping is only required on individual characters. This is a considerable simplification over full regexp.
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by lindig 9y ago
> Majority rule based on one-person-one-vote notoriously results in tyranny of the majority–a large number of people who care only a little about an outcome prevail over a minority that cares passionately, resulting in a reduction of agg
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by lindig 9y ago
Algebraic effects are a hot topic. The name sounds fancy but maybe this intuition helps: an effect is like an exception where the exception handler receives enough information to resume the computation from where it was called. Just like ex
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by lindig 9y ago
Most "real life" contracts have bugs too. The difference is: the visibility of these contracts is very limited such that these bugs cannot be exploited by random hackers. And any exploit can be challenged in court. Ethereum takes
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by lindig 9y ago
You might want to take a closer look who proposed this before being so dismissive.
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by lindig 9y ago
It doesn't contain a proof for the type system either.
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by lindig 9y ago
The web site promises a proof for type safety and links to a paper https://www.ponylang.org/media/papers/fast-cheap.pdf but the way I understand the paper it doesn't provide a proof. It contains a type system
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by lindig 9y ago
Giving one example is not an evaluation that would convince me that NN are better. The German LaTeX community is one of the largest and I haven't heard much about it being unhappy with TeX's hyphenation.

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