lomnakkus

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by lomnakkus 8y ago
I think the poster may have meant proper nouns rather than pronouns? (Well, I mean the "builder" part of "Bob the Builder" may need to be flipped in some languages, but I'd assume there aren't that many women
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Yes, and browsers are specifically about the content you're viewing whether that be a simple page or a web-app. How often do you really use the application menus of a browser in the first place, and does that justify giving them ce
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Stanford Prison Experiment.
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Well, duh. Point remains that Denmark was completely incapable of defending the Faroes and thus a "union" with Denmark is completely absurd if you're going to argue it from a defense perspective (as the OP did).
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Obviously it depends on the particulars of any given project, but if you're deriving more than just the string names of the enum values it may be worth it. Using X-macros can sometimes reduce boilerplate hugely simply through avoiding
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Both of these suffer from the potential maintenance problem of duplicating the list of enumerated values. You can avoid that by using the X-Macro pattern, but that's quite heavy-handed and tedious to do if you have a lot of different e
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
> The difference is that Chalmers recognizes that information and subjective experience are not equivalent, "recognizes" seems to assume that he's right. AFAICT there's absolutely no reason a priori to think that it&#
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
True. However, it does seem the latter at least leaves room for "oh, crap, I was wrong" and generally less certainty simply because most reasonable people realize that they cannot know another's mind. Hopefully.
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
How so? These examples share a huge number of common traits with (fundamentalist) religion.
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Both of those examples were effectively a religion-as-state with their state heads elevated to the status of gods. I don't think all that many non-religious people actually care/object when religious people practice their religion
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
> "Treat others as you want to be treated" Just a random aside: If you think about it, this is kind of weird rule. Not everybody's into the same things. AFAICT it should be more like "Treat others as they want to be
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
The problem usually isn't so much throughput, it's latency... and the speed of light sets a lower bound on that, unfortunately.
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
> OCaml has a type-safe printf and isn't purely functional. Isn't that a non-extensible built-in that's handled "magically" by the compiler? (Apologies if that's wrong, it's been a few years since I&#x2
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
> Journalists might not know better. I don't understand why this would excuse anything. Journalism is almost literally their about to (get to) know better about things and explaining to the rest of us. At least, that's what it
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
That's funny. I seem to recall from history classes that it was the British that came to the Faroe Island's defense on a previous historic occasion. (For obvious strategic reasons to do with the geographic location in the North At
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Indeed. There's a concept of relative physical time a) "I'll be there in 12 hours", implication being that if there happens to be a DST change, it doesn't matter. and relative calendar time b) "I'll meet y
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
> [...] and there is no such medical consensus. Not when people lose their jobs for speaking out. At best this is an extremely tenuous inference. If you can find researchers who are actually working in the area who've lost their job
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
I think you've (re)discovered the -morphisms. E.g. anamorphism, catamorphism, hylomorphism. Data structure traversals of various kinds can usually be cast in terms of these morphisms. As it turns out GHC is usually pretty good at optim
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
This is paperwork you should already have in some form if you're actually following (and I hate this phrase) "best practices" for customer data and trying to explain to your employees how to handle a (suspected) security br
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Oh, yes, there are evolutionary dead ends, but e.g. the Moa (or even the Dodo[1]) basically evolved for really long without any evolutionary pressure towards avoiding "enemies" and thus was stuck in a local optimum with no way
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
I'm not sure whether you're agreeing or disagreeing with your parent comment, but I'm just tacking this on there because it feels right: I think HN has just hit peak stupidity. The amount of paranoia, misreading, misunderstan
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Yeah, I guess I was just a bit surprised by "learning" because it does sort of imply "learning by experience" which isn't really a thing when it comes to evolution. I do agree, it's probably just a bit "to
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Wow. That's actually kind of a tiny little brilliant gem that remains to be discovered by many. I, for one, had never though about trying this. Alas it doesn't work quite so well for "ip addr". It would have been great i
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, but AFAIUI "learning" is typically used for individuals and not a species? I think I've seen it used before about species, but it seems to imply some sort of teleology which is decidedly
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Yes. I know nothing about the evolutionary origin/path of the chicken except that it's a "flightless dinosaur". It certainly has "reduced flight capacity", but given evolutionary time and pressure, it certainly
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Aside: It's kind of amusing that "side effects" seems to have become a synonym for "effects". Usually "effects" are things you want to happen, whereas "side effects" are things you don't
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
> We got to the moon with a computer less powerful than my microwave. Can that computer show a GUI with multiple videos playing simultaneously surrounded by UI elements where multipile peripherials (mouse, touchscreen) can control their
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Maybe my reference to "parent" was unclear. I was referring to the top-level comment. For those who don't know, aseipp is/was a major contributor to GHC and will be intimately familiar with the build system of GHC. His o
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Well put. Parent seems to be the classic middlebrow dismissal.
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by lomnakkus 8y ago
Generally agreed, but one should beware that even killing a process can still be quite destabilizing if that process was messing about with, say, shared memory. Still, at least those "dangerous situations" are a bit more obvious&

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