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by lower 8y ago
When comparing a Rust rewrite of a C++ codebase, I noticed that Rust's default HashMap and HashSet were noticably slower than unordered_map and unordered_set. The reason is that Rust uses a hash function that has better properties, but
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by lower 8y ago
Do you know how hard it is to get tenure? You have to work extremely hard for a decade and beat the best. If you don't manage to get tenure then you're left with nothing. In fields like computer science this isn't so bad, bec
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by lower 8y ago
> academics who have never built a business, hired employees, You don't seem to know much about what academics do. A large part of their work consists of project planning, obtaining funding, hiring people to do the research work, ad
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by lower 8y ago
While this is a good movie, one should be aware that it does not reflect the reality in Eastern Germany all that well. It's not a documentary. In preparation for the film, the director asked Christoph Hein, an Eastern German writer, to
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by lower 8y ago
For what it's worth, Gnome is very usable on a 1440p screen if one sets Font Scaling to 1.6 (in tweak tools) and leaves the general scaling at factor 1. The result is that the fonts have the right size, while GUI elements are a bit sma
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by lower 8y ago
> Parser/lexer generators are really easy to use for DSLs but for real languages and tools, they're too heavyweight and constraining. Haskell and OCaml are examples of real languages that use parser generators. GHC: https:&#x2
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by lower 8y ago
On Linux you need mono, nuget and msbuild. I used a recent versions from https://www.mono-project.com/ Then you should be able to do: git clone https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/Darkstar.git
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by lower 8y ago
You can do bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_open* { printf("%d\n", pid); }' but then you can't access the arguments of the different probes uniformly, i.e. bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:sysca
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by lower 8y ago
But keep in mind that CDU is Angela Merkel's party. She is probably the hate figure of the far-right in Germany.
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by lower 8y ago
From the bpftrace tutorial, I would have expected the one-liner bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_open { printf("%d %s\n", pid, str(args->filename)); }' to show me all open calls as they happen. I wo
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by lower 8y ago
This reminds me of a quote by Tony Hoare from 1973 about Algol 60: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors. "
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by lower 8y ago
I don't think there are any border disputes in this area. Perhaps the hobby-archaeologist wanted to remain anonymous because unearthing historical artifacts with a metal detector is illegal in some places. In Germany one needs a permit
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by lower 8y ago
Watching Western German television was not officially forbidden and in the 80s most people did it. It was, however, frowned upon and seen as suspect by the authorities. Imagine having to justify yourself in a discussion with the Stasi for c
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by lower 8y ago
Are you aware that the TAPL book comes with an implementation of System F? https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/checkers/fullpoly/
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by lower 8y ago
They don't mention that wood is quite a bit heavier than other materials. Their road bike frames weight 2.5kg, where modern (and much cheaper) carbon fiber frames come in below 1kg.
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by lower 8y ago
One reason is probably, that it's a small language with a fully specified semantics. Also, despite its age, it is still a modern language. It's had features like lambdas, type inference, algebraic data types, generics, modules, et
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by lower 8y ago
Wait until you hear that the new electric one weighs 120kg (one battery) to 135kg (two batteries).
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by lower 8y ago
Yes, but it must also be the looks of the thing. The Simson S51 is newer, has the same sort of speed, is legally treated as a scooter, but does not appear to have the same cult status. I see the new electric Schwalbe quite often in city tra
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by lower 8y ago
We have something similar in Germany. The Schwalbe scooter was built in Easter Germany from the the 60s to the 80s and has achieved a sort of cult status. One still sees them today, even in the west. https://de.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by lower 8y ago
The vector drawing program Ipe stores all its data in a PDF. So, you create a drawing, save it as a PDF and can later open the PDF again for editing. Text can be written in LaTeX format and the PDF will contain the LaTeX source for later ed
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by lower 8y ago
FWIW, Motorola is very slow with software updates. My G5 plus is currently still on Android 7.0 on the June (!) 2018 security patch level and this is usual. I think that an update to 8.1 is around the corner, but they've promised an up
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by lower 8y ago
In the survey, most people said that they want to keep summer time all year. In Germany, this is what is currently favoured.
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by lower 8y ago
For me it helps to purposely "do something that scares you."
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by lower 8y ago
They've already announced that they're moving production to TSMC. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13279/amd-to-fab-7nm-cpus-gpu...
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by lower 8y ago
OCaml isn't very extreme in its approach. It's a functional language, but it also allows side-effects and has object with mutable state, for example. It's most certainly a language that is being used mainly to build things. S
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by lower 8y ago
This is for Germany. I assumed that it was EU-wide, but it may be like that in Germany only.
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by lower 8y ago
Here in the EU (edit: at least in Germany), TV stations sometimes slow down their shows to cram in more ads. There are rules that there may be only one block of ads in a show of up to 45 minutes, two blocks in a show of up to 90 minutes,
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by lower 8y ago
From the article: > “I'd emphasize that our technology is based on account behavior not the content of Tweets.”
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by lower 8y ago
I'm sorry, but this is just rambling. He goes on about theorists and practitioners without actually saying anything about the problem at all. He doesn't explain why he thinks the current state of the art isn't the solution. W
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by lower 8y ago
> WHy don't we have the tech to detect hover on touchscreens yet? We do. Samsung used to have this on their phones (not sure if they still do): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzUzRD9Y8k

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