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by lwb 7y ago
Right, but the QEMU project is also simply loading X86 (or other) assembly code and interpreting it in a virtual machine... unless I misunderstand this project and it does something more sophisticated. > the limitation of having half the
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by lwb 7y ago
Is this Bernie's plan? I know there are subtle but important differences between all the different varieties of "universal healthcare" that exist in the world. The Twitter account @BadEconTakes enumerated something about this
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by lwb 7y ago
I have always thought that the best way to learn linear algebra would involve constant visualization and interaction on a computer. My LA teacher in college told us that he visualized the left matrix in a matrix multiplication flipping over
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by lwb 7y ago
> Apple does not permit any apps that has interpreted or generated code An interesting exception to this is Expo, an app that lets you load React Native apps built by other developers over the internet. Expo gets around this on Apple by
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by lwb 7y ago
> these numbers are across all industries, right? I think so. The way these sources gather data is somewhat opaque to me but there's nothing to suggest that it's filtered out by industry. > I suspect the number of hours a no
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by lwb 7y ago
Meta: Do the majority of people on HN have WSJ subscriptions? Or is there some other way to view these articles? I see something from the WSJ get to the front page at least once every couple weeks. My gut tells me that either people just on
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by lwb 7y ago
Something felt fishy about their claim that number of hours worked has been climbing in the United States so I checked their source. It turns out that "average annual hours worked" has changed from 1,780 in 2011 to 1,786 last year
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by lwb 7y ago
Just popping in to say that OVH is the cheapest option for a reason -- support/monitoring/any other features you might want are just not there like they might be on other providers. I host a single tiny website on OVH and they res
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by lwb 7y ago
The graph isn’t about implementations — it also doesn’t show that you have to increment a counter to make a loop.
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by lwb 7y ago
Frustrating how?
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by lwb 7y ago
The point this article makes most clear is exactly to what extent C++ has the attitude of “screw it, let’s put it in”. There are only a handful of constructs listed that C++ doesn’t implement. Also, TIL about “long jump”. Seems like a featu
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by lwb 7y ago
My impression was that the article made the exceptions graph much more complicated than it needed to be. Each function doesn’t need three boxes, and they don’t need to each throw exceptions twice. IMO exceptions are much cleaner in practice
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by lwb 7y ago
Do people actually use Minix in embedded systems in 2020? I only know the name from Linus’ legendary rants.
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by lwb 7y ago
Interesting, it looks like Microsoft has finally realized how unpopular they are among SV style startups. I’ve never been a fan of Windows but if there are enough perks in the program I would seriously consider using a Microsoft stack for a
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by lwb 7y ago
What kind of work do you do? I’m not aware of any major operating systems that use a micro kernel architecture off hand.
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by lwb 7y ago
Explorable Explanations is the term AFAIK. Nicky Case has a whole page of resources on the topic: https://explorabl.es/
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by lwb 7y ago
Where?
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by lwb 7y ago
I've been out of the Clojure ecosystem for some time now -- has GraalVM solved the slow start problem? I remember the 1-2 second start up time being a deal breaker for many applications.
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by lwb 7y ago
Not necessarily ... there are many high profile projects that recommend installation this way. NodeJS and HomeBrew come to mind. Unfortunately it's sort of becoming a standard practice these days.
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by lwb 7y ago
> tenths of billions Do you mean tens of billions? The difference is two orders of magnitude :)
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by lwb 7y ago
That's pretty compelling. If mint sticks around for a while I will definitely consider it for future projects.
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by lwb 7y ago
Great comment, I'll bookmark those!
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by lwb 7y ago
Ah ok, not sure how I missed that. That still seems to be within the realm of a type system, no? Or would you consider type systems a subset of mathematically provable systems?
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by lwb 7y ago
Considering who Twitter gives blue check marks to these days, I'm not convinced that the "false" label will be applied with much more integrity.
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by lwb 7y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/792/
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by lwb 7y ago
As someone with absolutely zero experience with ML languages of any kind, would this be the best intro for me to get into it? Or would I be better off with OCaml?
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by lwb 7y ago
Seems like they are using a narrow definition of "mathematically provable" -- they only thing that appears to be proven is that "all memory access is mathematically proven to be defined". Which just seems like a fancy wa
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by lwb 7y ago
News to me. Larry Wall's SOTO speeches are some of the most interesting talks I've read. I think he just chose the name to be funny. https://www.perl.com/tags/state-of-the-onion/
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by lwb 7y ago
Looks pretty cool. I'd love to see a side-by-side comparing the same application in say, React/Vue/Angular/Elm and Mint.
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by lwb 7y ago
Awesome resource. I thought "State of the Onion" was a Perl thing though? I guess Tor uses it now too?

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