machiavelli1024

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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
There’s no inlining, because determining whether inlining wpuld be safe is probably Turing-complete. However, IMP cacheing is a thing and that’s enough for most cases. For the rest there is C and (Objective-)C++.
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
You can configure your client to ignore comments unless they’re verified by [authority you trust]. Verification would happen cryptographically; like the GPG web of trust. It’s up to you to choose which moderators you subsrcibe to, if any.
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
While I haven't done anything nefarious other than putting a few tracking/analytics frameworks into our product, I have heard a few stories from my colleagues... E.g. at a contractor company, a client wanted to lease 5 developers
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
>Let me know if I am wrong. You're wrong on multiple levels. 1. Generating random values for x^2, y^2, z^2 and taking their square root will only give you values in the x,y,z > 0 octant. (But let's say you "fix" th
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
“Sampling from the uniform distribution on the N-dimensional Euclidean ball (the N-ball) and its surface (the N-sphere) is a tool useful in many diverse research fields, for instance Monte Carlo integration in physics, generating random
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
Notice how the rejection method becomes useless for higher dimensions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
You can’t reconstruct a 3D scene from a 2D projection unless you take educated guesses. E.g. When you look at a picture with something that looks like a chair, you assume that it’s indeed a chair, and then you can estimate its size/pos
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
Wooooow dude, I bet noone came up with this idea before! Very trippy! 420!
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
I had a similar experience when I forgot to take my SNRI antidepressant. I woke up in the middle of the night, and when I tried to continue sleeping I had these ultra-detailed geometric patterns dancing before me. The visuals were nice, but
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
In other words: horror vacui
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
Thanks, I've checked it! If I understand it correctly, your comment is a poor attempt at it.
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
Google is your friend. In short: gerrymandering is the practice of redrawing voting district boundaries to ensure your victory in as many districts as possible.
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
I believe in freedom of information ;)
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
Oink, what.cd, redacted
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
>So it's a way of imperatively declaring execution sequence dependencies that lets you reason as if there's only pure functions most of the time. No. Monad is just a “design pattern”. It’s nice that this design pattern happens
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
The animations could be optimized further via gifsicle ( http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ ): -rw-r--r--@ 1 x staff 538584 Jul 30 17:36 columnblocks_coloured.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 x staff 282676 Jul 3
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
Yep. Funny that HackerNews seem to be unable to wrap their head around the fact that prejudice is just applied Bayesian statistics.
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
Engineers: we can do X and finish in two weeks, or we can take a shortcut and finish in one week, but the code will be tightly coupled to this particular quirk of OpenGL. Manager: take the shortcut :) ... repeat this for 15 years ...
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
The commit message was probably “Implement GDPR compliance”. You’d be surprised how oblivious layprogrammers are to the privacy implications of their work. They slurp up the kool-aid from management about “learning from data” and merrily im
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
What’s up with vertical axis wind turbines though?
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by machiavelli1024 8y ago
It’s pretty simple in Hungarian. The orange fruit is called “narancs”, while the color is “naracssárga” (“narancs” + “sárga”, where “sárga” means yellow).