marvy

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by marvy 10y ago
I find this odd; surely that shouldn't happen.
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by marvy 10y ago
To be fair, neither is AlphaGo :) But I admit that the pun is hard to resist.
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by marvy 10y ago
have you heard of sandstorm?
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by marvy 10y ago
that sounds politically difficult, though I know next to nothing about politics so I could be wrong
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by marvy 10y ago
That's upsetting. I'll try not to drop my phone while an update is in progress in that case.
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by marvy 10y ago
Me too, though the screen did get a small crack once. If there was a 1% chance of file system corruption each time I dropped my phone, it would have happened to me by now, I think. And usually when I drop my phone, the battery comes out.
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by marvy 10y ago
try again: your link goes to 10 seconds. (Might be an issue with HN link detection algo.)
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by marvy 10y ago
I though that was for distributed stuff??
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by marvy 10y ago
All right, all right :) I'm adding it to my list.
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by marvy 10y ago
It's not the "beat as one" I object to, it's the "quantum entanglement".
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by marvy 10y ago
> I would love to know why Sorry for late response. The entire blurb on Amazon gives off a mildly pseudo-science vibe, but it is mild enough that I was willing to forgive it. But this I could not overlook: "[...] how the hearts of
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by marvy 10y ago
Okay, fine. Then what makes you say that children have more than adults?
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by marvy 10y ago
The same way you police it in a dictatorship, or any other form of government. Just do what China does for its one child policy, except that it would be a zero child policy. I doubt this is a good idea though.
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by marvy 10y ago
I am kind of doubtful about this Qi business. I followed the amazon link you gave and it made it even more doubtful. Nevertheless, I gave you an upvote, because I had no idea fingertips could ever regrow; that's really cool! I'm
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by marvy 10y ago
That is sufficiently interesting to make me wish I could upvote it twice. But. What I really want to hear about is the opposite experiment. Take something that has ARF, and see what happens if you take it out.
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by marvy 10y ago
That sounds horrifying (to me). I'm not a Rust user. I've never written a line of Rust code in my life. So my opinion is not worth much. And I'm exaggerating a bit. But still. I don't think I can explain my real reas
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by marvy 10y ago
> Not all trade-offs are good choices just because they're trade-offs. Indeed. But they're not automatically bad choices either. Are you saying this one is a bad trade-off?
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by marvy 10y ago
I think you're wrong about Vector
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by marvy 10y ago
Read-only is too strict. Can't reverse the array, or sort it.
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by marvy 10y ago
As far as I know, there are people that have been advocating something very similar to this. It's not quite true that these people are being ignored completely, but on the other hand, this hasn't been done. I've never heard
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by marvy 10y ago
I always wondered why some people add /s to their post sometimes. It's "end sarcasm", isn't it?
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by marvy 10y ago
No, not really. My favorite example is: try to implement the equivalent of the LaTeX command \tableofcontents using just HTML and CSS. On the other hand, that's not a fair comparison: TeX is Turing-complete, and HTML+CSS is not. We
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by marvy 10y ago
I doubt it. The library seems very happy to exploit whatever C++ features are available, especially templates, to the point where I wonder how easy it would be to use from a language where templates are even slightly different compared to
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by marvy 10y ago
Have you ever used wget? Do you think it's too chatty?
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by marvy 10y ago
That is seriously neat. But! The user has to know this. Surely, if you're trying to copy a 6GB file, it's better to take a lesson from wget and print a progress indicator than force the user to (1) read the man page, and (2) ke
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by marvy 10y ago
on by default. If it's too noisy, you can look for how to make it shut up, and you will find it. If it's too quiet, you will look for why it's hanging, and not find it (because it's not hanging, just slow).
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by marvy 10y ago
so, how to avoid parsing ls? maybe use cat *, or something?
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by marvy 10y ago
sort is a bad example: to support sorting in-place, it has to know the file name. Pity the user who typed sort < bigfile > bigfile for said user just lost a file.
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by marvy 10y ago
> sta and stu Better :) But I prefer to just give my tables short names to begin with. How about staff and pupils? That's so short that there is little temptation to abbreviate.
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by marvy 10y ago
> S for staff and ST for students This isn't memorable: staff and students both start with st!

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