mbivert

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by mbivert 2y ago
> the role of diverse experiences and cross-pollination of ideas Add to this: giving room for ideas to grow: the more you wait, the more diverse and numerous the life experiences, all of them having the potential to shape those uncrystal
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by mbivert 2y ago
I'd be curious to know as well; I'd bet on things pertaining to either compilers (e.g. optimization stuff), concurrency/OSes, graphics engines & image processing.
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by mbivert 2y ago
In case this is of interest, MIT's 6.5840[0], distributed systems, has a series of labs, implementing Raft in Go. Haven't made it through the whole thing yet, but it's quite entertaining so far. The teachers provide you with
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by mbivert 2y ago
He also likes "trolling" and "Flat Earth"; this all might still be second degree, however distasteful. I mean, "I am physically the most disgusting form of existence that ever lived", seriously. If so, then peo
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by mbivert 2y ago
> [...] my Rebbe was the geologist of the soul. You see, there are so many treasures in the earth. There is gold, there is silver, and there are diamonds. But if you don’t know where to dig, you’ll find only dirt and rocks and mud. The
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by mbivert 2y ago
Ah! I misread the parent, if thought he meant `if command` to look for a random command (e.g. `if grep`)
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by mbivert 2y ago
The form you propose runs `command`, which may have undesired side-effects. I always thought `which` to be standard, but TIL `command` (sh builtin) is[0]. [0]: https://hynek.me/til/which-not-posix/
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by mbivert 2y ago
For bare C, man pages or opengroup.org (e.g. [0]) are often quite nice. Linux's (GNU's really) man pages can be sometimes noisy though. [0]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions&#x2F
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by mbivert 2y ago
Alright. I'm trying to come up with other examples, but as the parent said, it then depends how pedantic we want to be e.g. take Poincaré's spacetime, but he'd still be working from two pre-existing ideas, "space" a
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by mbivert 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalenc... > Mass–energy equivalence states that all objects having mass, or massive objects, have a corresponding intrinsic energy, even when they are stationary
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by mbivert 2y ago
> When I was a young student (around 12), my math teacher came-up with an unique requirement for his students to not only solve math problems but also to compose them. I think this is highly underestimated: there seems to be some sort of
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by mbivert 2y ago
When you execute a function in a mainstream languages, the arguments are usually evaluated first, then the function is called with the result of that evaluation. E.g. the following in JS will always print the confirm message. But in a lazy
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by mbivert 2y ago
I believe that a good definition of the "core" functional programming is: it's a practical way of using the λ-calculus. Similarly, imperative programming is a practical way of using Turing machines. It's always somewhat
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by mbivert 2y ago
Yup, but defining that subset isn't free! Perhaps some people did the work already, but I'd still be cautious as to how much Perl one actually need to know to use those comfortably.
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by mbivert 2y ago
> What's the advantage of learning AWK over Perl? Getting awk in your head (fully) takes about an afternoon: reading the (small and exhaustive) man page, going through a few examples, trying to build a few toys with it. Perl require
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by mbivert 2y ago
> I can't for the life of me make sense of why you'd do it. Over-engineering is a common cause: simple solutions can be deceitfully difficult to find. That being said, additional indirection layers are usually justified by the
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by mbivert 2y ago
Probably similar to the concurrent chat server from gopl[0] then. The pattern is a bit surprising at first, still fairly readable. [0]: https://github.com/adonovan/gopl.io/blob/master/ch8/chat/c
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by mbivert 2y ago
vim/nvim are still heavy beasts. Here's a recent example which made me laugh: 2 months ago, a "shortcut" for reverse search was implemented in acme[0], a 30 years old text-editor. It's not even qualified as a "
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by mbivert 2y ago
> If you assume willingness to learn CVS is in line with being able to provide valuable contributions. This, but also: "can you make an effort to conform yourself to others instead of forcing others to conform to you;" Inexperi
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> I assume you could have just as modern and featureful experience with cvs as with git There are strong mindset differences between various software communities; it might takes a little bit of time & effort to appreciate a more frug
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by mbivert 2y ago
> But might discourage some fresh blood from joining. That's probably more of a feature than a bug: it acts as a "natural" filter.
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by mbivert 2y ago
[0] offers a few insights: license, habits, history, why change something that works, etc. You might also be interested in[1]. [0]: https://cvs.afresh1.com/~andrew/o/why-cvs.html [1]: https://gameoftree
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by mbivert 2y ago
Interesting, I'm in Europe; Maghrebis I know tend to look down upon our local Muslims, so it might explain a few things. I might also be biased.
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If you want to learn, I guess look for something well-documented and comparatively simple, like an old Game Boy emulator
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by mbivert 2y ago
Perhaps "feasting" wasn't the right word: I would bet Ramadan was originally a time of rest, calm and reflection, and not about eating excessively all nights for a month. Prophets usually encourage good measure, balance, not
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> This market was already dominated by Fiver and free stock photos / icon packs / etc Let's add to this the use of digital art, which drastically reduced production costs (can't resist: [0]). I wonder however, if, in
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I believe AI to merely affects art but superficially: by that I mean that it lower the cost of creation so drastically, that what it creates is essentially worthless. It can be pretty and enjoyable, but it's, at least for now, immateri
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> A quick argument: video is a stream of photographs. Do you think that movies can never capture reality as an artist would ;-) I meant, limited from an artistic point of view! But it's indeed a fantastic tool, and the ability to ca
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Google around for "hyperrealism", the techniques are well-documented. You can see in a few pictures the existence of a grid. It was originally used to transfer/scale drawings, but is also used as a substitute for untrained ey
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by mbivert 2y ago
> The world of art was completely transformed by the introduction of photography in the 19th century, because the capturing of lifelike scenes was no longer part of the goal, and we entered an era dominated by the artist’s imagination. T

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