melissalobos

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by melissalobos 4y ago
That actually sounds very frightening, can anyone comment on how possible that would be?
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by melissalobos 4y ago
Rust only uses LLVM currently. WSL or Cygwin is because the compiler situation on Windows is a bit rough(VS doesn't support C fully), so most people use GCC there.
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by melissalobos 4y ago
People will mention Jane Street for financial stuff, but mostly academia and compilers.
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> creator of Tarsnap I am much more a fan of their work on diffing
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> it speaks more to your own limits than the limits of others. Indeed, and that is totally okay for a 13 year old to have limits. You can't expect a kid to have any real maturity. People only really get good at communicating with
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Unified Theory of Garbage Collection(dl.acm.org)
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> In some versions of English it is mispronounced This is more a misunderstanding of how dialects work. There is no "English" if you consider British, Welsh, Scottish, and Australian English all English which most people do. T
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by melissalobos 4y ago
In Standard American English true. There are many many dialects and local versions. Listen to the Great British Bakeoff for one full episode and note if you ever disagree with any pronunciations. Now go to Indonesia, where I spent a great
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by melissalobos 4y ago
Given that we have latex, pandoc, markdown, asciidoc, etc., I really don't see the need to learn it. At the time it was probably a great and transformative tool, but using TeXMaker or TeXStudio and latex gives a far more comfortable w
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To some extent the internet incentivizes the production of meta-games(threadreaderapp.com)
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by melissalobos 4y ago
Yes! Thank you, I couldn't think of the terms to search for to find this.
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> Groff+mom Apparently mom and ms are some packages full of macros to use with Groff. I am not familiar with these tools and was a bit confused until I read some man pages.
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by melissalobos 4y ago
Ever. In some versions of English(of which there are many many dialects) it is pronounced nearly the same as "clever" so "Ever Clever".
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by melissalobos 4y ago
I think that is part of the issue with communicating bulk statistics like life expectancy. In reality the median or mean after 15 or after 30 is likely more useful as a measure.
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> I suspect that this is way more common than we think I can't really think of a mechanism that would allow a tree to get nutrients from extruded sap normally(most other plants don't tend to produce much sap in my recollection)
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> they had a life expectancy of like 20 years This just meant that a LOT of kids died, not that most adults didn't live very long.
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> Reference counting is garbage collecting I am drawing a blank on google scholar at the moment, but I recall a very popular paper on exactly this topic of RC as the other side of Tracing GC.
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by melissalobos 4y ago
This sounds very nice, but just to make sure I understand your meaning: If you have a properly designed "systems" programming language(even if manually managed) you would release resources exactly(or nearly so) at the time when a
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by melissalobos 4y ago
Even so, github does have a ton of very very popular C libraries(like https://github.com/nothings/stb ). I was bringing up the OS provided ones since they claimed not to be able to find any. My main point is that it is
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> The most difficult thing I find about C is the (apparent) lack of libraries and packages I really am not sure if this is a joke or not, but almost every major library has a C interface. Almost all packages in your distro if you use li
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by melissalobos 4y ago
One big issue with that notation is that the log of the exponential is not the exponential of the log, so the order really does matter(for any complex valued expressions). https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=log%28exp%28x%2
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> Obama: 'We tortured some folks' https://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/john-brennan-torture-...
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by melissalobos 4y ago
I think the GP is trying to make the point that, a scalar in most numerical physics contexts is either a real or complex double precision floating point number(like a double), but they don't see how someone would represent a vector in
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> Why? 50k years ago the average person lived with a small group of people and barely ever interacted with anyone else in the world. I think at least some of the people in this thread would argue against that, seeing as how it is about t
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> By using the LR parsing algorithm In case anyone else was wondering, this is a LR parser-generator that is supposed to be error-insensitive. Here is a java grammar written in it: https://github.com/lezer-parser/ja
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> deamon Is that a typo? If not then I see how those would be pronounced the same, but daemon in American English would usually be pronounced "Day-mon". This also helps to distinguish between the long running process and an ev
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by melissalobos 4y ago
Indeed, that particular implementation is very fast. One of the goals of the C++ language is to leave no space for a lower level language than C++. A motivated person could just re-implement those algorithms in C++, in the absolute worst
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by melissalobos 4y ago
One thing is that this library has built in support for H-matrices(last I checked Matlab did not), so it can be arbitrarily more efficient if your problem decomposes in a nice way(most matrices in practice have large low rank sections, so t
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> It's diffeq solvers will almost certainly be worse than Julia (Julia is SOTA there) Worse in what sense? Speed? Almost certainly not, since you would be implementing the solution directly in C++, so it will be as fast as you need(
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by melissalobos 4y ago
> Why do you think Rust took longer to change than Python? Potentially the issues we ran into were due to the inexperience of the team, Rust despite being ~12 years old, most of the programmers we were working with had less than 2 years

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