misil

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by misil 4y ago
Over the years, I've found that the best ideas come to me when walking to the bathroom and back. Especially when I'm trying to come up with a good solution to a difficult programming problem. Just getting up from the screen and en
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by misil 4y ago
Can we perhaps take this opportunity to pour one out for Matt Levine? I can't think of any writer/journalist who can bring an often esoteric topic like present day financial shenanigans to life with such clear, intuitive and bitin
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by misil 4y ago
I think I once read a comment on here that the command-line parsing logic of ffmpeg is Turing-complete. It's probably telling that I can't remember if that was meant as a joke or to be taken seriously. And I say this with nothing
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by misil 5y ago
This very much resonates with my experience. I've seen this very process take place when working at a small tech startup that ended up being bought by a non-tech giant keen on undergoing a "digitalization" initiative. Our pri
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by misil 7y ago
Fun fact: Gauss is said to have commented on this equation that "if this was not immediately apparent to you upon being told it, you would never be a first-class mathematician".
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by misil 7y ago
If you're interested in Feigenbaum's constant, check out Numberphile's video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ .
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by misil 7y ago
Firefox makes money by its search deal with Google, in other words: by funneling their users towards Google. This pretty much also boils down to "making money by showing you ads". Google's search ads, to be precise. Now you c
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by misil 8y ago
My favorite tidbit of this story: In 2014, Relotius sold two stories to the monthly magazine of a Swiss paper, both interviews with hairdressers. The second one (still online: https://folio.nzz.ch/2014/februar/blo
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by misil 8y ago
I also want to urge anyone with even just a fleeting interest in mathematical topics like this to go out looking for said BBC documentary. It's a marvelous portrait of the characters and backstories behind this proof.
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by misil 9y ago
This (highly stylized) rendering of the opening of Bach's Matthew Passion has helped me appreciate the structure of this extraordinary piece of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAafyK44fCc
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by misil 9y ago
This sounds a lot like the Ripple network. Or is there a substantial technological difference?
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by misil 9y ago
>catch up to Rust This proposal has nothing whatsoever to do about any Rust feature. It's about compile-time metaprogramming on steroids.