mkoubaa

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811.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Intelligence itself is not a perfect proxy for effectiveness, which is what people assume IQ eventually implies
812.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Yes precisely. Closer than the average
813.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder why these nifty data structures that someone already implemented in c++ don't immediately (or even 5+ years later) have ports to other languages. Especially languages that are closer to the metal than average (e.g. R
814.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I would agree. 11 years seems light for something of this magnitude, even if you don't consider possession sentences.
815.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Kudos to the python core devs. The core library is getting cleaner and more maintainable and the language is getting more performant and powerful for users. Long live the snake
816.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Am I the only one who never cared about free will? Either we have free will or we don't - we will never know - and it doesn't actually matter.
817.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
The carbon project for c++ defines some fixed ABI types in the standard library to enable things like this. I hope that c++ can learn from that - I tried to propose fixed ABI types in the standard a few years back but didn't get very
818.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Have they considered funding from a software foundation?
819.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Requests for Comments have to be approved?
820.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
While I prefer python over yaml, I tend to think imperative build systems are inherently more brittle.
821.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Read newton and einsteins famous papers and it'll bother you less
822.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I still work on FEA and it's as technically interesting as ever
823.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
If any number is going to be shit on may as well pick one that has a fun story
824.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
One or two steps removed from Georgianism.
825.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
First batch of brains in vats let's gooo
826.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Good to see that the third most important scientific computing language is getting some TLC
827.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Very important point. Calling new designs safer is buying into the narrative that older designs are unsafe, which is simply untrue. It's like saying new t-shirts are more wearable.
828.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I dont put critiques of voters in the same category as critiques of election systems.
829.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
The point being made about extremism hinges on the axis being "ideological left/right" rather than "how much I like the candidate"
830.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
This is quite reductive and ridiculous, people don't measure their difference from a candidate on a single axis and vote for the person with the smallest distance.
831.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Burning coal instead of nuclear seems to be a rather unsophisticated example of cutting off your nose to spite your face
832.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
This is in the process of being addressed - look into the HPy project
833.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Porting a large-scale windows desktop app to linux takes engineer years.
834.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
The thing vendors care about more than anything is making upstream work supported. Google isn't even complaining about things, this is a very dry technical document about their experience, for an amount of work they certainly expected
835.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
A reviewer can usually tell which code is easier to understand side by side, even when it's yourself as the reviewer. Applying rules like these to your code may or may not result to cleaner code, but that's a testable hypothesis.
836.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Interop with c++ is definitely inherently bad.
837.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I work at smaller scale c++ than google and I found most of their proposals reasonable but undoable for practical reasons rather than first principles reasons. For instance compiler vendors who have a veto power over language changes stron
838.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
I don't like the terminology of "faith-based" here. These are religious services, and some religions don't place a big importance on faith
839.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
If you know software, most engineering projects have software development needs, for example method development. You could be contributing to an engineering project without an engineering degree
840.
by mkoubaa 4y ago
It starts understanding the meaning of the word "estimate" in the English language.

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