msbarnett

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by msbarnett 4y ago
> When really English is far closer to a language with morphological future tense than it is to Japanese. I really don’t agree, as a speaker of both languages. There’s a lot of western-exceptionalism invested in the notion that Japanes
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Yeah, but we're just trying to be consistent: when people say "Japanese has no future tense", they mean a morphological tense , and it's equally true that English has no morphological future tense either. Both languages
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Those are modal auxiliaries. If English had a true future morphological tense, there would be some inflection to the word "go" itself that would mean "go-but-in-the-future"
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> You have no authority over someone else's body. It sucks, but it's reality. This is obviously untrue: the state can lock up and kill you, is currently asserting its right to restrict people from having abortions performed on
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by msbarnett 4y ago
The jobs graph also doesn't match DevJobsScanner's results: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-lang... Where is IEEE finding all these jobs hiring for "shell"?
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by msbarnett 4y ago
All of the M1/Pro/Max/Ultra shared the same fundamental core design. Presumably the same will be true of the M2 series. As someone else here said, fab nodes are more like Lego blocks than a printer’s dpi – moving a design to
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by msbarnett 4y ago
High DPI screens are a godsend when you are reading text on them all day, I’ll never go back to a 1080p screen. And I’d hardly say a MacBook Pro is suffering in the battery life department for the choice. Besides, the claim was comparable a
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Well, I spent my twenties (in the 80's) in school, or working for 30K or 36K/year. Ballpark the 80's as 1985 and that works out to 82,604.83 to 99,125.80, for the curious. What most people would consider an excellent sal
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Do you have any conception of how much TCAM would be required to individually route 14 billion IP addresses? And even beyond that what else would be involved to route things fast enough at that granularity. A top end router today can handle
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> No OS hosted repo can keep up with rust and it's particular selection of bleeding edge types. Seems empirically false https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/rust/ If your distro is unwilli
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Objective-C was doing sufficiently-fast UI updates for it to run well on iPhones 10 years ago, while relying on objc_msgsend, which is _much_ slower than a virtual function call or even a Qt signal. You wouldn't want to use ObjC's
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by msbarnett 4y ago
My distro gets updated software when it's available; sounds like your beef is with your distro insisting that the entire world should work on its timelines instead of vice-versa.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> The status of C as the lingua franca of today's computing makes it worthwhile to write tools for it, so there are many tools being written. The vast, vast majority of programmers aren’t doing their computing by writing C anymore.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
When you view a commit on GitHub, you can attach a comment to any given line of it. It looks basically like a comment left on a line of code in a PR, except tied to a commit instead of a PR.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> If O(3) people want to design a new language, how should they incorporate the "optimizations that other languages have had for 30 years" into that language that will satisfy the internet's peanut gallery? Generally this
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by msbarnett 4y ago
* Completes construction of the building shell. Next step is all of the electrical, sewage, HVAC and related infrastructure to build the clean rooms inside, and then only once that is done, start bringing in fab equipment. So it’s quite a w
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by msbarnett 4y ago
TBH I'm surprised that even works in Python – modifying a collection you're in the middle of iterating seems like a bad habit to get into in any language. edit: in fact, if you specifically use a deque in Python the way you are in
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Yeah, and you used it in a way that made it sound derogatory. > "Creole bullshit" They didn't write that it sounds like "creole bullshit", they wrote that it sounds like "investor creole language bullsh
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Basically the whole episode revolves around one character's emotional difficulties and Will feeling a bit ignored by their mutual friend who is in town, all while Will's mother has suddenly left town the night before after giving
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by msbarnett 4y ago
I don't disagree but that says to me that a lot of the "Rust is hard" narrative is actually "low-level systems programming is hard", eg) domain complexity is being misattributed to the language.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> terse codewords for the well-know arguments. half-assed gestures to lazy forum-warrior tropes, would be a more accurate description.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Creole language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Perhaps the math is not working out? Bad sign for a company betting it all on "the metaverse".
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by msbarnett 4y ago
What solution? Meta's entire proposal is "stop making the adjustment and let dealing with the accumulated error be some future person's problem". "Let's just kick the can down the road" isn't solving
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by msbarnett 4y ago
27, not 37
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Every six months is simply too often. If it was switched to an adjustment made every 2-10 decades with at least a decade to update the file then the problem would be greatly lessened. You seem confused. It doesn't happen every 6
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Some states have rule to report COVID death like this The claim was specifically about CDC reporting rules, not the rules of how individual states report statistics themselves (which the CDC has no control over).
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> If you choose a license which explicitly says you're not waiving your patents, it insinuates that you are holding some, and they are used in the project. Not anymore than the BSD-no-nuclear clause insinuates that there's a ve
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> If a license has never been considered an implicit waiver, it seems overkill to say that "a license that says nothing about rights is materially better than a license that explicitly does not waive rights," no? Yes, and I sus
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Last I checked (few months ago) the CDC in the US was still counting COVID deaths as any deceased with active COVID infection. This is not at all an accurate summary of the CDC’s Cause of Death reporting guidelines for Covid-19: https

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