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by munch117 3y ago
No, it's mostly based on personal experience. I was looking at how my younger colleagues were organising their screens, with IDE tool windows taking up most of it, and leaving no more than about a quarter of the screen to the source co
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by munch117 3y ago
Colours interfere with scannability. It forces you to deal with text one colour region at a time, making it harder to take in the whole thing at once. Scanning is a skill you acquire with age. As you get older, and you more and more repla
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by munch117 3y ago
A gist that has been discussed on HN is no longer a random gist. It is a specific gist. Which better source of crypto advice would you recommend? (Or are you going to tell me not to take advice on crypto advice from random HN commenters?)
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by munch117 4y ago
I use a script that identifies modified files in my working copies, runs pyflakes on them, and after that pylint -E. By the time pylint finishes, I'll have already fixed most of the low-hanging fruit that pyflakes found, and then I loo
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by munch117 4y ago
The question "functional programming is great, why isn't it more popular?" predates package managers by decades. That question is older than Linux, older than Haskell. Best of luck with improving tooling, but it's not t
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by munch117 4y ago
Thank you for the explanation.
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by munch117 4y ago
What's so special about direct personal service ? Why does the person cleaning the rest rooms or the person cooking you food deserve less than the person who's transporting plates?
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by munch117 4y ago
Denmark. We have exactly one and a half toll bridges in the whole country, so I guess the both-directionalism may be down to toll-both amateurism.
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by munch117 4y ago
I've never seen a toll bridge that doesn't have tolls in both directions. I didn't even know that charging in only one direction was a thing. You live and you learn.
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by munch117 4y ago
Not so much, you could phase out C-style casts over time. C++ compilers could grow options to warn about C-style casts (if they haven't already), shops could outlaw them in coding style guides, and slowly it would go away. What does k
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by munch117 4y ago
That means you have to look in two places, correlate the information and make a deduction. I would prefer a style of line that is immediately recognisable on its own.
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by munch117 4y ago
> The other thing that kills me is not using a different color for separating lanes that run in the same direction vs different directions (white vs yellow in the US) How do you know at a glance if a road is one way? I agree completely,
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by munch117 4y ago
You can dismiss a study with 22 participants as unscientific, if they could have reasonably done a study with many more participants, or if someone else has already done so. In this case, it's an fMRI study. fMRI access is expensive,
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by munch117 4y ago
Read them again. Where the guidelines say "you", they are clearly addressing the injured party.
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by munch117 4y ago
I saw those other 8087+NMI comments, but the 8087 is from 1980, and I thought this fix was older than that.
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by munch117 4y ago
No one has said that anything is a hoax . Please tone it down. > How would you know that if I hadn't published papers on the relevant topics No, that not the question. You don't get to assume that people are incompetent unti
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by munch117 4y ago
You are putting up a ridiculously high bar for expressing an opinion, where not even a research fellow in theoretical physics can pass. If you were a research fellow in virology or immunology, and you had read and understood the relevant pa
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by munch117 4y ago
> That doesn't sound like a hardware bug to me at all. It isn't. It's a rare case of a software bug being worked around in hardware. That alone makes it fascinating. The natural way of handling it in software would be to
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by munch117 4y ago
I'm gonna say no. You'd be going up against the compressive resistance of the ground. At depth where the pressure is already high, you won't be able to compress the ground much further even with the extreme force of a nuke,
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by munch117 4y ago
> [...] and give you curt service I might actually prefer that. The fake smiling creeps me out.
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by munch117 4y ago
MSWord doesn't have formatting codes, at least not for simple text styles. Instead, each individual character has formatting attributes. So the word italics is not a single italicized region, it's 7 separately italicized chara
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by munch117 4y ago
Yeah, looks really nice. The innovation is the visual indicator, the cursor tail. The rest is how WordPerfect worked 30 years ago. It is horrifying to think how much the Microsoft Word approach has hobbled rich text editing for all those y
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by munch117 4y ago
You underestimate how hard the problem is. Things that in other fields would be minor typographical differences are often semantically meaningful in traditional math notation. Formula OCR would need to distinguish chi from x, lowercase de
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by munch117 4y ago
Not quite, subinterpreters can contain multiple threads each. But you're right in that if you limit yourself to one thread per subinterpreter, then you should be able to get good multicore scaling that way, when more fully fleshed out
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by munch117 4y ago
Perhaps you should switch to a search engine that's better at math.
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by munch117 4y ago
Never the less, the financing strategy works. At least in Scandinavia. Defaulting happens rarely enough to not be an issue. Well-run governments can borrow money much cheaper than private actors. Lower interest rates means a higher chanc
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by munch117 4y ago
Actually it's sticking with backwards compatibility that is causing most of the problems. It's not hard to come up with an improved library design. But it is extremely hard to improve it while remaining compatible with the billion
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by munch117 4y ago
The real problem is that datetime.datetime.now() returns a naïve datetime. If only it returned something that contained the UTC offset in which is was created, then all of this would be much easier to deal with. Conversions to timestamps w
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by munch117 4y ago
> Even though (let (x 5) (* x x)) is wrong, it parses. That's not the definition of syntax. If you're implementing a compiler, then you might use "syntax" as a shorthand for those parts of the syntax that are processe
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by munch117 4y ago
If you don't know the syntax of let, then you might find yourself writing (let (x 5) (* x x)) where you should have written (let ((x 5)) (* x x)) That is syntax. Let me ask you a question: Are these two expressions equi

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