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by newmana 4mo ago
It takes 40 seconds to precompute the lookup table. Robin released at least 2 faster/improved versions that run in a couple of seconds - less string concatenation which is slow in BASIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D
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by newmana 6mo ago
A great version of this and how ex-DEC engineers saved Google and their choice of ECC RAM - inventing MapReduce and BigTable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0I4f8Rbis
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by newmana 10mo ago
"Recently, yet another category of low-hanging fruit has been identified as within reach of automated tools: problems which, due to a technical flaw in their description, are unexpectedly easy to resolve. Specifically, problem #124 h
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by newmana 2y ago
Smalltalk Environment - the dawn of IDEs - "Don't mode me in" "Novices are not the only victims of modes. Experts often type commands used in one mode when they are in another, leading to undesired and distressing conseq
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by newmana 3y ago
It's worth noting that the debunking has been debunked (it's much more nuanced but essentially you can take the quotes, experience of others and the height of the bridges at face value): "I recorded clearances for a total of
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by newmana 3y ago
Video from 1979 about F International (Dame Shirley's company) - working from home, as a computer a programmer, is the greatest revolution for working women since the pill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6URa-PTqfA&am
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by newmana 3y ago
It's also worth noting, one of the author's of the paper: "Transmission of the bacteria is possible, especially given the highly sociable nature of elephants and the link between this infection and the stress associated with
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by newmana 3y ago
They might be talking about the checkcast operation: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-6.ht... This is generated when you do something like: final Main value = list.get(0); ht
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by newmana 6y ago
Sweden has achieved about 15% infection rate and has showed no signs of slowing. https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/new-beijing-outbreak-raise... https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/count
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by newmana 6y ago
"It took nine days for the number of infections to grow from 6 million to 7 million, and less than eight days to get to the latest million, so the pandemic is not slowing down." https://www.abc.net.au/radio/pr
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by newmana 6y ago
Or better yet, from the MDL documentation https://mdl-language.readthedocs.io/en/latest/08-truth/#824-...
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by newmana 6y ago
"indivisible and hence ultimately simple entity, such as an atom or a person."
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by newmana 8y ago
Yes.
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by newmana 8y ago
The Semantic Web was not XML but RDF. XML was the serialisation format.
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by newmana 10y ago
This was covered in a previous post: "Haskell is sandwiched between two layers of C++ in Sigma. At the top, we use the C++ thrift server. In principle, Haskell can act as a thrift server, but the C++ thrift server is more mature and pe
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by newmana 10y ago
Sounds like fun https://github.com/newmana/haunted-house
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by newmana 11y ago
"So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality." I think this is where the evidence is to the contrary - economic inequality predicts poverty and poor social mobilit
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by newmana 11y ago
I love this quote from Christopher Alexander, author of Pattern Language on its failure: "So there is the slightly strange paradox that, after all those years of work, the first three books are essentially complete and, from a theoreti
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by newmana 11y ago
That study has many flaws especially in self selection: http://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-s...
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by newmana 12y ago
I wish Ruby had better support for functions, passing it to a method incurs a 400% performance penalty: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0/symbols/Proc/yield#annota...
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by newmana 13y ago
Constructing a sexist joke is generally seen as a misogynistic thing to do. There are FAQs perhaps the most relevant is: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Misogyny But you can find examples everywhere. In Australia, t
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by newmana 13y ago
This has been argument since viruses became well known, they've Turing complete since the beginning: "Much like an infection, a well-intended but badly designed program to stop viruses can run amok, knocking out thousands of compu