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by norswap 7y ago
I think it is Gilad Bracha that said, when the decision was made to include only covariance in Dart, that variance flies in the face of programmer's intuition. He's right. It's easy to understand one level of variance: you ca
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by norswap 7y ago
About the only technology that has ever improved "exponentially" for any amount of time is CPUs. I kind of get your point, but couldn't you have said "the technology is going to improve" instead?
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by norswap 7y ago
Because of ego, I'm going to plug my own (a Java parsing tool): https://github.com/norswap/autumn4 And hopefully I can some constructive criticism :) For something not from me but still in Java, the Proguard sourc
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by norswap 7y ago
If any positive may come out of this debacle, it's to set a precedent that leaving the EU is a bad idea.
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Waifu Labs – AI Generated Custom Waifus(waifulabs.com)
15 points by norswap 7y ago|2 comments
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The Future of AI Is Entertainment(blog.plan99.net)
1 points by norswap 7y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 7y ago
One way or another, we can't really know. But I believe people have an unalienable right to tell their version of a story. As far as these story go, this is one is very civil (and doesn't name the people that are accused of destro
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by norswap 7y ago
Didn't know TablePlus, so looked it up. Looks very interesting, but it isn't free: https://tableplus.io/pricing (doesn't even seem to be trialware).
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by norswap 7y ago
A most excellent answer :)
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by norswap 7y ago
Well the above proves it's doable in C++ too. The issue hit upon is the time required to run a million of coroutines to completion (8s in the most optimized scenario). Would Erlang/Elixir do better? I don't know, but I wouldn
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by norswap 7y ago
I was puzzled by "churning out CRUD apps is math intensive" - could you explain? I do agree that the aforementioned fields are not necessarily math-intensive — except investment professional in certain cases.
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by norswap 7y ago
In the save vein, I'm also going to recommend http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ It's a work in progress, but very well made. I think Bob (who is writing the book) is a great educator.
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by norswap 7y ago
I would have dismissed something like this in the past — it seems to be just template + community. But now I undertand that the social context matters a great deal, so it seems interesting! How does it compare to Glitch, which seems to be t
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by norswap 7y ago
In the demo matches in January, AlphaStar did deploy "superhuman" techniques (that even the top players can't deploy consistently or at all). IIRC the issues were: while AlphaStar had a per minute APM budget, it could distrib
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by norswap 7y ago
This doesn't belong here.
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by norswap 7y ago
I didn't claim it is impossible either :) I kinda agree. Still, for an imperative language I think it's a tool I'd like to have in my toolbox, or at least it needs a compelling alternative, which I don't think Go has (1)
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by norswap 7y ago
Composition should be favored over inheritance whenever feasible. It is not always feasible so many use for inheritance remain. What you can do is make composition easier. Kotlin does this with its delegation system: https://kotl
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by norswap 7y ago
Use local bookmarks, maybe?
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by norswap 7y ago
I was referring to the first sentence: "Most of the items explained are non-issues and part of why Golang is how it is today." It's an objective fact they removed features in Scala (I think that's a good thing). But dism
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by norswap 7y ago
<reference needed>
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by norswap 7y ago
Bittorrent has succeeded in that it's now widely used by publisher to distribute their content. As a piracy/anti-censorship tools it overwhelmingly relies on the generosity of a handful of power seeders... which could theoreticall
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by norswap 7y ago
Does "no more permanent ice" means there is a period of the year where there is no ice at all at the poles? That seems hardly believable. I was also under the impression that melting ice would push the level of the oceans by multi
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by norswap 7y ago
(1) The parent definitely implies that this is the main differentiator between US and EU. (2) I don't think (meaning, I haven't heard except in the vaguest of terms) that there is that much "extra layers of legislation around
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by norswap 7y ago
I think the commonly held doxa is that company should pay (some of their) taxes where they make profit. In the case of sales this would be more clear cut. But Facebook profits from user in a country through ads, which do not necessarily nee
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Modern Garbage Collection(blog.plan99.net)
4 points by norswap 7y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 7y ago
The bike looks great! But why choose the low handlebar? Especially since this isn't a sports bike or a mountain bike (without mudguards, imagine). Do people really fancy being hunched over during their commute?
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by norswap 7y ago
For how good he actually is, he's actually being quite humble. And more importantly, the goal is not to make himself look good, but to relate a point as he experienced it.
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by norswap 7y ago
Hey Takuya, the above says that you can only export as HTML, does that mean that you can't export all your notes as Markdown? It also says relative links between notes are not supported — is that still the case? Thanks for your hard wo
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by norswap 7y ago
Cool! Does it support inter-note linking so that it can act like a kind of personal wiki? That would be a killer feature for me.
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Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2013)(slatestarcodex.com)
146 points by norswap 7y ago|60 comments

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