omnicognate

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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   Yes, it's more for syntax highlighting where you don't want the lag of an external server and don't need the deep language analysis needed for diagnostics, refactoring, etc. I'm not sure what other use cases it would be
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   It's kind of hilarious that programmers , who learn again and again the value of decoupling and cohesion, fell so hard for the idea of an Integrated Development Environment. There's nothing about syntactic/semantic code an
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   C# makes it possible to do C (not C++) like memory management but it does not make it easy. Unsafe C# code is really, really, really unsafe, much more unsafe than equivalent C code, and does not compose well. It's improving, with Spa
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   Easier to prioritise if everyone dies of asphyxiation without it, perhaps.
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   I'm not clear what you're saying there. You shouldn't need to exhaust the phase space to check if the model exhibits a particular behaviour, but perhaps you're not claiming that?
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   That's a simulation based on the connectome and a trivially simple body, producing a very small piece of behaviour. I don't mean to minimise it, it's very cool and I'm not an expert. The video itself says that it is limi
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   No, I squish flies all the time. However, as an empathetic human you should probably feel a bit squeamish about inflicting unnecessary suffering on them.
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   This puts a name to something I've found very strange the few times I've visited America. Places like the "stroad" picture are everywhere and they have a strangely desolate feel to them. It's not an environment I wo
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   by omnicognate 5y ago

   Not sure what you mean by "interestingly complex". To say we are nowhere near understanding the nervous systems of fruit flies would be a massive understatement. Even for C.Elegans, for which we know the complete connectome and mu
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    The point I made wasn't about what Amazon should or shouldn't do. It was about the irrelevance of the economic modelling concept of "rational self-interest" (which describes behaviour, rather than prescribing it) to that
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    That doesn't change anything the post you're replying to said. Rational self-interest in that sense is a simplifying assumption made as part of the process of mathematically modelling economic behaviour. It's not a prescripti
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    Which renders it not worth reading. It's just an ad for a book.
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    I have some basics down pat (., +, *, ?, ^, $, [], [^], (), \d) and anything more I always have to look up (and much of it differs between engines anyway). Usually, though, what takes more time to figure out than the regex itself is whateve
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    Sounds like a juicy class action.
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    "I needed more room so I moved from the garden shed to a local castle." What a guy.
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    27 dependents, i.e. things depending on it. Only one dependency: is-odd, hilariously. I'd like to think it's a joke, but maybe not. Anyway, what's with the massive download spike, 20 million downloads between 22nd and 28th De
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    If they're depending on them as processes to launch then that doesn't mean they can't be installed separately/isolated with their own dependencies. If they're depending on them as python modules to import, they&#x27
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    So here's a suggestion to shoot down. The biggest insight in software dependency management is that applications and libraries are different. Both have dependencies but they sit at different places in their dependency graphs. A library
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    Jetbrians Rider is fully supported under Linux and MacOS and is way better than Visual Studio. The dotnet cli is an acknowledgement of the fact that an IDE is only part of the tooling story. Software toolchains need to be automatable and ba
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    Spaces don't make anything more descriptive, they just cause completely unnecessary quoting and escaping hassle. The amount of time that has been wasted by Windows using "C:\Program Files" instead of "C:\Program_Files&qu
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    To what extent this applies to 12 year olds is to be determined in my case. My kids are younger than that I think a lot of the "try and restrict and you'll just harm your relationship" stuff comes from 20 somethings whose mem
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    It doesn't. I have a whitelisting transparent proxy for my primary school-age kids. It's not controversial and they don't attempt to get round it or rail against it. If they want something they ask. If I say no (and explain w
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    I assume the site has been changed in response to the things people are saying here as the search box works and I was able to start trying queries immediately. First thing I tried was a dev-related query I was getting annoyed with Google ab
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    A.K.A. Facilitation/facilitating payment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitating_payment
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    In this context it's a specific class, DataFrame, in the pandas library: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p... > Two-dimensional, size-mutable, potentially heterogeneous
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    Lol, I assumed that was a joke but it appears the article says this in all seriousness. This "text" you see in this comment is actually a collection of rendered glyphs.
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    I don't think the Java section makes sense either. I'm no historian, but I don't think it was ease of serialisation that led to huge amounts of config in Java. I suspect that was more to do with its status as an "enterpr
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    That's entirely up to them. I didn't say, or mean to imply, that my aesthetic experience of their building should matter to its residents at all. I think it should matter to its architects and to city planners, but I don't th
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    And in real life. Having a bit of outdoor space is a huge quality of life improvement, hence their ubiquity in modern residential blocks (and I certainly don't begrudge them), but they ruin the look of a tower. Watching a nearby busine
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    by omnicognate 5y ago

    Up to a point. Such reactors hit a size threshold above which they violently explode, leaving a dense, radioactive core that cannot be disposed of.