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by panic 6y ago
Yeah, I don't know what the answer is. It feels like any attempt to design a solution ends up having to work around racism or, as you said in another comment, having to "take the devil's (racist's) advocate position&quo
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by panic 6y ago
The idea of something “backfiring on minorities” as an entire group is part of the problem here. The fact that there was a backlash after someone was fired can’t be used as a justification for not hiring other people whose only relationshi
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What Makes a Community? (2020)(buttondown.email)
27 points by panic 6y ago|17 comments
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by panic 6y ago
This makes me think of the Red programming language and its many builtin datatypes: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/datatypes.adoc
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Five (and a Half) Derivatives in Language Theory(semantic-domain.blogspot.com)
2 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
Yeah, it's tempting to imagine that all the problems in the world can be solved in the same kind of way, whether through more bureaucracy or more violence. Another example is the libertarian idea that all problems can be solved throug
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HTTP Pipelining, S3, and Gg(buttondown.email)
3 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
> Severe consequences are attached to low stakes situations and rational individuals who see the harm caused by the situation are rendered powerless to make changes. You can see the process at work within this very thread -- "And
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Formalising Mathematics: An Introduction(xenaproject.wordpress.com)
205 points by panic 6y ago|116 comments
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TypeScript: Messages from Interfaces and Back(eighty-twenty.org)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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Bookfeed.io – An RSS feed of newly released books from your favorite authors(bookfeed.io)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
My money is on Linux's cpu_idle_loop().
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My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)(yosefk.com)
95 points by panic 6y ago|25 comments
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by panic 6y ago
This kind of attitude is just as unhealthy as the sociopathic management style it assumes is universal. It’s hard to hire good software engineers. You have more power to leave toxic situations than you might think.
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by panic 6y ago
Does this mean I’ll be automatically unsubscribed from a mailing list if my mail client doesn’t load the tracking pixel? How long does this take to happen?
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Investigating Quadratic Time Complexity When Adding Subviews in UIKit (2016)(blog.benjamin-encz.de)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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How museum collector-trustees recapture charitable donations(backbeat.substack.com)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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Architecture Astronauts Take over (2008)(joelonsoftware.com)
2 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
Modern renderers typically draw scrollable content into a separate texture (or collection of smaller textures that tile the scrollable region) and use the GPU to scroll rather than bitblting on the CPU. You can use the same technique to re
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by panic 6y ago
Immediate mode is great, but it can be hard to implement nice custom event handling on top of it. For example, say you have a collection of buttons. You want to be able to click on one button (the button highlights), drag onto another but
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by panic 6y ago
It's easy to skip drawing frames when no state changes, and for frames where state does change, you can use techniques like rxi's cached software rendering to avoid redrawing the entire screen: https://rxi.github.io&#x2
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by panic 6y ago
> I suppose as soon as something becomes too complex, keeping track of all interactions is just too complicated and rerendering the entire world efficiently looks like an easier problem to deal with. In fact, it can actually be less wo
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by panic 6y ago
I've found the best way to handle this problem is a variation on "lift the state up", but instead of binding synchronous listeners to state changes in the model, have these state changes mark any involved views as "dirty
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by panic 6y ago
> What do we do with all these smart people? Every community (families, neighbors, fandoms, friends, online chatrooms, religious groups, video game guilds...) has needs. What if smart people helped attend to the needs of the communiti
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What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?(nytimes.com)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
At least in C, "header only" libraries typically require a #define LIBRARYNAME_IMPLEMENTATION somewhere in a .c file to define the symbols declared in the header. That way you're not including a copy of every function in eve
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by panic 6y ago
> News stories about ML invariably invite readers to imagine autonomous agents analogous to robots: either helpful servants or inscrutable antagonists like the Terminator and HAL. Boring paternal condescension or boring dread are the on
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Work Towards Solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe(minimax.dev)
2 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
And if you block the housing that would let these employees walk or bike to work, they'll have to drive in from out of town, increasing traffic (one of the primary arguments made against new housing).
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You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype(sts-news.medium.com)
3 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments

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