platz

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1. 691.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   Would someone explain what the primary intent and current best-case usages of thread-local storage are? Is this more suited for certain languages than others?
2. 692.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   fyi, generally when explaining things to non-practitioners, it's a detractor to add qualifiers like - this is a very basic thing - that's all there is to it because although it is a basic thing to you, it's not a basic thing
3. 693.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   Anytime someone mentions a nice thing about Haskell, you can be sure a Clojure programmer will appear shortly, without being previously referenced, to try and disparage them.
4. 694.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   Prolog isn't going to save anyone - it's too hard to control the search strategy.
5. 695.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   Language extensions do not prose a problem for the best-in-class composability that OP is interested in, for practitioners of the language, that haskell offers. Are you absolutely sure these language extensions are as bad as you think they
6. 696.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   I agree, well stated!
7. 697.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   and you can learn enough lens to be productive in 1 hours with this talk without reading docs at all. You can skip the theory and go straight to usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZy4Yml3LTY
8. 698.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   > you can play through a game of Civilization in a few hours/days. There is no analogous real-life experience. If it's not analogous to real-life experience, you haven't gained any tacit knowledge that useful for real li
9. 699.▲
   by platz 6y ago

   Sometimes games teach us thing implicitly in the subtext [1], but implicit learning is probably not a good model for primary education, much in the same way that music might teach us things in it's subtext, but is not a good model for
10. 700.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    The language in this article about knowledge you "feel in your body" is only briefly mentioned is the concept of "tacit" knowledge, further developed here: Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice http
11. 701.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    Linearity Design Space: https://i.imgur.com/s0Mxhcr.png
12. 702.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    > We say that a function f is linear when f u is consumed exactly once implies that u is consumed exactly once (defined as follows). - Consuming a value of a data type exactly once means evaluating it to head normal form exactly once, di
13. 703.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    i'm getting a ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR in chrome?
14. 704.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    Which old thinkpad?
15. 705.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    I use i3 but I'm sure there are Nvidia settings to control the x display somehow
16. 706.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    I was thinking about a 4k, but i'm not sure I will know how to get everything to run at 2x scale, on both windows and linux. Is this hard to do? Caveats?
17. 707.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    “You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.” https://i.imgur.com/FoCg80a.png
18. 708.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    I wish FFmpeg still had NDI support NDI is super useful for low-latency local network streaming
19. 709.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    It can't inline the dict in general though, and that is more the default situation than the opposite, unless the defn is in the same module
20. 710.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    > In general, for programming languages, there are two ways to translate a generic function: > 1. translate the generic function for each set of instantiated type parameters > 2. translate the generic function just once, calling ea
21. 711.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    Have you always followed russian tabloids, or is this more of recent phenomenon?
22. 712.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    > You can take these preferences and combine them into a single value/point on a vector. No, you can't. Also, people don't have "preferences" in the way the article posits
23. 713.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    > certainly not the way I left it back when I was arrested in 2009 for installing botnets and commercial remote access programs on a handful of sensitive clinic systems, which included a critical SCADA system.That was how I became the fi
24. 714.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    I do kind of like the manual aspect of cockatrice instead of the automated experience of arena. It feels more like an actual sit-down game IRL. But there are certainly cons, folks frequently miss triggers or debate rules. Still that'
25. 715.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    try your cedh deck in a casual game and let me know how it goes
26. 716.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    but imho it's more fun to play with either cards you own or with a reasonable limit, because mtg is better with some kind of a social contract in force.
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    by platz 6y ago

    FYI - you can play mtg (even edh) online with your friends or randos: https://cockatrice.github.io/
28. 718.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    I used pinboard happily, until i amassed enough bookmarks that filtering by a tag took upwards of 15 seconds to resolve.. So I built an open-source self-hosted site for my bookmarks now: https://github.com/jonschoning/e
29. 719.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    I felt his story was spun in a way that accredited far more moral weight than I learned was actually warranted
30. 720.▲
    by platz 6y ago

    Kevin Mitnick destroyed any faith I had in what being a hacker was about.