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by protomikron 4y ago
> I don't understand how a bug in GHC has blown up more than any bug in any recent GCC or clang - probably because the bug reporter decided that hyperbole was going to be their tool of choice instead of behaving like an adult. It di
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by protomikron 4y ago
It often breaks the builtin Browser-Search.
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by protomikron 4y ago
Django, because there are no missing parts. Everything is documented and comes with examples, that work and most importantly it anticipates additional steps and often guides you in the right direction (if you want to dive deeper) or clearly
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by protomikron 4y ago
Having autocompletion and and a convenient syntax to access record fields is standard and expected by most developers. I think if Haskell wants to convince developers to jump ship (and they don't, according to the infamous marketing sl
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by protomikron 4y ago
Then why is actual "organic chem" level of complexity (running bio-chemical simulations in Python, C, C++, Fortran, Matlab, Julia, Rust, ...) simulated in different programming languages? My question is partly serious, as I would
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by protomikron 4y ago
What is the history of "undefined behavior" [in C compilers and the standard] in general? I suppose originally it was supposed to guide compiler engineers, but we all know that backfired, as many compilers try to exploit undefined
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by protomikron 4y ago
Interesting is also find. It took me some time to accept that the directory must come first. E.g. find /path/to/dir -type f works, while find -type f /path/to/dir does not.
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by protomikron 4y ago
Was it a classic scheduling problem (e.g. distributing resources)?
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by protomikron 4y ago
> [...] as an exercise to the reader, go to archive.org and type in the URL of your favorite porn website. And then, what? You get the content and you consider that problematic?
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by protomikron 4y ago
Why "used to", though? There current open positions seem to look for classic C, C++ and Python: https://jobs.lever.co/kittyhawk.aero?department=Heaviside&te...
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by protomikron 4y ago
To be fair, dnf replaced yum for quite some time now. However yum is still recognized as a command (but symlinks to dnf).
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by protomikron 5y ago
Thank you, that sounds like a really informed answer.
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by protomikron 5y ago
How does this compare to Baserow (I think also an airtable and sheets alternative)?
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by protomikron 5y ago
So ... what features do you often miss/would you like to see implemented?
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by protomikron 5y ago
Thanks for the links. There's also this Reddit discussion [0] from 2 years ago (it mentions Carp btw.) and an explanation about how Carp manages memory [1]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/d
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by protomikron 5y ago
Can somebody please explain or give me some links how FP is supposed to work without a GC? For example Rust has different types of function pointers (Fn, FnMut, FnOnce), to guarantee the possibility of lifetime analysis (so it is arguable
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by protomikron 5y ago
Why did it not catch on, though? Python was already well known as a "scripting" and server-side web development language in the early 2000s, but it's commonly mentioned that it really exploded in the 2010s, where it was the i
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by protomikron 5y ago
There's some more or less serious discussion, that instead of using π = 3.14... (Pi) in formulas, we should adopt τ = 6.28... (Tau). Proponents claim, that it would simplify many formulas that include the term "2π". For examp
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by protomikron 5y ago
Laziness may indeed not exist, but non-strict evaluation for sure does.
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by protomikron 5y ago
So ... maybe they don't want to go for LIDAR (in their cars), because they wanted to build a humanoid robot anyway and felt that a LIDAR on a mobile platform's head is infeasible (?) - so they skipped the sensor fusion problem, an
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by protomikron 5y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting video.
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by protomikron 5y ago
Agreed. Similar to why Plan9 did not replace Unix, because Unix is good enough. It does not mean we can't do better, but the leap forward was (is) not big enough. At least that's my understanding.
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by protomikron 5y ago
That sounds like a neat idea. I too implemented GOL at some point (when I had a look at SDL) and for fun changed the (boolean) game field to integers that I mapped to grayscale (and later RGB). So instead of killing/giving birth to cel
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by protomikron 5y ago
Actually I think the transition to Python3 went pretty well. Most people are on 3 now, and Python's ecosystem is thriving.
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by protomikron 5y ago
Do you have an example of the final (aerial) imagery result?
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by protomikron 5y ago
Dhall is not turing-complete. That's the whole point.
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by protomikron 5y ago
Afaik IPython is Jupyter's predecessor and superseded by Jupyter (which provides the notebook abstraction for different languages). IPython was in the beginning Python specific, though its heritage lives on in the new name (the 'p
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by protomikron 6y ago
> [...] it's amusing to think that a significant part of a "high IQ" club is games :) That is exactly what I expected. > [...] In my personal view, joining the club because of (relatively) high IQ was no different than
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by protomikron 6y ago
Yes, but it would be nice to read some "official" numbers backed by HN's monitoring (although I'm on HN quite/too often, I would not notice every downtime).
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by protomikron 6y ago
Curious, what is the uptime of HN - is there some data about that? My guess is around 99.9% ... but maybe that's too optimistic?

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