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by pubby 6y ago
Wow, the big innovation here is that it's self hosted on a system with no disk. I don't think there's anything like it on the system - it's really an impressive feat. FORTH on the 6502 has been done a few times before. T
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by pubby 6y ago
A lean deck can be very good by the end of the game, but the problem is getting to that point. On the harder difficulties it's often better to focus on choosing strong cards that help you now rather than worrying too much much about th
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by pubby 6y ago
Sure, but my point was that good notation takes advantage of the wealth of pre-existing plumbing that exists in our brain. I think a good example is: https://xkcd.com/936/ "Correct Horse Battery Staple" is ea
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by pubby 6y ago
The question is if we should optimize for pencil efficiency or education. To me, it's obvious: I've met way more people interesting in learning math than performing it, so we try to make notation as clear and possible. Vim, like m
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by pubby 6y ago
Imagine I give you a list of words and ask you to remember them. 5 minutes later, I ask you to give me those words in reverse order. Not too hard, right? Now imagine if those words I gave you were in Vietnamese, or some language you don&#x2
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by pubby 6y ago
The syntax seems strange to me. Why require .end() instead of using function parenthesis? .capture.anyOf.range('A', 'F').range('a', 'f').range('0', '9').end().end() Could easily lo
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by pubby 6y ago
The more recent results (by the same author) is this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05053.pdf The conclusion is still that CMOV is best, but once the data stops fitting in the cache there's alternatives worth c
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by pubby 6y ago
Check out mtPaint. It's very similar to old school paint, and works on Linux too. http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
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by pubby 6y ago
It's kinda flawed in that it produces terrain with prominent creases along the x/y axis. Most terrain generators use something with less artifacts, like several passes of perlin noise.
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by pubby 6y ago
My apologies if you know this, but by graph it means the mathematics definition (a type of data structure) and not the actual visualization image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(discrete_mathematics) Compilers co
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by pubby 6y ago
Lexing/tokenization implies creating tokens to pass to another parser. This is more general than that.
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by pubby 6y ago
I wish more tutorials started with "Parser combinators is a neat and tidy way to structure a recursive descent parser" because I 100% agree. Mostly, my disagreements are how parser combinators presented and taught, obscuring the c
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by pubby 6y ago
Parser combinators are just recursive descent. That's it. They're just recursive descent - an idea that's been around since the 1960's. A parser combinator library is just fancy marketing speak for "recursive descen
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by pubby 6y ago
Considering her surgeries, I'd say she's been working her ass on.
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by pubby 6y ago
Dithering adds texture and makes surfaces look rough. It's fine when applied to a rock or patch of dirt, but it's an amateur mistake to use it everywhere. Anti-aliasing is used a fair bit in pixel art, but less so in artwork desig
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by pubby 6y ago
There should be a website that tells people to not make generalized statements. Besides, I think the author is missing the point. Sharing memory between threads is a huge part of what makes them fast. The difficulty doesn't lie in havi
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by pubby 7y ago
I only follow it loosely but I believe most are planning to move to GitLab if their repos aren't unbanned.
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by pubby 7y ago
Hey Nat glad to see you here. A few days ago one of the biggest team collaborative games (Space Station 13) got banned on GitHub without a public explanation from GitHub staff, but some suspect it was because the code contained bad words an
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by pubby 7y ago
I don't think historians will be swindled, but what about lawmakers and the general public of today? If big banks start going belly-up, they're going to use corona as a convenient (and dire) excuse for bail-outs, understating all
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by pubby 7y ago
Spanish Flu mutated into a far deadlier version over time because it spread faster in hospitals and troop transports than on the streets. We may see a similar situation with corona virus if the quarantines and social distancing are too effe
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by pubby 7y ago
Small modules are only useful when they're self-contained. Leftpad was mocked because it brought in three dependencies on top of itself. The more dependencies one has, the more breakage hell one must deal with. So please, keep your cod
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by pubby 7y ago
Related theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis I first heard of this when researching chess. Men rank ~200 ELO points higher than women at chess, which is a fairly significant amount. Men also see
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by pubby 7y ago
It's an infinite loop that increments/decrements registers. This emulator is too slow to run real-world programs.
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by pubby 7y ago
I can unicycle a bit. The reason I stopped was 100% the groin issue. There's more weight on your crotch than a typical bicycle and the way the seat is curved makes it very easy to smash testicles. It's a fun activity, but also a g
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by pubby 7y ago
>Shaming the choice to eat a food is a dark pattern. It shouldn't be. Food is a very topical, superficial aspect of culture and the average person has more than enough choice in what they eat. If eating bats is causing serious pande
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by pubby 7y ago
I have noticed in the past 10 years online content has become very click-baited and regurgitated. Sites are designed to steal your attention with information coming as a secondary concern. Books, for the most part, avoid these issues. On av
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by pubby 7y ago
AI languishes and self-driving cars remain highway-only, but self-checkout stations and simple cleaning/stocking bots become more common. Oil companies begin rebranding as energy companies and pour assets into solar and wind. Climate c
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by pubby 7y ago
Nope!
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by pubby 7y ago
Check out ttyrec.
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by pubby 7y ago
Game of Life isn't a finite automata. It has an infinite number of states (and is turing complete, too).

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