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by q-big 5y ago
See also "Punk Punk" on TV Tropes: > https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunkPunk
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by q-big 5y ago
> Wait, what? Are you claiming that mirror symmetry is "secretly" Langlands? There is a geometric analogue to the Langlands correspondence called "geometric Langlands correspondence": > https://en.wikip
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by q-big 5y ago
> I only say this half-seriously, but that's why I sometimes think that part of any performance test should be "try to run your software on a Pentium 4". If it's unusable, go back and optimize some more. The condition
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by q-big 5y ago
But I bet the number of universities has increased by a lot.
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by q-big 5y ago
> Probably why the stack based turing machine is academically important. A Turing machine is not stack-based, but tape-based. A pushdown automaton (PDA) is stack-based.
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by q-big 5y ago
... or commit suicide.
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by q-big 5y ago
> For example, in software development, "keep it simple" often directly conflicts with "dont repeat yourself" as it takes increased complexity to achieve reuse of code. KISS and DRY are different paradigms, i.e. come
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by q-big 5y ago
In other words: defined in a way so that Apple's displays are retina grade, but others are not.
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by q-big 5y ago
> the current pension system in most of the world is just not scalable because people getting older and the birth rate declining, Is does scale in this situation: simply increase the retirement ages properly such that always at least rou
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by q-big 5y ago
> I have not been tested on the fundamentals of programming taking interviews from FAAGM and other famous tech companies. Instead I've been asked "puzzle" questions that generally have nothing to do with the millions of li
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by q-big 5y ago
Sorry for the typo: correct is of course "Mä[g]dchen".
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by q-big 5y ago
> One of the Twain's famous examples that language is full of exceptions and hard to learn is that the word for girl is neuter. This is logical: "Mädchen" is a diminutive (as the prefix -chen shows). Diminutives are alway
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by q-big 5y ago
> 2. Word order. Again in German, "Ich habe meine Frau gebraucht" (I brought my wife). You don't know the verb until the end. For reference, the kill version is the fairly sane "umgebraucht". "Ich habe meine
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by q-big 5y ago
Native German speaker: Many people confuse the grammatical genus (as used in practice in contemporary German) of German words with the biological concept of sex. This is made even more complicated by SJWs who confuse these two unrelated con
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by q-big 5y ago
Archive.is: https://archive.is/shK4D
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by q-big 5y ago
> Shitty, poorly-run corporate behemoths (a) are shitty and poorly-run and (b) use Java, because it's an industry standard. You are making the error of thinking that the latter consequence causes the former. Other programming langua
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by q-big 5y ago
T32 has 16 and 32 bit instructions and is not self-synchronizing. Thus, the problem is much less severe on ARM (T32), but not non-existent.
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by q-big 5y ago
> The reason these tend to be a 'maintenance nightmare' is that they are typically made in Shadow-IT Low-code and no-code solutions are often created by shadow-IT.
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by q-big 5y ago
> and the solutions will be much simpler and easier to maintain if they are built as low-code (e.g. if I have MS Dynamics and want a new data-entry screen, doing it as a model-driven PowerApp is undeniably the best way to do this). Count
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You Were Too Good for Us (2006)(chronicle.com)
1 points by q-big 5y ago|0 comments
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by q-big 5y ago
> When people think flying cars, they don't think of something without wheels that can only land in certain spots that requires years of training to operate that is significantly expensive to be outside of the reach of 99%. You writ
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by q-big 5y ago
> That's because programming in Python is basically same thing as programming in C, it is just more efficient. You likely got this illusion because from beginning on, you actually programmed in C in a very "Pythonic" way.
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by q-big 6y ago
> Maybe I'm incredibly dense, but this seems tautologically true, and not worth mentioning. Could somebody kindly explain what I'm missing? If this seems so trivial to you, simply write down the proof. If you are not really mat
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by q-big 6y ago
> Any framework you're not familiar with will feel like this. This isn't something unique to frontend frameworks. But the frameworks get out of fashion faster than you can obtain deep knowledge of them.
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by q-big 6y ago
> So let me make clear here, if I ever start a company based on open source principles and it looks like I am going to get squeezed out of business by Amazon if I keep sticking to those principles I will probably abandon those principles
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by q-big 6y ago
Most people are pathological liars.
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by q-big 6y ago
How does Box86 implement x86's strong memory model? It is, for example, well-known that for emulating x86 code on Apple M1, there exists a special mode on this specific CPU that enables a strong(er) memory model.
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Twelvefold Way(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Yes, Sibelius and Finale are the longtime popular applications, but Dorico recently came on the scene with a genuinely new philosophy, and there are lots of less popular apps, mostly one-person-show kinds of things, with different appr
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by q-big 6y ago
> I was surprised to see, in the 1999 email you linked, that NSA mass surveillance was already widely known, before the NSA ramp up from 9/11 and before the Snowden disclosures. Exactly. But before the Snowden leaks hardly anyone i

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