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I think the intended implication goes the other way: "But while we can't safely conclude that beautiful writing is true, it's usually safe to conclude the converse: something that seems clumsily written will usually have gott
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by qsort 1y ago
Isn't this what originally data engineers were supposed to be? I get that the role has probably become "clicks buttons in the Azure GUI", but the "good" ones are basically backend developers that specialize on data
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I find the presentation a bit confusing and I'm already very familiar with this material. From a purely mathematical point of view, why this choice of topics? You correctly point out that counting partitions has no closed formula, but
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Woolf Contra Middlebrow(hilobrow.com)
2 points by qsort 1y ago|0 comments
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It can be true at the same time that Hasan Piker is a piece of shit and what is happening here is scary. If they can do that to a US citizen, what happens the next time I visit the US as a foreigner? I used to look up to the US because this
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by qsort 1y ago
Probably not as spiritually fulfilling, but the stock market would be an example of that happening at sub-second latencies, every day, all day.
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by qsort 1y ago
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More than anything it makes me wonder who the hell it is for. My personal devices are the full Apple loadout and it's still hard to make anything meaningful with it, too confusing for the average user, not powerful enough for the power
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by qsort 1y ago
Am I missing something or is this entirely unrelated? Django is server-side technology. This is discussing a delivery mechanism for simple client-side software, not a full blown webapp that interacts with a database. You would need to suppl
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by qsort 1y ago
I don't think that's a particularly honest line of thinking though. It preempts the obvious counterargument, but very weakly so. Calculators are different, but why? Can an ensemble of a calculator, a Prolog interpreter, Alexnet an
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by qsort 1y ago
I don't think it's necessarily worsening, it's just becoming more evident. The way I conceptualize this is that there are two kinds of knowledge. The first is fundamental knowledge. If you learn what is computational complexi
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Pastiera(lacucinaitaliana.com)
3 points by qsort 1y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 1y ago
It's incredible how good of a design Vi is. Try this experiment: Busybox includes a tiny clone of vi with a reduced feature set. It's very stripped down when compared to Vim or even other vi clones, but as a pure text editor it&#x
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by qsort 1y ago
The million dollar question here is... a literal million dollar question. The natural way to go up in complexity from NP is along the polynomial hierarchy, but since it could be the case that P=NP, those problems aren't provably hard
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by qsort 1y ago
It's funny, I have almost exactly the opposite take. I find what she's saying is important, or at least a valuable personal story, but the faux-academic style makes the essay hard to follow. Some paragraphs are barely intelligible
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by qsort 1y ago
Have you tried to analyze whether there is a correlation between "closeness" according to this metric and how often users chat in the same thread? I recognize some usernames that are reported as being similar to me, I wonder if th
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Show HN: Building Vim as an Portable Executable(github.com)
10 points by qsort 1y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 1y ago
I think he's referring to C specifically, not C++. It's true that modern versions of MSVC are compliant (and they're also typically faster at implementing features than gcc and clang), but for the longest time there were subt
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by qsort 1y ago
It's the original meaning of the word. This complaint is kind of ironic considering the site you're posting on :)
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Professional philosophers seem to be similarly split, according to a survey[1]. It seems to me like one of those cases where one's opinion is strongly influenced by raw intuition. [1] https://survey2020.philpeople.org/s
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by qsort 1y ago
> This has nothing to do with e and is satified by 2^x or any a^x, so this wouldn't work for introducing e in particular. You need to impose f'(0) = 1. (If you want to be really technical, also at least some regularity conditio
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by qsort 1y ago
Is that really how the exponential function is introduced? The most common ones as far as I know are: - "The Classic": There exists a unique function equal to its own derivative up to a constant. - "I can't bothered with
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by qsort 1y ago
Agreed, the article's perspective is much narrower and I think it makes total sense. Previous no-code tools could work but required total buy-in. On the other hand you can have Claude generate a small throwaway frontend that relies on
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by qsort 1y ago
> nobody in Europe was/is able to build comparable infrastructure and managed services I agree. But that's the long-term problem to fix. Getting into bar fights or rambling about how we are So Much More Moral and So Much Better
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> As for unicorns and trillion dollars companies... some may say it's a feature, not a bug Cope much? As a European I'd rather not have half of our industries critically depend on AWS and Microsoft, especially now that the US h
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by qsort 2y ago
In most C-like languages that would be a syntax error. E.g. in C and C++ as a rule you tokenize "greedily", "1--2" would be tokenized as "1", "unary decrement operator", "2", which is illega
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by qsort 2y ago
My sentence there is a bit unclear -- I meant it as an implication. Arithmetic on fixed-width registers in O(1) is equivalent to saying that bit operations are O(1), which intuitively makes the most sense, after all adding two uint64 is not
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by qsort 2y ago
I think it depends on what you want to make a clone for. TGM rules are more elegant and much more challenging for single-player tetris, but on the other hand multiplayer and especially 1v1 has far greater variety and dynamism with a loose
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by qsort 2y ago
The rabbit hole runs much deeper, this is a specification of the rotation system for current (modern) Tetris games: https://harddrop.com/wiki/SRS The "modern" rules ("guideline", as the community ca
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I'm afraid the author is writing for an audience that's familiar with generating functions. It's using a common trick in analytic combinatorics, the notation is actually "shorthand". Very informally, let T(z) be the

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