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by repsilat 9y ago
Yeah, `x --> 0` works. Also `0 <-- x` if you don't want to include zero (and `x --- 0` if you don't have a shift key.)
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by repsilat 9y ago
"A number" that a lot of people use and recognise as "one, four, then a lot of other digits" will become noticeably different. Do not adjust your set.
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by repsilat 9y ago
At least in London another difference is that you don't often see traffic lights across the intersection from cars, so it is harder to peek at the traffic signals and know when your crossing is about to go (or whether that approaching
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by repsilat 9y ago
> I was hoping the Seriously though Ah, my fault. You expected more than the audience deserved.
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by repsilat 9y ago
> C++ has had these things for years. C++ is built on these things. The "value type" thing informs everything about the language. I love it, and it's my go-to language when something just has to be fast, but it comes a
786.
by repsilat 9y ago
You don't say "taxi"? It's just as short, starts with a consonant, not ambiguous, translates between cities, is obviously generic, doesn't give mindshare to a nasty company and contains the letter "X"...
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by repsilat 9y ago
"Dime and quarter" is awkward -- it's a benefit to have the smallest positive difference between any two piles of coins to be a coin value. Either get rid of the dime, or replace the quarter with a 20 and/or 50 cent piec
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by repsilat 9y ago
> not being able to open an image if you don't have an internet connection sounds dreadful Caching the decoder smells like having already downloaded the image library. Mostly just different in that "first run time" is now
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by repsilat 9y ago
A good dictionary will also document widespread distaste for particular usages, though. It's a losing battle with any intensifier -- we've already lost "really" and "very" to this problem, and "literally&q
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by repsilat 10y ago
More interesting to me is the way it might change the abortion debate. If it were safe and not invasive for the mother to "donate" their not-yet-a-baby, is it moral to simply terminate the pregnancy? If there is a long waiting lis
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by repsilat 10y ago
Sure, the internet makes our lives a lot better, but Wordpad sticking regular .rtf files in a vanilla Dropbox folder would provide 80% of the benefit. Realtime same-file editing is convenient, but it's pretty minor really.
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by repsilat 10y ago
And, funnily enough, the word processing tool most often used in my office (Dropbox Paper) is slower, less suited to long documents and has fewer features than the first word processor I used. Still, you can't expect your teacher of 30
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by repsilat 10y ago
And there's only half a meg of data! Serving the readers is a much more interesting problem than managing the writes, and tbh I'd just keep a rolling "pixels that have changed in the last 10 seconds" diff going, pushed o
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by repsilat 10y ago
I use vim in it when I code on my home computer, haven't had any problems. I haven't tried tmux, but I think that'd be fine too. I'm less sure about things that require a GUI, and last time I tried postgres it didn'
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by repsilat 10y ago
I disagree fairly strongly. Maybe this is reasonable for lower level courses, but in students' third or fourth year of study it seems short-sighted to expect the bulk of their learning to happen in live face-to-face lectures. Requiring
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by repsilat 10y ago
Spreadsheets are the most intuitive programming environment known to man. Every time you reach for Excel to mung your data, that's opening a repl. The only problem is that Google and Microsoft don't care enough to make them powerf
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by repsilat 10y ago
As a Kiwi living in California at the moment, income taxes as a proportion of income are much higher here than in New Zealand. Effective NZ income taxes are way down the low end for the OECD, lower than the US, the UK, Australia, the list g
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by repsilat 10y ago
Well, now that browsers and everything else will ignore the second space we can focus on more important things, like which one computers prefer. And computers probably prefer two spaces so they can tell acronyms and abbreviations from the e
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by repsilat 10y ago
And then account for interest, inflation, improved efficiency and possibly future reductions in cost -- a $500 one that lasts 10 years might be a better investment than a $4500 one that lasts 1000 .
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by repsilat 10y ago
I'm really surprised no jurisdiction (California, probably...) has said, "by 2020 all new cars must fill on insert side for insert reason ." The problem would be quickly and cheaply resolved as a result. Related: https:&#
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by repsilat 10y ago
They also tend to prohibit some smart gc optimisations like moving your shit while you're not looking, and the cache behaviour can be bad because either, - the data isn't stored next to the count so you get two pointer indirection
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by repsilat 10y ago
Dropbox Paper. It's multiplayer Wordpad -- a reversion to the "big white space that (ironically) doesn't pretend to simulate sheets of printer paper," now with emojis.
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by repsilat 10y ago
Any chance you could give an example use-case or three? Sounds fascinating -- I use PostGIS and find it to be slower than I'd like day to day, but it sounds like your uses demand a lot more precision than I have call for.
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by repsilat 10y ago
The other big upside to me was that I could keep working full time while studying. The opportunity cost calculation looks a fair bit different when you're giving up (less quantifiable) leisure time rather than paid work. I agree that i
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by repsilat 10y ago
It's hard to link American foreign policy to American economic policy, though. Iraq wasn't about oil (this time at least, I don't know anything about the Gulf War) and neither were Libya or Syria. Perhaps the argument is that
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by repsilat 10y ago
It's also worth pointing out that these functions sometimes turn up just in terms of the bounds that have been proven about algorithms -- the functions we see can reflect the kinds of analysis we can do of algorithms as much as the per
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by repsilat 10y ago
> One of which is 'e', where the history and its origins will help you understand why it behaves the way it does. Without this context, 'e' is just some arbitrary number that you have to memorize. What? I have no id
808.
by repsilat 10y ago
First thing to do is sell it as driver-assistance technology. More drivers move to the "just open and close the doors" role (aka the "man and a dog" factory of the future model.) Then you can let drivers just not be repl
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by repsilat 10y ago
The "iPhone and suction cup" was tongue in cheek, but train drivers are already behind locked doors And anyone can already bring most trains to a stop by pulling the red "please stop this train" lever. Just install more
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by repsilat 10y ago
Funny that self-driving cars will become widespread years before self-driving trains will. Trains don't have steering wheels, can't swerve to miss pedestrians, don't have to obey roadside traffic officers' directions, do

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