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by rhelz 2y ago
I love this way of handling errors. Very nice. Yet still, the code is a description of what the code does , not what it should do. For example, I'm sure Scala has very well defined behavior when the input is, say, a NAN. So we kno
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by rhelz 2y ago
The world has become a very bad parody of itself.
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by rhelz 2y ago
// In this example, I’d rather the comment didn’t exist and the method was named appropriately. // Well-named functions and identifiers are great. But what should happen, if, say, the user passes in a number which is b
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by rhelz 2y ago
The code tells what the program actually does. The comments tell what the program should do. This distinction is so important that English marks it syntactically. Here's an example of how this shakes out: BAD: // this rou
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by rhelz 2y ago
Thanks for the links. Certainly, when I became an atheist, the hardest thing to come to grips with was the loss of community. There are lots of little communities--WOW guilds, school sports teams, etc. But there's nothing like a un
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by rhelz 2y ago
That's a good point. Perhaps I was a bit too hard on it. I was reading it through the lens of the title, "We wash our trash to repent for killing God". But frequently titles are a bit more florid than the essay proper--to g
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by rhelz 2y ago
Washing trash is not a religion. God is so dead that nobody even knows what a religion is anymore.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Bravo. A very nice article comparing and contrasting standard trig methods and geometric algebra methods. And as a bonus, it compares both with Dr. Wildberger's Rational Trigonometry. (Side note: I've known a few Australian math
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by rhelz 2y ago
The Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnon's had about 1 tennis-ball's volume more brain than we do, on average. If we lose another tennis-ball, we would have brains the size of Homo Erectus. Nobody really knows why, but our brains h
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by rhelz 2y ago
Bloomberg terminals are the vi/emacs of the financial world. Definitely for power users, not casual users. Once you learn how to use it, there's no going back.
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by rhelz 2y ago
This is the most creative idea I've seen in a long time. It is also the smoothest way of "declaring an imperative" I've ever seen. It is also the most amazing use of the parser which is built-in to prolog (no, not the DC
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by rhelz 2y ago
Wasn't checks and balances supposed to correct this kind of thing?
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by rhelz 2y ago
// to be propaganda unless proven otherwise // How do I know if I'm even talking with a person, and not a propaganda bot, until proven otherwise? Then again, you might think I'm a propaganda bot. Who would shi
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by rhelz 2y ago
You see a turtle on its back, but you are not helping it. Why is that Leon?
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by rhelz 2y ago
One thing we have now that we didn't have in 2017 is the knowledge of what happened next. Suppose Intel would have released its modifications and enhancements to Minix, for all to use, including its competitors. It's really diffi
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by rhelz 2y ago
The biggest advantage of the GPL license is also its biggest disadvantage: you have to give as freely as you have received. Everybody gets the benefit of everybody's work. Or, put a different way, nobody gets a proprietary advantage
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by rhelz 2y ago
We should certainly not whitewash the Chinese. But let's not whitewash ourselves, ether. Last semester, I taught Calculus at an urban school. One day, a student came up to me and asked if I had anything to eat. Shock. I went to
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by rhelz 2y ago
This is utter madness. To even talk about war between the U.S. and China as a possibility... Saying that China is ready to go to war with the U.S.--or vice versa--is saying that we are all ready to just blow up the last 200,000 years of hu
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by rhelz 2y ago
chuckle these are the hoki-poki tarrifs. He puts the tariffs on, he takes the tariffs off, he puts the tariffs in and he shakes them all around...... Trump is just using them as a bullying...er, as a "negotiating tactic" to kee
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by rhelz 2y ago
Vibes. Exponential Vibes. I have to admit, I'm enjoying my new superpowers. I write a lot of late, but i never had time to learn ticz. No problem, just tell DeepSeek what graph you want made. If you want a "hello world" w
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by rhelz 2y ago
Ha, I don't know anything at all about how language evolved. But, when you listen to somebody speaking--if you can bracket the meaning (which tends to soak up all our conscious attention)--you can hear the rhythm and you can hear the
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by rhelz 2y ago
I'm not as worried about those who have ears, but don't hear, as I am about the effect LLM's will have on English. Grammerly was bad enough. One of my oldest friends is from Transylvania, and he could tell such great stories
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by rhelz 2y ago
Sure, but frankly, I've heard plenty of people speaking the most flawless King's English who didn't make any sense at all. re: translated math papers: haha we've all been there. Once I had to read a bunch of 70's-
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by rhelz 2y ago
Amen. This paper is worth more than all of the fraudulent, unreproducible papers we are inundated with, put together and squared.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Being a native English speaker I absolutely love reading and listening to speakers of English as a second language. Speaking is actually a subspecies of singing, and it's always cool to hear the same old lyrics remixed to a new melody
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by rhelz 2y ago
Pat Gelsinger is surely the only person in the world who could save Intel. And he surely deserved as much time to fix it as they gave everyone else to trash it.
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by rhelz 2y ago
It's not really any mystery. We had a surplus in the Late 90's. Taxes were cut by George W Bush and again by Trump. There is no such thing as a self-funding tax cut. Doesn't matter how steady the spending is, if the income
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by rhelz 2y ago
It looks like a very interesting class, I would certainly take it given the opportunity. Looking over the syllabus has prompted some questions, though. 1. Is morality the only foundation of capitalism? Does the course attempt to prove
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by rhelz 2y ago
// tends to attract a lot of crackpot. // Come on. You know what else attracted a lot of crackpots? The internet. If you are criticizing math, criticize the math, not the people. // just learn exterior alge
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by rhelz 2y ago
IDK where the line between being scolded from a bully pulpit and extrajudicial consequences begins, but....You don't think this puts Apple at risk vis-a-vis extrajudicial consequences? E.g. The iPhone lost share in China. Do you think

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