rthomas6

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It was my impression that you can't do it even in unsafe because ownership rules still apply. But apparently I was wrong and there is a way to do it?
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Modifying memory on the heap in multiple threads without a mutex, from one pointer. Why anyone would want that on purpose, I don't know.
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I thought like you for several years. Then one day, I needed a custom type. You can use dicts (or lists, or namedtuples, I guess?), but it just ends up being cleaner and more idiomatic to define a class for the type, because you can define
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It's not a big deal if you're only running one thing on the computer. The wasted cycles could have been used by a different process to do something else. Multiply this mindset by many services and applications and suddenly the com
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I would recommend just vanilla C for maximum learning value. Learning about stack vs heap, pointers, memory allocation, etc. lets you learn more about what the computer is actually doing. It will make the computer seem less like a magic box
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Because 0.3 * 1 = 0.3 And 0.3 * 0.3 = 0.09
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If Democrats/the left could pull back enough to model the minds of Republican voters, they could have framed the vaccine as "the war against China's virus". They could have talked about a great foreign threat to our nati
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I can explain the hamburger thing. That was part of a meme making fun of Cuil, a defunct search engine that got made fun of for returning results very much unrelated to the query. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t
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How is this different than a bus? This is what buses do right now.
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Check out Doom Emacs for a fast startup time with no server.
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You may like Doom Emacs. It has really really good Vim keybindings. Some people like Spacemacs too, but I found it too bloated and too abstracted (hard to fix when it breaks). I still find myself reaching for Vim when I want to just write a
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by rthomas6 5y ago
Sorta seems like we don't really understand inflation. Like how recently in the US, inflation got decoupled from money in circulation and nobody knows why.
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Depends on if I'm thinking in an imperative or declarative programming style. ;) I typically prefer declarative (functional). I'll often have 0-length arrays that I iterate over, and expect the program to do nothing and not genera
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by rthomas6 5y ago
Dukkha doesn't translate exactly into "suffering". It can also mean "unsatisfactory" or "unpleasant". I interpret it as life is inherently unfulfilling and you'll never be fully satisfied by it. Even
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What's the good word??
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If you're looking for an alternative, check out ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Many studies have found it to be as or more effective than CBT for a broad range of issues ranging from depression to Schizophrenia. While CBT tri
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What percentage gain did you see since 2004?
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by rthomas6 5y ago
After reading A Random Walk on Wall Street I have no faith in technical analysis. Do you have any broad empirical data that backs up these claims?
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I'm saying driveway guy is how almost all businesses work. Even more so if he incorporates and the business goes bankrupt, instead of him, if the business fails. That mundane, nom-exploitative setup is the norm, not the exception, for
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by rthomas6 5y ago
No, it's really not the same, and it's not pedantic. Driveway shoveling guy does not get a wage. He's selling a service in exchange for the market rate of said service. It's really not the same as working for a boss for
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by rthomas6 5y ago
>entrepreneur >wave-laborer These terms are mutually exclusive.
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Could it be because the three glass disks cause a slope in the agar gel? And the slime mold prefers to grow downhill?
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Why a class for each step instead of a function? They don't have individual contexts and don't even have any members. They don't even need to persist, it's literally a command line script. Object oriented style for no re
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If there was a heinous criminal and they were using Signal, I wonder if law enforcement could get a warrant to push an update to Signal (or even OS push services) through the Play Store/App Store, just for that user. Wouldn't that
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The problem is we've stopped asking ourselves what it is that we value. What are our goals? If it's maximum pleasure we could just create a VR world with heroin, a catheter, and a bedpan. Go on a soma holiday whenever we wanted. B
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I think there is wisdom in this, but I also think there is value in some circumstances to making efforts toward behaving in a way that gets respect from others, because then they take you seriously. This can come down to manner of dress and
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88 isn't that old for a wizard
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What is neoliberalism, and why is it bad?
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Or just, you know, use a high frequency. There are tiny antennas. You can just power it via induction (like RFID) and you're set. It still couldn't transmit super far but I bet it would work.
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> very little visible light and a lot of IR. That sounds just like a brown dwarf. How would a Dyson swarm look different?

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