saiojd

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by saiojd 5y ago
Ok, your comment is shocking to me: I've been having annoying muscle twitches lately (probably from drinking lots of coffee), and one thing I found online was that magnesium supplements could help. I eventually ended up trying it, but
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by saiojd 5y ago
It really doesn't have to be. For instance, in Julia IDEs \omega would complete to ω, which takes 2 extra characters to enter (\ and tab). Its not hard to imagine this concept, but applied at the OS level...
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by saiojd 5y ago
Although I am not good at making bread by any means, I've tried salt/no-salt with pizza dough and it clearly made a difference.
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by saiojd 5y ago
I feel like, what is confusing you is that the parent is talking using broader/more general terms, rather than about specifics i.e. the state as an object which you can pass inside functions. His point, I believe, is that what causes p
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by saiojd 5y ago
You've created value for shareholders, at the detriment of society. "Congrats".
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by saiojd 5y ago
Oh, I definitely understand the mindset behind the decision, I just feel it's worthwhile to relax that kind of razor-sharp focus when millions of people are using your tool. Since you seem knowledgable about git, would you mind telling
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by saiojd 5y ago
I see! I understand the obsessiveness, I believe, but to me WFH (which I dislike) seems more of a way of "checking out/focusing on the rest of my life" than to truly indulge in work. I find it interesting that you have a simi
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by saiojd 5y ago
I'm going to be charitable in interpreting your answer, but, if I'm being honest, I find your tone very dismissive... (I would even say, reminiscent of StackOverflow, and not in a good way.) We could easily get into arguments over
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by saiojd 5y ago
Your description summarizes what I've been trying to express so concisely – it's almost shocking. I'm left wondering on what side of the split you stand on.
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by saiojd 5y ago
Great work. I wish usability/ergonomy was taken more seriously for popular tools that everyone uses (like git). Another stupid pain point with git is the inability to commit empty directories. I mean, come on.
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by saiojd 5y ago
How can you be so convinced that plants feel nothing given that we have absolutely 0 understanding of what consciousness is?
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by saiojd 5y ago
Functions are polymorphic in many languages that let you annotate the their types. The concern is not really for dispatch here, it's for readability/correctness.
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by saiojd 5y ago
Thank you, this is exactly it. The problem with inheritance is specifically overloading, and not anything else. Composition as it is being used currently has its own drawbacks (need to manually delegate every method, no clear model for inst
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by saiojd 5y ago
For the sake of argument, there's really nothing wrong with combining map/reduce with side-effects, especially for things like counters were the alternative of threading the variables everywhere can end up being much more complex
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by saiojd 6y ago
Useful trick, I'll try that, thanks.
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by saiojd 6y ago
I mean, I still need to recompile the module no? Or do you split your project into several small modules to avoid this? (I've avoided this so far as I found the module system a bit tedious tbh, as it requires to explicitly list everyth
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by saiojd 6y ago
Do you know what the differences end up being when it comes to compilation? (not a rhetorical question - I'd like to know)
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by saiojd 6y ago
I mean, I could, it's just that its pretty hard to know in advance which structs I will have to modify... Most of the time I only need to do minor edits like add 1 field. By that point I need to recompile anyway if I am to switch to Na
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by saiojd 6y ago
You can't possibly be serious. As things stand, even just redefining a struct field requires restarting the interpreter, which forces you to wait ~10-30 seconds for everything to compile, over and over again. Maybe you only use Julia f
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by saiojd 6y ago
I've read a bit on type invalidation and I know it's a hard problem (in fact it's hard for me to even wrap my head around it, lol). Still, it's unfortunate. One thing I would like to know is if the difficulties with inva
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by saiojd 6y ago
OK, I was being hyperbolic. It's just that the interest is low compared to other features, as most people involved in the project are used to dynamic languages and don't feel the need. It's been in discussion for a long time,
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by saiojd 6y ago
That's interesting, I didn't know Racket worked like that. What I meant wasn't so much that its a new idea, rather that it's a good one.
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by saiojd 6y ago
A few months ago. First time to plot is noticeably better than it was a few versions ago, but still extremely slow compared to Python. The article gives a benchmark of 9 seconds. I mean, come on. The main problem I had was simply that what
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by saiojd 6y ago
I've tried Julia and really liked it, but the user experience was pretty bad. The language really needs faster interactivity or a strong type checker. I found myself waiting after than compiler a lot more than in some AOT compiled lang
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by saiojd 6y ago
Keep telling yourself that if it helps. ;) While at some level ads probably do help consumers (indirectly), my impression so far is that at a fundamental level they are about companies competing for money, in a way which wastes everybody&#x
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by saiojd 6y ago
Nice work and great presentation.
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by saiojd 6y ago
Gradient decent doesn't per se, but retraining ("fine-tuning") on another dataset forgets most of the training done on the first dataset.
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by saiojd 6y ago
I agree somewhat, the errors it misses are precisely the ones which are confusing.
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by saiojd 6y ago
It's not introduced at all, its already there for sets
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by saiojd 6y ago
Of course it's perjorative. The issue isn't with staying at home, it's with staying at home and doing nothing. If you have all your needs provided for you should seek out to do something meaningful.

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