samatman

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by samatman 2y ago
> not completely obvious to me .. worth measuring. I concur. > lightgrep and icgrep These are great tips for a "related work" section, but nothing like prior art as it turns out. So yes, relevant and appreciated. >
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes, this is correct, although it may be more obvious to visitors than to residents. The evidence that this is correct follows: visitors, tourists if you prefer, can collect reimbursement for VAT payments, the first link I hit was Norway bu
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by samatman 2y ago
This is a gratifying read (along with the article) because I've been working on closely related things, and had come to the tentative conclusion that taking Aho-Corasick, anchoring it (so no failure transitions), and laying it out in c
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by samatman 2y ago
A hash function can't reject a string with a single test of the first byte. It just can't. For this application, that's a leg up which a hash won't be able to touch. The rest of the art here is shaving down the constant
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by samatman 2y ago
There are significant differences between trie-hard and a Bloom filter. Bloom filters are probabilistic, and use hashing. They're great for when rare false positives are acceptable in exchange for no false negatives, which isn't
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by samatman 2y ago
We don't have to get philosophical about it, this is what the Fine Article says: > Most of you kids probably don’t remember a time where there weren’t millions of open source projects around, but the phrase was only coined in 1998.
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by samatman 2y ago
> Open Source existed long before 1998 It did not. Free software did. The term "open source" was coined by Christine Peterson at a meeting in January of 1998, as Netscape was contemplating releasing their source code as free
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by samatman 2y ago
"Voice of Darth Vader" is listed directly under "Darth Vader" in the credits of Star Wars.
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by samatman 2y ago
The original iPhone had four buttons: home, power, up and down volume. The iPhone 16 Pro has four buttons: power, up, down, camera. Plus a switch for mute. Both models.
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by samatman 2y ago
This can always be turned off using in-app settings. It's an App Store requirement. Note: in-app settings, not general settings for the app. Check. It's there. > Make sure people can manage their notification settings within y
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by samatman 2y ago
In Vim: - dd - diw - A - I - 1G - G Code golfing, I count 12 keystrokes in your example, and 10 in stock Vim. This is the problem which kak/helix/Ki have with drawing in experienced Vim users: a language is a language, once you kn
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by samatman 2y ago
Unicode did not create the problem of many similar-looking dash-like characters with different meanings and widths. It documented it, at most.
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by samatman 2y ago
Julia 100%. Multiple dispatch and a proper macro system are a superpower. It also doesn't abstract over data in the same way: if you want a byte, you can have a UInt8. But it does abstract over data: a function can take a Number, an
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by samatman 2y ago
It implies nothing of the sort. What it states , without making implications, is that the very mentally ill who would otherwise be in institutions, are instead homeless. Which is the case.
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by samatman 2y ago
Somehow kubernetes and civilization just aren't in the same category of salience to me. Like I think it's reasonable to say that kubernetes is optional in a way which civilization isn't. Like maybe one of those things is mor
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by samatman 2y ago
VSCode does this out of the box actually. Ended up putting a few on a whitelist while writing Julia, where it can get kind of ugly (puts a yellow box around them).
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by samatman 2y ago
Still broken, alas. '−', named MINUS SIGN, U+2212, is an Sm: Symbol, math. Arguably the one which should be used, meaning the risk of actually encountering it, while ε, is never 0. As ks2048 points out, the only thing for it is
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by samatman 2y ago
This is the exact point where I always get off the hard problem p-zombie train: > It is possible at least in principle, he says, for there to be a world physically identical to our own down to the last particle, but where there are none
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by samatman 2y ago
I would say you're being a bit modest! JSC is deployed on hundreds of millions of devices, and if V8 does adopt a conservative GC strategy, that would be a comfortable majority of JavaScript engines making use of that approach. It goes
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by samatman 2y ago
As the Fine Article mentions, the JavaScriptCore GC is conservative, and V8 is considering a switch. Someone reading your sentence might be at risk of conflating a minority position with a fringe one. Clearly this isn't the case here.
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by samatman 2y ago
Andy Wingo is a professional compiler engineer. Best known for his work on Guile Scheme, but he works for Igalia, and if you were to read more of his blog (I recommend this highly) you'll see references to work he's done on the so
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by samatman 2y ago
The rate at which I quote Perlis 93 is a roughly quadratic function of the number of quarters since coding LLMs were first deployed.
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by samatman 2y ago
It's true but you're not supposed to say it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by samatman 2y ago
It's great work what you've done, and as I said, I have no criticism of it at all. But it's more than a distinct aesthetic, it is a distinctly retro aesthetic. Modern means contemporary, more than it means fashionable (some
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by samatman 2y ago
I think Decker is just wonderful, but it's retro. That isn't a criticism of it at all, that's what it wants to be and I don't think it should try to be something else. But it isn't what I meant. A HyperCard reboot w
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by samatman 2y ago
Without Smalltalk, there would have been no HyperCard, and HyperCard definitely succeeded in that goal to a significant degree. It's a pity there's never been a modern reboot with the right factors aligned to continue that work.
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by samatman 2y ago
You could just call it syntax, you know.
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by samatman 2y ago
There are jobs where producing a paper notebook is the primary deliverable. Fewer than there were, due to y'know, computers. But it still happens. It's odd to describe that as confiscation. A lab notebook belongs to the lab, not t
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by samatman 2y ago
The RAM limit is 32 bit Intellisense. 2^32 is 4GiB. Edit: I take that back, this was a first-principles comment. There's a setting 'C_Cpp: Intelli Sense Memory Limit' (space included).
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by samatman 2y ago
I didn't say "soviet system", I said "Soviet system", as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I do know what the word means.

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