samatman

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by samatman 2y ago
Adequate for my purposes. The whole point of owning it is that I have a very light-duty relationship with the phone: music/podcast, maps, some food delivery and ride share, and some messaging when I'm not at my laptop. I don'
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by samatman 2y ago
I'll be holding on to this Mini 13 until Apple makes another model in that form factor, or until it's unusably obsolete. So far, it does what I need, and does it fast enough.
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by samatman 2y ago
Lua is in the running for most-used language, second only to, possibly, JavaScript. Few people write just Lua (although professionally speaking, that was me for several years) but many people write some Lua. It adds up.
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by samatman 2y ago
I'm begrudgingly stuck with VSCode because of language support in the smaller-community languages I work with, but any time it starts being a dog (and it doesn't take much, think a 20MiB test data file) I switch back for that purp
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by samatman 2y ago
> Since somewhere some computation must be done to recognize this Humans don't have a "compute intersections" ability (other than a few who have learned it laboriously through algebra), we have a "see things and cou
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by samatman 2y ago
To tackle your question somewhat obliquely: 67% of veterinarians in the US are women, according to this link. https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/reports-statistics/mark... The imbalance is even more acute than t
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by samatman 2y ago
> If you are including the tape, it's not true that there are finitely many states. An infinite Turing tape can be in an identical state, however. The number of states don't have to be finite. If a Turing machine returns to a
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by samatman 2y ago
I see the question this way: fn is_n_prime_whether_or_not_God_exists() if (is_prime(3) && is_prime(5)) { // early return return true; } else { return three_if_God_exists_five_ot
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by samatman 2y ago
Paul Graham just published an article about the difference between obstinacy and persistence, which might help you out here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907155
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by samatman 2y ago
I don't understand what you're disagreeing with. "loop" has a well-understood meaning here: return to an identical state. Not a similar one, identical. Because if it does that once, being a deterministic automaton, it wi
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by samatman 2y ago
> It's just that the bootloader is itself using the Linux kernel This sentence does not say "the bootloader is itself another, separate, Linux kernel", so I'm not seeing him saying what you're saying he seems t
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes, quite right. I was thinking of the terminal driver and typed emulator for some reason. Good catch.
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by samatman 2y ago
It's provided by the terminal (emulator) in "cooked" mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_mode raw mode doesn't do this.
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by samatman 2y ago
This is entirely different, and does avoid the central problem discussed in the Fine Article: is 1...10 to mean ±5σ, or are they deciles? Either way, what's the sample group? It also sucks because there's not a whole-number median
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by samatman 2y ago
It isn't socially useful for this evident fact to be easily discussed.
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes. We refer to those ones as gasses.
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by samatman 2y ago
Ah yes. Argumentum ad Ecclesiastes . A classic. Maybe this time it will be different, eh?
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by samatman 2y ago
> Most apps like this are built for the Mac because People with Macs have money, and are willing to use it to pay for software. Not that deep.
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by samatman 2y ago
I was wondering if this was sincere or a troll, until I saw the semicolons. Troll. 100%. A good one at that.
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by samatman 2y ago
Go has atomics.
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by samatman 2y ago
> It went from horrid to okay, and the from okay to one of my favorite tastes. On the one hand, congratulations, it's good to develop a palate for something even if you're operating on hard mode. On the other hand, and I can&
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by samatman 2y ago
Argument is an art of rhetoric, not logic. Many very smart people make flawed arguments, sometimes instinctively, sometimes deliberately. I'm not saying they should. In fact, I'll now say: they shouldn't. But whatever defect
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by samatman 2y ago
> In reality, it was meant to be a living document that evolved with the times, not an immutable ledger of all our misdeeds and misjudgements. The motte of this sort of claim is the essence of English common law, in which precedent and
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by samatman 2y ago
It tells people what some of their rights are. We have an entire Amendment to make it clear that the enumerated Constitutional rights are not intended to be read to mean that no other rights exist.
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by samatman 2y ago
> Except, I know how to slice and dice text with awk I meant to say something more like "if you need to learn awk to do it, you may as well learn Perl instead". I figured from context that if you're "considering us
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by samatman 2y ago
This overtly binary and deterministic model is what the article argues against. I agree with them. There's a tautological interpretation of what you're saying which, since it's tautology, is always true. It relies on "co
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by samatman 2y ago
Perl as a scripting language remains undefeated. As in, let's say you are considering Awk for some task. It's probably worth learning how to do that task in Perl instead. The same applies to many classic uses of bash scripts: toda
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by samatman 2y ago
Spanish has us beat on this one: cumpleaños, "completed year" basically.
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by samatman 2y ago
Technically, decades and centuries start in a January with one or two zeros at the end, respectively. So the 1700s and the 18th century are exactly the same interval of time. ISO 8601-2: > Decade: A string consisting of three digits rep
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by samatman 2y ago
Just to carry onwards with the use/mention distinction we're aggressively erasing here, you seem to question whether actual, real-life footguns exist. They do! Here's a reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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