samhw

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by samhw 5y ago
> the opposite from practical is general No, it's certainly not at all. Those are completely unrelated spectrums. Something can easily be practical and general, or impractical and specific. > the opposite of efficient can for exa
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, how do you define a 'flame war'? Specifically, what besides the fact that someone is challenging your view?
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by samhw 5y ago
There are some other things on that todo list ('rape first wife', 'cheat on pregnant third wife with pornstar', 'publicly blame your failed business on a dead man before his funeral had even taken place', &#x27
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I don't think I've seen such an incoherent attempt to ban someone from having an opinion. It's on a level with saying you can't disapprove of Harold Shipman until you've got a medical degree. Presumably we all
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by samhw 5y ago
OK, this is now closer to approaching a cogent counter-argument. So why exactly is it that having something at stake would lead someone to answer that question differently? And why do you think human beings can't think hypothetically a
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't see what that has to do with anything. They are equally qualified to discuss the moral aspects of the question, which is what they are discussing. This feels like a lame attempt to shame the other commenter out of a point you
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by samhw 5y ago
> And there is a disagreement on the solutions too: progressives are generally apprehensive about nuclear. Yeah, this is one of the things I really hate about my side of the aisle. It's stupid, unscientific, and just plain uninforme
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by samhw 5y ago
I mean, it's called a hypothetical. They're pretty common. They can even be used as thought experiments to bring out interesting aspects of moral questions.
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by samhw 5y ago
If your 20 friends are all "massive fans" of a given person, I agree, that's a pretty solid indicator of significant bias. Well, maybe not if that person were the Dalai Lama or something like that, but Thiel is not the Dala
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm going to make the slightly conspiracistic speculation that Apple may be well aware of this effect.
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by samhw 5y ago
> These blog posts feel like some folks are trying to ride a popularity wave rather than make an actual argument. Thank you. Precisely. Like, really? The guy said "nobody wants to run their own servers" but he actually meant &q
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't quite understand your point: are you suggesting he equated 'end of life' with 'three years old'? He was doing precisely the opposite.
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by samhw 5y ago
It's worse than that. The GitHub title is "Folly: Facebook Open-source Library". The bolded sentence in the readme is "Folly contains a variety of core library components used extensively at Facebook". In fact, the
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't think anyone could disagree: you could never exceed 0% code coverage if your definition was recursive (i.e. included tests, tests-of-tests, tests-of-tests-of-tests, ...).
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by samhw 5y ago
I think 100% code coverage is folly. Spreading tests so widely near-inevitably means they're also going to be thin. In any codebase I'm working on, I would focus my attention on testing functions which are either (a) crucially imp
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by samhw 5y ago
It has nothing to do with the type system? It's an issue with implicit declaration. You could very easily require explicit declaration while retaining the selfsame type system.
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by samhw 5y ago
It would be impossible in any language that requires either explicit typing or some kind of 'let' keyword. (Or, in the fringe case, a language like Go which uses a different operator for initialisation-plus-assignment.)
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by samhw 5y ago
Can you not build it using gccgo? That will support all the targets that C - or at least C-by-GCC - supports. (I'm not saying this as a Go fanboy; having used it professionally for 3 years, I don't think I'll ever touch it ag
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by samhw 5y ago
As he explicitly points out, the benchmark amounts to cross-compiling for the Intel CPU vs compiling native code for the Mac CPU, so it's not exactly even. I have no dog in this hunt, I don't have an M1 Mac and I don't care,
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by samhw 5y ago
Yup, it can absolutely be extracted. It's not hashed or anything like that, it's just a sequence of fields in the order that the spec gives. It's really not even 'extract', it's more just 'read'. I th
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by samhw 5y ago
It would be similarly feasible for a competent person to do the same for UUIDs, at least the RFC4122 timestamp-derived UUIDs which many people and libraries use. Of the 128 bit field, several sections are constant over variables like (i) th
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by samhw 5y ago
I can easily comprehend truth. 2 + 2 = 4, there ya go. "We don't have direct access to external reality, but instead it's mediated through our senses and cognition" is closer to what people are getting at. It's much
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by samhw 5y ago
And in other news, the Pope is a Catholic
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by samhw 5y ago
I thought they meant Virgil the Roman poet, and I thought it was pretty funny that he was categorised under '/celebritydiagnosis'. Now I realise I'm probably out of touch with celebrity culture...
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by samhw 5y ago
I think this is pointing to the problem with your definition of 'idempotent'. Idempotency simply means that any number of additional identical requests will have the same effect on the state of the resource, not that they will h
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by samhw 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for the detail! That makes perfect sense as a rationale. I'm glad the Rust team now has enough time to refine these things - thanks for all your work :)
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by samhw 5y ago
Is there a reason "native" and "should" are in scare quotes? I think "should" is pretty well defined - after all, we've got an RFC for it! Edit: I'm not altogether sure why this is being downvoted, bu
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by samhw 5y ago
This looks fantastic. In fact, in the best possible way, it looks boring . I'm amazed that this wasn't always how it was implemented. I hope this can be upstreamed into std.
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm agreeing with you, to be clear, and I'm not a conservative. It's disappointing that that seems to be the inference people have made, if I understand correctly the message that was intended to be sent by the smattering of
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by samhw 5y ago
Actually I think you're right, yeah. I don't know why your original comment is being downvoted. I suppose it testifies to the fact that comments are downvoted either because they're too stupid or too smart for the audience.

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