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VSO is kinda like AT&T-syntax x86 assembly, if you identify subject with source and object with destination: add %rdi, %rax
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And profile-guided optimization (PGO) for static languages turned out to be pretty good at revealing those “only apparent at runtime” optimizations.
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I did find the Vim manual to be a high-value read for basic editing, for what it’s worth. It’s pretty short and I felt like most of it was useful.
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In general, you shouldn’t judge a language by the complexity of its standard library implementation unless you are planning to implement a comparable library. Application code often only needs a subset of the language and can be much more r
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Thank you, that makes sense. I can see that being an issue for testing. I wouldn't describe "pseudo-random sequences that differ between compilers/platforms/versions but are deterministic for a given toolchain" as &
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I would describe it as: natural human languages with native speakers eventually develop a grammatical way to complete the vast majority of incomplete thoughts that speakers tend to have. So, if you know the entire language, then you can com
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by senkora 1y ago
Why not just run your tests with a fixed seed? e.g. std::mt19937 gen(42); std::uniform_int_distribution<> dist(1, 100); int random_number = dist(gen);
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by senkora 1y ago
There’s always the WordTex template if you want to create documents that look like LaTeX output from within Word: https://youtu.be/jlX_pThh7z8
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In finance, it is common to be paid your base wage during your non-compete. Or at least that is how mine worked.
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I had to look up some terms, so for anyone else: Gish gallop = “a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, without regard for their accuracy or stre
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It was a thing with Google Pixels a few years ago: https://www.vice.com/en/article/google-pixel-bug-prevented-u...
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You may enjoy this video showing the expansion of NYC over time from the first Dutch settlement to the present day: https://youtu.be/f6U7YFPrz6Y 1842 is at 2:55 in the video.
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by senkora 1y ago
Seems to be a lot of overlap with the Suckless philosophy: https://suckless.org/philosophy/
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> Microsoft had to collaborate with GitHub to invent the Virtual File System for Git (VFS for Git) just to make this migration possible. Without VFS, a fresh clone of the Office repository (a shallow git clone would take 200 GB of disk s
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I have to ask, were you influenced at all by the talk “The Birth and Death of Javascript” from Pycon 2014? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... It describes a hypothetical future where operat
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The Organ Procurement Organizations are separate entities and have their own incentives. It’s their representatives who are pushing for organ retrieval in dubious cases.
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See also org-roam which is similar but for emacs using org: https://www.orgroam.com/
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She might be okay but he's a little off from what he probably needs for the day. Maybe they have snacks at home? Amber Ale (estimate) - 200 Grilled Shrimp Appetizer (Half) - 180 Road kill - 760 House S
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Scott Alexander also recently had a take on Curtis Yarvin’s recent actions: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moldbug-sold-out The gist of it is that he had interesting ideas on political systems in the past, but that h
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This question sent me down a Wikipedia tangent, where I learned a new term that I plan to start using, “Organi-cultural deviance”: > Organi-cultural deviance is a recent philosophical model used in academia and corporate criminology that
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I do think that as a practical matter it might be better to store the word graph in the cloud and query it from the client. You could either store the word graph as a partitioned set of S3 buckets, or have a back-end that serves individual
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Also see the TLA+ video course from the same website: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html Leslie Lamport's a funny guy, and it really comes across in the video series. I think it's a great way
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Of course it was KONGOS doing this... From their song “Autocorrect” (2016): > In the future > Will I need my mind? > Or will Google > Take over this grind? > I'm so tired > Of using my head > Just wanna be wired &g
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I imagine that having access to rr (which wraps gdb) would also be quite useful.
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You might like the book "The Age of Addiction, How Bad Habits Became Big Business" by David T. Courtwright. It talks about substitutability of pleasures, among other things. The most interesting idea that I took from it was the id
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Prohibition also had the effect of largely killing off the small breweries started by various immigrant groups in the United States. When it ended, the industry rapidly consolidated around the large-scale industrial breweries which have dom
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I bet she was a very good database administrator.
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> ty, on the other hand, follows a different mantra: the gradual guarantee. The principal idea is that in a well-typed program, removing a type annotation should not cause a type error. In other words: you shouldn’t need to add new types
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There is now a toggle to switch LibreOffice to a ribbon UI: https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-ribbon-interface/
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In C++, there is a trick to get this behavior called "unity builds", where you include all of your source files into a single file and then invoke the compiler on that file. Of course, being C++, this subtly changes behavior and m

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