sfpotter

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by sfpotter 4y ago
Flashy movement draws our attention... away from the speaker and the content of the talk. Doesn't help. Animation can be useful in very small doses if it helps to understand something that is dynamic in nature, but that's it.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Agree with this. Seems like there could be many confounding factors in this case. Others: How much do you sleep? How active are you? What is your diet like?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
It doesn’t matter if your slides are plain or not. No one ever thought a talk was good because of how nice the slides’ design was. What matters is having something actually worth giving a presentation about and presenting it effectively, wh
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by sfpotter 4y ago
This book is a really fun read. You’ll learn a lot and get some interesting ideas. Don’t listen to prescriptions from strangers on HN, how about? Myself included. :-)
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by sfpotter 4y ago
In the context of C programming, ADT usually means an opaque struct with some related functions.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
C’s advantages over C++ don’t have much to do with language features. I don’t know what the author was thinking here. Any diehard C++ user is not going to be swayed by “fewer features”. Why not write an article that gets into the actual str
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by sfpotter 4y ago
What field?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Seriously? Shouldn’t the SO example be very obvious? If you submit an answer yourself and it’s wrong, if someone begins the process of critiquing it or editing it, they can engage in a dialogue with you in order to make this happen. You can
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Why is it good to get kids excited about STEM?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
It isn’t an essential part of problem solving. I think the fact that you think any technical material that isn’t humorous is automatically “stressy” may mostly say something about you… :\ For what it’s worth, I do have a sense of humor. Har
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Yes, I was talking about the jelly bean stain stuff and the cartoons. I don’t see the point. (I do also think the format of these books is pretentious and not actually that sound didactically, but that wasn’t what I was referring to when I
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I don't see how that relates to the US freight system being the best.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I don't like technical books that are infantile for no reason.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I think it has to do with how boring the thing you're programming is. If you're working on some humdrum mobile or web app, it's hard to stay excited. Making apps that clearly do not need to exist takes its toll. I saw the w
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Part of the problem is that LaTeX is meant in multiple senses: there is the LaTeX installation along with all relevant programs, and then there is the LaTeX format/programming language. When I say I "use C", it means that I w
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Uh, who doesn't deserve to have fresh produce??
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Unloading trains is actually very efficient. If you have a train yard with many trains lined up next to each other and with box cars aligned, you can easily carry goods from train to train, through the box cars. This is far more space effic
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by sfpotter 4y ago
In what sense does the US have the best freight rail system in the world? Not trying to be antagonistic, here---just want to know why you think this. Regarding your other comment ("trucks get the goods where they have to go"): in
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by sfpotter 4y ago
It was a rhetorical question. I understand how TeXmacs works. It does use LaTeX: it contains a usable LaTeX importer/exporter. Yes, the importer and exporter aren’t perfect, but they are used in a nontrivial capacity nevertheless. La
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by sfpotter 4y ago
How does it not use LaTeX? It imports and exports LaTeX, which is a way of using LaTeX. It’s a useful tool in the LaTeX ecosystem.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Do you have children?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
This is the only good comment in this entire thread.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Do the people submitting these links not realize that these are just press releases?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
This analogy doesn't make any sense. Obviously submarines don't do any stroke at all. In this case, ChatGPT is being told to deliberately replicate a particular style of poetry. For what it's worth, its poetry is bad, and i
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I think your appraisal is totally reasonable. I used to work as a software engineer. I really enjoy programming, but needed more variation in my day-to-day. I ended up deciding to get a PhD in computer science and am now doing a postdoc whe
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I guess it wouldn’t help for me to recapitulate all of the arguments made by bonzini, who actually was involved in the 11,000 lines (down from 15,000 thanks to switching to Meson). He made his arguments very cogently and you apparently eith
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Sounds like Meson isn't a very good match for your use case. That's too bad. Good thing there are other tools like CMake which are a better fit for you. It seems like you have also lost some time attempting to port your build over
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by sfpotter 4y ago
That's not what I meant. Of course, if you wanted to roll your own build system, you could do that. But hopefully you're aware that's not what I'm suggesting. Meson provides custom targets, so Meson itself would examine
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Can you use a script written in another programming language to generate your intermediate targets?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I didn't read your other post. Glad we're in violent agreement!

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