shadowofneptune

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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The whole article is worth a read, but the throughline is that there is no coherent public health policy in the US. Most other countries with a similar level of development invest more in public health and have more equitable access to scre
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Think of it this way: if I said that 0.001 or 0.1% of people had a certain congenital disease; that may seem like not many people at all. Say it as 1 in every 1000 people, or about 330,000 people in America, and it seems like a lot of peopl
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Thə prablem with a sistəmatic, fōnetic chānj in Inglish speling is that it rāsəs thə questyən of wat acsent tū fāvər. Fər an Əmerican en Ōhīō, this transcriptshən prabablē māks səm sens, wuns yū get past thə shwa. I dout an Inglishman or ēv
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Exactly, though I do not see how it is not an example of recursion.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The most practical uses of recursive functions are those that cannot be easily eliminated. For an interpreter, it could mean dozens of functions all calling each other in a pattern determined at runtime. The issue used to be with LLVM, yes,
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Compiler writing does involve a fair amount of tedium. I don't think it has anything to do with experience, either. It's why tools like Yacc, Lemon, or ANTLR exist.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
...except the article found that Chicago did not have nearly as much of a problem.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Yes, I meant the latter, the actual execution. Kevlin Henney puts it well in his talks (paraphrase): "Functional programming is great! You don't need to worry about the outside environment, it just works! Why, even if you unplug t
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
This does feel then like a matter of taste. While Pascal's predecessor language Algol did allow syntax like that, adding it back to Pascal-like languages would make it into a different kind of language.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
All environments are stateful, by necessity. A stateless system would have no input, no output, and consume no electricity. How much the programming requires thinking about that state is one technical dimension.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
I see. NOC is synonymous with a permanent night shift where I work, doesn't look that way there.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Anyone who hasn't actually lived in the Great Lakes area might be confused by the title. As the article states: "I'm talking thinner-than-a-saltine thin, with a shatteringly crisp crackle and just enough structure to hold its
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
If you've dismissed a whole host of languages just at a glance, you're missing out. Lua has little in common with Pascal, which has little in common with Fortran, etc. As a sister post to this says, you see them more as tokens onc
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
You appear to be familiar with Pascal, so I am surprised you find the statement-heavy approach an issue. What would be the benefit of making this change?
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
I work nights as a nurse, similar overtime situations to doctors. How exactly is night shift at IT not programming?
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The article starts its point-of-view in 2017. Even by then, there were indicators times had changed. The regulatory and political environment was very favorable in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years. The Internet was privatized rather qui
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Those two choices sound like statements: 'here is what is next for remote working.' It's instead asking where remote working will go, and 'what next' is the expected form there from my experience, though it's u
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
That really invites mold. Forced air ventilation may satisfy the building code but is not as effective—especially if the power goes out.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Smalltalk images offered introspection, debugging of running processes, etc., but some of the later features listed seem quite impractical to add to the language. "Record the entire program execution," for instance. That's mo
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Based on what's presented hete: https://acoup.blog/2023/02/17/collections-on-chatgpt/ , it's quite good at producing the form of an article or an essay, but the actual thesis made is incoheren
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Ah, I see. Looks like it still only has a limit of 250,000 USD, which seems low for modern business. How far would that get some of these companies?
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Looking at the FDIC website: > The FDIC does NOT cover (even if purchased at an insured bank): Stock investments Bond investments Mutual funds Life insurance policies Annuities Municipal securities Safe depo
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
I hope that eventually such an argument would sound like that using a security envelope is a sign of guilt.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Looking deeper, it was only a year after the Prudhoe Bay spill. The gall.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Memory must fail me, Deepwater Horizon. SC: Societies was 2007, to be clear.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
> Same, they had a cross-promotion with Nissan, so your Sims would feel happy when they recharged their electric car, and the charging station has the effect of a park in your neighborhood. Perhaps not as bad as all the BP solar arrays a
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Reading through the 2021 note, it's quite a change of tone. > Whereas Beijing is hit hard by every domestic outbreak, Shanghai hasn’t had many cases while being the least restrictive city in the country. It’s hard for us fresh arriv
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
It still has to separate tokens, understand a nested structure, and output a different format. It's a small compiler, but is a compiler, and honestly understanding parsers can help a lot with text processing tasks.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Definitely is not renewable if you feel you need to drill for it.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Go Mono is a favorite of mine. The serifs give more of a book feel than most monospace fonts. Each character is also quite visually distinct.

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