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by shakow 1y ago
There have been countless specializations and improvements on the original BLAST (which itself evolved). When I left the field, the latest hottest thing was diamond ( https://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond ).
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by shakow 1y ago
Even if WW3 were to happen, I'm not sure it could let Earth be in a worse state than Mars for supporting human life.
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by shakow 1y ago
> but true in many professions I think. That's true, but the other professions don't tend to be associated with (or clearly vindicate) the “above-the-crowd/holier-than-thou” attitude – and I say that as an ex-scientist, fo
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by shakow 1y ago
> comparing without acknowledging that it is an implemenation issue Because that's implicit at this point – I'm not going to prefix with “because Earth geometry is approximately Euclidian at our scale” every time I'm telli
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by shakow 1y ago
> You are comparing quality of implementation, not languages. But comparing languages in a vacuum has 0 value. Maybe some alien entity will use physic transcending time and space to make TCL the fastest language ever, but right now I won
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by shakow 1y ago
> I'd be at a loss to think of an example of an engineer who's been publicly pilloried (having been highly regarded for great work) for the failings of their company. Perhaps you could cite and example? Because these guys and g
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by shakow 1y ago
> Are you really going to try and convince people that this is completely incidental and not a result of pursuing its robust static contracts? I am, because that's what all the people that explored the question converged on. Now if
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by shakow 1y ago
> that's what "skill issue" means in this context. “Skill issue” definitely does not means “mentally deficient”. It comes from the videogames world, where it is used to disparage the lack of training/natural ability o
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by shakow 1y ago
Go is not fast though. It's plenty fast compared to commonly used languages such as JS, PHP or Python, but can easily be let in the dust by Java and C#, which arguably play in the same court. And AOT-compiled, no GC languages like C++,
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by shakow 1y ago
> Rust has slower compile times That's true. > for the sake of safety, That's false though. All deep dives in the topic find that the core issue is the sheer amount of unoptimized IR that is thrown at LLVM, especially due to
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by shakow 1y ago
That's from Saint-Exupéry. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38837/where-does...
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by shakow 1y ago
> Semiauto rifles practically didn't exist in the beginning of WW1 And even at the end of the war, only the French fielded a couple dozens thousands of them (sounds like a lot, is not).
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by shakow 1y ago
> Maybe the Americans were better Belleau wood is the “chocolate box” of the US army. > I heard that Pershing refused to follow British and French tactics. Yeah, “these guys being at it for 4 years don't understand anything, let&
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by shakow 1y ago
The best video on the topic I ever watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRszjV07ZQ
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by shakow 1y ago
Even _after_ the emperor asked to, it was not smooth sailing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
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by shakow 1y ago
Not the same aliasing. GP is using aliasing as a synonym for casting; the aliasing you're thinking of is the one where, in C, pointer function arguments can refer to identical or overlapping memory spans.
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by shakow 1y ago
Lazarus does not have a GC AFAIK, it's manual-free.
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by shakow 1y ago
> but the NES The NES trailblazed the 3rd generation consoles and nearly single-handedly put a term to the NA videogames crash. Granted, the SNES was nothing to call home about when it came out.
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by shakow 1y ago
This works for Apple & Nintendo because they built their brand image while being fast-followers – and even pioneers decades ago (the Apple ][ was among the trailblazers, just like the GameBoy or the (S)NES). I would bet that a company t
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by shakow 1y ago
Expert systems with extra steps!
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by shakow 1y ago
I don't think so, they're Belgian IIRC? I think “Russian” is just for the vodka base, and black/white for without/with cream.
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by shakow 1y ago
And if you were bothered with not becoming a military dictature in the 20's-30's, trying to create a network of alliances with your neighbors instead of cutting yourself off from everyone (which is a great feat considered that you
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by shakow 1y ago
> owed this to Poland Polish spirit in a nutshell
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by shakow 1y ago
> having moved from capitalist America to post-communist Poland Poland is definitely a very nice place to live right now, and improvements since the fall of the communist government is undeniable. However, please note that not all Polish
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by shakow 1y ago
I have never seen an english speaker use “white Russians” for Belarusians – the only uses I know of this idiom are (i) for the non-red/non-green participants to the Russian civil war, and, by extensions, their diaspora, and (ii) the
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by shakow 1y ago
Ah I see, I personally only use electric-mode + [insert language]-format on save, so that's much lighter. And I restart mine every 2-3 days, so it doesn't have that much time to get slowed down.
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by shakow 1y ago
Just out of curiosity, what issue did you encounter? I have a quite customized emacs, and the only lag I really notice between Linux and macOS is in magit, where operations are noticeably slower. > What will my next editor be? Fancy givi
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by shakow 1y ago
> people parking their cars on their lawns. Indeed, God forbid people would like to park their cars on their property!
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by shakow 1y ago
All that you said is perfectly valid for your usecase. But you can't just make your use case a generality. Some people have a camera because they want to take better pictures than their smartphone but don't want to bother with pos
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by shakow 1y ago
That's a very contemptuous thing to say. Even if one is using in-camera JPEG and does not want to spend 1hr/picture in Darktable, they can still play with many more objectives, exposure, shutter time, physical zoom, aperture, etc.

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