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by sharikone 5y ago
I always take this kind of opinions with a grain of salt but I also don't like bloated IDEs, like the author. But it's a general and trivial comparison. Like using MS word vs markdown, or Ubuntu vs Arch or Alpine. It all comes dow
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by sharikone 5y ago
You claim correlation but that's not causation. My guess is that more educated women are less willing to be stay at home moms and that correlates with your demographics. When you have a degree and dreams of a career, giving up on them
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by sharikone 5y ago
Some things are still accessible. For example you can really own a Raspberry PI or an Arduino (modulo some firmware). But there has been a social change. I bet youngsters that do this kind of thing these days have mentors/patents who w
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by sharikone 5y ago
I think that you will find that for subnormal numbers any math library will use the identity function for sin(x) and 1 for cos(x)
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by sharikone 5y ago
In Hebrew it's mostly bug (באג). However there is an official translation "teqel" (תקל). It is a derivative of a root that means "to stumble". It suggests a resolvable setback more than an "error".
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by sharikone 5y ago
Rizin is basically the name of a fork of Radare2 disassembler after the community had particularly nasty "value" disagreements.
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by sharikone 5y ago
True. You can have an authoritarian regime with little technology. But what people are afraid of is how little it takes when the technology is there. And how Western governments seem to morph towards that. And how some bastions of freedom a
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by sharikone 5y ago
Interesting, maybe a physicist could clear up for me if they broke the so-called Schwinger limit (so they had an electrical field so big EM started behaving nonlinearly). I am still confused about what this limit means. Do you need a big en
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by sharikone 5y ago
Here in Israel the Golan Heights are just filled with Syrian land mines from 50 years ago or more (Israeli mines too, but at least the army has the maps for them). Sometimes a cow blows up or worse. The sad thing is that they get more, not
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by sharikone 5y ago
I think HN readership is so used to live in the digital world that many forgot we can live without internet as humans. ANY connected digital media can become a 1984-style spying device if you don't have full access to it or even if yo
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by sharikone 5y ago
Did you ever experience that you turned some setting off but it was "accidentally" turned on again after some update/reboot?
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by sharikone 5y ago
You could argue the opposite and say that because it is incremental and easy to mix with C, it will be more easily used. When I program on my own I often write an idea in C and then convert it to C++ when complexity rises, precisely because
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by sharikone 5y ago
I hope this article is a joke. I bet 70 % of high school students have been taught this method.
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by sharikone 5y ago
Conclusion is sound. Java/Rust/C/C++... are all fast enough that the bottleneck does not reside with the choice of the language. I wonder about how Common Lisp can be this fast however. I would like comparisons with languages
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by sharikone 5y ago
Yes but if you do much low level it is annoying to use a language that constant treats you at best as a dark magic wizard, at worst as a dangerous risk seeker. All my point was that Rust is not a substitute for C, too heavy and complex and
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by sharikone 5y ago
They basically answered you. Rust is very complex and big. A C compiler is relatively easy to implement and it's easy to follow its output if you care about the assembly. For tasks like that, where you want just a lightweight structure
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by sharikone 5y ago
As much as C is fantastic to work with, as the general idea of a low/high level language whose compilers are easy to implement, its pain points are annoying. Integer conversions, literals, unhygienic macros, inconsistent library, overf
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by sharikone 5y ago
I am not qualified enough to answer for NT and BSD (I only can note they appear very stable nowadays). But XNU is not much better than Linux. It has a schizophrenic soul with its BSD and Mach duality for everything. It is bogged down by App
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by sharikone 5y ago
> People say our collective myths about dragons--flying fire breathing serpents--come from some ancient amalgamation of innate fear of large birds (which would have been predators to small mammals from which we evolved) combined with fea
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by sharikone 5y ago
Not to pressure but having open/save buttons (implementable either as upload/download Javascript shims) would be interesting. They can also be quine-like (I.e. you save the HTML and Javascript of the editor itself together with th
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by sharikone 5y ago
Exactly. I hate those things so much. In some cruel perversion of benevolence to give you a "friendlier" interface they build something you have to no idea how to tail for your own needs. Reminds me of Google search (remember when
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by sharikone 5y ago
I think this is what parent is referring to. A short guide from a power user on coping with those flaws would be invaluable for occasional users.
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by sharikone 5y ago
In my opinion the most important positive thing Julia has is the Compsci community it attracted. There has never been so much enthusiasm in oftware for doing physical simulations and correct and stable arithmetics. It made a sizeable dent i
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by sharikone 5y ago
It's a rather common pattern in politics, that the people who you need in order to rise are not the same who you need in order to stay. But yours is just a negative attitude. Framework could or could not betray its base, they could or
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by sharikone 5y ago
A welcome endeavor. Too many programmers are used to treat floats as cursed entities. More awareness is needed. If implementation details such as rounding mode, CPU features, etc.. are pinned down there is little reason not to write tests t
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by sharikone 5y ago
It can be also for people who plan on occasionally sharing their PC. It could be a bit embarrassing to let your friend/family member fo a search and get tailored results
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by sharikone 5y ago
I guess so. Some newer libraries, especially if they target "modern backend" stuff like webassembly, websockets, ... are written in Rust. When safety is a concern it could be really preferable. But, say, if you don't have a
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by sharikone 5y ago
The problem is of course solvable when you realize Youtube is not synonymous with "video on the internet", there are other hosters too. Of course I am not blind. Big tech companies have just too much power. I hope governments will
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by sharikone 5y ago
Iran? Last I checked they were trying to destabilize Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen. Syria? Lebanon comes to mind again Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan? All of them are involved in "foreign soil" in some way Egypt and Turkey
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by sharikone 5y ago
It has actually elicited a response. Through many mechanisms now big countries in Europe have gained much more power than before, when the model was very egalitarian. And you can look at it in a very different light if you see it as Hungary

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