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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
This article seems to claim the there is no national debt because the debt is owed to the American people. This is wrong since it doesn't take into account other governments and entities outside of the US that hold treasury securities.
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
For package management Common Lisp has Quicklisp, and Clojure has Clojars. I can't really comment on the "nano" libraries part though.
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
There is a common set packages [0][1][2] that provide macros that are more similar to lisp-style macros (when operating on structs). [2] in particular implements quasi-quoting in rust. [0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/proc_mac
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
In addition to the ones already mentioned here, pypy, a tracing jit for python2 and python3, is another project which gets compiled to C. It's written in RPython, which gets compiled down to C. RPython includes a jit generator that can
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
The floating point error problem has not been solved. This patent describes a floating-point representation that includes fields for storing error information. The standard IEEE floating-point representation has three fields: a sign field,
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
Not really, the idea is to store the amount of error in the binary representation of the number. When converting from decimal "0.3" to this floating point representation, it's more like 0.30000000000000004 ± 0.000000000000000
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
This is probably the most impressive 64K I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwNgVwQG1A
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
Yes, it is stated on the page > As usual for minor releases, Scala 2.12.3 is binary compatible with the whole Scala 2.12 series.
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
There are several reasons to want to reduce the number and size of landfills. First, landfills are very oxygen-poor, which promotes the growth of anaerobic bacteria. The bacteria produce methane, rather than CO2 when breaking down waste. Me
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
The banner image in the article appears to include reflected tiles.
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
This article was written in 2013, almost 3 years before any browser supported "position: sticky". I disagree that the blog is shortsighted, but as you mentioned, the bookmarklet should be updated.
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
Agreed. Another alternative is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/uber-said...
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
You might be interested in bidding systems for enrolling in courses. The National University of Singapore has one http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/events/module-enrolment.html "All students are given an equal
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
Very cool project! What license are you planning on using?
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
If you know your co-worker's child is named "Sam" you don't want to say "son" if she's actually a girl.
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
At the University of Waterloo in Canada, the ratio of CS applications to available spaces is over 15:1 [0] according to a Computer Science professor. It could simply be a supply issue. [0]: https://twitter.com/plragde/s
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
Skydiving is actually fairly safe, see http://www.uspa.org/facts-faqs/safety for stats. There were 0.0061 fatalities per 1000 jumps in 2015 .
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by shmolyneaux 9y ago
No, hydrogen gas is less dense than hydrocarbons (at the same pressure) since it has a lower molar mass (volume is inversely proportional to the molar mass).
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
Software Engineering Daily had an episode[0] on fraud detection at stripe using machine learning. If you're interested it provides quite a bit of background information. [0]: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017&#x
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
This post is more like a first impression of the service. This service interested me since it looked like it would be able to automatically add tags to links that I already had in pocket. But doesn't do this, but I thought I would shar
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
AMD does license to third parties, at least for x86: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/227059-amd-announces-n...
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
Do you have a source for this? Searching doesn't yield any results.
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
Under the "Tor" tab it states that the browser should be set to a window size of 1000x1000 or a multiple of 200x100. Is this to stay consistent across all Tor users? I would have thought that 1920x1080 would be fine to help stay a
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
As someone who has used the parallax propeller, I feel like you a doing a bit of a disservice to not include some reasons for or against it. Cons: - Comparatively high price point at $8 - The custom 8-core architecture is more difficult to
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
There is a porting guide for C/C++ [0] that may help clarify the differences between the two. I have not read it though. [0] https://locka99.gitbooks.io/a-guide-to-porting-c-to-rust/con...
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by shmolyneaux 10y ago
A simple example for 8-bit microcontrollers would be concurrency issues in an interrupt handler. Heap memory is still a thing for larger devices running on a RTOS, in addition to threads, mutexes, etc.