sriram_malhar

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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
And what is the basis for your claim? You are not impressed by AWS's complexity and intelligence and capability to build and manage 1-2 zettabytes of storage near flawlessly?
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
That's the strangest comparison I have seen. What axis are you really comparing here? Better graphics? Sound?
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
If it were me, I'd be hopped up on so much adrenaline that I'd probably not sleep for days!
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Ha! Loved the sarcasm. Also, this talk of emotion combined with your user name reminded me of this brilliant poem by Billy Collins, "The Lanyard". https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50975/the-lanyard
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Anecdata. I've had Miele washer, dryer and cooktop. No parts changed, no maintenance done on them since 1992. Works absolutely fine.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
I love it! It has features that I'd have liked Scratch to have, like return values from functions, local vars, structs etc.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
On the contrary. I think it is an excellent bridge between visual and text-oriented programming. It also introduces concepts we take for granted elsewhere: return values from functions, text-based macro substitution, local variables, struc
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
This (Xenotext v2) blew my mind. I'm astonished not just by how people can think like this, but the persistence of effort to get it to fruition. I have to read it a couple more times to savor this. What a delight!
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Good God! This is marvelous!
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
A the way we do that is to declare that someone is a communist (whether or not they are), then equate communism to terrorism, then treat it with McCarthyism or Napalm.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
I generally agree with Musk's politics You mean fascism? Absolute control over media and speech? Racism? White supremacy? And what is your definition of consensus? If everyone strikes a compromise, is that evil ? If majority
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Sorry, this is an extraordinarily blinkered view. Why must they be evaluated purely on money terms? Having local independent bookstores enhances the quality of living for an entire community, and places like Amazon and Walmart make them des
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
How do you know they are "illegally" shielding people? Was there any kind of process to figure this out? Also, a few days back, you made the same point and someone furnished you links where legal migrants are being caught in a net
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
Your first point is not comparing the same thing. STM is wonderful, but as you no doubt know, it is meant for many TVars to be read/modified. This necessarily has overhead (transactional logs), performs poorly under contention and also
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
Not sure what you are pointing out, so let me spell out what I said earlier. 1. You get single-writer multiple reader for free from the type system, without any runtime overhead. 2. For the same reason, the type system does not allow multip
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
I'm surprised you say this. The core type system guarantees is that there is no aliasing while mutating, and no mutation while it is aliased. You get single writer multiple reader for free without overhead. If you want multiple writers
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
This is my reading of the article; can someone correct or add to this? The author is a psychologist for software developers. She cannot join the ranks of the technical, just as a judge needs to be wary of bias towards the defence or the pro
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
Wut?
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
I agree with the last two paras, with the following addendum. I'm also pro-Israeli people, but I find their leadership (and the settlers) the same as Hamas. No different. As for the first para, I have very close friends who have been h
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
Our minds have been so colonized or beaten down by powerful forces that _any_ support of the plight of the Palestine people is seen as pro-Hamas, even if I shout at the top of my voice that I don't care for the armed factions and polit
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
This exact situation is there in Java, using compiler args, after lambda functions were introduced. Older compilers would not be able to handle it, and the newer compilers would not break backward compatibility.
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
<snark> In America, trying to nail the top criminal is failing </snark> Snark aside, you are right. Bankruptcy protection is a really big factor. There are many other factors about America that work. 1. An obsessive urge to
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
You don't need an ifdef. You just need a CLI option like java's --source, where you specify the source compatibility with different language versions.
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
As a teacher, my first rule is, be kind. Sure, there are people who will take advantage of the situation, but they are not really taking advantage of me. In this case, I'd have a harness that ensures the parts they were given work as
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
I think it is marketing and sales muscle that leads to ease of access.
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
Depends on the consistency guarantee and workload. If it is just linearizability (atomic key-value storage) then write-through caches work simply and correctly. You reap the benefits on the read side.
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
It seems everyone is part of the "Not American Treaty Organization".
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
Is there a way to use the Echo as a speaker only?
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
Can you point to some resources that show this? Are there new facilities that make cuts fewer? Are there more accepted idiomatic ways published for different kinds of problems? I learnt Prolog a long time ago and would like to start from sc
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by sriram_malhar 2y ago
If I was war loving, I'd be giving money to Putin.

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